Civil Engineering - Shridhar University

and the measurement of various parameters in electrical,electronics, mechanical and civil engineering
fields.
BT407 Summer Internship -I 0 0 5 5
8.1 Objective
The In ternship Programme (IP) forms an important component of the education at SU. This
programme is an attempt to bridge the gap between the academic institution and industry. The
IP method of education and curriculum, a controlled simulation of the real life adopted at SU
creates the circumstance and a formal method whereby the educational institution is linked with
the world of work.
At SU, the students during their four year study undertake two Internship Programmes, at a
professional location lasting 30 weeks where the students and faculty get involved in working on
real-life problems. The course called Internship Programme - I (IP-I) is of two months duration
and is implemented during the summer following the 2nd year of study and carries a weightage
of 5 units. The other course called In ternship Programme - I I (IP-I I) is of five and half months
duration and is implemented during either of the two semesters of the final year, which also
includes a part of the summer term and carries a weightage of 20 units. Thus, the Internship
Programme is an institutionalized effort to build the long-needed bridge between the
professional world and the educational world.
The Internship Programme requires the students to undergo the r igour of the professional world
in form as well as in substance, providing them an opportunity to apply their classroom
knowledge to live situations which cannot be simulated in the classroom environment. I t differs
from the "Practical Training" as well as "Sandwich Schemes" in as much as the entire student
education at the Internship Programme station is supervised by the faculty resident at the
station and the programme forms a part of the total credit towards his degree.
Students are advised to take up assignments, which would necessarily be those of direct interest
to the host organization.
These assignments involving team-work would be multidisciplinary, time bound, mission-
oriented and goal oriented. Solutions to various problems confronted in the assignment might be
open-ended, involving an element of analytical thinking, processing and decision-making in the
face of insufficient data, parameters and uncertain situations.
2. Student-Faculty I nteraction