NIEEE Urges SON To Promote Teaching Of Standards In Schools

The Nigerian Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (NIEEE) has called on the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) to develop a curriculum for the teaching of standards in schools.

The National Chairman of NIEEE, Michael Akan, made the call in a statement following his recent investiture as the 20th national chairman of the institute in Abuja.

According to him, Nigeria is lagging in standards development, hence, the need to speed up the process by encouraging the teaching of standards in schools.

“Teaching of standards in schools will help create awareness and interest for standards development and also narrow the gap as more professionals are involved.

“No country can grow economically without technology and no country can grow technologically without engagement in the development of engineering standards.

“Nigeria is only represented in two technical committees on the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), while countries like China dominate all the over 1000 technical committees,” he said.

Also speaking, Richard Adewumi, Assistant Director, Management Systems Certification at SON, decried the poor attitude of professionals towards standards development.

He said there was a need to market SON and its activities and called on NIEEE members to join the technical committees and workgroups to be part of standards developments.