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Sand casting. Cores, core prints and core boxes. Sand moulding; green / damp sand moulds and skin dry mould. The furnace and melting techniques.

An introductory course to foundry practice, the furnace and melting techniques, equipment and tools for ferrous and non-ferrous metal casting and principles of modelled cast products. Studio practice focuses on industrial metal casting processes, emphasizing shell mould and investment mould casting, sand casting, cores, core prints, core boxes, moulds; i.e., sand moulding; green/damp moulds, skin dry moulds, and skin dry moulds.

Historical development of foundry technology. Situating casting as an important manufacturing process. Distinguishing foundry as an establishment and casting as both as process and product. Bases for classification of foundries: ferrous and non-ferrous, captive and jobbing. Application of scientific principles such as law of continuity, Bernoulli equation, and Torricelli equation in the design of gating and rise-ring system in a casting. Directional solidification. Casting methods: sand, investment, pressure, vacuum and permanent mould casting. Various departments in foundry and their functions, process selection, design and specification. Determination of casting techniques, mould and core making, pattern making, furnace charge, casting and finishing; charge calculation, casting defects: design and operation defects, definitions, preventive and curative measure to casting defects.

This course expands on the fundamental covered in Introduction to Freehand Drawing. Composition of objects is introduced, with emphasis on relationship parts, proportion and enter play of light. Variety of media is used to execute studio exercises in which students are expected to demonstrate mastery of the techniques of image creation.

The course will consist of informal seminars and audio-visual demonstration and illustrations of the following: Materials in the service of mankind, etc. The scope of Materials Engineering. History of metallurgical operations in Nigeria. Modern engineering materials processes and operations. Introduction to new and emerging materials-nano and bio-materials. Extraction of metals from ores; materials production and finishing processes. Identification and selection of engineering materials. Laboratory procedures for the investigation of materials structures and properties. Heat treatment equipment and procedures. Property classification. The roles and functions of Materials Engineers in metallurgical, ceramic and plastic industries. 200 Level

Survey of main engineering fuel: solid, liquid and gaseous fuels; classification and testing of fuels; fuels and energy utilisation in the metallurgical industry with reference to coking coals for iron and steel production via blast furnace; introduction to coal and coke technology refractories; technology of production and services of main metallurgical refractories: silicon, magnesite, chrome-magnesite, alumina-silicate and other refractories; special refractories, their evaluation and applications in furnace construction; classification of metallurgical furnaces and reactors, their design and construction.

Analytical methods in evaluating Optometric data using 21-step eye examination approach. Optometry extension programme (OEP) methods. Case analysis of the OEP techniques.

Stacks, linked lists; trees, priority queues; search trees; sorting; hashing, garbage collection; storage management; maps and dictionaries; text processing; graphs. Introduction to algorithms and their importance, mathematical foundations: growth functions, complexity analysis of algorithms, summations, recurrences, sorting algorithms. Algorithm design: divide-and-conquer approach, greedy approach. Graph algorithms and its applications in games. String matching. Dynamic programming and longest common subsequence. Theory of NP–completeness.

Basic terms in medical practice. Prefixes and suffixes in medical terms. Common terms in medical terminology. Homonyms synonyms and eponyms in medical terminology. Lay terms applicable to medicine. Basic definitions of medical terminologies. Disease causation and process. Degenerative diseases process. Causes and process of cellular growth changes. Common diagnostic abbreviations. Terms used for disease causes/symptomatology. Common terminologies.

This course introduces basic vocabularies of visual arts, emphasizing elements and principles of design, the nature of colour and colour theories, and the means to visual expression. The aim is to open the dynamics of the creative process and thinking by exploring and developing concepts that rely on various artistic mediums in two- and three-dimensional spheres for specialists and non-specialists alike.