Course Description:

This course covers the real world practice in industry. It includes using theoretical and practical knowledge while working in industry together with the understanding of industry culture.

Course Objectives:

The objective of this course is to allow students into market industry and gain real world experience. The course is expected to make students more pragmatic and professional.

Course Contents:

Nature of Internship:

The internship work should be relevant to the field of information technology. The nature internship may include design, development, and application of software, hardware, network services, database systems and other IT infrastructures. The internship duration should be minimum of 180 hours or ten weeks. The internship should be started tentatively by the 3^rd week of start of eighth semester. The internship host organizations can be software/hardware development companies, telecommunications companies, network and internet service providers, financial organizations, health organizations etc.

The internship is an individual activity. The student should be responsible for the timely completion of all the activities and projects assigned, maintaining the professional quality. Each student should be facilitated with a mentor at the intern organization and a supervisor at the campus. Student should inform the status of all assignments to the mentor and supervisor. The student is expected to communicate frequently with the advisors on the progress and status of intern project(s)/activities. Each student must prepare and submit individual internship report on the basis of his/her work done during the internship period. Students working in group at the same organization should be able to distinguish their nature of work.

Phases of Internship:

The following are the phases of internship evaluation:

1. Proposal Submission: Students must submit and present internship proposal plan after 2^nd week of start of the internship.
2. Mid-Term Submission: Students must submit progress report and defend midterm progress of their internship work in the 11^th week of the eight semester.
3. Final Submission: Students must submit and defend the internship work during last week of the eight semester but before final board examination. The final defense will be followed a viva voice conducted by an evaluation committee. Students must have to submit the internship final report to their respective department of college/campus before at least 10 days of final defense date. The report should be submitted in standard format as prescribed. The hard/soft copy of report should be made available to the external before a week of presentation date.

Provision of Supervision:

There should be a regular faculty member of the college assigned as a supervisor. The role of supervisor is to supervise the students throughout the internship period. A supervisor can supervise at most four internship students in a section.

Provision of Mentorship:

There should be a regular employee of the intern providing organization assigned as a mentor. The role of mentor is to guide the students throughout the internship period at the organization.

Evaluation Scheme:

1. Proposal Defense - 5% Marks of 200 (5 Marks Head/Program Coordinator + 5 Marks Supervisor)
2. Midterm - 15% Marks of 200 (5 Marks Head/Program Coordinator + 25 Marks Supervisor)
3. Final Defense - 80% Marks of 200 (100 Marks Mentor + 20 Marks Supervisor + 40 Marks External)

The evaluation committee and evaluation criteria should be as follow;

Roles and Responsibilities:

• HOD/Coordinator: The role of HOD/Coordinator is to coordinate with supervisor, internal examiner, external examiner and students. The HOD/Coordinator should monitor the students' project progress in coordination with the respective supervisor and mentor. The HOD/Coordinator is responsible for arranging the proposal defense, midterm and final defense. The HOD/Coordinator should maintain rigorous contact with students, supervisors, mentors and company/industry. The HOD/Coordinator should participate and evaluate proposal defense, midterm, and final defense.
• Project Supervisor: The role of project supervisor is to supervise students' internship project throughout the semester. The supervisor should rigorously feedback and guide the students so as to transform their industry work into academic. The supervisor should monitor the progress of projects under supervision. Supervisor should participate and evaluate proposal defense, midterm and final defense.
• Mentor: The role of mentor is to guide students and their project during their intern period at the host institution. The mentor should nurture student with industry culture. The mentor should rigorously feedback and guide the students as well as communicate with their campus/college administration. By the end of internship work, the mentor should evaluate the student work done during intern period under his/her mentorship.
• External Examiner: The role of external examiner is to evaluate the students' internship work during final defense evaluation. The examiner should participate and evaluate viva voce and presentation session during the final defense.
• Student: The role and responsibilities of student include pursuing internship in relevant field, preparing project report, and defending the internship work throughout each evaluation phases. Internship is an individual work. Student should be able to demonstrate his/her contribution in the project work done during the internship period individually. Students should maintain a log visits with their supervisors as well as mentors at different dates during their work. The log should include technical details with appropriate feedbacks.

Report Contents:

Citation and Referencing:

The listing of references should be listed in the references section. The references contain the list of articles, books, URLs that are cited in the document. The books, articles, and others that are studied during the study but are not cited in the document can be listed in the bibliography section. The citation and referencing standard should be APA referencing standard. The text inside the document should be cited accordingly. The APA referencing standard can be found in the web at https://apastyle.apa.org/

Report Format Standards:

Final Report Binding and Submission:

No of Copies: 3 (College Library + Self + Dean Office)

Look and Feel: Golden Embracing with Black Binding

A final approved signed copy of the report should be submitted to the Dean Office, Exam Section, Institute of Science and Technology, Tribhuvan University

References:

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