Computer Engineering Design as a Route to Economic Growth and Beyond It in a Third World Zone: The Case of South Eastern Nigeria

Abstract

Computer Engineering is one of the numerous branches of Engineering. Other branches of Engineering include Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, Marine Engineering, Production Engineering, chemical Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering. Computer Engineering is defined as that branch of Engineering that uses the principles of Mathematics and Natural Science for the design, construction, maintenance, fabrication, laboratory work, consulting and contracting and other works related to the computer. The computer is defined as a device which accepts data and programs and mathematical and non mathematical instructions and manipulates them with numerous speed and accuracy to produce an output which could be used as information for managerial decision making. Computers which had their origin in antiquity had its formal origin when Babbage, a British mathematician that was a precursor of Taylor designed the Analytical Engine. After Babbage till date here have been five or more generations of computers each next generation having improvements in the inputs, transform and outputs of the computer system and he materials used in the construction. The objective of the study is to determine how computer Engineering Design could be a route to Economic Growth in Nigeria. This and other objectives were fully achieved in the paper.