Volume 20, Issue 53, January - June, 2023

Engineering work-integrated learning in transmission system auto-diagnostic skills for graduation employability and economic growth

Ijeoma Pauline Obe¹, Osita Anthony Ezeama^2♦, Ikechukwu Victor Oguejiofor¹, Nneka Rita Ezeama³, Besheng George Akuchu⁴

¹Department of Industrial Technical Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
²Department of Mechatronic Engineering, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
³Department of Education Economics, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
⁴Department of Mathematics, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria

^♦Corresponding author
Department of Mechatronic Engineering, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria

ABSTRACT

To achieve quality education in engineering, good jobs opportunities and reliable economic growth for automobile students upon graduation, the use of modern auto-diagnostic tools should come into play. The engineering theory and practice in auto-diagnostic towards public-great working, displaying the student’s ability capacities in the utilization of On-Board diagnostics version 2 (OBD II) for vehicle transmission system diagnosis and repair were investigated. The sample comprised 299 university fourth-year students of automobile engineering and then having a population of 1,521. The outcome uncovered a significant finding that one university had the most noteworthy mean score worth of 6.30 in the transmission system/framework explore, involving the OBD II convention as against 6.00 in the pre-test and with by and large raters all out mean scores of 76.31 and 71.51 in the pre-test and post-test separately. Such meant that the university has utilitarian exceptional present-day vehicle studio utilized for pragmatic works than others. Thusly, the speculations showed that there is a huge contrast in the auto-symptomatic employability abilities moved by students applying OBD II analytic convention to those utilizing customary techniques. In view of the discoveries, students ought to be commanded to do their modern connection/work-integrated learning (WIL) in automobile workshops, during the Students Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES), where they are to be all around regulated by their relegated teacher. The study suggested that, the OBD II analytic convention ought to be used in the preparation of auto/mechanical students for vehicle diagnosis and support for powerful execution and ability, to guarantee employability in the advanced universe of work.

Keywords: Transmission system, On-Board diagnostics version 2, Auto-diagnostic skills, Employability, Work-integrated learning

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2023, 20(53), e15ije1631

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v20i53/e15ije1631

Published: 30 April 2023