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Aims of the Materials And Metallurgical Engineering Students' Association


The aims of MATESA are a set of five targets on which the wheels of MATESA run. These are visionary goals we strive to achieve as the years pass by; the purpose of our very existence as an association. Below are the aims of our great association, and we all have a part to play to keep MATESA going!


1. Package, promote, and encourage Materials and Metallurgical Engineering education through symposia, industrial trips, conference, exchange programmes and also to carry out our role in the national and technological development as well as the world of science and inventions.

Students at an industrial trip


Students pose a picture at a field trip

2. Provision of assistance to both the department and its members when the need arises; and also the contribution of our quota to GESA.

Our footballers at the Engineering Premier League (EPL)

3. To provide the students with the platform to obtain practical knowledge concerning the programme.

Students exhibit their industrial art work

4. To enhance student-lecturer relationship in order to facilitate the teaching and learning process.

Lecturers engage student at a function

5. Finally to protect the interest of the student body and to serve as the mouth piece for the Materials Engineering and Metallurgical Engineering Student.

Executives pay courtesy call on the HoD (former)

MATESA as an association can only progress when all hands are on deck. Leaving no one behind, let's make #MATESAGreatAgain

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