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lebienconnu:
People just choose to lament for no sane reason. An engineering professor is not trained to fix generators but to design one like someone rightly said above. Round peg can not fit square hole. Even in Japan, China, Uk and US, engineering professors take their vehicles to trained technicians when required. Why is Nigeria different? This is a matter of actively looking for something negative to say even when there appears to be none. Let me tell you, those proffessors you are mocking are among the very best in the world. Baba, if you know, you know. You can not be professor without knowing your onions. It is not possible.

So which generators have they designed?

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.

That means they R teaching students the shape, sizes and model of machines.

okunwaye:
So which generators have they designed?

not necessarily a generating set. It can be anything mechanical in nature that works based on the principles of mechanics. A grinder. A manual version of popular electric driven or heat driven device.

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.

Finally I am seeing a reasonable comment.

1. In any structure organization, it is common knowledge knowledge you don't engage in tasks that are not assigned to you or your responsibility. Was the repair of diesel generator assigned to any Professor or PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the Institution? I very much doubt it.

2. There are Engineers and there are Technicians. It is not the job of engineers to repair generators. Furthermore, nobody will hire a genuine engineer and be paying him the appropriate salary scale or remuneration to be repairing generators. Just do a Goigle search of COREN Scale of Fees for Engineering Professionals and you will know better.

How many sane persons will argue that because there is shortage of teachers in a University's Staff Secondary School, then Professors should be assigned to teach? Of course it will be irrational and a big insult to the Professors in just the same manner when you tell the Engineering Professors to fix a faulty diesel generator.

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

You people should understand that a mechanical engineer is not necessarily a mechanic. A professor’s role is primarily teaching, research, and mentoring — not maintenance work. Repairing a diesel generator requires trained technicians with the right tools and safety training. Holding an academic expert responsible for routine mechanical service is unfair and outside their job scope.

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

Can you tell the theories that any Nigerian professors have successfully translated into designs?
Most of them are functional illiterate and I have zero regards for them.

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

But I have work with a young Chinese Engineer back then that can design, fabricate, weld, assemble, install, repair and operate many kinds of industrial machines and heavy machines like crane, excavator, payloader and forklift. No work we do back then both electrical, mechanical and others that he doesn't have sound knowledge of and he is a Degree holder over there in China... So does it mean that he have two heads?

Realguyman1:
But I have work with a young Chinese Engineer back then that can design, fabricate, weld, assemble, install, repair and operate many kinds of industrial machines and heavy machines like crane, excavator, payloader and forklift. No work we do back then both electrical, mechanical and others that he doesn't have sound knowledge of and he is a Degree holder over there in China... So does it mean that he have two heads?

My brother is a medical doctor but repairs cars for fun because he likes it

Does that mean fixing cars is the Job of a doctor?

mrvitalis:
My brother is a medical doctor but repairs cars for fun because he likes it

Does that mean fixing cars is the Job of a doctor?

The point u are bringing is a complete different thing and doesn't align. The Chinese man is a mechanical engineer, and everything he is doing is completely in line with his field of engineering. So the excuse u are giving is completely out of point. If the Chinese man was an administrative worker and he knows those things them u can give such excuse.

The orientations u guys are be given in the Nigeria tertiary institutions is part of the reason most organisations in this country depends on white expertraite for most of their technical work. The Chinese engineer I work with back then wasn't doing the work of the technicians, but he knows what the technicians were doing and how to interfere when they are wrong

If a Chinese man as a mechanical engineer can design, fabricate, weld assemble, install and maintain mechanical plants and structures which all align with his feed of study, then why do we Africans now feel that the work of an engineer is to sit in the office and be pressing laptop claiming he/she is designing. Same designing that the technicians who is not recognised as engineer will end up correcting for them from starting to the end.

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

Good afternoon sir.

I don't know if I can get your hlp anonymously.

My request is in the dp on my signature

I tried selling my device but nothing yet