VC Commissions IAUE’s Computer Software Laboratory

Acting Vice Chancellor of the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Rumuolumeni, Port Harcourt, Professor Okechukwu Onuchuku, has commissioned the institution’s Computer Software Laboratory.
Commissioning the laboratory recently at the Department of Computer Science, the VC described it as a landmark project, given its prospects in modern society.
He commended the Head of the Department, Dr Constance Amannah, for helping to improve the computer laboratory with internally generated funds and urged other Heads of Departments in the Faculty to borrow a leaf by emulating “the worthy initiative”.
Professor Onuchuku stressed that “the computer laboratory will make IAUE students more practical oriented and expose them to outside jobs that are selling now”.
The Vice Chancellor, who was represented by the Dean of Faculty of Natural and Applied Sciences, Professor Ozioma Ekpete, expressed confidence that IAUE students will be more grounded in the practical aspects of the field rather than on just the theoretical knowledge.
Also speaking, the Director of ICT Centre, Dr Nathaniel Ojekudo, stated that the Centre is working in collaboration with companies to provide robotics laboratory, data analytical laboratory, and systems for the Department in particular and the entire university in general.
He noted that efforts are on towards providing a more conducive learning environment for the university ad working to enlarge the capacity of the Department by breaking it into specialised units in the nearest future.
On his part, the Head of the Department of Computer Science, Dr. Amannah, disclosed that the establishment of the computer software laboratory is part of his vision for the Department to be made “a state-of-the-art Department with modern facilities, so that effective teaching and learning can take place in the Department”.
He emphasized that his dream is to have students that will graduate to be independent after being exposed to the needed computer practicals both in software and hardware subfields of the Department.