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The industry exposure enhances your work life through added enthusiasm and commitment; provides a lifelong learning experience; is an opportunity to engage with the profession to which they aspire in a realistic work environment; appreciate and understand the practical application of your academic program; work with professional mentors and to begin to build networks within their profession.

Obtaining Industrial Placement

One academic staff from each engineering discipline (Petroleum and Gas, Electrical-Electronics, and Civil Engineering) has been appointed as Adviser for Industrial Training. Contact her/him to request a letter from the University confirming that you are a student of NTNU, and supporting your efforts to find an industrial placement.

It is the responsibility of each student to obtain her/his own industrial placement.

The Adviser might assist you with a list of possible contacts within the industry.

If you have any doubts or questions about a proposed employment, you should consult the Adviser for Industrial Training in your discipline. You may also consult other academic staff on the availability of Industrial Training.

Students who wish to pursue their Industrial Training interstate, or overseas are strongly encouraged to do so, provided they have sufficient information regarding the proposed nature of the work.

Your attempts to obtain industrial experience are part of the training; use your initiative and document how you have gained each employment in your report.

Industrial Training Objectives

• To expose students to engineering experience and knowledge. Which is required in industry, where these are not taught in the lecture rooms.

• To apply the engineering knowledge taught in the lecture rooms in real industrial situations.

• To use the experience gained from the ‘Industrial Training’ in discussions held in the lecture rooms.

• To get a feel of the work environment.

• To gain experience in writing reports in engineering works/projects.

• To expose students to the engineers responsibilities and ethics.

• To expose the students to future employers as well as to introduce the Industrial Training Program available within NTNU.

• With all the experience and knowledge acquired, it is hoped at the students will be able to choose appropriate work upon graduation.

Approvals

In order for a work period to be counted as part of Industrial Training, the proposed employment must be approved by the Faculty/University (through the respective Adviser) prior to commencement of work.

Approval will NOT be automatically granted. A student may be required to submit further supporting information for the intended employment to be approved.

Retrospective approvals may not be granted. Fresh approvals should be sought for each different period of Industrial Training.

Once an Industrial Training program is agreed upon, a student will be registered with the Faculty. The students are reminded that unregistered placement will be nullified.

You can always communicate with the Adviser using the normal e-mail or telephone while you are employed overseas. Overseas experience is often viewed favourably by employers when seeking permanent full time employment after graduation.

Industrial Training Visit by the Industrial Training Adviser

The objective of the Advisers visit to the training place is as follows:

• To visit the students involved with Industrial training and to discuss with them and the officers involved in giving the training on the matter of the training program or other matter concerned/relevant. Separate discussions will be held with the Lecturer and the training supervisor as well as with the students.

• To visit other former graduate of engineering faculty who are may working in the training organizations, which can give, feed back on the courses offered by the university.

• To brief the officer of the training organizations on the engineering courses as well as making relations with the faculty.

• To survey any new training places for industrial training.

• To discuss on the possibility on accepting the graduate to work with company. The students and the company will be informing on the date and time of the visit.

• Students are not allowed to change the place of training during the industrial training period except getting written permissions by the Industrial Training Adviser of the respective discipline. If there is a valid reasons of the change of placement, the students needs to discuss this with the Industrial Training Adviser.