Education
AN Electrical and Electronic Engineer, Sulaiman Muazu, has urged students of Government Technical College (GTC) Malali in Kaduna to exhibit their technical skills toward contributing to a sustainable world.
Muazu made the call on Monday in Kaduna while delivering a paper at the GTC in commemoration of the `World Engineering Day’.
The theme of the 2024 celebration is “Engineering Solutions for a Sustainable World”.
He said that sustainable development was necessary due to the high demand for natural resources and the environment.
He noted that sustainable development was necessary to ensure conservation of natural resources, maintaining ecological balance and mitigating the impact of climate change.
“Sustainable development is crucial because it is essential for long-term prosperity of business and economy, ” Muazu said.
The engineer said that the students, who were taught practically in technical and vocational-oriented skills, had great roles to play in addressing some of the environmental challenges in contemporary times and in the future.
Muazu said that engineers played vital roles in construction and ensuring that the structures were safe, efficient and sustainable, while also considering the economic and social impact of their design.
He explained that to a great extent, engineers had proffered solutions or alternatives to the use of fossils fuel, recycling technologies, conserving natural resources, amongst others.
Muazu stated that the students could contribute positively to the engineering world through the skills and knowledge acquired in the college.
He urged them to be innovative, while positively harnessing the opportunities embedded in waste materials around their environment for the development of their schools and the nation in general.
Also, a Teacher in the school, Mrs Amina Muhammad, said the event had instilled some sense of environmental conservation through engineering processes to the students.
Muhammad who doubled as the Coordinator of the Eco Club in the school, said GTC, being a technical school, already made the students engineers.
“What our students can produce will baffle you.
“This event will, therefore, go a long way in reinvigorating their engineering spirit toward different directions to contribute to safer and sustainable environment while tapping from the opportunities embedded in it,” she said.
Earlier, the Programme Officer for Centre for Water and Environment Development (CWED), Mrs Lydia Saleh, organisers of the event, said their choice for celebrating the World Engineering Day with the students of GTC was because they were technical students.
She added that after the students graduated from the school, they would go into the outer world where majority of them would practice what their areas of specialisation while in school.
Saleh said that it would be critical to the nation’s growth and development when the students practice their areas of specialisation.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that in 2020, the global celebration was renamed World Engineering Day as a joint venture with United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and World Federation of Engineering Organisations (WFEO).
The day is meant to highlight engineers’ achievements around the world and improve the public understanding of the importance of engineering and technology. (NAN)
5th March, 2024.
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