REPORT

ON

STUDENTS INDUSTRIAL WORK EXPERIENCE SCHEME

(SIWES)

AT

ROYSTECH IT SOLUTIONS IYANA-IPAJA, LAGOS

PRESENTED BY

IBEJIH CHUKWUKA DANIEL

U16/NAS/CSC/153

SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER

SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS
GODFREY OKOYE UNIVERSITY ENUGU, ENUGU STATE

IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR

THE AWARD OF BACHELOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
(B.Sc. COMPUTER SCIENCE)

October 2019
CHAPTER ONE

1.0 INTRODUCTION

1.1 CONCEPTS AND MEANING OF SIWES (Student Industrial Work Experience

Scheme):

The Student industrial work experience scheme (SIWES) was established as a result of the
realization by the Federal government of Nigeria in 1973 of the need to introduce a new
dimension
to the quality and standard of education obtained in the country to achieve the much
needed technological advancement. It has been shown that a correlation exists between a
country’s
level of economic and technological development and its level of investment in manpower
development (Oniyide, 2000).
The ITF solely funded the scheme during its formative years. But due to the elevated rate of
financial involvement, it was withdrawn from the scheme in 1978. In 1979, the Federal
Government of Nigeria handed the scheme to both the National University Commission (NUC)
changed the management and implementation of SIWES fund to ITF. It was effectively taken
over
by ITF in July 1985 with the funding being solely borne by the Federal Government.
The Federal Government, ITF, the supervising agencies – NUC, NBTE, NCE (National
Commission for Colleges of Education), Employers of Labour, and the Institutions contribute
one quarter in the management of SIWES. The various responsibilities are as follows:
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
 To provide adequate funds to the ITF through the Federal Ministry of Industries.
 To make it mandatory for all ministries, companies and parastatals to offer places
of attachment for students following the provision of Decree No. 47 of 1971 as
amended in 1990.

INDUSTRIAL TRAINING FUND

Formulation of policies and guidelines on SIWES for distributions to all the SIWES Participating
bodies, institutions and companies involved in the scheme on a regular basis organizing
programs
for the students prior to their attachment, receive and process master and placement list from the
institution and supervising agencies i.e. NUC, NBTE, NCE.
Supervise industrial attachment.
Disburse supervisory and student students allowance at the shortest possible time.
Provide insurance during student attachment/Training.
THE SUPERVISING AGENCIES
 Ensure the establishment and accreditation of SIWES units in institution under their
jurisdiction.
 Co-ordinate the appointment of full-time SIWES unit in all the institution.
 Ensure adequate funding of a SIWES unit in all the institutions of the Federation.
 Vet and approve master and placement list of students from participating
 Institutions and is been forwarded to ITF
 Monitor and review jobs-specification in collaboration with the Institutions towards
national minimum academic standard for all the programs approved for SIWES.
The Students Industrial Work Experience (SIWES) is a skill training program, designed to
exposeand prepare students of different tertiary institution to real life work/situation after
graduation.

The scheme exposes students to industrial based skills necessary for smooth transition from the
classroom to the world of work. It affords students of tertiary institution the opportunity of being
exposed to the needed experience in handling machinery and equipment which are not available
in the education institute.

1.2 PURPOSE OF SIWES

The student industrial work experience scheme (SIWES) popularly called Industrial
Training (IT) by Nigerian students is a yearly program design by the institution in
collaboration with the industries to give students the opportunity to gain practical working
experience in their various field of study or area of specialization. It is an effort to bridge the
the existing gap between classroom theories and practical’s in engineering, management and
other professional programs in the Nigerian tertiary institutions.

Training is a key factor in changing the expertise of a workforce. The world is passing
through one of the worst economic crisis in recent time. Both the developed and developing
economies are experiencing serious economic downturns.

Globalization has turned the world into one big village and whatever happens in one
the economy will have effects in other economics and the growing concern among our
industrialist is that graduates of our institutions of higher learning lack adequate practical
background studies, to help in the industries led to the formation of Student Industrial
Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) by ITF 1993/1994.

It is through this Industrial Training that the educational systems aim at helping
students acquire appropriate skills, abilities and competencies, both mental and physical, as
well, as equip the individuals to live in society. The focus of the Industrial Training Fund
(ITF) is for the industries of our countries to succeed in the face of the current economic
meltdown.

No society can achieve meaningful progress without encouraging its youth to acquire
necessary practical skills. Such skills enable them to harness available resources to meet the

1.3 SCOPE & OBJECTIVE.

1. Provides the avenue for students in institutions of higher learning to acquire industrial
skills and experiences in their course of study.

2. Prepare the students for the industrial work situation they’re likely to meet after
graduation.

3. Expose students to work method and techniques in handling equipment and

machinery that may not be available in their institutions.

4. Make the transition from school to the world of work easier and enhance students
contact for later job placement.

5. Provides students with an opportunity to apply their knowledge in real work situations
thereby bridging the gap between theory and practice.

6. Enlist and strengthens employers involvement in the entire educational process and
prepare students for employment after graduation.

CHAPTER TWO
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE COMPANY/FIRM
CHAPTER THREE:
CHAPTER FOUR

4.1 Explain your experiences based on your places/are of IT

 Front-end web development through the use of HTML, CSS, Bootstrap.

The department where my Industrial Training took place is the web design department of the
company, this is where I was grounded and expose to the website world especially the creation
of websites taking me step by step with practical all through the process.

The following are terms that were made use of, in this department:
WEBSITE:
A website is a set of related webpages containing content such as texts, images,
videos, audios, etc. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network
such as the internet or a private LAN through an internet address known as a URL (Universal
Resource Locator). A publicly accessible websites collectively constitutes the World Wide
Web (WWW).

WEBPAGE:
A webpage is a document, typically written in plain text interspersed with formatting
instructions of hypertext nark up language (HTML, XHTML). A webpage may incorporate
elements from other websites with suitable anchors. Webpages are accessed and transported
with the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), which may occasionally employ encryption
(HTTP secure, HTTPS) to provide security and privacy for the use of the webpage content.
The user’s application often a web browser renders the page content according to its HTML
mark-up instructions into a display terminal.
HTTP:
This stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol which is the set of rules for transferring
files (text, graphic, images, sound, video, and other multimedia files) on the World Wide
Web.

URL:
This stands for Uniform Resource Locator and as the name suggests, it provides a
way to locate a resource on the web, the hypertext system that operates over the internet.

HTML AND ITS PROPERTIES:

HTML stands for Hypertext Mark-up Language, and it is the most widely used
language to write Web Pages.
 Hypertext refers to the way in which Web pages (HTML documents) are linked
together. Thus, the link available on a webpage is called Hypertext.
 As its name suggests, HTML is a Markup Language which means you use HTML
to simply "mark-up" a text document with tags that tell a Web browser how to
structure it to display.

Hypertext markup language (HTML) is the backbone of any website development process,
without which a web page doesn't exist. Hypertext means that text has links, termed hyperlinks,
embedded in it.
When a user clicks on a word or a phrase that has a hyperlink, it will bring another web-page. A
markup language indicates text can be turned into images, tables, links, and other
representations. It is the HTML code that provides an overall framework of how the site will
look.

Originally, HTML was developed with the intent of defining the structure of documents like
headings, paragraphs, lists, and so forth to facilitate the sharing of scientific information
between researchers.
Now, HTML is being widely used to format web pages with the help of different tags
available in HTML language.

Below is an example of HTML used to define a basic webpage with a title and a single paragraph
of text

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

<meta charset =”UTF – 8”

<title></title>

</head>

<body>

<p>This is a report written by Charles </p>

</body>

</html>

HTML TAGS:

As told earlier, HTML is a markup language and makes use of various tags to format
the content. These tags are enclosed within angle braces <Tag Name>. Except few tags, most
of the tags have their corresponding closing tags. For example, <html>has its closing
tag</html>and <body>tag has its closing tag </body>tag etc.
The following are the names of tags and their description.
Tag Description
<html> This tag encloses the complete HTML
document and
mainly comprises of document header which is
represented by <head>...</head> and document
body
which is represented by <body>...</body> tags.
<
<head> This tag represents the document's header
which can keep
other HTML tags like <title>, <link>, <script
language
=”javascript”> etc.
<
<title> The <title> tag is used inside the <head> tag to
mention
the document title.
<body> This tag represents the document's body which
keeps other
HTML tags like <h1>, <div>, <p>, <table> etc.
<IMG SRC=> Image Source
<p> This tag represents a paragraph
<h1> This tag represents a heading
<b>, <i>, <li>, <ul> Bold, italic, list, unordered list.

<!- . . . -> Comment

<BR> Line Break
<A> . . . </A> Links the current HTML file to another
file.
 1.1 Relevance of the SIWEs experience to your current course of study

2.0 SUMMARY, RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSION

5.1 SUMMARY

5.2 RECOMMENDATIONS

1. Student Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) is one of the most

important experiences a student can ever get before graduating from Nigerian
universities, because students are being taught the practical aspect of their
respective courses of studies.
However, government should try its possible best to supply modern facilities
and equipment to industries and other institutions from which students can learn
on, when they are there for SIWES.
This programme is one of the most important parts that must not be left out in an
academic atmosphere because of its benefits and as such it should be encourage
by the ITF.

2. I also suggest ITF should liaise with some companies where they will take up students for
industrial training. This will help students who find it difficult to find attachments or who end up
in companies where they do nothing.
 3. There should be regular disbursement or payment of the students’ allowances to enable
most students participates effectively in all the activities of SIWES.
4. The SIWES operators need to beef up their strategies to enable the program function
effectively so that the students being served can optimally gain experience of work to enable
them adjust properly to the work of paid employment.

5.3 CONCLUSION

This SIWES attachment was a privilege and I never regretted exploring it because of the massive
practical knowledge I tapped. To me, it was not just another academic requirement, I viewed it as
a job and I have to work hard to contribute to my organization’s success and most importantly,
my success. I was able to acquire practical knowledge in the following field:

i. Embalming and mummification

ii. Autopsy
iii. Tissue processing techniques
iv. Tissue pot construction
v. Different radiological imaging techniques.