The objectives of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria, as provided under Article 1(3) of the Federal Universities of Technology Decree 1986 include:  to encourage the advancement of learning; to develop and offer academic and professional programmes leading to the award of diplomas, first degrees, postgraduate research and higher degrees which emphasise planning, adaptive, technical, maintenance, developmental and productive skills in the engineering, scientific, agricultural, medical and allied professional disciplines with the aim of producing socially mature men and women with capability not only to understand, use and adapt existing technology but also to improve on it and develop new ones; to act as agents and catalysts, through postgraduate training, research and innovation for the effective and economic utilisation, exploitation and conservation of the country's natural, economic and human resources; and to identify the technological problems and needs of the s...