EEGQ 5221 Professional Engineering Practice 48 hrs,
1.0 units
Prof. George S. Agoki, PhD (Civil Eng.), PE,
MASCE, MNSBE,
MASABE, MASEE,
MASEM
Professor George S. Agoki
LICENSES & CERTIFICATION
Texas - Texas Board of Professional Engineers & Land Surveyors
Professional Engineer (PE) License #133762
LICENSES & CERTIFICATION
Eminent Fellow of the American Biographical Institute for Distinguished Leadership In
University Education and
Road Safety Research, 1998
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Charter Member of the Transportation & Development Institute of ASCE
Lifetime Member of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
Member of the American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM)
Member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
Lifetime Member of the American Society of Agricultural & Biological Engineers (ASABE)
EEGQ 5221 Professional Engineering Practice 48 hrs,1.0 units
Financial, legal, regulatory, human resource
ethical and business aspects of engineering
practice.
Office organisation and management.
Human resource management.
Professional societies.
Engineering registration.
The role of engineering in development.
Ethics and integrity in engineering practice.
EEGQ 5221 Professional Engineering
Practice 48 hrs, 1.0 units
The role of engineering in development.
PAPER PRESENTED
BY
THE MANAGING DIRECTOR,
LOWER BENUE RIVER BASIN
DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY,
ENGR. DR. CHIEF (MRS.) ROSELINE ADA
CHENGE FNSE
ON THE OCCASION OF THE MONTHLY
MEETING OF THE NIGERIA SOCIETY OF
ENGINEERS (NSE) MAKURDI
ON THE 30TH OF JANUARY, 2014.
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Engineering is a term used for the
profession in which a knowledge
of the mathematical and natural
sciences, gained by study,
experience, and practice, is
applied to the efficient use of the
materials and forces of nature.
1.0 INTRODUCTION
The term Engineer properly
denotes a person who has
received professional training
in pure and applied science.
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Between the professional
engineer and the craftsman or
tradesman, are those individuals
known as sub-professionals or
paraprofessionals, who apply
scientific and engineering skills to
technical problems.
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Typicalof these, are
engineering aides,
technicians, inspectors,
draftsmen, and the like.
SOME FIELDS OF ENGINEERING
Civil Engineering.
Mechanical Engineering.
Electrical Engineering.
Agricultural Engineering.
Mining Engineering
Aeronautical Engineering
Nuclear Engineering
Industrial and Management Engineering,
Geomatic Engineering* etc.
(*This was omitted : Discuss)
NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
National Development refers to
the ability of a country to
improve the social welfare of the
people by providing social
amenities like good education,
infrastructure, medical care and
social services.
1.3 THE ROLE OF ENGINEER IN NATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
Therole of Engineer in national
development refers to the
application of the knowledge of
the mathematical and natural
sciences, gained by study,
experience, and practice in the
provision of social amenities like
good education, infrastructure,
medical care and social services.
2.0 SPECIFIC ASPECTS OF NATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT IN WHICH ENGINEERS
PLAY A VITAL ROLE
Engineers play the role of guidance
and counselling of students at tender
age at secondary school level in
taking decision on the choice of
courses of career by sensitizing them
towards the technical and
engineering discipline.
2.0 SPECIFIC ASPECTS OF NATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT IN WHICH ENGINEERS
PLAY A VITAL ROLE
Engineers in tertiary institutions i.e.
Polytechnic and Universities prepare
the undergraduates by taking them
through the practical knowledge of
their different fields of engineering
thereby impacting upon them from
their wealth of knowledge and
experience.
2.0 SPECIFIC ASPECTS OF NATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT IN WHICH ENGINEERS
PLAY A VITAL ROLE
Engineers inculcate in the
undergraduates the need for
entrepreneurial skills for
sustainable development rather
than seeking and indulging in the
get rich quick practices.
2.2 Community Development
The Engineer deals with the creation,
improvement, and protection of the
communal environment, providing
facilities for living, industry and
transportation, including large buildings,
roads, bridges, canals, railroad lines,
airports, water-supply systems, dams,
irrigation, harbours, docks, aqueducts,
tunnels, and other engineered
constructions within a given community.
2.3.Community Engineering
Like
community Policing,
community engineering plays a
very important role in the
monitoring of infrastructural
development projects within the
neighbourhood with a view to
ensuring adherence to standards
and ethics of engineering practice.
2.3.Community Engineering
Engineerswithin a community
come together as volunteers to
sponsor infrastructural
development projects like
boreholes, water distribution
network, construction of
drainages, culverts etc.
2.4 Incorporation of Engineering
Companies
The coming together of Engineers to
incorporate Engineering firms has
come a long way in fostering
National development by ensuring
continuity in Engineering
infrastructural development projects,
unlike in situations where Engineering
firms are family based where
probably the principal partner is the
only Engineer and his demise means
the folding up of the company.
2.5 Engineers and Politics
Decision making for National
Development is made at the
highest level of Government.
2.5 Engineers and Politics
Involvement of Engineers in
politics affords them the
opportunity to be at these
policy/decision making
bodies.
2.5 Engineers and Politics
Engineers at these levels, use
their professional knowledge
to attract and defend
important engineering
infrastructural development
projects.
2.5 Engineers and Politics
Similarly,
Engineers in politics
contribute to the enhancement
of the welfare of other Engineers
thereby motivating them to
higher productivity for national
development.
2.6 Engineers in Public Service
Most of the Engineering
Development Projects are being
conceptualized, designed,
supervised, evaluated and
certified by the Engineers in the
Public Service.
2.6 Engineers in Public Service
These Engineers also ensure
that these projects are
executed according to
specifications.
2.6 Engineers in Public Service
They also make necessary
input towards the
procurement of Engineering
Projects.
Homework
With reference to Engineering Professions in
Kenya with special emphasis to Geomatic
Engineering answer the following:
(a) What contribution has been made toward
national development.
(b) What gaps and challenges still remain to fully
realize and tap to the extent possible the
engineering potential for national
development?
Due Date: January 30,2024
