How to fill the SIWES log book for IT students

HOW TO FILL YOUR SIWES LOG BOOK. (A Quick Hint For Nigerian Industrial Training Students)

What is SIWES?

SIWES stands for Students Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES), it is a skills training programme that is designed to expose and as well prepare students of Universities, Polytechnics/Colleges of Technology/Colleges of Agriculture and Colleges of Education for the industrial work situation they are likely to meet after graduation. In Nigeria it is designed in such a way to fit into the curriculum of  students mostly in 300Level and 400Level, and it as well carries a large credit load that can easily boost ones GP if one actually gets an "A" grade in it.

What is the SIWES Log Book?

The log book is more of a memo booklet that a SIWES students must be in possession of to easily record the daily experience and happening as he or she is on the SIWES programme. The Log book as well contains basic data about the student, and also the company or place the student must have been attached to inorder to carry out the SIWES programme.

 Nevertheless students on SIWES industrial training always have difficulties in filling the appropriate data into the Log book, that is why i came up with this post to help out.

below are pictures and explanation that clearly shows how to fill the Log book.

Note:- The Log book varies across institutions and school. i.e it is not the same every where. 

The Student Particular Page

This page contains your name (ie the SIWES student), your institution name(e.g university, college of education, polytechnic e.tc), the course of study(e.g computer science), year of course(e.g 300Level), the company/establishment attached to (e.g Layer3 Limited), the name of your industry based SIWES cordinator (i.e the person your report to on your training, or the person attached to you to aid you on your SIWES programme), then finally your Registration/Matriculation number, with a copy of your recent passport attached.

The Organizational Profile Page

This page still contains the name of establishment/company you are attached to, the location of the company/establishement (ie the address), then the productions/jobs undertaken/number of employees.

The Organisational Chart Page

This page simply contain the organisations/establishment/company organogram (ie the flow of power from the top (CEO) to the bottom (employees))

The Attendance Register Page

This page mainly contains the SIWES students attendance registry, and it meant to be completed and entered by the person you report to in your company every week. it has a format of X/Y, where X - is the total number of days attended and Y - is the total number of work days of your company. it also have provision for your industry base supervisor to lay an overall comment about you and as well sign and stamp it.

The Industrial Training Assessment Sheet

(End Of Programme Evaluation)

This page contains the period (ie the time from and to the time the SIWES programme is meant to elapse), the name of the SIWES student, department(s) in which the SIWES student was in during the SIWES programme, the name of the company attached to, the type of business the company does, then finally the performance rating which is meant to be completed by your instructor at your comapny (ie the person attached to you).

The Main Pages Of The Log Book 

This is the main body of the the Log book, where the student record the daily experiences gained as he or she carries out the SIWES programme. This is done by writing a brief summary of what you did on that particular day in the space provided, and also attach the date of that day as well. It also has area to add illustration(i.e diagrams), i will advice you to draw diagrams if any with pencils and also try your possible best to make it neat. At times there might not be diagrams to draw, in the diagram provided space one can still add write ups as clearly shown above. Finally, below it is a section for your signature and date of that week, and also a comment section for your instructor, his or her signature and date.

I hope this is of help to you, if you have any comment at all you are free to push them forward.

Have a wonderful SIWES Training.