Department of Entrepreneurship

This course is designed for a semester in Fortran Programming language for undergraduate Computer Science, Mathematical Science and Engineering students. The course covers general concepts and introduction to Fortran Programming with Fortran 03 (or Fortran 2003). Fortran 03 contains all of the features of the later version Fortran 77/95 needed to write complete and workable Fortran programs. Even though the course may not, in to full details, give everything the students need, it covers the basic features needed to be a good Fortran programmer and an introduction to the important new features of Fortran 03. This course has found profound and significant applications in Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, and other related fields.

Importance and scope of agriculture. Land and its uses with particular reference to agriculture. Introductory crop production. Agricultural ecology of Nigeria. Agronomy of some arable crops. Land preparation. Harvesting, processing and reservation method. Farm tools and machinery including tractor driving and by-products. Basic farm management techniques. Fisheries and wildlife production. Forest products. General introduction to livestock production and health.

EMT 201 explains the origin of entrepreneur ideas with the following areas of concentration: the Just price, the Mercantile revolution, Sir Williams Petty, Adams Smith among others; Cantillon on entrepreneurship, the classical school, particularly Ricardo, Jean Baptists Say, Walras, Keynes, Schumpeter among others. The course will also review the history of entrepreneurship in some developed economies such as Britain, France, Germany, USA and Japan.

The objectives of this course are to: ï‚· Introduce students to basic engineering mechanics ï‚· Provide students with opportunities to develop their knowledge of applied Mechanics.

This course is an exploratory, school course in Micro economics that is designed primarily for students to manage and generate new ideas pertaining to business firms or organisations. However, it also meets the need of students in the other fields, as a course that provides student with the basic understanding of business organisations. As a theoretical course, the focus is to impart useful skills on the students in order to enhance their research methodology skills, innovations and its importance to technological development. Topic to covered includes; Nature of Paradigms in the social science, abstract models and social economic change. The nature and method of economic system, Supply, demand and elasticity. The cost of production. Price and output determination under pure competition-monopoly, monopolistic competition and oligopoly. Demand for economic resources; wages, rent, interest and profit determination.

This course is an introductory course meant to acquaint students with science background with basic commercial accounting methods, to afford its understanding and adaptation to personal and business activities.

This will involve field planting. Each student will be allocated a field plot for the planting and management of an arable crop. Students will be exposed to practical work in animal production and health, fisheries and wildlife management, and crop and forestry nurseries.

• This is a foundation course, and designed primarily for second year students in the Department of Entrepreneurship Management Technology. The course is meant to expose the students to the history and fundamental concepts, principles of entrepreneurship and its significance to socio-economic development. As a theory course, the focus is to impart useful knowledge to the students in order to prepare them for higher level materials which they will encounter in the Department as they progress in their study. Topics to be covered include : • Definitions of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs, as well as Entrepreneurs and their functions; Nature and History of Entrepreneurship; Background Theories and Entrepreneurship Thought; Nigeria entrepreneurship history; Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Management, Approaches to Entrepreneurship and Identification of investment opportunity.

EMT 204 is designed to acquaint and familiarize the students with the applications and relevance of Statistics in decision-making. Consequently, topics that will be considered include: nature of statistics, methods of data collection, organisation and the presentation of data, measures of location and partition, the measures of dispersion, elementary probability and sampling distributions, the testing of hypotheses, correlation and regression analysis, time series analysis and index numbers.

This course is an exploratory introduction of different stages involved in Entrepreneurship Management. It is designed primarily for students in Entrepreneurship Management Technology and allied disciplines, with the aim of introducing them to different steps involves in setting up and management of Enterprises. The course outline is divided into three sections namely: (i) Creation of the enterprise, with emphasis on creativity, evaluation of investment opportunities, risk bearing/consideration and decision making. (ii) Management of enterprise which includes planning for management of resources, location and sourcing of raw material and different production methods. Others include scale of operation for different enterprises, sources of finance available to entrepreneurs quality assurance with regard tostaff and marketing strategies. (iii) Nature and Characteristics of Entrepreneurship which emphasises roleof leaders or manager in an organisation, their leadership style and motivating factors.

This course is an exploratory, first course in macroeconomics theory is designed primarily for students in management disciplines. However, it also meets the need of students in the field of management, as a course that provides student with the basic understanding of national economy, overall aggregate and factors that affects a country national income. As a theoretical course, the focus is to impart useful skills on the students in order to enhance their management of limited economic resources and application at national levels. Topics to be covered include National income accounting, the business cycle, unemployment and inflation, the banking system, the supply and demand for money, changes in equilibrium level of net national product and multiplier.

This course is an introduction to the nature, scope and application of psychology in the workplace. However, it also meets the need of students in other fields, as a course that provides hands-on training in the application of psychology to the workplace to enhance job satisfaction and productivity. The focus of the course is to impart useful skills on the students to understand individual differences and still be able to integrate perfectly to achieve individual aspirations and organisational effectiveness. Topics to be covered include psychology of human development and personality; social psychology; working in groups; group dynamics and effectiveness; work integration; social skills in supervision and management; community and national behaviour; psychology and socio-technical systems and selection and training procedure.

Evolution of management thought and practice. Different schools of management thought, managerial function and processes, organizational management, classical and neo theories, contemporary organizational theories and management by objectives. Management by exception.