NEWS
Developing Science and Technology: Town and Gown synergize
By Eunice
A team of four officials from Shell Petroleum Development Company Limited led by Professor Oluyinka Ogunsanya visited the University on Tuesday, October 12, 2010.
According to the team leader, the purpose of the visit, was to contribute the Company’s quota to the advancement of research and to create awareness of its graduate programme among the students.
On behalf of Shell Petroleum, Professor Ogunsanya presented 205 current books of different titles covering Electrical/Electronics and Chemical Engineering with the hope of adding to the resources of the library and thereby enriching research in the University.
Receiving the books on behalf of the University, the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Aize Obayan, noted that the University has grown by leaps and bounds and would like to see the two organizations collaborate to raise a new generation of leaders.
The Shell team also met top final year Engineering students to brief them on the Company’s graduate awareness programme and on how they could be recruited into the Company. They were advised to keep up the moral values which had been inculcated in them by the University because Nigeria is in dire need of leaders with integrity.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
OTHER STORIES(TWO)
Covenant University Receives Patent for Three Inventions
By Susan
Covenant University’s vision to revolutionize the African educational landscape has continued to be validated as three products from the University’s research base were granted patent recently by the Federal Government through the National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP).
The certificates of patent for the three products namely, Paw-paw Beverage, Fermented Rice and Culture Medium by Professor Louis Egwari, a Medical Microbiologist and Deputy Dean, School of Natural and Applied Sciences, were presented to the University on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at the NOTAP office in Abuja.
In his address at the occasion, the Director-General of NOTAP, Engineer Umar Buba Bindir represented by the Director, Technology Transfer Agreement, Mrs. Funke Araba, commended the University for the level of determination attached to technology development.
He noted that Covenant University was the only private University which collaborated with NOTAP for the establishment of the Intellectual Property Technology Transfer Office (IPTTO) on its campus and the first to develop three patented products. These according to him were the first products to be patented by NOTAP this year.
The Director-General also noted that the products met all the criteria for patenting as they were novel. The products met invention steps and have been found to be industrially applicable.
He explained that patenting of invention was an index to measure technological development of a nation, but lamented that Nigeria’s huge budgets on Research and Development are expended on Foreign Technical Partners.
He however hoped that the relationship between NOTAP and Covenant University would continue, adding that the history of the University would be greater than that of those currently regarded as World-Class Universities.
The leader of the University’s delegation and Director, Covenant University Centre for Research and Development (CUCERD), Professor James Omoleye in his remarks explained that the University was ready to encourage researchers with adequate funding and conducive environment.
He added that the University was set to roll out more inventions that affect humanity positively in line with the University’s Mission of restoring the dignity of the Black man. He also commended NOTAP for the establishment of the IPTTO Office at Covenant University.
A Healthier CU Student Body
By Ajuma & Eunice
The Covenant University management in a bid to ensure a healthier student body health has organized a series of health care programmes.
The first of these has been held in conjunction with Pfizer Pharmaceuticals for the female students of the university community. The programme was held in the university chapel on the 19th of October 2010.
An employee of the company, Mr. Kaloime delivered a lecture on Vulvo Vagina Candidiasis, a common health issue for women. He gave a detailed explanation on what this health issue is, the causative factors, its symptoms and its treatment.
The Covenant University Medical Centre informed the students through its Director that now available at the centre is the availability of free counseling sessions on health related issues.
The lecture ended with a speech by the Deputy Vice chancellor who assured students present that the school management has everything in place to cater for their health.
According to the director of the Covenant University Health centre, “similar programmes will be held periodically.”
Other programmes that have been held include the un-invasive medical checkup for every Covenant university student. It went on for over a month.
Covenant University Receives Patent for Three Inventions
By Susan
Covenant University’s vision to revolutionize the African educational landscape has continued to be validated as three products from the University’s research base were granted patent recently by the Federal Government through the National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP).
The certificates of patent for the three products namely, Paw-paw Beverage, Fermented Rice and Culture Medium by Professor Louis Egwari, a Medical Microbiologist and Deputy Dean, School of Natural and Applied Sciences, were presented to the University on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at the NOTAP office in Abuja.
In his address at the occasion, the Director-General of NOTAP, Engineer Umar Buba Bindir represented by the Director, Technology Transfer Agreement, Mrs. Funke Araba, commended the University for the level of determination attached to technology development.
He noted that Covenant University was the only private University which collaborated with NOTAP for the establishment of the Intellectual Property Technology Transfer Office (IPTTO) on its campus and the first to develop three patented products. These according to him were the first products to be patented by NOTAP this year.
The Director-General also noted that the products met all the criteria for patenting as they were novel. The products met invention steps and have been found to be industrially applicable.
He explained that patenting of invention was an index to measure technological development of a nation, but lamented that Nigeria’s huge budgets on Research and Development are expended on Foreign Technical Partners.
He however hoped that the relationship between NOTAP and Covenant University would continue, adding that the history of the University would be greater than that of those currently regarded as World-Class Universities.
The leader of the University’s delegation and Director, Covenant University Centre for Research and Development (CUCERD), Professor James Omoleye in his remarks explained that the University was ready to encourage researchers with adequate funding and conducive environment.
He added that the University was set to roll out more inventions that affect humanity positively in line with the University’s Mission of restoring the dignity of the Black man. He also commended NOTAP for the establishment of the IPTTO Office at Covenant University.
A Healthier CU Student Body
By Ajuma & Eunice
The Covenant University management in a bid to ensure a healthier student body health has organized a series of health care programmes.
The first of these has been held in conjunction with Pfizer Pharmaceuticals for the female students of the university community. The programme was held in the university chapel on the 19th of October 2010.
An employee of the company, Mr. Kaloime delivered a lecture on Vulvo Vagina Candidiasis, a common health issue for women. He gave a detailed explanation on what this health issue is, the causative factors, its symptoms and its treatment.
The Covenant University Medical Centre informed the students through its Director that now available at the centre is the availability of free counseling sessions on health related issues.
The lecture ended with a speech by the Deputy Vice chancellor who assured students present that the school management has everything in place to cater for their health.
According to the director of the Covenant University Health centre, “similar programmes will be held periodically.”
Other programmes that have been held include the un-invasive medical checkup for every Covenant university student. It went on for over a month.
Friday, December 3, 2010
The fuel-less generator That Uses A Rechargechagle Battery by Timilehin & Taiwo
FEATURE
This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man - if man is not enslaved by it. -Jonas Salk. We all live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology; inventions come in day after day leaving the minds of individuals in awe.
The development of different ways to generate power has risen high beyond mans individual thoughts such as the use of magnetic energy to generate power is not a new idea but it is being developed as a real and viable alternative to conventional methods, this new set of generator, the Magnetic Generators do not need fuel in order to function and will operate no matter what the weather is doing.
A young scientist in covenant university (Tayo an Industrial Physics student of Covenant University, three hundred level) invents a fuel less electrical generator system (it can be turned on in three different unusual ways)
Covenant university known for her goal of raising a new generation of leaders; always works towards its goal and actually achieves them. Very shortly, a young scientist in the department of industrial physics in Covenant University is going to launch a fuel less electrical generator system that uses a rechargeable battery; It’s special qualities includes: it uses a rechargeable battery, instead of fuel or diesel, it can be turned on through, wireless, wired, and manual control.
How It Works With Wireless: use of mobile phone to turn the generator on at vast distance (anywhere you are).
How It Works With the Wired Connection: The wired connection is the one you can turn on, near your change over switch; the normal way a generator is turned on.
Manual: one can be controlled on the generator itself.
According to the young inventor, if the invention works out perfectly it can be used in cars , and other transporting systems.
It started from a very small portable electrical generator 3kva but the fabrication was not okay; but the scratch he discovered led the new fabrication on the present ones. The big one has been upgraded. The generator is going to be displayed during Tech week (an annual invention meant to showcase new inventions and developments from the college of science and technology of Covenant University. next year.
In electricity generation, an electric generator is a device that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy. The reverse conversion of electrical energy into mechanical energy is done by a motor; motors and generators have many similarities. A generator forces electrons in the windings to flow through the external electrical circuit. It is somewhat analogous to a water pump, which creates a flow of water but does not create the water inside. The source of mechanical energy may be a reciprocating or turbine steam engine, water falling through a turbine or waterwheel, an internal combustion engine, a wind turbine, a hand crank, compressed air or any other source of mechanical energy.
Before the connection between magnetism and electricity was discovered, electrostatic generators were invented that used electrostatic principles. These generated very high voltages and low currents. They operated by using moving electrically charged belts, plates and disks to carry charge to a high potential electrode. The charge was generated using either of two mechanisms:
• Electrostatic induction
• The triboelectric effect, where the contact between two insulators leaves them charged.
Because of their inefficiency and the difficulty of insulating machines producing very high voltages, electrostatic generators had low power ratings and were never used for generation of commercially significant quantities of electric power. The Wimshurst machine and Van de Graaff generator are examples of these machines that have survived.
In 1827, Hungarian Anyos Jedlik started experimenting with electromagnetic rotating devices which he called electromagnetic self-rotors. In the prototype of the single-pole electric starter (finished between 1852 and 1854) both the stationary and the revolving parts were electromagnetic. He formulated the concept of the dynamo at least 6 years before Siemens and Wheatstone but didn't patent it as he thought he wasn't the first to realize this. In essence the concept is that instead of permanent magnets, two electromagnets opposite to each other induce the magnetic field around the rotor. It was also the discovery of the principle of self-excitation.
This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man - if man is not enslaved by it. -Jonas Salk. We all live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology; inventions come in day after day leaving the minds of individuals in awe.
The development of different ways to generate power has risen high beyond mans individual thoughts such as the use of magnetic energy to generate power is not a new idea but it is being developed as a real and viable alternative to conventional methods, this new set of generator, the Magnetic Generators do not need fuel in order to function and will operate no matter what the weather is doing.
A young scientist in covenant university (Tayo an Industrial Physics student of Covenant University, three hundred level) invents a fuel less electrical generator system (it can be turned on in three different unusual ways)
Covenant university known for her goal of raising a new generation of leaders; always works towards its goal and actually achieves them. Very shortly, a young scientist in the department of industrial physics in Covenant University is going to launch a fuel less electrical generator system that uses a rechargeable battery; It’s special qualities includes: it uses a rechargeable battery, instead of fuel or diesel, it can be turned on through, wireless, wired, and manual control.
How It Works With Wireless: use of mobile phone to turn the generator on at vast distance (anywhere you are).
How It Works With the Wired Connection: The wired connection is the one you can turn on, near your change over switch; the normal way a generator is turned on.
Manual: one can be controlled on the generator itself.
According to the young inventor, if the invention works out perfectly it can be used in cars , and other transporting systems.
It started from a very small portable electrical generator 3kva but the fabrication was not okay; but the scratch he discovered led the new fabrication on the present ones. The big one has been upgraded. The generator is going to be displayed during Tech week (an annual invention meant to showcase new inventions and developments from the college of science and technology of Covenant University. next year.
In electricity generation, an electric generator is a device that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy. The reverse conversion of electrical energy into mechanical energy is done by a motor; motors and generators have many similarities. A generator forces electrons in the windings to flow through the external electrical circuit. It is somewhat analogous to a water pump, which creates a flow of water but does not create the water inside. The source of mechanical energy may be a reciprocating or turbine steam engine, water falling through a turbine or waterwheel, an internal combustion engine, a wind turbine, a hand crank, compressed air or any other source of mechanical energy.
Before the connection between magnetism and electricity was discovered, electrostatic generators were invented that used electrostatic principles. These generated very high voltages and low currents. They operated by using moving electrically charged belts, plates and disks to carry charge to a high potential electrode. The charge was generated using either of two mechanisms:
• Electrostatic induction
• The triboelectric effect, where the contact between two insulators leaves them charged.
Because of their inefficiency and the difficulty of insulating machines producing very high voltages, electrostatic generators had low power ratings and were never used for generation of commercially significant quantities of electric power. The Wimshurst machine and Van de Graaff generator are examples of these machines that have survived.
In 1827, Hungarian Anyos Jedlik started experimenting with electromagnetic rotating devices which he called electromagnetic self-rotors. In the prototype of the single-pole electric starter (finished between 1852 and 1854) both the stationary and the revolving parts were electromagnetic. He formulated the concept of the dynamo at least 6 years before Siemens and Wheatstone but didn't patent it as he thought he wasn't the first to realize this. In essence the concept is that instead of permanent magnets, two electromagnets opposite to each other induce the magnetic field around the rotor. It was also the discovery of the principle of self-excitation.
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