This 20-week internship programme is offered as a core course for all Materials Science and Engineering undergraduate students.

The purpose of this programme is to enable the application of knowledge and skills you have learned in the university in an authentic work environment. This is such that you can gain relevant exposures and develop practical industry experiences and skills that will facilitate your career decision and future transition into your selected vocation. It aims for you to develop profes sional competencies that will enhance your employability and lifelong learning capabilities to support your career and life endeavours and your readiness for the future of work.

At the end of the internship programme, you (as a student) should be able to:

I. Cognitive

1. Apply knowledge and skills relevantly and appropriately in the workplace.
2. Identify your own competency gaps at the internship workplace.
3. Evaluate and develop personal learning and development pathways towards bridging competency gaps identified in point (2) above.
4. Develop and apply strategies to solve problems effectively (involves critical thinking and creativity, generating questions, resourcing, application, and reiteration).
5. Evaluate resou rces and develop insights to make informed judgements and recommendations.

II. Context

1. Discuss the internship organisation’s nature and context of business.
2. Reflect on the organisational culture at the internship organisation.
3. Appraise the significance and im pact of the project/work/assignment undertaken at the internship organisation.
4. Describe the career pathways within the internship organisation as well as the broader industry.
5. Reflect on personal and professional development needs within the internship org anisation as well as the broader industry and set strategic goals for advancing along an intended career path.
6. Apply time and task management strategies effectively.

III. Relationship

1. Apply effective written and oral communication skills in professional settings when communicating and connecting with relevant stakeholders.
2. Assimilate into the work environment (people, team, hierarchy) and function effectively.

IV. Affective/Moral

1. Tolerate ambiguity and handle anxiety.
2. Contribute proactively to the internship organisation.
3. Demonstrate responsibility, integrity and professionalism in the fulfilment of all workplace and internship requirements.
4. Demonstrate the persiste nce to learn, overcome and improve.

V. Technical (including those related specifically to the degree programme learning outcomes)

Use tools that enable and facilitate effective project/work/assignment undertaken at the internship organisation.

This internship programme, being a work -integrated education course, has its educational content embedded within the work environment and assignments that students will undertake at each internship organisation. For this reason, the internship job scope will be evaluated by the course instructor/coordinator(s) using the following criteria:

1. It is relevant to the student’s discipline of study;
2. It provides the required internship duration;
3. It accommodates NTU’s internship periods;
4. It provides sufficie nt structure and rigour that will enable students to achieve the intended learning outcomes listed above;
5. It provides the appropriate workload for the stipulated internship period;
6. It enhances the career prospects of the student;
7. The internship workplace i s safe and conducive for student learning and development;
8. The internship workplace is equipped with the necessary tools and resources for the internship work;
9. The internship organisation has standing policies to safeguard the welfare of interns;
10. The internship organisation supervisor possesses the competencies, experience, and commitment to provide guidance to the students;
11. The internship organisation will use NTU’s internship assessment scheme for students.

As content is project-dependent, students are expected to seek references that are relevant to the projects