Department of Electrical Engineering

VISION STATEMENT

Towards a global knowledge hub, striving continuously in pursuit of knowledge per excellence in electrical electronic engineering education, entrepreneurship and innovation.

MISSION STATEMENT

To nurture students with creativeness, innovativeness and entrepreneurship skills to develop out-of-the-box thinking in response to the needs of the related industry like communications, power and others.

PHILOSOPHY OF THE DEPARTMENT

This programme is to produce graduates with high academic and soft skills competence, capable to adequately participate, transform and impact on the Engineering and allied industries in consonance with National and Global community values, including National Policy on Industrialization and Self-Reliance. Also, to train students to explore and make relevance to the importance of efficient and sustainable solutions for Electrical and Electronics Engineering challenges, such as achieving sustainable electricity generation, secure distribution, and intelligent communication systems.

1 The objectives of the department

To impart quality education for effective learning in terms of teaching, workshop practices and research.
To train the students in achieving and practicing technical skills in identifying, analysing and solving complex problems and issues related to Electrical Electronics Engineering.
Practice Electrical and Electronics Engineering with an awareness of and commitment to ethics and social responsibility, sustainability and diversify both as individual and as in team works.
To achieve international standard of quality education in molding the young engineers into full-fledged future professionals.

2 ENTRY REQUIREMENT

Candidates are admitted into the degree programme in any of the following two ways:
1. Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) Mode (5 Year Degree Programme)
2. Direct Entry(DE) Mode (4 Year Degree Programme)

Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) Mode: For five year degree programme, candidates with post-secondary qualifications may apply for admission into 200 Level for the relevant undergraduate programmes having satisfy all the following conditions –

A. A minimum of Credit level (C6) pass in at least 5 subjects, including English Language; Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and any other acceptable science subjects is also required in West African Senior Secondary School Certificate (SSSC); General Certificate of Education (GCE) Ordinary Level (O’L) or equivalent, National Examinations Council (NECO), at not more than two sittings.
It is also desirable for candidates to have Further Mathematics and Technical Drawing at credit levels. This will be an added advantage.

B. Acceptable score in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME). The subjects shall be Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and English Language.

C. In addition, candidates with acceptable Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examinations (UTME) results will further be screened to ascertain suitability for admission into Babcock University.

3 DEPARTMENTAL GRADUATION REQUIREMENT

The following regulations shall govern the conditions for the award of a honours degree in Engineering and Technology:

1. candidates admitted through the UTME mode shall have registered for a minimum of 150 and maximum of 180 units of courses during the 5–year engineering degree programme. Such candidates shall have spent a minimum of ten academic semesters;

2. candidates admitted through the Direct Entry mode shall have registered for a minimum of 120 and a maximum of 150 units of courses during a 4–year engineering degree programme. Such candidates shall have spent a minimum of eight academic semesters;

3. candidates admitted through the Direct Entry mode at 300-Level shall have registered for a minimum of 90 and a maximum of 120 units of courses during a 3–year engineering degree programme. Such candidates shall have spent a minimum of 6 academic semesters;

4. The minimum and maximum credit load per semester is 16 and 24 credit units respectively; a student shall have completed and passed all the Courses registered for, including all compulsory courses and such elective /optional courses as may be specified by the university/faculty or department; obtained a minimum Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) specified by the university but not less than 2.00; and

5. a student shall also have earned the 11 credit units of Students Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES), 8 credit units of University General Study courses and four credit units of Entrepreneurship courses.

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This program is to produce graduates with high academic and soft skills competence, capable to adequately participate, transform and impact on the Engineering and allied industries in consonance with National and Global community values, including National Policy on Industrialization and Self-Reliance.

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