TECHNICAL REPORTON

STUDENT INDUSTRIAL WORK EXPERIENCE SCHEME(SIWES)

UNDER TAKEN AT

Ministry of Budget and Planning kanonstate

AuduBakoSecretariat,P.M.B..3291
BY
Muhammad Nazir Usman

FCP/CSCS/18/1094

SIWES REPORT SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

OF COMPUTING FEDERAL UNIVERSITY,DUTSE JIGAWA STATE.

IN PARTIALFULFILMENT OF THERE QUIREMENT FOR THE AWARD OF BACHELOR OF

SCIENCE (B.Sc.) IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

JUNE 2022

CERTIFICATION
This is to certify that the Student Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) was carried out by
MUHAMMAD NAZIR USMAN with Matric Number– FCP/CSC/18/1094 of Computer science Department,
Faculty of Computing. Federal University, Dutse, under

____________________ ____________________
Jabir Tukur Abdullahi Date

supervisor

____________________ ____________________
Jabir Tukur Abdullahi Date
SIWES CO-Ordinator

____________________ ____________________.

Dr.Zahradeen Sufiyan Date

Head Of Departmen

DEDICATION

I dedicate this work to my parents who have guided me diligently to the person I am today, who
have done and tried in every possible way they can to see that I am deeply educated and also to my
teachers and my supervisor who have been patient and helpful with me throughout my studies. I am
grateful, may Allah continue to bless you and your family abundantly. Amin.
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

My sincere and ultimate thanks giving goes to the Almighty Allah, the one who sustain me throughout
the course of my Industrial Training.

I also thank the school authorities and the other authorities that make this training to be compulsory.
The Ministry of Budget and planning for accepting me as an ITstudent with little or no experience when
others are asking me to pay training fee.Thank you very much for such an opportunity.
My Parents have always been there for me interms of finance, support, prayer, advice etc.Thank you
very much sir and ma, Ilove you so much.

Time and space will not permit me to mention all the Individuals that contributed to the success of my
SIWES in one way or other.I sincerely appreciate you all.

ABSTRACT

This is a report that will take you through the journey of my six(6)months SIWES which I did at Ministry
of Budget and planning Kano state.
Brief introduction of what SIWES is all about is also taken down.Necessary information about Ministry of
Budget and planning is also included in this report.
All the experience gained and some of the Projects that I worked on are properly documented in this
same report.
TABLE OF CONTENT
TitlePage…………………………………………………………………………………. i
Certification………………………………………………………………………………..ii
Dedication……………………………………………………………………………….. iii
Acknowledgement………………………………………………………………………...iv
Abstract………………………………………………………………………………….... v
Table of content…………………………………………………………………………..vi

1.0 CHAPTER ONE

1.0 Introduction……………………………………………………………………1
1.1 Background of SIWES………………………………………………………...1
1.2 Aims and Objectives of SIWES………………………………………………2
1.3 Benefits of SIWES……………………………………………………………. 2
2.0 CHAPTER TWO
2.1 About the Ministry of Budgetand Planning………………………………… 3
2.2 Ministry of Budget and planning Structure……………………………………3
2.3 Various Departments/Units at the Ministry their Functions…………….………4

3.0 CHAPTER THREE

3.1 Introduction Excel.....................................................4

3.2 Experience Gained……………………………………………….........5
3.3.Introduction to Photoshop…………………………...………….5

3.4 Introduction to Open Data Kit(ODK)…………………................9

3.5 Introduction to Budget Template or Excel…………………...............14

4.0 CHAPTER FOUR

4.1 Achievements…………………………………………………………………15
4.2Challenges Encounter………………………………………………………….15

4.3 Summary..................................,.................................. 16

4.4Conclusion……………………………………………………………………16
4.5Recommendation……………………………………………………………...17

4.6 Reference.......................................................................17
 CHAPTER ONE

1.1 Introduction (SIWES)

The Students Industrial Work Experience Scheme(SIWES) is the accepted skills training program,
which forms part of the approved minimum Academic Standards in the various degree program for all
the Nigerian Universities. It is funded by the Federal Government of Nigeria and jointly co-ordinate by
the Industrial Training Fund(ITF) and the National Universities Commission(NUC).

It is also designed to expose and prepare students at Universities, Polytechnics, Colleges of Technology,
Colleges of Agriculture and Colleges of Education for the industrial work situation they are likely to meet
after graduation. The scheme also affords students the opportunity of familiarizing and exposing them
selves to the needed experience in handling equipment and machinery that are usually not available in
their Institutions. Before the establishment of the scheme, there was a growing concern among our
industrialists that graduates of our Institutions of higher learning lacked adequate practical background
studies preparatory for employment in Industries. Thus,the employers believed the theoretical
education going on in higher institutions was not responsive to the needs of the employers of labor.It is
against this background that the rationale for initiatingand designing the schemeby the Industrial
Training Fund (ITF)during its formative years–1973/74 was introduced to acquaint students with the
skills of handling employers’ equipment and machinery. The ITF solely funded the scheme duringbits
formative years. But as the financial involvement became unbearable to the Fund, it withdrew from the
Schemein1978. The Federal Government handed over the schemein1979 to both the National
Universities Commission(NUC) and the National Board for Technical Education(NBTE). Later the Federal
Government in November 1984 revert the management and implementation of the SIWES Programmed
to ITF and it was effectively taken over by the Industrial Training Fund in July1985 with the funding being
solely borne by the Federal Government (SA'AD,2018).

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1.2 Importance of SIWES

✓ It provides students with an opportunity to apply their theoretical knowledge in real life situations.
✓ It strengthens links between the employers, universities, and industrial training fund(ITF).
✓ It also preparesbthe students for the labor market after graduation(Hameed,2019).
✓ It helps in increasing self-confidence and identifying their own proficiency.
✓ The industrial training program improves students’ awareness in single technology.
✓ The learners can obtain hands-on experience and know the real jobs cenario
✓ It cultivates the leadership ability of the students and gives them there sponsibility to execute and
perform the given task(NIMS,2018).

Aims and Objective of SIWES

1.SIWES make the transition from school to the world of work easier and enhance studentsbcontact for
later job placement.
2.Enlist and strengthens Employer’s involvement in the entire educational process and prepare
studentsbfor employment after graduation.
3.SIWES provides the a venue for students in institutions of higher learning to acquire industrials kills
and experiences in their course of study.
4.Prepare the students for the industrial work situation they are likely tobmeet after graduation.
5.Expose students to work method and techniques in handling equipment and machinery that may not
be available in their institutions.
6.SIWES provides students with an opportunity to apply their knowledge in real work situations there by
bridging the gap between theory and practice.

CHAPTER TWO
2.1 Location and Brief history of the Ministry of Budget and planning:
The Ministry of Budget and planning prepares Development plans and Annual Budget for the State and
ensure effective monitoring and co-ordination.The ministry prepared Quarterly review of the actual
performance of all the MDAs of both the Recurrent, Capital Expenditure and the Revenue. Its located at
Audu Bako Secretariat,P.M.B..3291

2.2Roles of the Ministry of Budget and planning :

1.Providing the necessary policy guidance and development

2.Technical support
3.And assessment for national advancement.
4.Prepare quarterly review of the actual performance of all the MDAs both there current, capital
expenditure and the revenue.

2.3Ministry ofBudget and planning Structure;

I ok look

Hon . Commissioner
Permanent Secretary
 Director Planning
Director Budget
Director Admin & General services
Director Monitoring & Evaluation
Director Research & policy co-ordination
Director Development support &co-odination

CHAPTER THREE

Introduction to Excel
Some common synonyms of excel are exceed, outdo, outstrip, surpass, and transcend. While all these
words mean "to go or be beyond a stated or implied limit, measure, or degree," excel implies
preeminence in achievement or quality and may suggest superiority to all others.

Excel Basics

✓ Creating a new spreadsheet from scratch.

✓ Executing basic computations like adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing.

✓ Writing and formatting column text and titles.

✓ Using Excel's auto-fill features.

✓ Adding or deleting single columns, rows, and spreadsheets.

Type of Excel
1. Text

2. Number

3. Logical and

4. Error

Important of Excel

Microsoft Excel enables users to identify trends and organize and sort data into meaningful categories.

How to work with Excel

3.1EXPERIENCE GAINED:
Introduction :During my Industrial Training at ministry of budget and planning, I gained series of
real world and practical experience that I can now count as an asset to my career and I worked in almost
all the units available in the ministry, some of the experiences acquiredare:

3.2 Introduction to Photoshop

Photoshop is unlike other common software interfaces which emulate virtual typewriters or graphing
paper.Photoshop creates an artist's virtual studio/darkroom. When you open the program,you see a
tool box on the left with tools you will use to manipulate your images, and on the right,a white square
which is your"canvas"or work area. The gray area surrounding the canvas is not part of your image, but
only defines its edges.Why we need touse photoshop is to get the information includes not only text and
numbers, but images as well.The expression"a picture is wortha thousand words"is as true to day as
ever.As the history of Adobe Photoshop begin with a rather graphics editor developed and published by
Adobe Systems for macOS and Windows. Photoshop was created in 1988 byThomasand John Knoll.Since
then,it has become the industry standard in raster graphics editing,such that the word"photoshop"has
become a verbasin"to Photoshop an image,""photoshopping"and"Photoshop contest",though Adobe
discourages such use.It can edit and compose raster images in multiplayers and supports masks, alpha
compositing and several including RGB, CMYK, CIELAB, spotcolor and duo tone.Photoshop has vast
support for graphic file formats but also uses its own PSD and PSB file formats which support all the a
fore mentioned features. In addition to raster graphics, it has limited abilities to editor render text,
vector graphics (especially through clipping path) ,3Dgraphics and video. Photoshop's feature set can be
expanded by Photoshop plug-ins, programs developed and distributed independently of Photoshop that
can run inside it and offer new or enhanced features.

What is the purpose of a Photoshop?

Photoshop is a graphics-editing program that we used to create and manipulate images. program’s
versatile nature make sit use fulfora huge range of imaging tasks, and Photoshop is used in fields as
diverse as architecture, astronomy, animation, forensics, web design and medicine. Photoshop is a
powerful raster-based graphics program produced by the Adobe Corporation. It has long been Adobe's
flag ship product, and is widely used for a variety of project and purposes world wide.The program has a
huge number offilters, functions and othertools that help the graphics artist complete his task. In
addition, there is a huge support base for Photoshop, with count lesson linesites devoted to the
program filled with tips and tutorials. There are also books, onlinean college courses and the
documentationat Adobe itself.The graphics uses for Photoshop are almost unlimited.

Function of Photoshop:
1.Resizing
Photoshop is often used to resize or crop images. With the image open, the graphics artist
selects"Image"from the menu and clicks"Image"Size."In the dialog that pops up, he changes the pixel
width and height and resolution to what he needs for the project. He can then click on
the"Crop"tool(found in the toolbar)to trim the image to the exact size needed. This technique is often
employed top repare images for publication or printing
2.Photo Restoration
Photographs often become damaged by time, exposure, or just wear and tear.The tools of Photoshop
can often be used to repair some of the damages. First the photo is scanned into the computer at a high
resolution and opened in Photoshop. Then the damage is evaluated. If there is dust and noise,
the"Reduce"noise"Filter"can be used. If there are spot or blemishes,the"Clone Stamp"tool is used to
paint over the damage, using pixels from an undamaged area. Large damage, such as a missing section
of building, can sometimes be repaired using the"Vanishing Point"function.
2.Website Graphics
Aside from its photo editing functions, Photoshop is also often used to create graphics for website
layouts, such as banners or navigation buttons. For example, if the user needs to makea"Home"button
for her page,she can use one of the"Shape"tools set the"Fill"to make the basic
shape.Then"FX"functions,such as"Bevel and Emboss"or "Drop Shadow,"can be applied to give the
button depth.The"Text"tool can be used to add"Home"to the button.

4.Websites
More than just making graphics for websites, Photoshop can also be used to create entire web pages.
The user simply assembles or creates the elements of the page as they would like it to appear. Next,
they use the" Slice" tool to divide the image into functional parts, including banners or buttons, naming
each. Then they use the"Save for Web or Devices"function to export this document as a folder
containing the sliced images and an HTML page that they can publish.
5.Animation
Photoshop is also a powerful graphics animation tool. Users need only create their frames aslayers in
the program. Then by activating the"Animation"panel and in the time line, menu choosing" Make
Frames from Layers "they have their animation ready to be exported as a GIF.
6.Skin retouch
Skin retouching services are all about perfecting the unwanted imperfections on the skin. It involves
advanced skin retouching techniques like skin smoothing, contouring, removal of wrinkles, eyebags,
darkspots, scars, acne, stray hairson the face, freckles, and more.

✓ Frequency separation: Frequency separation is a tried-and-true Photoshop process used

by portrait photographers. The process puts high and low frequency information on to different layers.
High-frequency information is about the fine details. These include hair, texture, pores, finelines, and
skin imperfections. Low frequencies carry information about shadows, tone and colors. Separating low
and high-frequency information on to different layers means that you can retouch one without affecting
the other. You can smooth the skin’s texture without affecting the color.Or you can.lighten shadows
without changing skin texture. This allows for more precise skin retouching.

.Burn and dodg: Dodging and burning are two of the oldest—and most important—photo editing
techniques. It’swhere you selectively brighten(dodge) or darken(burn) different areas of your image.
.Skin texture: Skin texture is basically the contrast in luminosity on amicro scale. Highlights and
shadows created by the way light interacts withs mallvariations in the skin structure. It is most apparent
under hard and directional light, and should bead dressed separately because the relationship to hue,
saturation, and luminosity is minimal.
7.Color grading: Colorgrading in photography is a technical process that allows you toseparate the
pixels of your image by brightness values(highlights,midtowns and shadows)and apply a different color
in to each part.
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8.Camera Raw: Camera Raw is a full non-destructive image-editing app. Most of its controls are in the
form of sliders or drop-down menus.For example, there’san Exposure slider that you drag left and right
to adjust the exposure of your image.It’s the same for other more specific features like clarity and
texture.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Photo shop

ADVANTAGES

Adobe Photoshopis

• wonderful
, It is used to edit the digital image application, it helps

. you improve the quality of a photograph

, It is the assistant with the artists whorely on Photoshop to make the artwork, And the students can
learn Photoshop in Image Editing classes. When you learn how to usePhotoshop, It

•can improve your skills

,It is possible to clear up the blemishes and the imperfections in the photos ,youcan remove and change
the back grounds in the photos. The images can be altered to fix the faults, The photo graphs can be
given a professional look when a standard camera is used,

. New art work images can be created and edited.

It is very easy to begin editing the photos, Adobe Photoshop

. helps you to reduce the redeye or to whiten the teeth

with the click of a button, you can adjust the skin tones of people in your pictures. Most of the edits
regularly done on the photos can be completed with a single click, there is no professional training is
needed to complete the complex tasks like adjusting skin tone. You can use Adobe Photoshop to
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• Important the videos and the photos into the software quickly and easily
, Everything will be organized in a neat and orderly way on your screen, when you are deal with
hundreds or thousands of photos and videos, it will be

. easier to find the ones you need and use them

So, it is easy to hand lenumerous videos and photos.
DISADVANTAGES
Adobe Photoshop is relatively simple to use but it is not a program designed for the beginners, it is
primarily a photo-editing program for the professionals that plan on editing many photos on a regular
basis, there are many different tools that do very different things, so,

• You will take longtime to learn how to use each one correctly .Adobe Photoshop
is

.• not free
, It is a proprietary software, meaning its source code is a secret, Source code is the code in which any

computer program is written by the human programmers. Adobe Photoshop is • relatively

expensive
, It has so many features and it is thus regarded as the industry standard in the graphic designing, You
will

. spend much more for Adobe Photoshop, if you do not plan on editing the
photosneveryday.
Most beginners will not begin to touch the functionality of this program, and they could get what they
need from another program, many people who are
. unfamiliar with editing the photos in Adobe Photoshop
,The advanced functionality will be useless for them. There are many free and lower cost graphics and
photo editors, are also available.

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3.3 Introduction to Open Data Kit(ODK)

Open data kit, commonly referred to as ODK is a set of popular free and open-source tools that allow us
to collect data using mobile devices. Being a pioneer tool of this nature, ODK is one of the most popular
mobile data collection tools. The fact that it is free and open source also makes it a darling to many
researchers considering the budget constraints that come about in many projects. Other reasons for its
popularity area nactive online support base and community and the fact that it has been tried and
tested. It is worth mentioning that ODK best works on smart phones running the Android mobile
operating system. Advanced users may find way so frunning it on other devices such as iPhones but you
are advised to stick to android devices unless you know what you are doing. ODK is made of three(3)
components that work together. These components are:

ODK Collect

This is a mobile application hosted on the Android Play Store. The app is free and easy to download and
install. The app renders the survey on the phone where enumerators fill out the survey questions.

ODK Build/XLS FORMS

These are the survey authoring tools. The term survey authoring refers to the transformation of paper
question naires to digital forms that cannbe accepted by the mobile devices. To author forms, users
have an option of using the ODK Build web interface or
Microsoft Excel. ODK Build offers an easy to learn intuitive web interface. Microsoft Excel, on the other
hand, has a steeper learning curves in ceusers have to learn the xls syntax for authoring forms.

ODKAggregate

This is the survey data hosting platform or the data base. You can easily download the latest version of
ODK Aggregate from the official ODK website for free. As always, a database needs to be hosted in a
web server to allow remote and concurrent access. As such, non-technical users can easily host ODK
Aggregate on google app engine cloud platform where as technical users have the added option of
implementing a local server installation using My SQL and Tomcat.

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How to work with ODK

• Digitize your questionnaire using ODK build or Microsoft Excel.
• Upload the questionnaire to your mobile device(ODKCollect).
• Collect data using your mobile device.

• Upload data to ODK Aggregate.

• Visualize, map, publish and analyze data inside ODK Aggregate.

• Download data for analysis with other statistical software.

Type of data you can collect using ODK

1.Numeric
2.Text
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3.You can do calculations

4.GPS
5.Video

6.Audio
7.Photos/Image
8.Scanbar codes
9.Signatures and many more.
3.4 Introductionnto Budget Template or excel
A budget spread sheet template will help you monitor your expenses with accuracy.There are budget
templates available for a variety of uses, covering budgets for your house hold, wedding, business,
events, and college. Budget spread sheet template are customizable to suit your needs following steps
can help you create a budget.
1.Calculate your net income. The foundation of an effective budget is your net income.
2.Track yours pending.

3.Setrealistic goals.
4.Make a plan.
5.Adjust yours pending to stay on budget.

How to work with Budget Template

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CHAPTER FOUR

4.1 Achievements:
This section contains my achievements drown due to undertaking siwes program with the ministry of
budget and planning. The achievements areas follows:
✓Social interaction as are sult of field work scarried out by the ministry
✓ Ability to collect data using modernized system of datancollection using kobo collect(ODK)
✓Ability to understand problem
✓Ability to work in team
✓ Visual studio branding owned by me and running it using the acquired skills
4.2 Challenges:
- I lost my phone” S9+“ at my way to the siwes place.
- My computer crashed down due to editing and works of the ministry.
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4.3 Summary

1.1 Introduction (SIWES) The Students Industrial Work Experience Scheme(SIWES) is the accepted
skills training program, which forms part of the approved minimum Academic Standards in the various
degree program for all the Nigerian Universities.

2.1 Location and Brief history of the Ministry of Budget and planning: The ministry prepared
Quarterly review of the actual performance of all the MDAs of both the Recurrent, Capital Expenditure
and the Revenue. Its located at Audu Bako Secretariat,P.M.B..3291.
2.3Ministry ofBudget and planning Structure; Hon.commisioner, Permanent sectary, Director
planning, Director budget, Director Admin& General service, Director monitoring & Evaluation,
Director Research & co-ordination, Director development support & co-ordination.

3.2 Introduction to Excel Some common synonyms of excel are exceed, outdo, outstrip, surpass,
and transcend

3.3 Important of Excel Microsoft Excel enables users to identify trends and organize and sort data into
meaningful categories.

3.4 Introduction to Photoshop Photoshop is unlike other common software interfaces which emulate
virtual typewriters or graphing paper.Photoshop creates an artist's virtual,/darkroom.

Function of Photoshop: Resizing, Photo Restoration, Website Graphics, Websites, Animation.

3.5 Introduction to Open Data Kit(ODK) Open data kit, commonly referred to as ODK is a set of
popular free and open-source tools that allow us to collect data using mobile devices.

3.6 Introductionnto Budget Template or excelA budget spread sheet template will help you
monitor your expenses with accuracy.

4.1 Achievements:This section contains my achievements drown due to undertaking siwes program
with the ministry of budget and planning.

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4.2 Challenges:- I lost my phone” S9+“ at my way to the siwes place.

4.4 Conclusion:
Doing my six(6)months SIWES at Ministry of Budget and Planning was really a great privilege and
opportunity to learn the top skills that arencurrently in high demanding the Information
Technology(IT)industry.

The training really exposes me to the fact that Certificate and Skillsbare both the required keys that
can.open the door of great opportunities in the world of Career and Profession.

4.5 Recommendations:
✓ Federal government should make it mandate to any organizations to offer acceptance for each and
every siwes students no matter how he is.

✓ Siwes key stake holders to consider the extension of siwes period

4.6 Reference
Muhammad Nazir

28 June 2022

Technical report for students Industrial work Experience Scheme(SIWES)

Audu bako Secretariat (Ministry of Budget and planning )

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