Industrial Internship educational goals

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Industrial Internshipeducational goals
self-reflection
Chemical Engineering and Chemistry

• Jetse Reijenga Esther Vinken
• Proceedings 20th ICCE
• LOST overleg 12 november 2009

j.c.reijenga_at_tue.nl
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Industrial Internship

• Compulsory for Masters degree
• 3-6 months (fulltime, 20-30 ects)
• Industrial RD or Production
• In the Netherlands or abroad (40/60)
• Before or after graduation (now 10/90)

• Technical Report
• Company Grading Form
• Final Presentation at TU/e
• Self- Reflection Report

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Educational Goals

• Orientation on the chemical engineering
  profession labor market and acquiring a
  position
• Gain experience in working as a chemical engineer
  in industrial working environment
• Solve problems on a chemical engineering level,
  and thus integrating and expanding knowledge,
  technical insight, skills  and critical
  inventiveness
• Practice communication in a professional working
  environment.

http//edu.chem.tue.nl/goals
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Phasing of Internship

• Orientation register, intake internview, CV,
  motivation letter, previous projects, current
  offers, company contacts, internship programs
• Preparation permission for subject, time frame,
  contract, supervision, reporting,
  confidentiality, work permit, scholarships,
  travel, insurance, briefing before departure
• During Internship contact details, subject
  update, visit or conference call, interim
  grading, reporting
• Afterwards debriefing, company grading form,
  report, reflection report, trial presentation,
  presentation, evaluation, final grade

http//edu.chem.tue.nl/6Z001
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Company Grading Form, version 1
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Self-Reflection Report group 1

• Guideline make a 500-word self-reflection
  report in view of general educational goals of
  the internship. Report treated confidential.
• Resulting reports were insufficient more about
  the company profile and the assignment than about
  themselves.

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Self-Reflection Report group 2

• Guidelines write a 500 word self-reflection
  report taking into account the following points
• What did you learn about yourself?
• Did you discover unsuspected talents?
• Did you meet unexpected challenges?
• How did you deal with them
• Which personal improvement points remain?
• How did internship broaden your view on career
  opportunities?
• Self reflection should not be about the company,
  but about you.

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Self-Reflection Report group 3

• Guidelines (in addition to those of group 2)
• Student fills in company grading form for
  himself, before the internship
• Again halfway through the internship
• Again at the end of the internship
• Compare 3 self-grade forms with company grading
  form as an additional aid in self-reflection

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Comparison of groups

• Quality of Self-reflection reports
• Group size 19, 44 and 36 respectively

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Results of group 3 in detail
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Conclusions

• Extended guidelines improve self-reflection
  reports
• Additional self-grading further improves reports
• Even in group 3, only 50 of students make
  acceptable self-reflections, so
• Further improvement still needed.

J.C. Reijenga, E. Vinken, in Chemistry Education
in the ICT Age Springer Education, Book
Chapter ISBN 978-1-4020-9731-7 (2009)
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Recommendations (2008 -gt 2010)

• Further emphasize self-grading
• Personal goals as SMART objectives??
• New grading form

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my bottom line
self-reflection as starting basis for a bright
career perspective
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Industrial Internship, where?
35 NL companies with 1 student each
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Industrial Internship, where then?
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Industrial Internship, where now?
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My other challenges..

• Assessing exemptions for Internship
• Explaining self-reflection and pear review for
  different cultures
• CV advice from fun-CVs to nerd-CVs
• Motivation letter from touristic side activities
  to hard-core science technology
• Help translate what I dont want into what can
  I do or what I want
• Facilitate conversion of students into
  professional employees
• Estimate how much help students need

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Industrial Internship, a dialogue
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