From Classroom to Career in Sibiu Romania – Engineering Students’ Perception on Internships and School Practices (original) (raw)
Related papers
Balkan Region Conference on Engineering and Business Education, 2017
This paper presents the current situation of school practice and internships as ways of reducing the gap between the labor market and education. In the first part, there is highlighted the current situation of Romania comparing with other European countries when it comes about graduates finding a job in their field of studies. Among the biggest issues encountered by a young graduate we see that "Lack of experience" play a big role in not finding a proper job in our country after graduation. So the need to reduce this problem is vital in order to ease finding a job in the studies areas for graduates. A list of advantages is presented to encourage internships/school practice among the students. Observing the upsides aspects of having such an experience, a research was done among 13 companies in Sibiu to see if indeed they taking into consideration candidates for a serious job, having done an internship/school practice. The results of this survey are presented below, seeing if indeed for a Romanian student is valuable to have an experience like that.
Ankara Universitesi Egitim Bilimleri Fakultesi Dergisi, 2009
Internship is vital in engineering education for prospective students, university, and industrial companies since the outcomes of the internship process influence all these agencies. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions of the prospective engineers on internship in which they are involved during their education. By using the procedures of the qualitative research method, data were collected through semi-structured interviews. The results indicated that prospective engineers focused on the problems in the areas of legal and structural regulations for industrial education, in the theoretical education process given prior to industrial education, and in the structure of enterprises. Based on the problems identified by prospective engineers, the author discusses the cooperation between universities and industry and eventually presents a perspective on how to establish educational partnership structures between universities and the industry for the purpose of improving engineering education.
Impact of Internship Programme in Engineering Education
2018
A common opinion suggests that a distinction is somehow developed between the competence of engineering graduates and elemental requirements of the industry. Consequently, many universities in various countries have adapted internship programmes or industrial placement for some of their degree programs. This approach is also accepted and supported by many potential employers in different fields. Internships and placements are a kind of work experience obtained during the undergraduate years. Thanks to internship, the practical knowledge and understanding of students are greatly improved, especially in engineering education. It provides students with an opportunity to gain valuable working experience in their specific field and to enhance their prospects for future employment and engineering career before their graduation. This study is an attempt to evaluate the impact of such programmes on the basis of benefits and challenges. The evolution of internship progr...
Internship programmes – bridge between school and professional life
Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Excellence, 2017
All stakeholders involved in the academic educational process (e.g. students, universities, organizations, state institutions) have a direct interest in developing appropriate skills among students aimed at increasing their employability chances on the very competitive labour market and in the same time lessening the transition from school to professional life. Qualitative internship programs are considered a useful instrument which can be used in order to achieve the aforementioned objective. In the last years in Romania this field boomed, many internship programs emerged and were developed and tailored according to specific needs of certain domains. This growth was triggered of one hand side by the initiatives of the socio-economic environment but also by incentives offered by the public sector in form of financing the development of such programs in universities. Which are the main characteristics of internship programs? How are they identified and structured? Which are the facto...
Studennts Perception on the Industrial Internship Programme20191223 28028 ym47a6
Education Quarterly Review, 2019
Introduction: Educationalists and policy makers in the higher educational institutes have recently paid a closer attention to the concept of holistic education systems that focus at making a competent and versatile graduate. Incorporating an industrial internship programme in the degree curricular has been a vital requirement towards ensuring a holistic education system. Most of the educational scientists have emphasized the importance of letting the undergraduates to gain industrial exposure as a strategy to securing employability soon after their graduation. The objective of this paper is to explore the effectiveness of the industrial internship programme offered by Department of Textile of the University of Moratuwa (UoM) in collaboration with one of the leading apparel manufacturers in Sri Lanka. This paper also aims to identify existing weaknesses in the industrial training programme offered by the Department of Textile and to provide suggestions for improving the effectiveness of internship programme. Methodology: This study adopts the case study approach and as such study covers the students of the Department of Textiles who are undergoing training at the selected industrial training provider. Sample size used for the study represents 24 respondents out of the 67 undergraduates who completed industrial internship programme during the last three years and it represents approximately 35% of the population. Data were gathered by way of distributing a structured questionnaire followed by a semi structured interview for the selected sample. Findings and Conclusions: As per the findings of the study the students' positive learning experiences are the chance to build up a relationship with the industry, acquire industry work culture, develop self-confidence, execute problem solving activities, develop social interaction skill, and aspire future education and career. However, the students negatively ranked the internship programme in providing opportunities for creativity build up activities, working in teams, develop managerial skills, enhance research and project skills and desire to go on learning. Students' feedback was positive for providing a real job experience, transport, meal and good allowance. However, they have shown negative feedback on the overall structure of the internship programme since it fails to provide them an overall training covering the whole departments of the organization. Students suggest that the duration of the internship programme should be twelve months instead of six months. Study further suggests that there should be a closure dialogue between the university and the internship provider in order to address the issues face by both the interns and the training provider.
Perception of Engineering undergraduate students on Summer Internships: a questionnaire-based survey
This questionnaire based survey was done to understand the students" perception about practical usefulness of internship programs. Sixteen questions were included in the survey. The anonymity of the respondents was maintained throughout the study. A total of 107 engineering students from various batches and universities participated in the survey. More than 90% felt the need for such internships and more than 95% of them were benefitted by such internships. Internships mould students more towards entrepreneurship. It also facilitates a better inter-personal relationship. Such programs make students technically more competent and enable them to work with better mental agility.
The development of students internship model in Faculty of Engineering Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta
Proceedings of the International Conference on Technology and Vocational Teachers (ICTVT 2017), 2017
The study is a continuing research from the 1st year result which designed a model of students internship applied in Automotive Engineering study program in Faculty of Engineering Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta. The study aims to: 1) develop the model scope of student internship implementation to another study program including Electrical, Informatics, Mechanical, Automotive, Civil and Planning, Culinary, Fashion Design, and Beauty and Makeup, 2) develop students internship assessment to above study programs, 3) develop the debriefing curriculum to above study programs. This research was carried out on Electrical, Electronics, Mechanical, Automotive, Civil, Culinary, Fashion Design, and Beauty Makeup study programs. The research was conducted in the period of student's internship of the academic year 2016/2017 at various industry partners including
Perspektivy nauki i obrazovania – Perspectives of Science and Education, 2020
The problem of theoretical basis for designing the models of training teaching staff able to work in specialized engineering and technology classes has been relevant abroad for more than half a century. In our country the significance of its studying has increased again because of the state tasks of economic development based on the latest engineering and technological advances. The experience of training participants for Olympiads and contests of the National Technology Initiative shows high efficiency of the work done by professional engineers with students. The involvement of people with non-pedagogical engineering education in pedagogical activity requires the search for evidence-based forms of intensive training, among which the authors give priority to internship. The productivity of training such personnel depends on a theoretically based design of internship programs, where the selection of planned results plays a crucial role. The goal of the research is to determine the principles for selecting the perspective results of engineering-technology pedagogical internship. Thorough theoretical analysis done on the basis of more than 150 texts including a cluster of professional standards of an engineering group, federal state educational standards of higher education for areas of engineering training implemented at universities of Krasnoyarsk region, professional standards “Teacher” and “Teacher of additional education for children and adults” made it possible to single out universal and professional competencies that were compared with the results of a study done by UNESCO and OECD on competencies of the XXI century, the syllabus of engineering training programs in the CDIO concept. Among the universal competencies teamwork and self-development are paid special attention to. Among professional competencies, pedagogical proper and engineering pedagogical ones are pointed out. On the basis of the analysis of foreign and local models of the pedagogical internship, such normative-based practices for achieving the planned results as a scientific and methodological seminar, independent work in the information-activity environment, internships, tutorial practice in engineering competitions, and demonstration exam are specified. They may have any technological (industrial) content and provide training for people with engineering education to work as educators.
Project Summer Internship for Engineering Students: A Boon or Bane? – a Review
Journal of emerging technologies and innovative research, 2020
I. BACKGROUND The challenges faced by engineering students in our country have been multifarious. Engineering education these days, as a basic stepping stone for a brighter future, is faced with daunting tasks and intimidating encounters. The challenges faced by the engineers, both as students and as professionals, have been so formidable and onerous that these students ended up in jobs unrelated to their basic professional education, forcing themselves to take up alternative positions and occupations [1]. The sad reality is that on one side, the world is getting richer, better educated and well-connected, but on the other side, we come across many engineers who struggle fervidly in this potentially unstable world. As per the UNESCO report, the basis for this instability may be multi-factorial, but the bottom line factor would be a gross mismatch between the supply and demand [2]. The everrising global expectations for better engineers would also add on to the already existing global competition. This in turn has prompted many leading institutions and organizations to formulate novel strategies in order to have an inventive and innovative workforce that gives the institution and its faculties, a distinct competitive edge over its counterparts [3]. In our country, engineering education starts from student level and extends up at post-doctoral level. The role of each level has its own significance. Under graduation level carries the most significant role, as the career moulding begins there. Students adopt various methods of enhanced learning to keep their basic skills and knowledge on par with the developed world. Internship during under graduation is one such method of enhancement of one's learning process. Though internship
Internship education analysis of vocational school students
Procedia-Social and …, 2010
The main purpose of vocational and technical education is to make the individuals gain; knowledge, ability, and practice sufficiency which are needed for particular occupation. On the other hand the main function is to make the individual provide financial income and with this be useful to society at social and economic ways. Vocational and technical education has great affection power at development of country's economy with human labor qualities. For this reason, in the developed countries vocational and technical education has special importance. In the developed countries; for more strong economy and more rapid social development, more qualified work labor is need to be provided. With this purpose, an effort is made to develop vocational and technical education. In Turkey, vocational schools are one of the most important education institutions at raising qualified human power. It is aimed the vocational school students to have more theoretical knowledge than technical man, and more practice ability than engineers by graduating with technician title. The cooperation between university and industry has importance at vocational school graduates having these abilities. In the education programs; students must continue a part of their education at industrial companies for 30 working days duration. This process is named as internship and it is necessary for the students to graduate. Students can find various abilities during the period where they were at the companies. In this study; it is aimed to analyze the expectations from internship education, and the gained knowledge and abilities of Marmara University Vocational School of Technical Sciences students. According to this, an answer is searched to the question "What kind of knowledge and abilities do the vocational school students gain during the internship period?" The universe of this study is the students studying at Marmara University Vocational School of Technical Sciences programs. It is goaled to discuss the education partnership between vocational school and industry according to the knowledge and abilities the students gained during the internship period.