MAINTENANCE PRACTICES OF INSTRUCTORS IN ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING LABORATORIES AND WORKSHOP IN POLYTECHNICS IN NIGER STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

This research work was carried out to determine the maintenance practices of instructors in electrical and electronics engineering laboratories and workshop in polytechnics in Niger State. The case study was done with a target population of the two polytechnics in Niger State. Three research questions and three hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The research work is a descriptive survey: a well-structured questionnaire was developed by the researcher and used for data collection. The study was carried out in Federal Polytechnic Bida and Niger State Polytechnic Zungeru in Niger State. The numbers of respondents were thirty-five (35) being made up of twenty (25) lecturers and ten (10) workshop and laboratories instructors in the Electrical and Electronics Engineering department of the institution. This number was used as population for the study. The data collected was evaluated using mean, standard deviation and t-test to test the three hypotheses. The findings revealed that both the lecturers and instructors very highly adopts the three maintenance practices as stated in the research questions. It was recommended that government should give special consideration to the management of our laboratories and workshops in all the tertiary institutions in the country