KOGI STATE POLYTECHNIC
SCHOOL OF APPLIED SCIENCES,
MATHS/STAT/COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
PMB 1101, LOKOJA, KOGI STATE

A TECHNICAL REPORT ON
STUDENT INDUSTRIAL WORK EXPERIENCE SCHEME
(SIWES) AT THE TIME OFFICE, DANGOTE CEMENT PLC OBAJANA

BY

AIYEDE JOHN E.
2010/ND/CPS/370

IN PARTIAL Fulfillment of THE REQUIREMENT
FOR THE AWARD OF NATIONAL DIPLOMA (ND)
IN COMPUTER SCIENCE.

FEBRUARY 2012.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION

1.1 SIWES The Student Industrial Work-Experience Scheme (SIWES) is a planned and supervised training intervention based on stated and specific learning and career objectives, and geared towards developing the occupational competencies of the participants. It is a skill Training programme designed to expose and prepare students of Agriculture, Engineering, Technology, Environmental, Science, Medical Sciences and pure and applied science for the Industrial work situation which they likely to meet after graduation. Duration of SIWES is four (4) months in Polytechnics at the end of ND I, four (4) months in College of Education at the end of NCE II and six (6) months in the Universities at the end of 300 or 400 or 500 levels depending on the discipline. Therefore, SIWES is generic, cutting across over 60 programmes in the universities, over 40 programmes in the polytechnics and about 10 programmes in the colleges of education. Thus, SIWES is not specific to any one course of study or discipline. In Nigeria, industrial training began with the dependence of industry on technical competencies for the operation and maintenance of its resources. Industrial training or work-experience had its origins in the practice at the first Nigerian Polytechnic, the Yaba Technical Institute (now Yaba College of Technology) which was founded in 1948. Students were sponsored by government establishments or private firms at the