Charting a Course of Development Through Proper Technical, Technological and Engineering Education

Abstract

Knowledge refers to the possession of information, facts, ideas, truth or principles. The imparting and
acquiring of knowledge through teaching and learning refer to education. The nucleus of education is
knowledge. A well directed education is the process that yields knowledge. Engineering is the application of
science in the design, planning, construction and maintenance of manufactured entity while Engineering
education is the training of engineers for the purpose of initiating, facilitating and implementing the
technological development of a Nation. Engineering uses scientific ideas to develop technology but
technology provides the ingredient for Engineering. Technical education engenders formal preparation of
Technicians for occupations between the skilled trades and the professions based on underlying sciences
and supporting mathematics as well as methods, skills, materials, and processes of a specialized field of
technology. In this work, the roles of these tier of education in the development of a nation was discussed
in relation to the existing developmental efforts made towards achieving technological advancement in
Nigeria. It is hoped that the policy makers in Nigeria will find the paper useful for the betterment of hoi
polloi by charting a course of developing the entity called Nigeria through well-found technical,
technological an d engineering education.