EG3602 Vacation Internship Programme (6 MCs)

(For EG3602(T), please click here)

1. Objectives and Scopes

The EG3602 Vacation Internship Programme (VIP) is designed to:

• Enable students to translate theories learnt in the classroom and perform assignments in a real world environment.

• Instill in students the right kind of work attitude and professionalism through interaction with people in the organizations and observation of their future roles in industry.

• Enable students to learn more than what is taught in NUS.

• Enable students to acquire intangible attributes like working in a team, and employing IT in the workplace

EG3602 is an optional module which carries completed satisfactory/completed unsatisfactory grades (CS/CU). Students participating in this internship may opt to apply through the faculty for placements (end February or early March) or by self-initiating by finding companies willing to take them in for this purpose. We expect the training to have substantial engineering content and in addition, students should be exposed to some, if not all, of the following: - 

• Management – including responsibilities and daily routines of an engineer or a technologist, as the case may be, and administrative duties;
• Computer applications - using the computer as an aid in planning, designing and analysis of engineering projects
• Cost implications - awareness of cost effectiveness in engineering proposals/designs
• Safety measures - awareness of importance of safety in the organizations
• Quality control - awareness of quality in all jobs done
• Marketing – using the relevant technical knowledge in the application of product promotion.
• Customer Service – using relevant product knowledge to articulate and communicate with their customers.

2. Constraints and Requirements

• The duration of EG3602 must be at least 12 weeks long (i.e. minimum 12 weeks). The module carries Six (6) CS/CU modular credits (MCs).

• Students are allowed to do either VIP or IAP, but not both.

• Students are not eligible to undertake VIP until they have completed Stage 2, i.e. the May-July vacation after Semester 4 is the earliest time period allowed to do VIP

• Students are only allowed to do VIP during the official May-July vacation period. Only SEP students are allowed to do VIP during term time.

• Students are only allowed to do and earn credits for VIP once

3. Assessment

Students are required to submit two VIP reports. The first report (5-7pages) should be written based on 1st-6th weeks of the internship and the report is to be submitted at the end of the 7^th week of their internship. The second and  final report (15-20 pages) is to be submitted within one month upon completion of the internship. These reports are used for academic continual assessment. Without which, MCs will not be awarded to the students.

The first report should include the company's training schedule (see Download Forms) and the journal description on training progress. The final report carries intellectual contents to highlight the student’s experiences and benefits gained from the internship. i.e. In addition to contents relating to week 7-12, the final report should also have one or more section(s) to sum up their experiences for the entire internship program. Students are to hand the two VIP reports to their supervisors at their VIP companies, get them endorsed and cleared, and upload them in PDF format onto the VIP web system (secure) for their Mentors to grade. The Log sheet is meant for students to enter their weekly activities while the clearance form indicates report endorsement by the company supervisor. Therefore, the student log sheet and VIP report clearance form should be signed by the company supervisor and to be attached as appendix to the VIP report (see Download Forms). Students can find out from their respective Departments who their Mentors are. Students undertaking VIP will be graded on CS/CU basis. (Please read guidelines on writing VIP report.)

Click here for Step-By-Step Guide to upload VIP Report.

Please note that the Office of Undergraduate Programmes will register all VIP students onto the Database of Registrar's Office for the Modular Unit EG3602 Vacation Internship. Students do not register the EG3602 module code on CORS. The modular unit and grade of EG3602 will be listed on the academic transcript of Semester 1 (August - November semester).

4. Roles of Participating Companies

Supervisors in the companies will:

• Guide, advise, discuss and review with students their accomplishments and progress.
• Document and sign the students' log sheets.
• Perform an evaluation of the students' work by completing the "Company Feedback Form" (see Download Forms) and returning it to the Administrative Officer in charge of VIP at the end of the internship.
• Review the students' VIP reports for any confidential information and sign the Report Clearance Form provided by the students.

Companies should provide a meaningful engineering work experience for the interns.

5. VIP Registration

VIP registration is usually in late February of every year for students who wish to go for VIP during May-July vacation period. For example, a 2nd or 3rd Year student who wish to go for VIP during his/her vacation 2006, he/she will need to register in February 2006. VIP registration is online and the Office of Undergraduate Programmes will broadcast the exact dates of registration via email.

The Office of Undergraduate Programmes will register VIP students onto the Database of the Modular Unit EG3602 Vacation Internship Programmme upon registration. Students DO NOT register the EG3602 module code on CORS. Students are also NOT allowed to register for any other modules once they have been allocated a placement.

Students who have found their own placements or scholars returning to their sponsor companies, please refer to Procedures for Self-initiated VIP.

Last updated on 1 October 2007 @ 1200 hrs