SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY (SET)

BRIEF ON THE SCHOOL
The School of Environmental Technology is structured to promote an interdisciplinary approach to professional education in the basic disciplines of Environmental Planning, Design and Management. The primary aim of the programmes is to identify the critical areas of Environmental Technology which promote an orderly development of the human environment and for which manpower development is perquisite and to design courses aimed at achieving meaningful ends in national development. Because designers perform critical roles in improving the quality of the built environment, the process of their education must recognize and be sensitive to human needs and inspirations and to the wise use and the conservation of resources. Technology has widened the scope of the decision making process particularly in the estab1ishment of criteria, the identification of priorities and the investigation of alternatives. Consequently, a sound grasp of the technological processes in physical development is critical to a developing nation as Nigeria in the making of technological choices suitable to national development.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
Some of the most important aims and objectives of the School are; to:  

1. Provide. education that ensures the attainment of professional ski1ls requisite to effective shaping, reordering and articulation of the built-environment:
2. Promote academic excellence and provide research opportunities appropriate to the development of national resources and technological ski1ls in meeting emerging national demands; and
3. Providing linkages between theory and practice through active participation in the practical aspects of the disciplines and providing continuing education to practitioners.

ORGANISATION OF THE SCHOOL
The School of Environmental Technology is organized into the following departments:
(a)  Department of Architecture
(b)  Department of Estate Management
(c)  Department of Urban and Regional Planning
(d)  Department of Industrial Design.
(e)  Department of Quantity Surveying.