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This course will expose the students to fundamental knowledge of Engineering Ceramics with the use of specially processed materials such as Carbides, Nitrides, Silicides, Cermets and Composites. Students will learn development of ceramics as used in advanced applications as such in the areas of Nuclear energy, Magneto-hydrodynamic generation, Gas turbine blades, Abrasives, Aerospace, Diesel engines, Heat exchangers, Cutting tools, and Wear applications. Other areas to be covered are Ceramics for Medical and Scientific products, Ceramics for optical and dental applications, Ceramics in Electrochemical cells, Ceramic substrates, Ceramic Insulators, Ceramic Capacitor, Dielectrics, Piezoelectric Ceramics, Electro-optic Ceramics and Devices, Magnetic Ceramics, Ceramic Superconductors and Nano Ceramics.

Industrial design programme emphasizes learning the skills and techniques of design and production tools, such as the drawing board and drawing instruments. This course is an introduction to drawing tools and equipment. The use of lines and angles, circumscribing circles, construction of polygons, polyhedrons, and eclipses. Principles of tangency, isometric and oblique projections, section views. Emphasis is based on development and application of technical drawings to solve design problems.

Set projects on industrial glass furnaces in Nigeria, furnaces for container glass, both regenerative and recuperative. Day tank furnaces. sheet glass furnaces; Auxiliary furnaces burners machine parts and tools. Forming machines and moulds.

Technical Textiles – Introduction, definition, classification, applications & end uses. Raw materials within technical textiles. Fabric structures for technical end uses. Performance textiles (survival, sports, recreation, fire resistant, water repellent, textiles), material durability. Industrial textiles - Introduction, General properties and end uses. Zero waste in fashion. Recycled fibres and fabrics. Fibres from alternate sources and biomass of crab and shrimp shells. New applications of silk, Fibres produced by bacteria, new functions for cellulose. Eco textile accessories.

s Geo textiles –Introduction, General properties and end uses. Medical textiles – Introduction, General properties and end uses. Smart textiles - Introduction, general properties and end uses. The complexity of defence and military wear. Textile composites. Textile products lifecycle. Textile waste and waste treatment. Environmental impact of textile production.

Casting glass forms. General laboratory flame working practice. Safety precautions fabrication of laboratory glasswork examples are: Funnels, test tubes, pipettes. Techniques for the individual laboratory glasswork; warming outing cane and slabs, clearing pre-heating, positioning rods and accessory tool handling. The free-blowing team “shop” stem preparation for goblet production.

90) Continuation of practical works started in IDD307.

Provides students with the knowledge of the role of textile designer; various types of fabric surface designs (structural and applied). Emphasis will be on applied design such as furnishing, wrapper, shirt, dress, java, and madras designs. Fabric design concept development through classroom exercises in basic repeat patterns on paper. Colour exploration is paramount as an element of design. Intensive paper work to develop in students a creative approach in fabric design techniques, synthesis and application of design theories: paper to fabric procedures and processes in furnishing, wrapper, shirt prints, java prints among others. Making of thumbnail sketches and colour roughs of motifs suitable for adoption in repeat patterns. Exercises expose students to various techniques to produce prototypes of fabric surfaces which can be fashioned to an end use.

Introduction to Merchandising, Fashion Marketing, Role of Merchandiser, product development and product cycle. Types of merchandising. Channels of Distribution. Promotional activities of government and organizations. Domestic and Export Market Environment, International Market Environment. Buyers and Sellers Meet. Costing – Basic Costing, importance, types, merits and demerits; Domestic and Export Pricing, merits and demerits. Advertising- scope, importance, types, merits and demerits; sales promotion, personal selling. Retail management. Feasibility study on how to set up small scale and medium scale textile industry. Productive planning, economic use of materials, labour and machinery, costing and staff management. Prices and advertising procedures appropriate for textile merchandising. The various aspects of planning, purchasing, allocation and promotion of merchandise. Students will understand the importance of professionalism, effective communication and critical reasoning for achieving results in textiles and textile relayed industries. The Nigerian textile industry and other factors that can improve merchandising and market will be examined.

Gaining practical understanding of the various methods, materials and machineries involved in the production of woven and non-woven textiles. Exploration of the techniques involved in the conversion of fibre into yarn, then yarn into fabric with reference to common types such as weaving, knitting, bonding and felting. Production of fabrics directly from the fibres. Development of loom, types and parts of looms. Applications of woven and nonwoven products.