ABSTRACT This research was designed to determine the comparative study of practical skills acquisition in electrical engineering training programme in Accra and Kumasi Polytechnics. The study population was made of 316 and 262 making a total of 578 students in the Department of Electrical/Electronic Engineering from the Accra and Kumasi institutions respectively. A samples size of 25% was randomly selected from the total populations of the two study institutions. A total number of 145�...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate into the asset integrity management system ofGhana’s oil industry. The study adopted descriptive research design for the study. Qualitative and quantitative research methods were used for the study. The researcher used questionnaire surveys and interviews to collect primary data. The populations for the study were personnel of Ghana Gas Company, Ghana National Petroleum Company and the Ministry of Energy and their supervisors in i...
ABSTRACT The main aim of any electric power supply system in the world is to provide uninterrupted power supply to all its consumers at all times. But in developing countries like Ghana, the electric power generated does not meet the demands of the growing number of consumers of electricity hence there is inadequate power supply which results from frequent power outages. This does not promote development in the public and private business sectors it has left many people without electricity. ...
ABSTRACT The development of micro-enterprises in rural off grid areas in Ghana is linked with the increase in access and use of solar PV electricity services, leading to changes in micro-enterprises, and changes in livelihood characteristics of entrepreneurs, employees and community members in areas where these enterprises located. The thesis was to evaluate the impact public of solar PV in micro-enterprises in off grid rural areas. Convinience sampling techniques was used for this study, 60...
ABSTRACT The study explored the prospects and challenges in the informal auto-mechanic sector focusing on auto-mechanics enterprises within the Kumasi Metropolis. Specifically, the study sought to examine the prospects of the auto-mechanic enterprises, examine the challenges facing auto-mechanic enterprises, and the preparedness of auto-mechanics to exploit the potential prospects to their advantage. By adopting the quantitative approach to research, the researcher administered a survey to ...
ABSTRACT The main purpose of the study was to assess liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) performance and maintenance of motor vehicles in Ghana with particular reference to Sunyani Municipality. This study adopted the case study design. The researcher used both qualitative and quantitative approaches because quantitative approach helped to gather information that could be easily analysed using statistical means whiles qualitative information can be easily evaluated using thematic analysis. The po...
ABSTRACT The rationale for this write up generally enlighten the students and especially the practical lecturers and instructors to have a broader perspective about ascertaining the competencies of students performance level of conventional lathe machine usage in the Polytechnics, the various competencies and strategies adopted in teaching the practical skills and to discover the reasons for the low performance of Higher National Diploma (HND) graduate in the industries on the use of convent...
ABSTRACT The main aim of this study was to explore the challenges in maintaining Government Vehicles in Senior High Schools. Basically, the research examined the maintenance culture of Government Vehicles in Senior High Schools in the Akim –Oda Municipal Assembly in the Eastern Region. A survey was conducted with a sample size of forty (40) mainly Headmasters, Assistant Headmasters and school drivers. The research design that was used in the study is a descriptive survey and document...
ABSTRACT It is an undeniable fact that the world is now being ruled by technology. Without IT, our lives in this modern world will be miserable. The purpose of the study was to find out the state of ICT infrastructure in our schools, what teachers believe are the barriers to computer technology use in their classroom instruction and what suggestions they had to offer in order to bridge the barriers. Descriptive survey design was used. Teachers in public JHS in the Keta municipality were used....
ABSTRACT Road traffic accident records indicate that Ashanti Region is the second highest in fatalities in the country and in the Region; the Kumasi–Dunkwa road records the highest road traffic accidents in all the trunk roads. This prompted the researcher to investigate the driver attitudes and the vehicle characteristics that account for this and to suggest appropriate remedial measures to curtail it. The study was necessary and important since road accidents are mostly blamed on road u...
Background to the study In a study conducted by Zerboc (2003), in a developing country like Ghana, the problems associated with solid waste management are more acute than in a developed country. Lack of financial resources and infrastructure to manage waste creates a vicious cycle; lack of resources leads to low quality of service provision which leads to fewer people willing to pay for said services, which in turn further erodes the resource base and so on (Kuniyal et al. 1998). The pro...
ABSTRACT The aim of this research was to investigate into the qualities of both locally manufactured (from Suame Magazine in Kumasi) and foreign (India) corn mill grinding plates and to recommend if there are new technologies that could be employed to further enhance their qualities. The researcher made a brief description of the different forms of casting with more emphasis on sand casting. This was followed with an in-depth literature review of relevant material related to the subj...
ABSTRACT The main objective of this project is to develop a simple low cost microcontroller based remote distribution transformer monitoring system using wireless technology which acquires key transformer parameters like temperature, voltage and load current using various sensors to display the real-time values on LCD and forwards them to a cell phone in a remote location by SMS. This project was developed by using Arduino board with ATMEGA328 Microcontroller, SIM 900 GSM Module, LCD d...
ABSTRACT The purposes of this study are: (a) to find out the extent to which teachertrainees could be prepared for ICT integration into the Colleges of Education syllabuses in Ghana; (b) to find out some of the barriers that are militating against the integration of technology into the teaching and learning process. A cross-sectional survey design was employed to collect data in three regions of the country. Data were collected from 120 student-teachers in three Colleges of Education using ra...
ABSTRACT The increasing rate of electrical fires in the Kumasi Metropolis has become a matter of worry to many residents. Residential fires in Kumasi constitute the highest incidence of fire outbreaks recorded. In an attempt to address the alarming rate of fire outbreaks in Ghana, the Fire Precaution (Premises) Regulation (2003) LI 1725 was passed to enable Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) to carry out inspection of proposed and existing premises, review building plan with regard to�...