Engineering Education in Nigeria: A Case Study of Mechanical Engineering

The paper examined the function of engineering education in Nigeria, with special focus on mechanical engineering. Engineering in our institutions of higher learning have been designed at training engineering manpower with theoretical and practical knowledge and skill, for national development: it highlighted the major function of engineering education in nation building, the role of mechanical engineers in developing nations, current situations and problems of Engineering in Nigeria, Mechanical Engineering components and systems and its reliability. It is therefore deduced that engineering education is a vital tool to national development in Nigeria. It therefore recommended that Engineering education should be effectively and efficiently encourage by the government.