ENGINEERING EDUCATION AS WAY TO KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY

A group of business and university leaders, highlight innovation as the single most important factor in determining Nigeria’s success throughout the 21st century. Due to them there should be national innovation initiative for engineering education promotion for the country which needs marketing solutions that will raise competiveness of Nigeria among other African countries. Nigerian’s challenge is to unleash its innovation capacity to drive productivity, standard of living, and leadership in global markets. At the time when macro-economic forces and financial constraints make innovation-driven growth a more urgent imperative than ever before, Nigerian businesses, government, workers, and universities face an unprecedented acceleration of global change, relentless pressure for short term results, and fierce competition from countries that seek an innovation-driven future for themselves. With the help of engineering education as marketing solution in Nigeria, the country would become one the fastest developing and growing economies in the world. Engineering education in Nigeria may create awareness and new ideas to the people of the country generally, it can reduce the unemployment rate and it will raise the manpower to high level. Engineering education will open doors to marketing to show to the people of the country where to set up small business, and to which countries export goods. Some years back the engineering education was still very poor compared to the present generation. Today every country introduces high technologies in economic life due forming generation of engineers. As example we can tak