THE EFFECT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF CIVIL ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN THE NIGER DELTA REGION OF NIGERIA

The study is to investigate the perceived effects Artificial Intelligence on the academic performance of Civil Engineering university students in the Niger delta region. To aid this investigation, two research questions and two hypotheses were put forward. A sample of 365 student’s participants determined using Taro Yamen’s method was randomly selected from the population of 3200 students from the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) and the Delta State University (DELSU). Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while the hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance using Z-test statistics. Findings revealed that artificial intelligence significantly improved the academic performance of final year civil Engineering students and the application of artificial intelligence in final year research facilitates knowledge acquisition and data processing. Consequently, it was recommended among others that federal and state governments should provide our universities with modern artificial intelligent facilities, train and update the civil Engineering students to meet the trend in technological advancement.