CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY
The existence of a
gap between the theoretical principles and real practical in various fields
such as engineering and technology, science, agriculture, medicine, management
and other professional educational programs in Nigeria tertiary institution
poses a great need to expose students to machines and equipment, professional
work methods and ways of safe-guarding the work area and workers in industries
and other organizations in order to improve the practical skills of students.
Knowing fully well that
Training is a key factor in enhancing the efficiency and expertise of the
workforce and no society can achieve meaningful progress without encouraging
its youth to acquire necessary practical skills that will enable them to
harness available resources to meet the needs of society- an innovative
phenomenon in human resources development and training in Nigerian tertiary
institutions by the industrial training fund (ITF). This innovative phenomenon
was called The Student Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) otherwise
referred to as Industrial Training (IT).
The Student Industrial
Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) was initiated in the year 1973 by the Industrial
Training Fund (ITF). It is a Tri-partite programme involving Students,
Universities and Industries. It is funded by the federal government of Nigeria
and jointly coordinated by the ITF and the Nigerian Universities Commission
(NUC). It is a skill training programme designed to expose and prepare students
of post-secondary schools (tertiary institutions) to the industrial work
situation they are likely to meet after graduation. A mobile-based SIWES
placement survey system can be described in so many ways, but owing to the
perspective of this study, it is a mobile system that can be installed and run
on different mobile platforms (IOS, Android, Windows Phone, etc.) and different
mobile devices (smart phones and tablets) but are written with web
technologies. This system (Mobile-based SIWES placement survey system) would be
a hybrid application that run inside a native container, and leverage the
device’s browser engine (but not the browser) to render the HTML and process
the JavaScript locally. This approach is important so as not to make the system
platform dependent .
A portal system
can be described in different ways depending on differing point of views. To a
user of a portal, it is a web system that provides the functions and features
to authenticate and identify users. It provides an easy, intuitive,
personalized and user-customizable web-interface for facilitating access to
information and services that are of primary relevance and interests to them.
However, to the organization that sets up the portal, it is a system that helps
the organization to catalogue or organize collections of different and multiple
sources of information for dissemination to many users according to their
specific privileges, needs and interests. Therefore, the main purpose for
setting up a portal is to bring vast information and resources available from
many sources to many users in an effective manner. There have been several
efforts in Nigeria and in other parts of the world to build portal systems that
can facilitate administration and learning in higher institutions.
SIWESFEDPOLYOKO is a
portal system hosted by the Federal Polytechnic, Oko in Anambra State, Nigeria.
It is designed to help the students who are undergoing their four months SIWES
training to connect back to the Institution. The blogsite on the portal helps
students to keep abreast of what is required of them while on SIWES training
and gives them necessary information as regards to their on-going academic
program.
The problem
faced by Babcock University, in managing SIWES is yet to be eliminated. This problem includes:Difficulty in checking the
profile of the student and improper way of storing student information; Stressful process involve in the
submission of acceptance letter; Delay in
submission of the weekly and SIWES
report, job placement. This research will lead to design and
development of a cost effective and user friendly system that automates almost
all the entire activities of both the student and lecturer during SIWES.
1.3 AIM AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The aim of
this project is to build an Electronic-SIWES management and processing system.
The following are the objectives of the project;
1.
To create a
Graphical User Interface (GUI) that will make it easy and user friendly to
store and retrieve information in the database
2.
To digitize
all procedures carried out by students and lecturers.
3.
To
implement all the necessary functionalities required for optimal performance of
a SIWES management system.
The design and Implementation of Babcock
University SIWES Management System can be achieved through the following
methods:
1.
The
web-based application will be implemented using Java script, HTML and CSS while
the programming will be done with PHP programming language and MYSQL will be
used for the database.
2.
Waterfall
Software Development lifecycle
will be used.
3.
Student
will be interviewed to find out about the aspect of SIWES processing that will
be more effective if automated and the aspect that is more effectively done
manually.
4.
An
intense literature review will be done.
This section
presents the significance of the system to students and lecturers. However, the
significance of e-SIWES to students is that it reduces the burden of having to
manually submit documents to their supervisors in school by providing a
platform where they can send those documents via the system, however for
lecturers it enables quick and easy management of student accounts and review
of SIWES reports.
1.6 BENEFITS OF SIWES
1. To
provide students with proper real world experience outside of the school
campus.
2. Explore
the fields on which the students feel their career interest lies and determine
if those careers are suitable for them
3. Provision
of enabling environment where students can develop and enhance personal
attributes such critical thinking, creativity and resourcefulness.
1.7 ARRANGEMENT OF THE PROJECT
This work consists of five chapters. The subsequent chapters of this project report are as follows:
This work consists of five chapters. The subsequent chapters of this project report are as follows:
Chapter Two–
Literature Review presents related applications and other materials that relate
to the project. It also takes into consideration the historical background of
the project.
Chapter Three - System
analysis and design, presents methods of the research, gives details of the old
system, leading to the system specification, and the design of the proposed
system.
Chapter Four-Implementation
and Discussion, deals with implementation and operation of the newly proposed
system. It would primarily concentrate on how the outcomes of the system design
are used in developing the application of the computer based system. It also
includes a user guide.
Chapter Five– Summary, Conclusion and Recommendations, give a precise summary of the whole project, draws conclusion and
provided recommendations for future work.
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