DTU BEng internship (Diplomingeniørpraktik)

DTU BEng internship (Diplomingeniørpraktik)#

Based on the internship rules.

General#

  • 100 work days, ~20 weeks

  • extra 2 weeks for writing the report

Responsibilities of me, you and company supervisor#

My responsibilities:

  • Organizing a meeting with your supervisor at the company and you to support your learning during the internship. The meeting will be done in the company so that I can get a feeling of the environment you are working at. The meeting will be about one month after the start.

  • Giving you feedback and a grade (passed/not passed) at the end of your internship, based on the report (praktikrapport) that you write.

Your responsibilities:

  • after my confirmation sending an email to Trine Lauridsen in our institute for registering your internship in project registration system

  • Making sure that you find a technical supervisor who has reasonable time to support you, e.g., at least one hour per week. This is actually company’s responsibility, however you should find a company/supervisor that can ensure that.

  • 100 working days at the company.

  • Meeting the learning goals and writing a report based on the learning goals.

  • Evaluating the company/supervision based on the evaluation template. The evaluation must be submitted to me.

    The template can be found under Documents for the internship on the page Internship for BEng.

Company supervisor’s responsibilities:

  • Has resources to support you

  • Evaluate your work based on the evaluation template documented above. The evaluation must be submitted to me.

Report requirements#

Form#

  • Language: English or Danish

  • Length: ~20 pages

Content#

Excerpt from Praktikrapport og bedømmelse of internship rules:

- praktikskema 1 ”På vej i praktik” som findes på student.dtu.dk 
- en beskrivelse af forløbet i virksomheden (fx dag-/ugebog)  
- en beskrivelse af virksomheden, forretningsgrundlag og organisation  
- en rapport med behandling af et fagligt emne, hvori det f.eks. beskrives, hvilke ingeniørmæssige opgaver der er løst  
- praktikskema 2 "Tilbage fra praktikken" der kan findes på student.dtu.dk med den studerendes identifikation af og refleksion over vedkommendes personlige og faglige udbytte af praktikopholdet.

Teachers evaluate a student’s performance based on the learning goals. Your report should demonstrate that you reached these goals, especially the second one. Based is an excerpt from the internship rules:

- kan selvstændigt benytte sine faglige kompetencer ved løsning af praktiske, ingeniørmæssige problemer
- har kendskab til den sociale, tekniske og forretningsmæssige kontekst for ingeniørarbejde
- kan arbejde selvstændigt og tage ansvar for egen læring og faglig fokusering
- kan indgå i (tværfaglige) team
- kan beskrive praktikstedets virksomhedskultur
- kan planlægge og gennemføre ingeniørarbejde ud fra relevante forudsætninger og krav
- har viden om implementering af ingeniørløsninger inden for fagområdet
- kan dokumentere sit arbejde.

Document or demonstrate above aspects in your report. If one of the learning goals did not apply to your internship, then explain the reason in your report.

Your study-line may have additional learning goals. E.g., the specific learning goals of software technology mentions that your work should include following aspects of software development:

  • specification of requirements

  • problem analysis

  • design and programming

  • implementation & operation

Document these aspects in your report.

Deadlines#

  • Send me your draft two weeks before the deadline for feedback

  • The report must be submitted in 10 days after the end of your internship to me and you supervisor at the company.

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