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Assessment of attitude of
university and polytechnic communities’ members in
South-west Nigeria to engineering and technological
innovations
A. O.
Agbanigo*, G. Adelegan and P. S. Okesola
Mechanical Engineering Department, The Federal Polytechnic,
Ado Ekiti,
Ekiti State, Nigeria.
Accepted 10 December, 2009 |
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This communication seeks to assess the disposition of members
of polytechnic and university communities to locally
produced equipment and machines, the bulk of which come from
polytechnics and universities, technological institutions.
Only 52.56% of total respondents patronise the products with
78.37% of those who do not patronise saying they preferred
imported ones, after confirming that the product quality was
above average, 70.91% as against 1.08% whose quality is poor
and 5.66% who were uncertain. This confirms conclusions in
texts that there is a general apathy toward indigenous
efforts in equipment and machine production. It was
concluded that this negative attitude cannot result in the
building of indigenous engineering capacity or local
production of machines and equipment.
Key words: Polytechnic and university communities,
product quality, machines, equipment. |
