Abstract

This communication seeks to assess the disposition of members of polytechnic and university communities to locally produced equipment and machines, the bulk of which come from polytechnics and universities, technological institutions. Only 52.56% of total respondents patronise the products with 78.37% of those who do not patronise saying they preferred imported ones, after confirming that the product quality was above average, 70.91% as against 1.08% whose quality is poor and 5.66% who were uncertain. This confirms conclusions in texts that there is a general apathy toward indigenous efforts in equipment and machine production. It was concluded that this negative attitude cannot result in the building of indigenous engineering capacity or local production of machines and equipment.

Key words: Polytechnic and university communities, product quality, machines, equipment.