Teaching, Research and Community
The College occupies five buildings equipped with state-of-the-art classroom and laboratory facilities for both teaching and research. Teaching activities in the College are supported with multimedia facilities and smart e-classrooms classrooms. The Centre for Learning Resources (CLR) – the University Library – has an extensive range of data bases and provides a wide collection of books and journals accessible to faculty, staff, and students. The Collage has partnered with IT training giants, New Horizons Ltd, to provide IT certification training for all students in the College, irrespective of programme.
The College Research Policy document has been prepared by the Research and Development Committee of the College. Based on the academic programmes offered by CST as well as the needs of Nigeria and the ECOWAS sub-region, the research agenda of the College focuses on the following broad areas:
- Energy Production/Management – conventional and renewable sources
- Water Management
- Waste Management
- Environment Protection
- Bioinformatics with emphasis on discovery of drug targets for killer diseases
- Characterization of useful biomedical properties of plants
- Traffic Management
- Maintenance
- Silicon processing for production of electronic components
- E-Health
- E-learning
- Biotechnology
- Collaborative research and technology transfer
- Etc.
The College encourages basic and applied research. However, emphasis is on industry-driven research with a view to resolve technical problems in industry; develop new products, processes and technology, as well as technology transfer through reverse engineering. Community service activities so far involve ICT training for selected secondary schools and palliative measures against gully erosion in a neighbourhood secondary school.