SEPTEMBER 2010

FACT FINDING JOURNAL

TOPIC: SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

(LAGOS STATE POLYTECHNIC, NIGERIA).

COURSE: MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM I

DEPT.: BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND MGT.

LEVEL: HND 1

MATRIC NO: NAMES OF STUDENT

094032104 OLONADE BABATUNDE MICHAEL

NOTE: All information therein is as at September 2010 and is subject to change.

This is to assist all students that may need this journal, as a useful material in their project.

For Info Call: +2348053038580, +2348139453030

LECTURER:

MR. W. A. AKANJI.

INTRODUCTION

GROUP 11 ASSIGNMENT

The school of environmental studies, commence its academics activities in

September 1978 when the institution was previously known as Lagos State

College of science and technology (LACOSTECH) of Nigeria, which was

founded with the promulgation of the Lagos State Edict No;1 of 1978.

In this report, the fact findings are based on; Description of school, Reason

for the activities, How the described activities are done, The Hierarchy of

staffs, The school proposed system, Problems and Solutions to the school,

Various tools used as well as maintenance and evaluations, Justification of

the studies and Benefit of the new system.

DESCRIPTION OF SCHOOL

School of environmental was academically to transform individual students

that have ambition in art, design and building career, in other to make them

the best in labour market, currently the school is consist of six (6)

departments which are Architectural Department, Art and Industrial Design

Department, Building Technology Department, Estate Management

Department, Quantity Survey Department and Urban and Regional Planning

Department. These departments are created to suit student’s area of

specialization and interest which will be detailed later on this report.

REASON FOR THE ACTIVITIES

As its clear that school of environmental as serve as umbrella that unite

many departments, this makes the reasons to be similar which are:

To build students who can depict structures.

To provide technocrats in their area of specialization,

To bring out inner creativity in students,

To make students socialize themselves with the environment,

To emulate students to remember and be part of their origin/cultural

linage,

To build students on how to study the mindset of people,

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GROUP 11 ASSIGNMENT

And build students on how to relate with outside world through a

distinct design, etc.

HOW THE DESCRIBED ACTIVITIES ARE DONE

The school of environmental studies controls all the affairs of departments

therein, to ensure efficiency and accuracy in attendance of staffs (academics

and non academic) and punctuality of students in their various departments.

The school codes of conduct is another activities that the school take

seriously, in other to ensure students are politely and decently dress as well

as staffs and monitoring of students from sexual harassment, cultism and

other irregularities.

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PRINCIPAL LECTURER

GROUP 11 ASSIGNMENTTHE HIERACHY OF STAFF MEMBERS

As at Sept. 2010

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ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT (H.O.D.)

Arch. OMOTOSHO I.

ART AND INDUSTRIAL DESIGN DEPARTMENT, (H.O.D.).

Mr. LAWAL O.

BUILDING TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT (H.O.D.)

Bldr. OGUNBAYO O.M.

ESTATE MANAGEMENT, (H.O.D.)

Mr. OWODIRAN

QUANTITY SURVEY (H.O.D.)

Mr. CHIKE ENENMOH

DEAN

TPL. OGUNDELE T. O. Mrs.

URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING DEPARTMENT, (H.O.D.)

Mr. LADELE I.

PRINCIPAL LECTURER

SENIOR LECTURERS

LECTURERE I

LECTURERS II

LECTURERS III

NON ACADEMICS STAFFS

PRINCIPAL TECHNOLOGY

TECHNOLOGY I

TECHNOLOGY II

PRINCIPAL LECTURER

PRINCIPAL LECTURER

PRINCIPAL LECTURER

PRINCIPAL LECTURER

SENIOR LECTURERS

SENIOR LECTURERS

SENIOR LECTURERS

SENIOR LECTURERS

SENIOR LECTURERS

LECTURERE I

LECTURERS II

LECTURERS III

LECTURERE I

LECTURERS II

LECTURERS III

LECTURERE I

LECTURERS II

LECTURERS III

LECTURERE I

LECTURERS II

LECTURERS III

LECTURERE I

LECTURERS II

LECTURERS III

NON ACADEMICS STAFFS

NON ACADEMICS STAFFS

NON ACADEMICS STAFFS

NON ACADEMICS STAFFS

NON ACADEMICS STAFFS

PRINCIPAL TECHNOLOGY

TECHNOLOGY I

TECHNOLOGY II

PRINCIPAL TECHNOLOGY

TECHNOLOGY I

TECHNOLOGY II

PRINCIPAL TECHNOLOGY

TECHNOLOGY I

TECHNOLOGY II

PRINCIPAL TECHNOLOGY

TECHNOLOGY I

TECHNOLOGY II

PRINCIPAL TECHNOLOGY

TECHNOLOGY I

TECHNOLOGY II

GROUP 11 ASSIGNMENT

THE SCHOOL PROPOSED SYSTEM (Input, Processes and Output)

The school had been admitting varies number of students yearly (Input).

Statistically, from 2005 to 2010 can be depicted with the table below:

DEPT. LEVEL05/06

NO. OF STUDENTS

06/07NO. OF

STUDENTS

07/08NO. OF

STUDENTS

08/09NO. OF

STUDENTS

09/10NO. OF

STUDENTS

ARCHITECTURE

ND 30 50 45 55 50HND 35 55 65 80 75

ART & INDUSTIRAL

DESIGN

ND 15 21 35 27 15HND 20 25 30 27 31

BUILDING TECHNOLOGY

ND 42 45 40 50 50HND 50 52 58 60 55

ESTATE MANAGEMEN

T

ND 50 60 60 73 80HND 50 60 60 80 85

QUANTITY SURVEY

ND 24 30 34 60 60HND 30 35 42 50 55

URBAN & REGIONAL PLANNING

ND 40 50 46 50 57HND 45 25 55 60 60

THE PROCESSINGPage | 5

GROUP 11 ASSIGNMENT

ARCHITECTURAL DEPARTMENTIt’s all about training and building students on how to design building and

creating different styles of structures that is unerring which could make

Lagos State Polytechnic School of Environmental Studies’ students the

best among equals.

ART AND INDUSTRIAL DESIGN DEPARTMENTIt’s all about transforming student using colours and concrete design

(clay) to express how they feel about live. The department is sub-divided

into Painting, Ceramics, Sculpture and Graphics and also as one

similarity which unifies the whole sub-division is drawing. (i.e.) every sub-

divided department requires drawing before they can picture out the art

work.

BUILDING TECHNOLOGYThis is all about educating students on how to develop buildings in a

specified structures and ensuring quality and standard tools are use and

also to determine the strength and weakness of a building and project or

forecast the duration of a building.

ESTATE MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENTAt this department students are training on how to manage properties in

terms of housing, complex, estate and so on. Values and worth in terms of

sales, leasing, rent procurements of properties and the rules therein.

QUANTITY SURVEY DEPATMENTThis department is the form of educating students on land texture, land

strength as well as soliciting for construction companies on the kind of

building that is best fitted on the land, measuring land in plots, acres and so

on.

URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING DEPARTMENT

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GROUP 11 ASSIGNMENT

It’s all about developing and transforming student on societal settings. That

is, how it could be arranged and the location of commerce and industries in

a society.

THE SCHOOL PROPOSED OBJECTIVES (output)

The aims is to produce students with full of ideas, creative’s that will be the

best in labour market and providing and issuing a distinct certificates to

students which will rate Lagos State Polytechnic School of Environmental

the best among equals. The prospect of students produced so far could be

statically depicted below:

DEPARTMENT DISTINCTION UPPER CLASS

LOWER CLASS

PASS FAIL

ARCHITECTURE 32 202 505 100 20ART & DESIGN 41 211 502 50 12ESTATE MGT. 34 205 707 60 25URBAN & R.

PLAN25 215 715 71 27

QUANTITY SURV.

35 222 607 52 12

BUILDING TECH.

40 250 668 52 12

TOTAL 207 1305 3704 385 108NOTE: majority of pass and fail students, drop during their section with one reasons best known to them.

THE VARIOUS TOOLS USE IN THE SCHOOL

HARDWARE

Mallet, Spatula, Modeling Knife, Dye, Soda, Hydro Sulphate, Laka, Clay, Chi

board, Straw Board, Top Board, Cottons(Teru), Paint, Saw, Cement,

Industrial Tape, Cutlass, Plumb Ruler, Drawing Board, Painting Brush,

Shovel, Spade, Rake and so on.

SOFTWARE

The chain of command within the school of environmental studies

The pear interaction that brings sharing of ideas among the students,

lecturers, staffs as a whole.

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GROUP 11 ASSIGNMENT

The implementation of task information within the system.

The ending point of all creative design outlooks

The interaction of all departments therein.

Sharing of hardware tools among the departments and so on.

THE TECHNIQUES USED

Collections of Evidence:

These are the evidence information collected from the Dean’s office.

Investigation and interview:

Face to face questions are use to get some factual things from the staffs

(academic and non-academic) and students.

Record Examinations:

All the previous records examination result are located and use to produce

facts data require for the report.

Questionnaire:

This is use to enable the respondent to give his/her own opinion.

THE SHORTCOMMINGS OF THE SCHOOL

Administrative Challenges:

These entails conflicts encountered while managing the activities of the school

such as: lack of electricity, low salary to staffs and so on.

Operational Challenges:

These are challenges facing when carried out a functions by lecturers,

students and inadequate supply of tools to embark on valid experiment by

students and lecturers.

Environmental Challenges:

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GROUP 11 ASSIGNMENT

These includes poor living environment of staff, non accommodations for

students and lecturers and so on.

SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEMS

The school should provide accommodations for students and staffs.

The school should provide standard and conducive lecture rooms for

students.

Good communication trend between lecturers and students to create

mutual understanding of lectures.

Quick release of end of semester and section result.

They should provide the standard tools and lab for students and lecturers to

embark on experiment.

The school should provide a peaceful atmosphere for students to practice

their God given potentials and so on

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GROUP 11 ASSIGNMENT

JUSTIFICATIONS OF THE STUDIES

Design a simple and unambiguous questionnaire,

Dispatch the questionnaire to the individual understanding,

Try as much as possible to treat the background with a great level of

confidentiality,

Select and develop the background checked and ensure they know what,

how, when to carried out the process.

Educate the staffs to ensure efficiency and effectiveness with a promise to

apply strick professionalism in the process.

THE SYSTEM MAINTENANCE AND EVALUATION

This is all about ensuring continues interaction and transformation among

the school with consistence hardware and software in operation positive

responds of staffs. It’s a consistence process of upgrading and updating the

various part of the school and also uses to confirm the performance of

students and their lectures. The more effectives the hardware and software

is the greater efficiency the performance of students in school output.

THE BENEFIT OF THE NEW SYSTEM

The appreciable benefit of this system begins from number of graduating students which will immensely greater in quality and quantity (output). With the availabilities of standard software and advance technological hardware, it will go a long way in build the students and lecturers and find it comfortable to lecture using current standard tools.

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