Students Industrial Work Experience III

Students on Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) are expected to: 1. be exposed and prepared for the Industrial work situation they are likely to meet after graduation, by developing their occupational competencies; 2. bridge the existing gap between theory and practice of programmes through exposure to real-life situations, including machines and equipment handling, professional work methods and ethics, human relations, key performance assessment methods, and ways of safeguarding the work environment – human and materials; 3. experience/simulate the transition phase of students from school to the world of work and the environment seamlessly,and expose them to contacts for eventual job placements after graduation; 4. be motivated to identify the industrial and practice engineering challenges of their place of engagement and the larger society and creatively device impactful solutions to them; and 5. exploit the opportunity to improve and utilise their acquired critical thinking and innate creativity skills, during the program and SIWES Seminar presentation respectively.

On- the -job experience in industry chosen for practical working experience but not necessarily limited to the student’s major (24 weeks from the end of the first semester at 400-Level to the beginning of the first semester of the following session. Thus, the second semester at 400-Level is spent in industry). Each student is expected to work in a programme related industry, research institute or regulatory agencies etc, for a period of 6 months under the guidance of an appropriate personnel in the establishment but supervised by an academic staff of the Department. On completion of the training, the student submits the completed Log book on the experience at the establishment., Also, there will be a comprehensive report covering the whole of the student’s industrial training experiences (GET 299, GET 399 and GET 499), on which a seminar will be presented to the Department for overall assessment. PEE 401 Oil and Gas Entrepreneurship and Start-up/Oil and Gas Business Project (2 Units E: LH 30) Learning Outcomes At the end of this course, the students should be able to: 1. discuss the basics of entrepreneurship and how to start one’s business; 2. discover opportunities in the oil and gas industry and also leverage the provisions of the Nigerian Content Act; 3. develop a team project to exploit opportunities in the oil and gas industry to encourage the students to nurse dreams early; and 4. identify the challenges in the oil and gas sector from case histories. Course Contents Understanding the Nigerian and global business environment. Doing business in Africa. Engineering and AfCFTA. Overview of entrepreneurship: origins, definitions, entrepreneurship and technopreneurship. Steps for successful entrepreneurship start-up. Nigerian content opportunities. Business registrations. Sources of funding. Gains and pains of business growth. Joint ventures and special purpose vehicles in PPPs. Business development – business information, promotion, marketing tools and strategies, basic personnel management, client recruitment and management. Business proposals and plans, Profiles of business ventures in the oil and gas industry. Business/enterprise commercialization and digitization, FINTECHs, TECH Hubs, etc. Financial management, Business sustainability. Entrepreneurship team projects (well testing, reservoir management, mud-Logging, core analysis, PVT analysis, environmental laboratory, Pipeline, etc). Guest presentations.