Ok they need capital and bad roads so they can get customers.

Awkabigboy:
I mean the mechanics in Nigeria are mainly the informal ones except the car companies which I'm not writing about here. I mean our everyday mechanics are not mechanical engineers by profession , then why are certified mechanical engineers shying away from this lucrative sector to give the people what they indeed require.

The generalisation is bad. I know a mechanical engineer who owns a workshop. He built a working 7 cylinder motor engine from used parts for his school project. Best graduating student in his class.
And he is not cheap. He uses used parts to do wonders.

Only idiots and ignoble beings Beleive mechanical engineering is only about repairing cars and automobiles. The owner of this thread and whoever pushed it to front page is equally an idiot obviously.

Mechanical engineering is broad.. you can specialize in automobile engineering, aeronautical engineering etc…

Them dey look for white collar

oluwaseyi1759:
Do you think they know the practical aspect well... Hardly will you see a Professor of mechanical engineering that can remove and fix a Trailer's Tyre. They just work in companies and get paid.

That is not their job in a normal developed country ,you are meant to link does people with industries or military, not trailer tyres

oluwaseyi1759:
Do you think they know the practical aspect well... Hardly will you see a Professor of mechanical engineering that can remove and fix a Trailer's Tyre. They just work in companies and get paid.

IGNORANCE will not kill u IJN

there is a big difference between ENGINEERING and tradesman / technician

oluwaseyi1759:
I'm sorry if you feel pained... Don't get hurt on this little discussion.. What I meant was that Mechanical engineering graduates know more of the theory aspect of this course in school.. that's why you can't see them set up their own mechanical workshops apart from other factors...

You still miss the point
You are doing apple and orange comparison
Engineers are not trained to be in the workshop
Workshop is meant for technicians. Engineers are trained to design, that thing ignorant people call theory.

The syllabus and curriculum of study is different even if they sound alike.

Its just like saying an akwa ibom man is a calabar person. Whereas they donr even understand themselves because they speak different languages and are from completely different tribes.

Hope u get the point now.

oluwaseyi1759:
Do you think they know the practical aspect well... Hardly will you see a Professor of mechanical engineering that can remove and fix a Trailer's Tyre. They just work in companies and get paid.

I am a mechanical engineer, mechanical engineering is very broad. Automobile is just part of it,.. there are other sections of mechanical engineering that people are doing extremely well.

Mechanical engineering is much much more than what you think.

I believe you meant automobile engineering

oluwaseyi1759:
Do you think they know the practical aspect well... Hardly will you see a Professor of mechanical engineering that can remove and fix a Trailer's Tyre. They just work in companies and get paid.

Daft mentality.
What do you think they are doing in the companies to get paid?
You think they are sleeping in the companies?

Simple:: bcuz they aren't train to be entrepreneurs, rather than job seekers.

Ask over 99% of them, their first focus is oyel companies.
I think I shd know!

They usually do but it takes time as a lot of them during their first 10years don’t know how to cheat people. To be a successful mechanic in Nigeria cheating and scamming your customers must dae your blood

Awkabigboy:
I mean the mechanics in Nigeria are mainly the informal ones except the car companies which I'm not writing about here. I mean our everyday mechanics are not mechanical engineers by profession , then why are certified mechanical engineers shying away from this lucrative sector to give the people what they indeed require.

mechanical engineering is not all about fixing cars,.... thou there are many mechanical engineers who specialize in automobile,... there are other mechanical engineers who specialize in other sections

Cholls:
my brother what is this

200million people in 2022. Nigerians are still fixing cars under mango trees. No innovation, no digitization. No standardisation. No brands. Just same old unscalable bullshit.

WibusJaga:


Because they know almost nothing about the practical workings of a car.
But really, our University system should be made more practical, rather all the plenty theory that end up being irrelevant to society. That's one of the reasons we have so many unemployed graduates looking for white collar jobs.

You just read and read
What ever course you read in school when you get a job you get trained on it wether it's your line or not

setting up a mechanic shop is not easy and affordable.
an average mechanical machine or equipment cost hundreds of thousands naira.

Abi na Nigerian graduate depending on npower stipend you dey expect to raise such money ba?

Do you know how much a traditional lathe machine cost? (that's if you want to venture into production and machinery)

I'm not talking about CNC machines which costs millions.

Even if want to venture into the most common and demanding one mechatronics
do you know how much each equipment cost?

Nigerian yoots no get that kin money

Because they are not automobile engineers!

Mechanical Engineering is a very broad course.
You don't expect Engineers to take over the job of Technicians.

RoyalBoutique:
Mechanical engineering is much much more than what you think.

I believe you meant automobile engineering

mechanical engineering is very broad

Awkabigboy:
I mean the mechanics in Nigeria are mainly the informal ones except the car companies which I'm not writing about here. I mean our everyday mechanics are not mechanical engineers by profession , then why are certified mechanical engineers shying away from this lucrative sector to give the people what they indeed require.

This ur question is a clear proof that you have no idea about mechanical engineering or any engineering at all

please tell me what a fluid mechanics or industrial mechanical engineer should open.

next thing you will say electrical engineers should open shop and repair TV and fan.

even my grandma no dey think this kain chaff thinking

aljpimp:
Mechanical engineering is broad.. you can specialize in automobile engineering, aeronautical engineering etc…

Yes, the person I am talking about. They are engineers in their house. Father worked abroad for long on ships. His eldest son prefers motorcycles. He has a shop for motorcycles in Ikeja (don't ask me the name) though heard he isn't based back home. His younger one the one I mentioned has a motor shop too in Nigeria and is based there. Their youngest went into aeronautical engineering. I heard he is going to Holland.

My husband (a mechanical engineer) was telling me how one of his lecturers in school use to get frustrated and complained that after all his effort in training them to be engineers, more than half of them will not practice and find themselves in accounting or other field.

Years down the line, the man was right.

They are doing well in other fields where there skill sets are sorted after.

Biodun556:


They are trained to build not to repair. Go to vehicle manufacturing companies and assemblying plants to see them just like civil engineers who construct building not repairing building

STORY.
I studied Mechanical Engineering and can confidently tell you that when it comes to practicals, 95% of Mechanical Engineering graduates don't know shim!

CyberHustle:
Mechanical engineering is simply centered around the design of mechanical systems. It isn't equal to mechanical technician role. People erroneously equate engineers to technician's. Also, roadside mechanics or technicians workshop can be financially tasking to properly setup and master it's use.

This is from a Google search on "engineers vs technicians".

Well said. If they want to be mechanics they don't need to study mechanical engineering. Technicians are different from Engineers. Flip it around, why don't mechanics work in car design and manufacturing businesses? Or why are Civil engineers not bricklayers?

Biodun556:


They are trained to build not to repair. Go to vehicle manufacturing companies and assemblying plants to see them just like civil engineers who construct building not repairing building

Makes no sense. How do you know how to build and not how to merely repair?

flexyrule:
STORY.
I studied Mechanical Engineering and can confidently tell you that when it comes to practicals, 95% of Mechanical Engineering graduates don't know shim!

The calculations in determining engine displacement can a mechanic do that? When a mechanical design fails will you hold a mechanic responsible?

Mechanics with degrees

Truly, this is a nice discussion. I believe every engineering department should have workshop for commercial purposes. Some pharmacy schools produce certain drugs in commercial quantities. Teaching Hospital is like a workshop for doctors who are lecturing in universities.
I would love if mechanical engineering departments in our higher institutions have automobile workshops especially when there is automobile engineering option.
In such setting engineers, technicians, and technologists will work as a team just like health workers do work as a team.

This topic has been killed by BAD ENGLISH by the OP

For Pete's sake, what is MECHANICAL ENGINEER GRADUATES ?