A man has raised concerns about the competence of engineering students after witnessing their inability to repair a generator at a party, requiring the assistance of an artisan.
Sharing on Twitter (X), the man @winexviv disclosed that the generator suddenly developed a fault while the Mechanical Engineering final year students of Imo State University were hosting a graduation party.
To his surprise, none of the engineering graduates had any idea how to fix the generator which resulted in searching for a skilled generator artisan.
Following the incident, he questioned the quality of graduates, asserting that most are unemployable graduates who lack literacy.
Tweeps have broken down the engineering specialties with different traits to criticize the man’s view of the graduates. Many asserted that the Nigerian university curriculum in engineering courses is intended to educate students on theory rather than practicals.
See reaction below,
@samwellsg Just theories no practicals. I don’t blame the graduates I blame our ancient colonial educational system in deteriorating state that has long lost its value.
@Nedumcity_ Call them half baked graduate not illiterate graduate.
@xlyasafox So na Generator you wan use test my knowledge after 4 years
@Morris_Monye This might not be the case. It’s like saying an electrical engineer should know how to repair electric poles or fix transformers. There is a difference between engineers and technicians.
@AskFatai 𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒑𝒔. 𝑻𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒔, 𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒔. 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒖𝒎𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔