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This involves a critical review of current literature in specific areas of specialization; Each student is expected to write and make an oral presentation on a topic in his/her area of specialization and must participate in all departmental seminars

Three seminar presentations should be made by students for PhD Programme; Two before data collection and one post data collection

Presentation of final year post-Data projects by student.

; 2. make presentations on critical metallurgical topics; 3. interact freely with senior engineers in metallurgical positions and indeed the general public on cognate issues; and 4. explain the primary concepts in metallurgical engineering. Course Contents Restricted special topics to be covered include the following: Heat Treatment of Metals: Emphasis on iron and steel. Definition of heat treatment, various types of heat treatments and applications of the various heat treatment in the Metallurgical Industry. Sustainable Mineral Resources Development: Seeing the big picture: Mineral exploration, mining engineering, mineral processing technology, and extractive metallurgical engineering as a relay race. The ‘what’, the ‘why’, the ‘how’, the ‘who’, the ‘when’, the ‘where’, and the ‘which’ of the four programmes and allied fields. Leadership Skills: Vision, mission, and strategy in leadership. Definition of Leadership: The fact that leadership can be caught (natural attributes) and taught (leadership training). What it means to be transformational leaders; forms of leadership. Academic leadership, entrepreneurial leadership, professional leadership and political leadership. Visionary and strategic leadership. Machine Design and Fabrication Mineral Processing Equipment: List of equipment used for gravity separation, flotation of minerals such as shaking table, air float, magnetic separator, electrostatic separator, flotation cell, and design principle of selected machines. Machine/Equipment Design and Fabrication (based on need-driveness): Equipment used design and fabrication of equipment used in ferrous and non-ferrous extractive metallurgy. Different type of furnaces: Furnace Design and fabrication. Geometallurgy: Interface between geosciences and metallurgy, emerging, need-driven and multidisciplinary scientific field. Geostatistic: Critical tool for mine design among other purposes towards sustainable mineral resources development. Rare Earth Elements: Definition, extraction process route for this rare and expensive metals for specialised industrial applications.

Restricted special topics to be covered include the following: (i) Sustainable Mineral Resources Development: Seeing the big picture: Mineral Exploration, Mining Engineering, Mineral Processing Technology, and Extractive Metallurgical Engineering as a relay race. The ‘what’, the ‘why’, the ‘how’, the ‘who’, the ‘when’, the ‘where’, and the ‘which’ of the four programmes and allied fields. (ii) Leadership Skills: Vision, mission, and strategy in leadership. Definition of Leadership: The fact that leadership can be caught (natural attributes) and taught (leadership training). What it means to be transformational leaders; forms of leadership. Academic leadership, entrepreneurial leadership, professional leadership and political leadership. Visionary and strategic leadership. (iii) Machine Design and Fabrication of Mineral Processing Equipment: List of equipment used for gravity separation, flotation of minerals such as shaking table, air float, magnetic separator, electrostatic separator, flotation cell, and design principle of selected machines. (iv) Machine/Equipment Design and Fabrication (based on need-driveness): Equipment used design and fabrication of equipment used in ferrous and non-ferrous extractive metallurgy. Different type of furnaces: Furnace design and fabrication. (v) Geometallurgy: Interface between geosciences and metallurgy, emerging, need-driven and multidisciplinary scientific field. (vi) Geo-statistic: Critical tool for mine design among other purposes towards sustainable mineral resources development. (vii) Rare Earth Elements: Definition, extraction process route for this rare and expensive metals for specialised industrial applications (viii) Bitumen Processing in Nigeria: The what, the why, the how, the where, the when, the which the who and for whom of bitumen processing (ix) Cement Production in Nigeria: The what, the why, the how, the where, the when, the which the who and for whom of cement production. (x) Gold: occurrence geology, mineralogy, characterization, process design and production in Nigeria. (xi) Platinum Group of Metals: geology, mineralogy, characterization, process design and production.

Proposal writing guidelines; goals and objectives; proposal writing and presentation techniques (PowerPoint presentation, and many others); topic selection, justification, objectives, literature search, methodology, results and discussion. Referencing and many others. Each final year student is expected to present an oral report on contemporary nutrition and dietetics issue based on library research.

Recent developments in Optometry. Current research methods, advantages and disadvantages. Review of current literature. Current diagnostic and therapeutic techniques, advantages and drawbacks.

A seminar on current concepts or advances on a specific topic in Human Physiology. The aim is to develop in the student the ability to search for past and current literature on any given topic.

Designed to give practice in critical reading of research articles in journals and in the oral and visual presentation of scientific information