The programme is intended to produce Innovative Technicians in
Welding and Fabrication for Innovation Enterprises, Self-Employment,
Private and Public Sectors of Nigerian Economy.
OBJECTIVE
Carry out welding and fabrication operations.
Develop the ability to communicate their knowledge of techniques,
processes and materials by developing their graphical skills
including freehand sketching and measured drawing.
Develop practical bench based skills to manipulate a range of common
metals directed to the realisation of ideas and the production of
artefacts.
Provide experience in the use of some common machine tools.
Establish a capacity to read and interpret formal working drawings
and diagrammatic illustrations.
Acquire a body of knowledge to inform practical work and give a
broad base of understanding of welding and metalworking.
Nurture a safe approach to practical work with materials using hand
and machine tools.
Promote a capacity to solve specified technical design problems
Prepare appropriate engineering report.
Apply management principles in organising supervisory groups and in
the arrangement of sequence of activities.
Acquire and apply basic entrepreneur skills.
Apply adequate Information Technology (IT) skills.
ENTRY QUALIFICATION
The general entry requirements for the NID programme are:
i. Post Secondary School Leavers with 5 Credit level passes in SSCE or
equivalent in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, English Language and any
other science or technical subjects , who are desirous of acquiring
relevant employable skills.
ii. Unemployed or under-employed graduates looking for requisite
employable skills.
iii. Employed graduates who desire relevant or additional working
skills.
iv. Those out of school for a long time, in line with Government desire
for open access to re-skilling and up-skilling of the nations workforce
as part of Life Long Learning (LLL).
v. Post NVC Final (articulation from the VEIs).
STRUCTURE OF PROGRAMME
The National Innovation diploma in Welding and Fabrication is a two year
programme i.e. four semesters.
Three months supervised industrial work experience (SIWES) shall be
carried out at the end of each year of the programme.
Each semester shall be of 17 weeks duration made up as follows:
15 Contact weeks of teaching, i.e. recitation, practical exercises,
quiz, tests, etc and 2 weeks for examination and registration.
EVALUATION SCHEME
The National Innovation Diploma Examination must be externally
moderated. In grading the students, theory shall constitute 30% while
Practical is 70%.
