Pulse.ng : Engineer task students on technical skills for sustainanable world

By Sani Idris

An Electrical and Electronic Engineer, Sulaiman Muazu, has tasked students of Government Technical College (GTC) Malali in Kaduna on exhibiting their technical skills towards contributing to a sustainanable 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 years' celebration is "Engineering solutions for a sustainanable world".

He said that sustainable development is necessary due to the high demand on natural resources and the environment.

He therefore, said sustainable development is 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 economics,"he said.

The Engineer stressed that the students, who were taught practically in technical and vocational oriented skills, have great roles to play in addressing some of the environmental challenges in contemporary times and in the future.

Stressing on the importance of engineers to a nation, Muazu said they play vital roles in construction, and ensuring that the structure are safe, efficient and sustainable while also considering the economic and social impact of their design.

He added that to a great extend, engineers have proffered solutions or alternative to the use of fossils fuel, recycling technologies, conserving natural resources, among others.

Muazu stressed that the students, could contribute positively to the engineering world through the skills and knowledge impacted to them in the college.

He urged them to be innovative, while positively harnessing the opportunities embedded in waste materials around their environments for the development of their school and the nation in general.

Also, Mrs Amina Muhammad, a Teacher at the school, said the event had instill 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 their students engineers.

"What our students can produce will baffle you, this is event will therefore go along way in reinvigorating their engineering spirits towards different directions to contribute to safer and sustainanable 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 are 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 they specialised at while in school.

Saleh, said it would be critical to the nation's growth and development when the students practice their specialities while thinking along lines of sustainanability in what ever they would produce or construct that would fit into the environment.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that in 2020, the global celebration was renamed World Engineering Day as a joint venture with UNESCO and WFEO to highlight engineers' achievements around the world and improve the public understanding of the importance of engineering and technology.(NAN)