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Safyqueen:
That's not the work of a university professor.
In technical field those designed to handle practical work are called technicians. Those below them to manufacturer the tools used by them are called craftsmen. Those above them are called technologist before the engineers at the top.
No need to further elucidate on these.

How do you confidently teach the students if you don’t have practical experience, I rather school myself on YouTube

Just hand me your syllabus or course outlines

If Nigerians hate it then just know that it is the truth that is being said.

A very ignorant post. Where in the route to becoming a professor is learning to repair generator or working as technician. If you are informed enough you know being a professor means knowing so much on a much narrowed subject.

Nawaoooo. Na theory professor's we get for this nation. Where are the practical ones.

mrvitalis:
So you think practicals are superior to theories? Mehn we are doomed in this country

Any idiot can do practical... Intact and robots can be programed do repairs

Lmaooo do you guys even know what goes into designing a bolt? ... Just a bolt or shaft?
So you even know what goes into treatment of materials to achieve desired properties?

That's even done with limitations in space and cost... Lmao

Why do you guys think it take care 15 years to change engine design for cars even with that the new one is designed as an improvement of the old not just afresh

Just because you loosed something and replaced parts you think you are better than someone who use calculus to solve problems

Designing clearance alone for he piston cylinder system, the injection valve system, the stress analysis with head and temperatures control Lmaooo

You go market buy parts lose and replace then you think u are doing good Lmaooo

You can't even defend the design of a bolt before an engineer ...

Engineering is theory and problems solving... Google is your friend... If you want practical go and learn craftsman job

With these you've wrote, how come we are yet to design or come with one machine as a country? All we do is import and assemble

FutureFocus:
My former Boss turned diver was a mechanical engineer trained in Germany, I love old heavy diesel patrol vehicles, his mechanic couldn’t fix the last one her got and this man started telling the mechanic what to do, boom within 2hrs mins the vehicle started working , no university faculty of engineering does that in Nigeria

Anyone that has mechanical aptitude , doesn't need to go to a university to learn how to fix broken things. I have a mechanic that never went to school but can fix cars.

You are right my brother what is the essence of professors of engineering that cannot fixed a faulty generator

TruthsFM:
Man laments as engineering professors fail to fix faulty faculty generator in his department.


"I was in this faculty some time ago, when the faculty generator had issues, none of the professors of engineering could fix it. They had to look for – my question is why is why is it a faculty of engineering if the diesel power plant had problems and it could not be fixed?" – A Nigerian youth stirs reactions after sharing a surprising experience at his university’s faculty of engineering.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25GqDvzfn9A?

FutureFocus:
How do you confidently teach the students if you don’t have practical experience, I rather school myself on YouTube

Just hand me your syllabus or course outlines

Have you ever studied engineering ? In an engineering faculty, there are lecturers and lab technicians whose job is to conduct practicals with students. The two are different. Una ignorance is so embarassing.

Zionmdde:
Only the ignorant cannot differentiate between an engineer and a technician
An engineer translates the theories into designs and models which are actualized by the technicians under the directions and supervision of the engineer

So a mechanical engineer has no business repairing a generator. Not in Nigeria, not even in Germany. He can only give an idea of what is wrong with the generator and not to repair it

Anyone who can specify what is wrong with a machine can as well repair it.

Anyone who can design a machine can couple, disassemble and fix it.

So, civil engineers should not know how to mix mortar and operate cement mixers?

Don't be a Reno Omokiri.

Engineering is not for everybody...

Comment here are so funny...

Most people don't even no anything about engineering

We have so many aspects of engineering...

So if u see me tomorrow now and I introduce myself as engineer.

You expect me to be able to fix generator, run wire in a building, fix laptop, dig foundation,

Hahahah funny people

Pythagoras001:
Their are people trained for fixing generators and that is not a part of a university professor job description whose primary job is research , teaching and comunity service. while a professor of mechanical engineering understands how the generator works and could also design one. fixing a particular generator even if he wants to do it himself would take considerable time as he may have no working tools for the task and have no experience with the design of the current generator.

what are you even saying? Please explain sir.. 40 characters is a goal.

TruthsFM:
Nawaoooo. What is the essence of studying machines and its functions in the school then.

You or/and the man are deeply ignorant.
The job of these professors is to teach design principles and advance/expand the body of knowledge(academic researchers). Engineering is broad at degree level the way NUC has structured it. It takes masters degree in a specific subfield to start handling your own design talk less of other peoples designs.
To make it more complicated, most products nowadays incorporate principles from wide range of engineering fields which is almost impossible for any single professor to be proficient in all of.

Na dy dx equations full their head, just theories no practical,that's why it's good as an engineering student to go to polytechnic first and expose yourself to practicals very well.

It's everywhere in Nigeria institutions especially universities.

Hmmm..mmmm
In as much as he has points, such a system he described should be adopted.
Learn from 7am to 12noon, then Go Learn work from 1 to 4pm.

This illiterate debate again.

If you want to fix your generator, go to a generator technician and learn it. If you are brilliant and naturally inclined to hands-on tech it won't take you 3 months to start making sense of it. You don't need engineering degree or any science background for that.

Stop embarrassing yourself with these ignorant threads on the field of engineering.

Ignorance is a disease and this guy has it in great quantity.

The too much emphasis on paper qualifications has really ruined Africa, our educational theoretical system and the absent of practicals in some major fields isn't a good at all. Even those artisans doing the dirty works are been looked down upon.

Arostar2023:
Have you ever studied engineering ? In an engineering faculty, there are lecturers and lab technicians whose job is to conduct practicals with students. The two are different. Una ignorance is so embarassing.

It’s wrong to hire kazzem with OND and wear him a lab coat to teach Bachelor of Engineering student practical , what we are saying is that professors should know more than just theories, universities should be doing researches and coming out with inventions

Not just to grade students only, that’s why our graduates are not employable and we have to rely on the Chinese for development and infrastructures

Professor of Medicine taught and groom many doctors that perform different surgery operations in hospitals, but he himself may not be able to perform the simplest form of surgery because it’s not in his job description to perform one.

If a professor in your university was able to fix his generator, how will a roadside generator repairer make money to feed his family?

christejames:
That happens when your brain is loaded with theories...





Our curriculum needs to be overhauled, that's Nigeria 🇳🇬 need a change of govt.

It's not like that sir.
Completely different skill sets are needed for repairing Generators.

I design and build electronic circuits on PCB, and they could include both analogue and digital components.

However, one thing I am not good with is repairing damaged electronics because it takes experience with repairing to do such

The one who can repair usually cannot design and implement a given circuit

OLODO. So a Prof should be fixing Gen? Ignorance at its peak. Do you know what it takes to be a Prof? Do you think it is buy bolting and unbolting screws and nuts?.... have you asked yourself how that screw was able to fit into the nut and who programmed that? have you asked yourself who designed the Engine Block that makes the pistons run effectively?

try and create a Gen yourself before coming to insult a Prof. OLODO

Bar1941:
Professor of Medicine taught and groom many doctors that perform different surgery operations in hospitals, but he himself may not be able to perform the simplest form of surgery because it’s not in his job description to perform one.

If a professor in your university was able to fix his generator, how will a roadside generator repairer make money to feed his family?

Who lied to you that Professors of Medicine and Surgery can't perform Surgeries ?
Who lied to you...?
Never never never bring Medicine into such discussions.
Haven't you been to Teaching Hospitals, Federal Medical centers and Private settings to witness Professors do surgeries?
Or you want sick first before you understand too

It's incredibly stunning when a university don cannot practically apply theories and concepts he has been teaching. What happens to the practical sessions at the laboratory? We are just bunch of people teaching and learning not for the learning purposes. 😔

See engineering building sef, what do you expect? Come and see the buildings at the schools of engineering at Universities here and know Nigeria has a lot of work to do.

The ignorance is embarrassing.

The point that they are trying to make is obvious but engineering is a standardized field across the world and the curriculum in Nigeria reflects that. Nigeria's peculiar problem affects everyone, not just engineers. They leave Nigeria and thrive.

If you need more hands for your generator repair, face your technical colleges.

Bar1941:
Professor of Medicine taught and groom many doctors that perform different surgery operations in hospitals, but he himself may not be able to perform the simplest form of surgery because it’s not in his job description to perform one.

If a professor in your university was able to fix his generator, how will a roadside generator repairer make money to feed his family?

FutureFocus:
It’s wrong to hire kazzem with OND and wear him a lab coat to teach Bachelor of Engineering student practical , what we are saying is that professors should know more than just theories, universities should be doing researches and coming out with inventions

Not just to grade students only, that’s why our graduates are not employable and we have to rely on the Chinese for development and infrastructures

The problem of your country is not that you have too many professors. The problem is that you have few technicians and your education sector is underfunded. Professors don't build physical infrastructures , the design mostly.
The two are different and both are equally important. We have Polytechnic and technical schools were technical knowledge are meant to taught. But today it's a different ball game. Not everyone need to spend five years in the university, one year certificate program is enough to get some people started in their field of interest. For your information, there are no Chinese professors in Nigeria building infrastructure for you, but technicians and laborers.

Go and research how much it cost to fund researches. Who is going to fund those researches you are talking about? Do you know how much it cost to build a standard engineering laboratory? You think those things you have in federal school are up to standard? You get what you plant, my friend.

NotOfThisWorld:
See engineering building sef, what do you expect? Come and see the buildings at the schools of engineering at Universities here and know Nigeria has a lot of work to do.

Exactly
I'm more concerned about the Engineering Building than the message.
The building looks like a slaughterhouse
Looks like where Fulani Herdsmen keep their namas

There are different fields of engineering man. They didnt design the generator you are ignorantly talking about.

It's unfortunate to note that most of you are expecting a Prof. to fix the generator.
The same people complaining will still be here shouting about how the Prof who alredy has a job is stopping them (skill workers) to progress.
For the records, the duty of an Engineer is to design, the Poly graduate interprete the design to the OND holder, who in turn supervises the Skill workers (Craftmen).

This ignorance by author.

He isn't a Professor to fix the generator.

There is:
An Engineer
A Technologist/Technician
An Artesian
A Craftsman

Each plays a different role in the profession

A country where vanity is the main reason we want to be " a graduate " not really as a career or driven by the passion fot the field/course . Next thing , it's the ' illiterate mechanic' that will fix the generator perfectly . Some proffesor!