Two telecoms experts in the country have said that the nation’s builders must begin to consider building big complex systems instead of the small complex projects if their desire to empower Nigerians with ubiquitous communication infrastructure and resources would be realized.
The experts at a workshop and exhibition of Systems Engineering held at the University of Lagos added that there is also the need to consider power plants, refineries, communications systems, smart highways and railways since they are subjects for systems engineering management.
Chief executive officer of MainOne Cable Company, Funke Opeke and President of the Assiocaition Telecommunications Company, (ALTON), Engr.Titi Omo-Ettu who both spoke at the occasion said that it essential that planners of development structures should be thinking of big complex system.
Opeke said that there are so many examples of the infrastructure that enhances our daily lives and national development which would not occur without systems engineering.
Omo-Ettu while commending the University of Lagos for hosting event said that it is worthy of note that the university is known for pioneering training programs which sought solution to problems far ahead of their times.
He observed that the University of Lagos actually pioneered the local undergraduate training in law, mass communication, environmental science, surveying and systems engineering.
According to him, “as much as our development is now entering the total engineering revolution no other faculty of engineering in Nigeria offers training in Systems Engineering but the University of Lagos”.
He added that “We are now entering a new era where big and very complex projects will have to be conceived, designed and delivered at a price that our people can afford and it is time our engineering rises to seeing the management of systems rather than of projects”.
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