General information

There are different kinds of internships:

• Curricular internship
  • Target: students
  • Purpose: enriching your academic education
  • Maximum duration: 12 months
• Extracurricular internship
  • Target: graduates within 12 months of obtaining their degree
  • Purpose: facilitating your entry into the job market
  • Maximum duration: 6 months in a company, 12 months in a public institution
• Professional internship
  • Purpose and target: for those who want to practise a specific profession

To activate curricular internships, you must follow the procedure with the Department, whereas to activate extracurricular internships, you need to contact the Career Service office.

Organisation of a curricular internship

Where to carry out the internship OUTSIDE the University

• Existing agreements: you can choose from organisations that already have an agreement with the University. You can find a list of existing agreement in the attachments
• New agreements: If the organisation where you wish to carry out the internship does not have an agreement you, you can request one
  • If the company wishes to sign an agreement involving multiple Departments, contact the Career Service Office to request the forms (career.service@amm.units.it)
  • If the company wishes to sign an agreement with the Department only, they must send the following documents filled out and signed via PEC* to dia@pec.units.it:
    • Curricular internships agreement
    • Joint controllership agreement, signed separately and attached to the agreement

* Foreign companies without a PEC can send the documents to tirocinio.ingegneria@dia.units.it.

Where to carry out the internship INSIDE the University

Choose a lecturer to become your University tutor and send them an email from your institutional email address with the following text:

Object: Internal Internship (paperless process)

Dear Professor,

I am student ___1___, registration number ___2___, enrolled in the ___3___  year / beyond the standard programme duration in the Degree programme in ___4___.
I kindly ask if you could be my tutor for an internal internship in the normal / fast track mode at the ___5___ Laboratory, which you are responsible for, during the period from ___6___ to ___6___, for ___7___ CFU, on the topic ___8___.

Thank you very much.

Best regards,
___1___

Fill in the blanks with the following information:

1. Full name
2. Registration number
3. Year of enrolment
4. Degree programme
5. Type of laboratory
6. Internship period
7. Number of CFU
8. Topic or title of the selected paper

The tutor will forward your request to the Course of Study Coordinator. Once the Coordinator approves, you will need to forward the confirmation email to tirocinio.ingegneria@dia.units.it.

What to do BEFORE starting the internship

You must start the procedure at least 2 weeks before the actual start of the internship.

1. Check out the existing agreements. If you wish to carry out the internship at an organisation without an agreement, follow the instructions in "Where to carry out the internship OUTSIDE the university".
    
2. Identify a lecturer who will become your university tutor. The tutor will advise and guide you, particularly assessing the alignment of the internship's educational objectives with those of your studies. The company, on the other hand, will assign you a company tutor. These two roles must not overlap.
    
3. Fill out and submit the following documents to tirocinio.ingegneria@dia.units.it:
   • Progetto Formativo, filled out together with the university tutor and the company tutor*
   • Scheda Rischi, signed by the university tutor and the company's legal representative or health and safety delegate
      
4. Download the registro presenze, which must be filled in daily and signed by the company tutor at the end of the internship. In the column marked "Tot progr.", you must indicate the total of hours completed.

* When filling out the Progetto Formativo, remember that the minimum duration of the internship corresponds to the number of CFU in your study plan. The duration of the internship may exceed the number of CFU required but it will remain the same as indicated in the Study plan.

What to do AFTER finishing the internship

At the end of the internship:

1. Ask the company tutor to complete and sign the Questionario di valutazione studente
2. Send the Registro presenze and the Questionario di valutazione to tirocinio.ingegneria@dia.units.it
3. Contact your university tutor to put the internship in your academic record

Recognition of work activity

Work activity can be recognised as a substitute for the curricular internship.

The following are recognised as work activities:

• Work experience carried out in companies, organisations, enterprises or professional studios in Italy or abroad
• Previous internships
• Other activities comparable to work experience

The duration of the activity must not be less than the number of CFU required by the Study Plan (1 CFU = 25 hours).

Submit your request for recognition of work activity to tirocinio.ingegneria@dia.units.it.
If the work activity aligns with the educational objectives of the Course of Study, it will be recorded as an internship (without a grade).
If the activity is not deemed suitable, you will need to repeat or supplement the experience.

Contacts

tirocinio.ingegneria@dia.units.it

Refer to thie email address for information and to submit the documents.
When writing, be sure to use your institutional email address.

Fast Track option

The Fast Track option is intended for those who wish to prioritise a streamlined nature of the internship, dedicating to it the exact time corresponding to the number of CFU to be obtained.

To choose this option, select a supervisor from whom you will select or receive a scientific article. From this article you will have to:

• write a Summary that must not exceed 1500 words, plus references and images
• a presentation lasting no more than 10 minutes, accompanied by a maximum of 10 slides

Supervisors

The professors who can become supervisors are:

• Alberto BARTOLI
• Massimiliano COMISSO
• Luca COSLOVICH
• Lorenzo CASTELLI
• Eric MEDVET
• Martino TREVISAN

Other professors are available as supervisors but, for now, haven't selected a specific article to assign:

• Fulvio BABICH
• Sylvio BARBON Jr
• Giulia BUTTAZZONI
• Andrea DE LORENZO
• Sergio CARRATO

The Summary and the presentationt must be in the same language, either Italian or English.
Presenting a Summary and a presentation in Italian will earn you 3 CFU for the Internship (TAF D) and 3 CFU for the thesis (TAF E).
Presenting a Summary and a presentation in English will earn you additional 3 CFU (TAF F). According to the your Study plan, such CFU:

• may be spent to complete the number of CFU (TAF F) required
• be recorded as "soprannumerari" if they  exceed the amount of 180 CFU required for graduation

Output

To have access to a Fast Track, follow the instruction in "Where to carry out the internship INSIDE the University" and wait for the approval.  

How to write the Summary

The Summary must be titled "Summary of" or "Extended Summary of", followed by the title of the paper. The introduction must contain a full bibliographic reference of the paper.

The Summary must contain:

1. A general overview of the topic discussed in the articles articles, with a brief discussions on why it matters.
2. The main notions, concepts and terms related to the topic, by means of a concise and possibly formal definition.
3. The research questions the article aims to answer. A research question is what the author is trying to find out about the topic. Optionally, you can include possible further research questions which arise from the articles and which are not answered in the considered articles.
4. The positions, i.e., the answer to the research questions, supported in the article.
5. The arguments supporting those positions.
6. The weak points (limitations, missing information, and alike) of those arguments. Alternatively, you can include not only the weak points outlined by the authors themselves, but also those detected by your autonomous comparative reading of other related articles.

For points 2–5, highlight the differences that you find among the proposed scholarly articles.

How to write the presentation

The presentation must not exceed 10 slides.

The first slide must contain the title of the Summary (clearly visible) and a full bibliographic reference of the paper (in smaller font).

The presentation must accurately deliver the content of the Summary but should be adapted for a broader and more diverse audience.
Remember to spend more time on point 1 of the Summary, clearly explaining the main topic of the article using a simple yet precise language. We recommend including images, graphs or diagrams to make the content more accessible.

The Summary has to be delivered to the supervisor not later than 20 days before the graduation session chosen by the student. Exact deadlines are provided for each graduation session.

The slides do not have to be delivered because they are evaluated as part of the presentation.

At the time of the Presentation, remember to bring to the committee a hardcopy of the article.

Assessment criteria

Clarity

• [summary] Is the summary understandable and easy to read?
• [summary/presentation] Is the chosen presentation order sound? Is the content over- or understructured?
• [summary/presentation] Are the appropriate terms for relevant concepts used? Consistently?
• [summary/presentation] Is the Summary and are the slides prepared according to the guidelines?

Detail

• [summary/presentation] Is the information related to points 1–5 correctly provided?

Added value

• [summary/presentation] Do the Summary and presentation discuss other relevant scholarly articles autonomously collected by the student?
• [summary/presentation] Are possible further research questions identified?