Electrical/Electronics Engineering Technology

ELECTRICAL ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT AKANU IBIAM FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC, UNWANA

Brief History

The Department of Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technology (E.E.E.T.) admitted her first batch of students for national diploma programme in May 27, 1982 with a student enrolment of 30 students. The first Head of Department was Engr. R. N. Ogbonna. The Department graduated her first set of National Diploma graduates in 1984 after obtaining full accreditation for the National Diploma programme in the same year.

In October 1994, the Department admitted her first batch of Higher National Diploma students and gained full accreditation of the HND programme in Electronics/Telecommunications option in 1996.

Presently, the Department runs fully accredited programmes at National and Higher National Diploma in both Electronics/Telecommunications and Power/Machines options. The yearly admission at National Diploma programmes for both options is over one hundred. The Power/Machines options for Higher National Diploma programme commenced in1997 and received full accreditation programmes in the same year.

The laboratories in the Department include:

• Control and Instrumentation Laboratory
• Electronics Laboratory
• Telecommunication Laboratory
• Power Laboratory
• Machines Laboratory
• Electrical Workshop Laboratory
• Electrical/Electronic Maintenance Laboratory
• Networking Laboratory

Benefit of Studying Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Electrical and electronic engineering careers span various sectors, including energy production, telecommunications, healthcare, scientific research and development, manufacturing, and aerospace. Across these diverse disciplines, electrical and electronic engineers develop and manage a vest array of complex electrical devices and systems.

Electricity is integral to modern life, power generation, artificial intelligence, communications, medicine, transport, etc. so what distinguishes electrical from electronic? Put simply, electrical engineers deal with the supply and flow of power, electronic engineers create the electronic devices we use every day.

Electrical engineering is about harnessing electricity:

• Producing, delivering storing and transmitting it
• Large-scale systems to distribute and control power
• Circuit where electricity flows from one point to another
• High-voltage applications with heavy currents

Electronic engineering is about electrical circuits and components:

• Creating, designing and testing them
• Integrating them into computer hardware and systems
• Circuits that process, and have decision making capabilities
• Low –voltage applications and with low strength current
• Robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, computation, communications

Qualifications Required to Gain Admission into the Programme

The requirements to gain admission into both the HND and ND programmes are as follows;

National Diploma (ND) Programme

The minimum entry requirements into National Diploma (ND) in Electrical and Electronic engineering are five (5) credits passes which must include mathematics, physics, and chemistry in WASC/NECO/GCE O’level/SSCE/NABTEB- National Technical Certificate (NTC) Examination at not more than two (2) sittings.

Higher National Diploma (HND) Programme

In addition to National Diploma requirements, the candidate for Higher National Diploma must possess at least a lower credit pass in National Diploma in a relevant ND programme and a minimum of twelve (12) months of supervised industrial experience.

Heads of Department from Inception Till Date

The following are the heads of department of electrical electronic engineering technology department, Akanu Ibiam federal polytechnic Unwana, from inception till date.