Adetona, Z.A and Olayiwola, J. O (2022) MEETING THE CHALLENGE OF ENGINEERING ASSET MAINTENANCE IN NIGERIA THROUGH ASSET MAINTENANCE ENGINEERING EDUCATION. In: 3rd International Conference, 16th & 17th August 2022, The Federal Polytechnic Ilaro.
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In Nigeria today, many public engineering assets and infrastructures have become dilapidated, unattended to and oftentimes moribund. Engineering education and training in maintenance are important in ensuring that public and private assets and infrastructures are useful over their entire lifespan. Many engineering trainees lack training in asset and infrastructure maintenance. An empirical study was carried out on engineering students via an online survey to investigate the status of engineering asset management and maintenance (EAMM) in Nigeria and the level of training received by the Nigerian engineering student. Respondents were polled from different parts of the country. The results showed that 29% of the respondents did not have any maintenance training, only 56.1% of the respondents claimed to have courses taught on EAMM and only 61.8% of those who have received EAMM training agreed to have acquired valuable knowledge on asset maintenance. 64.2% are aware of assets and infrastructures needing maintenance in various locations in the country and almost all respondents (97.6%) were favourably disposed to having training on engineering assets and infrastructure maintenance. It is concluded that government, through various education regulators should make engineering asset and infrastructure maintenance training mandatory for the Nigerian engineering students at all levels by putting in place a maintenance policy, establishing maintenance organisation and mandate higher institutions to carry out training on the subjects.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Asset and infrastructure,engineering education, maintenance policy, engineering curriculum, engineering training |
| Subjects: | Q Science > Q Science (General) T Technology > T Technology (General) |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics > School of Engineering Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Joy Oluwabukola Olayiwola |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Dec 2022 13:55 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Dec 2022 13:55 |
| URI: | http://eprints.federalpolyilaro.edu.ng/id/eprint/2047 |
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