Internships are educational and career development opportunities, providing practical experience in a field or discipline. They are structured, short-term, supervised placements often focused around particular tasks or projects with defined timescales.
Objectives
Following are the intended objectives of internship training:
- Will expose Technical students to the industrial environment, which cannot be simulated in the classroom and hence creating competent professionals for the industry.
- Provide possible opportunities to learn, understand and sharpen the real time technical / managerial skills required at the job.
- Exposure to the current technological developments relevant to the subject area of training.
- Learn to apply the Technical knowledge in real industrial situations.
- Gain experience in writing Technical reports/projects.
- Expose students to the engineer’s responsibilities and ethics.
- Familiarize with various materials, processes, products and their applications along with relevant aspects of quality control.
- Promote academic, professional and/or personal development.
- Expose the students to future employers.
- Understand the social, economic and administrative considerations that influence the working environment of industrial organizations
- Year round source of highly motivated pre-professionals.
- Students bring new perspectives to problem solving.
- Visibility of the organization is increased on campus.
- Quality candidate’s availability for temporary or seasonal positions and projects.
- Enhancement of employer’s image in the community by contributing to the educational enterprise.
- Practical experience in an organizational setting.
- Excellent opportunity to see how the theoretical aspects learned in classes are integrated into the practical world. On-floor experience provides much more professional experience which is often worth more than classroom teaching.
- Helps them decide if the industry and the profession is the best career option to pursue.
- Opportunity to learn new skills and supplement knowledge.
- Opportunity to practice communication and teamwork skills.
- Opportunity to learn strategies like time management, multi-tasking etc in an industrial setup. • Opportunity to meet new people and learn networking skills.Makes a valuable addition to their resume.
- Enhances their candidacy for higher education.
- Creating network and social circle and developing relationships with industry people.
- Provides opportunity to evaluate the organization before committing to a full time position
- Build industrial relations.
- Makes the placement process easier.
- Improve institutional credibility & branding.
- Curriculum revision can be made based on feedback from Industry/ students.
- Improvement in teaching learning process.
- Industry Internship with/without Stipend
- Govt / PSU Internship (BARC / Railway / ISRO etc)
- NGO / Social Internship
- Working at Family Business
- FOSSEE (IIT Bombay)
