Entrepreneurial Skills Required by Mechanical Engineering Craft Practice Trade Students in Technical Colleges in Kano State, Nigeria

Elisa Mele ,M U Cyril ,Kamal M Ibrahim

doi:10.7176/jep/10-27-08

Abstract

The study identified Entrepreneurial Skills Required by Mechanical Engineering Craft Practice Trade Students in Technical Colleges in Kano State. The study was guided by two research questions. Two null hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. A descriptive survey research design was used for the study. The population of the study comprised of 44 entrepreneurs and 24 teachers making a total of 68 respondents. The entire population was used for the study. The instrument used for data collection was a 63 items structured questionnaire. The reliability coefficient of the instrument was 0.79. Mean, Standard Deviation, and Grand Mean were used to answer research questions 1 & 2. While z-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed among others that, technical colleges’ students of mechanical engineering craft practice trade require technical skills to operate various machines like; lathe, drilling, milling, shaping and band saw. All the hypotheses tested revealed that there is significant difference between the opinion of entrepreneurs and teachers on entrepreneurship skills required by mechanical engineering craft practice trade students in technical colleges in Kano state. Based on these findings the researchers recommend, among others, that; Entrepreneurship training should be given topmost priority. This would enable the students develop entrepreneurial technical skills and attitude necessary for gainful self or paid employment. DOI : 10.7176/JEP/10-27-08 Publication date :September 30 th 2019

Highlights

Technical colleges are established for training of students to acquire practical skills, knowledge and attitude, necessary for promotion of industrial development in the area of maintenance, production of goods and general technical services (Abdulkadir, 2011)
Mechanical Engineering Craft Practice trade (MECPT)is one of the trades found in technical colleges, which is aimed at training and imparting necessary skills leading to the production of craftsmen who will be self-reliant and enterprising in job areas, such as Metal fitting, Machining, Welding and Fabrication [National Board of Technical Education (NBTE), 2008]
There is no significant difference between the mean opinion of entrepreneurs and teachers on managerial skills required by mechanical engineering craft practice trade students in technical colleges in Kano state for establishing mechanical enterprise

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Technical colleges are established for training of students to acquire practical skills, knowledge and attitude, necessary for promotion of industrial development in the area of maintenance, production of goods and general technical services (Abdulkadir, 2011). Mechanical Engineering Craft Practice trade (MECPT)is one of the trades found in technical colleges, which is aimed at training and imparting necessary skills leading to the production of craftsmen who will be self-reliant and enterprising in job areas, such as Metal fitting, Machining, Welding and Fabrication [National Board of Technical Education (NBTE), 2008]. MECPT is a branch of engineering which deals with machines and mechanized processes, power generation, transmission, utilization of tools and equipment (Atsumbe, Okoro, & Ogwo, 2012).MECPT students are usually awarded the National Technical Certificate (NTC) by National Business and Technical Examination Board (NABTEB) after successfully passing all the relevant modules of the course, which includes entrepreneurship skills training. The term entrepreneurship is derived from the word “entrepreneur”, the process of becoming an entrepreneur, is the act of being an entrepreneur

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