ME 400 INDUSTRIAL TRAINING

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ME 400 INDUSTRIAL TRAINING

• ASSIST. PROF. Dr. SAAD YASIN

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Requirements

• Must be in the 5th academic term or above.
• Must Not take any courses in the summer school
• Must Spend 40 continuous days, all of which
  should be in the same establishment.

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Requirements Contd

• All students who are planning to do summer
  training should attend a two session workshops
  that will be held during the spring semester of
  each year by the summer training coordinator and
  other faculty members.

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Requirements Contd

• The first session is devoted to giving the
  students all the information that will make their
  summer training experience productive,
  manageable, and organized.
• The second session will be devoted to report
  writing and format.
• Attendance to both sessions is a must

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NEW LOGBOOK

• The summer training booklet format is changed
• The new booklet is a soft copy booklet, each page
  is titled and chronically dated and should
  contains the summary of the work performed and
  duties assigned for each training day and should
  be signed and stamped by the student immediate
  supervisor

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Acceptable Companies to do Industrial Training At

• The company you choose to do your training at
  should
• Have at least two professional mechanical
  engineers and at least one of them will supervise
  your work
• Involved in manufacturing products that is very
  closely related to mechanical engineering such as
  Automotive, airspace, HVAC, Power Plants,
  Factories, Metal working, Petroleum

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Unacceptable Companies to Do Industrial Training
At

• Any company that deals with sales, public
  relations, management, and pure technical work
• Companies that do not allow trainee to be
  involved in engineering work and work them
  instead in clerical or technical work or any
  other type of work that is not related to
  engineering
• Examples, Auto parts store, car dealership, EMU
  maintenance department, mechanics shops, etc

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Company Acceptance Letter

• Bring to your summer training coordinator
  information about the company you are planning to
  do your summer training at
• Fill in the Form which will be available on
• me.emu.edu.tr/me400

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Company Acceptance Letter Contd

• Information could be
• company catalogs
• type of the manufacturing product of the company
• number of mechanical engineers in the company
• webpage address
• Immediate supervisor name and rank, etc
• Students who do not have any company in mind can
  ask Us to find him one

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Application Letter

• Your summer training coordinator will write an
  official letter to the company of your choice
• an official acceptance letter must be received by
  me and filed so that it can be included in the
  summer training report

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After and During Summer Training

• Register for ME 400 during the course
  registration period for the Fall semester
• During registration, submit a written statement
  to your advisor, showing your name/surname,
  student number, and subject of your summer
  training (building construction, road
  construction, factory, etc.).

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After and During Summer Training
Contd

• Student during the summer should start writing
  their training report and present initial draft
  copy to their assigned advisor before the
  registration of the fall semester.

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After Summer Training is Completed
Contd

• The student will only be allowed to register for
  ME 400 for the fall term if they present the
  first draft to their advisor and anticipate
  finishing the final report two days prior to the
  deadline for the drop and add registration period
• Student that do not submit the final report
  before the deadline will be automatically dropped
  out of the course

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Presentation Time

• The oral presentation should be conducted in the
  first month of Fall semester and each students
  jury members should include their report writing
  advisor

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Things to Include in your Report

• Name of the company and its location
• The structural Map Head of the company, vice
  head, General manger, Divisions, divisions
  mangers, engineers etc
• What products does the company manufacture?

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Things to Include in your Report Contd

• How the product is produced in chronicle order
  from the inception of ideas to the finished
  products and how does the product evolve through
  each of the companys department and division
• Company Market share and its local and
  international competitors
• For the product that you will be involved in,
  include the products descriptions as well as
  photos and manufacturing processes.

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Personal Involvement

• Describe your working conditions and functions
  such as who is your supervisor (include his name
  and his position), other team members or
  coworkers and what their functions to complement
  your function.
• Chronically, write down your daily work,
  assignments, accomplishments, and team interaction

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Personal Involvement Contd

• Write what you exactly did there and what
  experiences you gained throughout your training.
• make a comparison between theory (things you
  learned in the classroom) and practice (things
  you did at the company)
• Example if you have taken a thermodynamics
  course and your training was conducted at an AC
  company where you worked under a HVAC design
  engineer, then tell us how you used what you
  learned from the thermodynamics course and how
  you applied it in your design calculations or job
  functions

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Personal Involvement Contd

• Show some work samples that you have conducted at
  the company through graphs, pictures, data,
  drawings, or design calculation so that they can
  be included in your report.
• Always remember that when you are on your
  training internship you are not only representing
  yourself, but also represent the school, the
  instructors, and other follow students, therefore
  ,try to be the best you can be.

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Documents Required after Training

• Sealed Letter from the Company, written by your
  supervisor or company manager, should be
  presented to the summer training coordinator

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Final Advice and Concluding Remarks

• When you go to a company to do your industrial
  training you are going as an engineer in training
  not student or busboy or secretary or watcher
• So live up to your name and get involved in
  engineering work and work hard so you can impress
  your supervisors and coworkers
• Enjoy your Industrial training time and remember
  the next time you are going to be there you will
  be in charge and in a responsible position
• GOOD LUCK