An important aspect of the education and training of science students in the universities is organised exposure to some elements of industrial art as articulated below under the Students Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES). This is being emphasised herein in view of the rather poor handling of SIWES, in some existing universities in the country. Universities are expected to establish a SIWES Unit to coordinate SIWES in all programmes that have SIWES component to shoulder the following responsibilities:
1. Soliciting co-operative placements (jobs) in business, industry, government or service agencies depending upon the needs and qualifications of the student, and placing students on such training assignments after analysing the technical contents;
2. Coordinating and supervising the co-operative employment of students in such a way that students have the opportunity of learning useful scientific skills on real jobs and under actual working conditions;
3. Conducting follow-up activities regarding all placements by checking regularly each student's job performance through company visits and individual student interviews;
4. Assembling individual inventory records of students and employers for the purposes of placements and supervision in addition to maintaining functional departmental and personal records and reports;
5. Providing necessary advice to students as to the relevance of their chosen field to the industrial requirements of the country;
6. Organising and conducting students' seminars on Work Reports; and
7. Liaison with NUC, ITF, other agencies and industries on student industrial training programme of the University.
Students are expected to have 12 weeks of industrial attachment in 200 level. It should be noted that Industrial Training as a course involves the following:
1. Working successfully in the industry for the specified period;
2. Submission of a Work Report to the coordinating office at the end of the training period; and
3. Presentation of seminar on the industrial training experience.
The course codes for Industrial Attachment for each programme are represented by the three
letter code for the programme followed by 299 (industrial attachment at 200 level). Thus CSC299, DTS299, SEN299,CYB299,IFT299, will be industrial attachment for Computer
Science, Data sciences, Software engineering, Cyber security, and Iformation Tech. Students respectively at 200 level. Each industrial attachment course is a 3 unit course.
- Teacher: Arafat Idris Dzarma