The Vice Chancellor of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Prof. Michael Ajisafe, has said the institution’s Engineering Faculty is a model for other universities.
He described the faculty as a template for measuring quality of equipment and lecturers.
Ajisafe spoke yesterday during a visit by the accreditation team of the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) to the university.
The vice chancellor said ABUAD engineering students had won laurels locally and internationally.
He said: “Our Engineering Faculty has 38 laboratories. Even when NUC came, it confessed that 40 per cent of the equipment in ABUAD doesn’t exist in other universities in this country.
“Aside from that our graduates are winning local and international laurels. Two of our graduates won awards in London in 2017, which showed the quality of our graduates.
“Our engineering has an Industrial Park with 121 major firms, which we are planning to expand to 220 units. Our experts are already working on how to achieve this.”
COREN’s team leader Prof. John Olorunmaiye said the visitation was among the criteria for attaining provisional signatory status for the running of courses in Nigeria.