Thesis Abstract

<p> Basically, it can be discovered that there are heaps of files, available space in the office of the Head of Computer Science Department, slowing down his or her work, making the place untidy and even frightening him from tasks to be accomplished, but it should not be so in this era or period of paperless office brought in the use of computer system. Firstly, I have taken the share of untidiness by developing designing and application packaging that would aid him is allocation of course to the different programs that are offered at the department. Consequently, my project is restricted 40 course allocation their time table where research show that some course are allocated on the first semester and second semester respectively depending on the program whether morning or evening. The electronic document management system (EDMS) is ideal for voluminous data such as those found on the office of the Head of Department computer Science, Abia State Polytechnic, Aba, that is where this research work is embarked on as the case study. <br></p>

Thesis Overview

<p> </p><div><p>INTRODUCTION</p><p>1.0 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Introduction</p><p>Over the years allocation of course &nbsp;their credit units &nbsp;and departmental timetable have been growing from one stage to another and similarly, the procedures and routine embarked &nbsp; on &nbsp;every semester coupled &nbsp;with the departmental growth compounded the problem of manual &nbsp;allocation of course &nbsp;their units and thereby delays the registration procedures because some students &nbsp;paying extra &nbsp;fee as payment that is demanded in addition to the usual charge for registering &nbsp;their &nbsp;course &nbsp;late, as late payment but computerization or &nbsp;automation of course their credit &nbsp;units allocation and departmental time provide the most effective reliable &nbsp;and quickest services required &nbsp;by the &nbsp;students. Basically, before &nbsp; the invention of computers, computation were &nbsp;done manually &nbsp;and in the case of the departmental course, their credit &nbsp;units and departmental timetable, it &nbsp;has caused accelerated progress especially &nbsp;the automation of department &nbsp;course &nbsp;their credit units and departmental time table. Computer technology has been accepted as an &nbsp;indispensable &nbsp;innovation in most &nbsp;fields of human endeavour &nbsp;in which departmental courses is not an exception.</p><p>Hence, the efficiency of an organization &nbsp;or establishment &nbsp;would be achieved &nbsp;if they embark on compute r-based &nbsp;system. However, using the computer based system in place of the manual system, a charge that is going on in Abia State Polytechnic course registration procedure. It will make the practical insinuation of high technology. This will enframe the time needed &nbsp;for processing of departmental course &nbsp;and attend to other subsequent information needed by the management system. The important of this researcher is so prominent with the current of processing the departmental course and suggest a complete efficient and reliable &nbsp;approach that will be of immense benefit &nbsp;to most higher institutions in general especially to the state polytechnic Aba.</p><p>Actually, this would go a long way to improve &nbsp;their &nbsp;service by exposing and creating awareness of &nbsp;computer applications.</p><p>1.1 &nbsp;Statement Of The Problem</p><p>Since &nbsp;established &nbsp;in &nbsp;1992, Abia State &nbsp;Polytechnic comprises of four schools among which is the school of &nbsp;science &nbsp;and Industrial Technology (SSIT which house &nbsp;the department of &nbsp;Computer Science and Statistics Department), &nbsp;the &nbsp;other schools have problems, One of which was late allocation of coursd and credit units &nbsp;to enable the students finish their registration process &nbsp;and &nbsp;have &nbsp;foresight of what the semester &nbsp;would &nbsp;look like. It was studied and discovered &nbsp;that automation of departmental course &nbsp;and the manual system &nbsp;of allocation course, their credit &nbsp;unit &nbsp;usually waste a lot of time and papa even pen can be reduced &nbsp;on the process of arranging it and also improve upon removing such problems. Below are some of the problems &nbsp;in this system.</p><p>1. &nbsp;It delays students registration process.</p><p>2. &nbsp;It results to high cost of data processing each semester.</p><p>3. &nbsp;it wastes much paper and make filling of &nbsp;form cumbersome</p><p>4. &nbsp;It delays &nbsp;other departmental duties that are also important</p><p>5. &nbsp;It results to inefficiency of course allocation.</p><p>Because of these set backs computer department i.e the case study has continued to &nbsp;leave activities untended to &nbsp;by the head of department because of volume &nbsp;of work &nbsp;left for him to do alone.</p><p>1.2 &nbsp; &nbsp; Objective of The Study</p><p>This project work has many aims and objectives to achieve, these aims are geared towards carrying investigations in the old course allocation &nbsp;method &nbsp;(manual) making us of computer department of Abia State &nbsp;Polytechnic, Aba &nbsp;as a cases study and giving a suggestions on how wtro improve staff under the department to the numerous students of the department.</p><p>Meanwhile, this wate-up would &nbsp;also among or include all</p><p>1. &nbsp;Designing a system that will be more interactive &nbsp;to &nbsp;students and lecturers.,</p><p>2. &nbsp;Provide an automatic system that will reduce the work load of staff &nbsp;especially the HODs</p><p>3. &nbsp;The research will also serve as a soure of information to students, lecturers and computer science researchers &nbsp;who would want to engage &nbsp;in such &nbsp;topic “The Automation of Departmental &nbsp;course their credit Unit &nbsp;Allocation and departmental time table.</p><p>4. &nbsp; Provide quicker &nbsp;and more efficient services &nbsp;(course allocation) using &nbsp;automated system (computer).</p><p>1.3 &nbsp;Significance Of The Study</p><p>Definitely, the complete implementation of this &nbsp; work will be introduced as a trend in the present method of allocating &nbsp;course their credit units and departmental time &nbsp;table, the change would &nbsp;in-doubt make &nbsp; the management &nbsp;and students happier, such changes &nbsp;envisage will &nbsp;include the following:</p><p>i. The high cost incurred &nbsp;by the management in buying of papers, ,pens, pencils, makers, measuring &nbsp;ruler &nbsp;etc &nbsp;, the clerical duties &nbsp;involves in course &nbsp;allocation and department &nbsp;time table will be reduced drastically &nbsp;because the hard &nbsp;disk, floppies, &nbsp;tape &nbsp;would be used &nbsp;instead of the above mentioned.</p><p>ii. The &nbsp;time involved in allocating and reallocating which normally results to delay will be reduced.</p><p>iii. Students would then utilize their &nbsp;time efficiently &nbsp;during the registration of course.</p><p>iv. Automated System would also serve as &nbsp;a &nbsp;reference &nbsp;file for the students and staff since the course, credit &nbsp; units time table and lectures in charge of all therefore then.</p><p>v. &nbsp;The researcher work &nbsp;is also &nbsp;significant &nbsp;because &nbsp;it is based on the award of Diploma &nbsp;in Computer Science &nbsp;to &nbsp;the researcher however, its significant can only be envisaged &nbsp;better when it is &nbsp;implemented, evaluate, and &nbsp;maintained &nbsp;to be running in the computer, such as in &nbsp;computer &nbsp;Science Department, from where other departments can &nbsp;follow.</p><p>1.4 &nbsp;Scope And &nbsp;Limitation Of The Study</p><p>This &nbsp;study is &nbsp;aimed at finding out &nbsp;how &nbsp;the use of automated system can help &nbsp;in course allocation in the computer science department of Abia state &nbsp;polytechnic, Aba.</p><p>The study covered only the department of computer science due to some &nbsp;limitations of the researcher to extend the research to other &nbsp;departments within the school of science &nbsp;and Industrial Technology (SSIT), let alone &nbsp;other school &nbsp;in the Institution, the constraints are as follows:</p><p>v Finance: Fund or running around for the data required &nbsp;was in short supply and consequently hindered further research.</p><p>v Time Constraints: Due to the required &nbsp;completion , time of this research work, it was not possible to extend the research to other departments.</p><p>v Complexity: Meanwhile extending the research to all department within institution would lead to completion &nbsp;and complication resulting to &nbsp;un liability of research.</p><p>v Cost: Feasibility cost conducting the research in all schools departments provide that it is not feasible for a single students &nbsp;(the researcher) to bear students can continue work &nbsp;on this research in future until &nbsp;implementation.</p><p>1.5 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Background of The Course study</p><p>Abia &nbsp;state &nbsp;Polytechnic was &nbsp;established by ediet number &nbsp;of 8 of 1994 which &nbsp;has a &nbsp;retrospect effect from 2nd &nbsp;October 1992. its &nbsp;location is the former premises of Girls technical College (GTC) Aba, &nbsp;along Aba Owerri Road Umungasi, Aba, Abia &nbsp;State. The National Diploma &nbsp;Progammes commenced &nbsp;in 1994/1995 &nbsp;academic year &nbsp;while Higher national Diploma &nbsp;commence &nbsp;in 1999/2000 Academic year.</p><p>It’s administration made it possible for it to comprise of four schools, they are as &nbsp;follows:</p><p>1. &nbsp;School of General studies and continuing Education (SBMT)</p><p>2. &nbsp;School of Engineering Technology (SET)</p><p>3. &nbsp;School of science and Industrial Technology (SSIT)</p><p>The schools are made up of Departments, which offers various National diploma (ND), Higher National diploma (HND) and diploma programmes respectively. The case study department of computer Science, a sub of schools of science and Industrial Technology offers various course leading to National Diploma programme to its &nbsp;students. Hence, the case study is chosen so that any successful achievement records on this work (research) can easily be transferred to &nbsp;their departments within the institutions, the &nbsp;staff of the department comprise of the following.</p><p>i. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Direct of school (DOS)</p><p>ii. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Head of &nbsp; Department (HOD)</p><p>iii. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Secretary</p><p>iv. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Lecturers</p><p>v. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Chief Technologist</p><p>vi. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Assistant technologist</p><p>vii. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Laboratory &nbsp;Attendants</p><p>viii. &nbsp; &nbsp; Office &nbsp;Assistance (Messengers)</p><p>Request Complete Work Here</p></div><h3></h3><br> <br><p></p>