PROGRAMME EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES CIVIL

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 Program Educational Objectives (PEOs)

The main PEOs for Civil Engineering are that within three to five years of graduation, Civil Engineering graduates would have:

1. Become competent and engaged engineering professionals, applying their technical and managerial skills in the planning, design, construction, operation or maintenance of the built environment and global infrastructure,
2. Been utilizing their skills to analyze and design systems, specify project methods and materials, perform cost estimates and analyses, and manage technical activities in support of civil engineering projects.
3. Initiated an active program of life-long learning, including studies leading to professional licensure or an advanced degree in engineering, that provides for continued development of their technical abilities and management skills, and attainment of professional expertise.
4. Developed their communication skills in oral, written, visual and graphic modes when working as team members or leaders, so they can actively participate in their communities and their profession.
5. Established an understanding of professionalism, ethics, quality performance, public policy, safety, and sustainability that allows them to be professional leaders and contributors to society when solving engineering problems and producing civil engineering solutions.
6. Achieved excellence in engineering decision-making and design,
7. Attained leadership careers in engineering practice,
8. Completed graduate professional engineering education, pursued advanced study and research in engineering
9. Engaged in diverse, alternative career choices.
10. Demonstrated in their professional practice strong technical abilities and advance in careers in Civil Engineering and related disciplines
11. Assumed leadership positions, and contribute to understanding Civil Engineering problems and the design, construction, and operation of solutions of societal problems involving Civil and related engineering systems
12. Satisfied the expectations of employers of civil engineers.


Programme Outcomes
The curriculum for the Civil Engineering is designed to ensure that students at the time of graduation, would be able to:
1. Apply knowledge of mathematics through differential equations, calculus-based physics, chemistry, and at least one additional area of science.
2. Understand engineering fundamentals and their application to the solution of problems.
3. Apply knowledge of at least four technical areas appropriate to civil engineering, including but not limited to structural, geotechnical, transportation, environmental and water resources engineering;
4. Conduct civil engineering experiments and analyze and interpret the resulting data;
5. Design a system, component, or process in more than one civil engineering context;
6. Explain basic concepts in management, business, public policy, and leadership; and
7. Use technical drawing as a means of communicating details of structures, engineering components and systems
8. Identify and use different types of engineering machines and equipment
9. Gain industrial experience and skills as they relate to civil engineering profession.
10. Understand the philosophy, history and regulatory structures and details of engineering disciplines and practice in Nigeria.
11. Identify and understand how to test and manipulate different civil engineering materials in the creation of formidable structures with economic benefits.
12. Understand the essence of survey in engineering constructions and systems operations as well apply the survey equipment
13. Acquire interdisciplinary skills in other engineering fields like electrical, mechanical and metallurgical engineering.
14. Understand the tests and standards for water, soil and air as well as the equipment/tools for measuring them.
15. Explain hydrologic cycle, its effects on global economy, peace and conflicts and be able to calculate as well as interpret data of related parameters.
16. Understand and test as well as interpret soil parameters and importance to stability of structure and other engineering systems.
17. Understand building regulations, codes of practice and computer techniques in civil engineering designs.
18. Apply computational tools and programming in conducting civil engineering processes and designs of structures
19. Apply several civil engineering techniques in the design and construction of highways.
20. Create sound designs of structures and systems, subject to uncertainty and to multiple societal and engineering constraints.
21. Design and conduct experiments and analyze and interpret data.
22. Demonstrate skills in project management and an aptitude for management of multiple tasks.
23. Communicate effectively, both written and oral.
24. Demonstrate capacity for leadership, inclusiveness, and teamwork, Professionalism, including ethics.
25. Show desire to provide service to society, and an understanding of the contemporary dynamism of the Civil Engineering profession and of the need for continued scholarship.
26. Design systems, components and/or processes to meet the constituencies’ needs within realistic constraints.
27. Function in interdisciplinary researches and studies with multidisciplinary teams.
28. Identify, formulate and solve spatial, temporal and complex engineering problems.
29. Understand and respect professional and ethical rules in engineering and related fields.
30. Use techniques, skills and modern engineering tools, equipment and procedures to test strengths and properties of civil engineering materials, structures and systems

 

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