Enhancing Sustainable Engineering Education and Practice in the Developing Countries Through University-Industry Collaboration: A Nigeria Perspective.

The demand for skilled engineers due to dynamics of technology and socio-technological challenges could only be met in all countries through sustainable engineering education and practice. Enhancing sustainable engineering education and practice is a global concern especially in developing countries. Over the years, many economies have grappled with obsolete, inefficient traditional methods of technology transformation and lack of practical implementation of distributed problem-solving techniques, which can be traced to paucity of sustainable engineering education. Good efforts had been made in this paper to explore university-industry collaborations as one of the robust means to enhancing sustainable engineering education and practice in Nigeria. The identified areas of collaboration include establishment of institutional factories and industries, revamping students industrial work experience scheme, establishment of engineering schools for further quality practical training after graduation, collaboration in utilising efforts made by institutions in research and development, joint conferences and workshops for cascading effects, and sustaining periodic industrial visits, funding of researches by industries through the universities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]