Course Gaps at Federal College of Education, Iwo

Dynamics of microbial populations in air; water and soil; Distribution and survival of aerial and aquatic microorganisms; Biogeochemical cycling of nutrients and chemical elements; Application of microbial systems in water purification; waste management and pollution control; Recent advances in biotransformation and bioremediation

The herbarium; and economic botany; Conservation and Taxonomy; Types of herbaria; the Herbarium building; purpose of a herbarium and the Herbarium labels; Herbarium materials; Preservation techniques; Introduction to Herbarium techniques and management; Storage methods; Seed banks and their management; Photography in Herbarium practice; Herbarium legislation

Workshop - safety precautions; Basic hand tools and bench work practice; Plain and cylindrical generation of smooth surface using power operated machines; Selection and properties of materials used for construction - metallic and non-metallic; Metal joining devices and adhesives in common use; Soldering techniques and wrap joints; Multi-meters and oscilloscopes; Auto-ranging in measuring instruments; A survey of the use of electronics circuit devices e.g.; diodes; transistors including FET; integrated circuits; photocells; Selection; use and care of test instruments; Survey of pick-ups and transducer devices; Basic circuit synthesis and analysis; Pulse circuits; Instrumentation and measuring techniques: impedance matching; Probes - active and input and output impedance using the scope