UNIVERSITY  SIWES  UNIT

Functions     Staff     Programme     Assessment     Course Code

List of Staff   

S/No.	Name	Qualification	Rank/Status
1.	Senior Staff Mr. I.  A. Kwada	B. Sc, (Unimaid) M.  Sc. (Jos)	Ag. Coordinator
	Junior  Staff
2.	Milka  P. Joel		Confidential  Secretary III
3.	Abubakar  Bello		Senior Clerical Officer
4.	Ja’afaru  Bashir		Driver III

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Functions

The SIWES Unit was established as part of the requirements by the National University Commission (NUC) and Industrial Training Fund (ITF) for the accreditation of any Engineering, Technology and Applied Sciences disciplines in any Nigerian University.  It functions to Coordinate the Students Industrial Training Programmes of the University, by liaising between the schools/ departments and the industry/establishments to ensure effective placement and supervision of students during their industrial training.

It also liaises between the NUC (the supervising agency) and the ITF (the funding agency) to ensure early and proper submission of students list and payment of both the students SIWES allowances and the Institutions supervision allowances accordingly.

In addition, this University being the only University within the zone (Adamawa  and Taraba zone) it also doubles as the headquarters of the SIWES Zonal Supervision Review Committee.  This entails co-ordinating the SIWES supervision activities of all the other tertiary institution within this zone and to plan the logistics with the various institutions SIWES Co-ordinators.

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SIWES  COURSE  PROGRAMME

All Students in the Engineering, Technology and Applied Sciences disciplines shall be exposed to a period of Industrial Work Experience Scheme, normally referred to as S.I.W.E.S.  The training  shall take place at the end of the 200 – and 300 – levels for three months each and six months during the second semester of the 400 level of a normal degree programme.

A total period of 12 calendar months on the whole is considered to be adequate.  Students shall be exposed to a combination of field experiences both in the public and private sector and/or industry/business/administrative activities relevant to their individual discipline.  The student is expected to submit a systematic logbook record, and a type written technical report for assessment at the end of each training period.

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SIWES  COURSE ASSESSMENT

The assessment shall be in segments namely:     

(a)        Industry’s Supervisors report    -           15%

(b)        Institutional Supervisors report  -           15%

(c)        Assessment of Logbook report   -           25%

(d)        Assessment of Technical report -           25%

(e)        Students defence/viva of report -          20%

               Total                                                          100%

The final grade for the 200 level and 300 level SIWES course shall be “Repeat” or “Pass” and shall not be used for result computation.  However, the grade for the 400 level SIWES shall be computed and used as any other academic course unit.  (Various departments are to liaise with the University SIWES Unit to ensure the supervision of their students during their training). 

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SIWES COURSE CODE

This programme shall be uniformly coded for all the schools/departments of the University as follows:

C/ Code           Course Title            Unit          Level

SW 299           SIWES                   2          200 level

SW 399              “                        2          300 level

SW 499              “                        4          400 level

Students of the School of Management and Information Technology whose courses are listed for SIWES however, would have their training during the second semester of their 400 level only, making a minimum of six months.