Securing an internship in the Engineering Disciplines: Response from the Industry
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Engineering is a rapidly growing field that embraces novel ideas. The rapid advancement of technology is currently offering several possibilities for tomorrow’s engineers and is facilitating the successful conception of new designs and models. This in turn presented new challenges to the engineering educators in preparing the students by varying the degree and type of attention, help, advice, information and encouragement that he/she provides to each individual. Current students are not prepared to be productive in a company from the very first day, due to many reasons such as adaptation to work environment, self efficacy, team skills, and ability to learn independently etc. Internship or Co-op is an ideal solution for this challenge. A limitation that prevails even today is the precise knowledge of what skills are necessary in the industry for engineering discipline. Having information at hand helps the engineering educators to update their experience with the requirements of the real world, while providing them feedback to improve their course material accordingly. On the other hand, by providing this information to universities, industries could benefit by having to spend less time preparing the individual, and thus utilize their time effectively. The basic skills each student posses of their respective discipline remain the same. Based on this presumption, a survey was conducted by contacting several companies to seek the information regarding the skills a student employed by the company should possess. It is the presumption of the authors that his information is vital to preparing the global citizen in answering tomorrow’s challenge today.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009