NCDMB to commercialise top undergraduate projects
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) will partner with the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) and the Committee of Deans of Engineering and Technology of Nigerian Universities (CODET) to develop and commercialise the best engineering projects completed by undergraduates in the 2017/2018 academic session.
The Executive Secretary of NCDMB, Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote, made the commitment on Tuesday at the 27th Engineering Assembly organised by COREN in Abuja.
Engr. Wabote spoke after the announcement of the top three individual and group engineering undergraduate projects in the country by the Committee of Deans.
The top three prizes for Best Individual Engineering Projects went to Egbe Gabriel Tobi and Nsionu John Udoka, both from Covenant University Ota, Ogun State, and Omoseyi Aaron Tolu of the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA).
Similarly, students of the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) and Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) clinched the top three awards for the Best Group Engineering Projects.
The top three Best Graduating Students in Engineering emerged from the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), Covenant University and Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA), while the prizes for Best Academic Publication went to students of the University of Nigeria Nsukka and Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State.