TECHNICAL REPORT

ON

STUDENTS INDU STERIAL WORK EXPERIENCE SCHEME

(SIWES)

AT

AL’IHSSAN COMPUTER CENTER

BY

IBRAHIM HASSAN

NCS/15/030

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

WAZIRI UMARU FEDERAL POLYTHECNIC

P.M.B 1034, BIRNIN KEBBI

KEBBI STATE

MARCH 2018

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 DECLARETION

The technical report is writing and completed in line with work actually
carried out during my industrial work experience scheme.

…………………………..

IBRAHIM HASSAN

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 DEDICATION

This Training is didicated to almight god and his prophet mahammad (s.w.a) to for
the supprot assistance throghour

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 ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Glory be to God in the highest for his mercy endures for ever .My prefound
gratitude goes to my mother haj. Binta Abdullahi for her prayer and financial
support.I cannot but express my sincere appreciation to my siblings,Elders Nasiru
Bello,Rashida Bello,Hamida Bello and Nazifi Bello ,it is pleasure having u as my
blood. And also my special thanks to my mentor in the name of Mal .Umaru Zaki
who is always ready to assist ,correct and advice me in a fatherly manner.And
also to my HOD Mrs. Jude Nwoji ,this industrial training SIWEs a learning
process. Other in the trend are my lectures department especially Mall. Abdullahi
Abubakar, Mall. Muzzammil Mansur, Mall. Ahmad Maccido Abdulkadir.

I can not forget my beloved friends like Sanusi Muh’d , Saminu Adamu,
Mubarak Adamu, Isah Umar and Kabiru Musa and others who are numerous to
mention.I say:may the encourage of angel always decorate you all with marks of
favor and divine blessings. I love you all. My great thanks go to Almighty Allah
who has made this Industrial Training a success.

TABLE OF CONTENT
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Title Page - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - i
Declaration - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ii
Dedication - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - iii
Acknowledgment - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -iv
Table of content - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - v-vii

CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION TO SIWES - - - - - - - - - - - 1
DEFINITION OF SIWES- - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1-2
AIMS OF SIWES - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2
OBJECTIVE OF SIWES - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2
PROBLEM OF SIWES - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2

CHAPTER TWO
2.0 HOW TO USE KEYBOARD
2.1 HOW TO USE KEYBOARD FOR SHORT CUT KEYS - - - 3

2.2 HOW TO CREAT TABLE USING KEYBOARD - - - 3-4

2.3 CHANGE CAPITAL LETTER TO SMALL LETTER - - 4

2.4 HOW TO FIND WORD USING KEYBOARD - - - - 4

2.5 HOW TO INSER PAGE NUMBER USING KEYBOARD - - 5

CHAPTER THREE

3.0 INTRODUCTION TO MICROSOFT WORD AND MICROSOFT

ECXEL

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3.1 STEPS TO OPEN MS-WORD - - - - - - - - - - 6
3.2 FEATURES OF MS-WORD - - - - - - - - - - 6-7
3.3 STEPS TO INSERT BULLETS - - - - - - - - - - 7-8
3.4 STEPS TO CHANGE TEXT DIRECTORY - - - - - - 8
3.5 MICROSOFT EXCEL - - - - - - - - - - - 8-9
3.6 OTHER SHORT KEYS FOR SELECTING CELLS - - - -9

3.7 FORMAT CELL DIALOG - - - - - - - - - - 10

3.8 MPORTING DATA - - - - - - - - - - - - 10

3.9 OTHER USEFULL SKIL- - - - - - - - - - - 10-11

CHAPTER FOUR
5.1 SUMMARY - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 17
5.2 RECOMMENDATION - - - - - - -- - - - - - 17
5.3 CONCLUSION - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 18

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 CHAPTER ONE

1.0 INTRODUCTION

SIWES was establishing by ITF in 1973 to solve the problem of lack of adequate
practical skills preparatory for employment in industries by graduates of tertiary
institutions.

The scheme exposes student industries based skills necessary for a month transition
from the class room to the world of work. It affords student of tertiary institutions the
opportunity of key familiarized and equipment which are usually not available in the
educational institutions

Participation in SIWES has become a necessary pre-condition for the award of

DIPLOMA AND DEGREE certification specific discipline, in most institution of
higher learning in the country, in accordance with the educational policy of the
government.

 Operation- the ITF, the coordinating agencies (NUC, NCCE, NBTE),

employers of labour and institution.
 Funding :- The federal government of Nigeria
 Beneficiaries:- undergraduates of the following fields: agriculture ,engineering
technology, environmental, science, education, medical science and pure and
applied sciences.
 Duration:- four months for polytechnics and college of education and six
months for universities.

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 1.1 DEFINETION OF SIWES

The student industrial work experience scheme (SIWES) is a skill

acquisition training program that forms part of the minimum academic
requirement standards in various degree programs of the Nigerian
tertiary institutions, it help student to put what they have learnt
theoretically in class into practice in the real problem world.

1.2 AIMS OF SIWES

The SIWES is aimed at exposing students to real life working

environment, enabling them to put into practice what they have learnt in
class, making them top understand the technical implication of their
profession as well as teaching them competence, and professionalism.

1.3 OBJECIVES OF THE SCHEME

The purpose of the scheme is to expose student to machines and

equipment, professional work method and ways of safeguarding the
work area workers in industrial and other organizations. The scheme is
a tripartite program involving training fund (ITF).

1.4 PROBLEMS AFFECTING THE SCHEME

i. Inadequate funding to student which would have encouraged them

grossly i.e. ITF allowance.
ii. Poor attitude of employers to student that is impacting knowledge
with reservation with fear of opposition and competition’s by the
student in the near future Non co-operation and companies as regards
to accepting students for their field of work program

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 CHAPTER TWO
2.0 KEYBOARD
2.1 HOW TO USE KEYBOARD FOR SHORT CUT KEYS
i. Ctrl +N (open a new page)
ii. Ctrl +f1(minimize ribbon)
iii. Ctrl + enter (insert new page)
iv. Shift+home(highlight from end of a sentences to the beginning)
v. Shift+end (highlight from beginning of a sentences to the end)
vi. Shift + arrow key (highlight letter by letter)
vii. Shift+ctrl + arrow key(highlight word by word)
viii. Ctrl + b(to bold the text)
ix. Ctrl+s(save)
x. Ctrl+p(to print object)
xi. Ctrl +i(for italize)

2.2 HOW TO CREAT TABLE USING KEYBOARD

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  Click on insert
 Click on Table
 Click on Insert Table
 Enter Number of Rows and Columns

2.3 CHANGE CAPITAL LETTER TO SMALL LETTER

 Highlight the text(word) first

 Press shift+f3

 Ctrl+I

2.4 HOW TO FIND WORD USING KEYBOARD

 Press ctrl+F(for find)

 Type in, in the “find what” box and type what you want to find

 Click find next

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2.5 HOW TO INSERT PAGE NUMBER USING KEYBOARD

 Click
Insert

 Click on Page Number

 Click on Insert Page

 Select the Format and Position

 Select Either Entire Document or Current Document

 Click OK

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 CHAPTER THREE
INTRODUCTION TO MICROSOFT WORD AND MICRODOFT EXCEL

3.0 MICROSOFT WORD

Microsoft is a word processing software application package that
is used to produce document such as letters, journals, seculars,
correspondent, certificate etc

3.1 STEPS TO OPEN MICROSOFT WORD

 click on start button
 move to all programs
 move to micro soft office

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  click on micro soft office
 click on micro soft word 2007

3.2 FEATURES OF MICRISOFT WORD

 The title bar:- It displays the title of the current application and file
name
 Office button:- The office button contains various function for
various file operation e.g save, open, print etc
 Taps: The tabs contains various function that can be used to
accomplish various task
 Reborn: It contains the properties of an active tab
 Groups:- This contains the related set of icon that can be used to
accomplish specific task
 Dialog box luncher :- This are used to activate the dialog box for a
specific group
 The ruler guide(horizontal and vertical) it is used to set magins to the
horizontally and vertically
 Scroll handle (horizontal & vertical) it is used for moving the page
up or down, left or right
 Status bar:- It displays the status of the document, it also displays the
document statistic
 Control button:- Minimize, maximize they are used to control button,
they are use to control the button

3.3 STEPS TO INSERT BULLET

 Click on Home tab/position your cursor where you want the bullet to
appear
 In the paragraph group, click on bullet icon
 Click on the bullet of your choice

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3.4 STEPS TO CHANGE TEXT DIRECTORY

 Highlight the text

 Click on layout tag
 Click on Text direction in ailment


3.5 MICROSOFT EXCEL

Ms-excell Is an electronic spreadsheet application(is the equivalent of a

paper ledger sheet)Microsoft excel enable you to organize ,calculate and
analyze data.

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Microsoft Excel Enable You:

 To Format your data.

 To Organize your data by sorting it.

 To Generate chart and graph showing your data.

 To Automated and customized procedure by using macros.

3.6 OTHER SHORT KEYS FOR SELECTING CELLS

 Ctrl+space bar (Highlight the entire collum)

 Shift+space bar(highlight the entire row)

 Ctrl+A (highlight the entire work sheet)

 Single click cell(make the cell active)

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 Home (move the active cell to collum A)

3.7 FORMAT CELL DIALOG

 Ctrl+A (to highlight the text you want)

 Select the format cell from the format cell

 Right click on the highlight cell and choose format cell from the short
cut menu

3.8 IMPORTING DATA

 Open a new ms-excell, move to blank document you want to put

 On the data menu point import external data

 Click import

 In the file of type b ox ,click text files

 In the look list locate and double click to specify how you want to
divide the text collum,follow the instruction in the text wizard import
and then click finish

 In the import data dialog click properties to set formatting layout

option in the import data click return data to new worksheet

 Click new

 Click OK

3.9 OTHER USEFULL SKILL

 CTRL+O (Open existing file)

 CTRL+S(To save)
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 F12 (For save as)

 CTRL+Z(To undo)

 CTRL+Y (To redo)

 CTRL+P(To print)

 CTRL+C(To copy)

 CTRL+V(To paste)

 CTRL+X(To cut)

 CTRL+5(To strike through)

 CTRL+B(To bold)

 CTRL+U(To underlined)

 CTRL+I(For italics)

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 CHAPTER FOUR

5.1 SUMMARY

Effort has be made to highlight the areas covered by the various chapters.
Chapter One deals with Introduction to Siwes Aim and
Objectives.Limitaton of report, Chapter Two focus on How to Used
Mouse For Various Task Chapter three deals with microsoft word,file
management in microsoft word and some command keys e.t.c. four deals
with windows as an operatng system ,operating System,Function of
Operating System Version of windows , staring up computer , booting
procedure for cold booting .

5.2 RECOMMENDATION

The student should compare the teaching in class with that they learn on
training in order to knowwheher they have learned something new. The
siwes Co-Ordinator should take their time when they have the student o
I.T in order to know how to acces the student . the government should
increase the SIWES payment, so that student can cover some of their
experiences during the training . the govenment should increase the
duration of the programme in order for the student to learn more on
industries the government in order for the student to learn more on
industries the government should make SIWES compulsory for both the
polytechnics and colleges so that the student will not end in class only.

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5.3 CONCLUSION

The industrial training found(ITF) granted me the oppurtunity of knowing

the various parts of computer system and how it functions. I actually
acquired good experience during the period of training which I could not
achieved it , if am absent to the training work experience so am very
appreciated ; I hereby thank the entire staffs of sterile depiction graphic
art and design for their support during my training.

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