Sharing Student Learning from Individual Internship Experiences

Fisher, Eden

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“…Finally, an important part of the engineering design process is the ability to conduct design research for your product. One participant in a study by Fisher (2017) reported that "design research is essential when the designers are not the users" (pg. 11) indicating an increased understanding, and possible use, of user research.…”

Section: Use Of Design Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Surveying Design Skill Development in Work-Integrated Learning Experiences: A Review of the Literature

2021

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Work-integrated learning (WIL) is an educational approach that intentionally scaffolds work experiences throughout undergraduate education. This approach has been proven to provide many benefits to students, including increased grade point averages, better job prospects after graduation and skill development. As such, we expect WIL experiences to contribute to engineering student's ability to design, a central aspect of both engineering education and practice. We found little evidence of research related to WIL experiences in the design literature, so we conducted a secondary data analysis on 33 publications from engineering education literature focusing on student WIL experiences with design. The review found evidence of students using a design process and recognizing the importance of designing within context, focusing on health, safety and ethical concerns of being an engineering designer. However, there was little evidence found of what students actually designed (i.e., components, systems or processes). We highlight some interesting areas for future research, specifically for design researchers to investigate how student work experiences are contributing to their development of design knowledge, skills and abilities.

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Section: Use Of Design Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Surveying Design Skill Development in Work-Integrated Learning Experiences: A Review of the Literature

2021

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“…The internship program in higher education is essential to empower students and make them ready for their future careers (ACM, 2017; Chu, 2020; ACM, 2020). It can be defined as an opportunity to narrow down the gap between university-learned theory and real work experience (Fisher, 2017). It allows students to have the opportunity to work in the industry full/part-time before graduation.…”

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Virtual internship during the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring IT students satisfaction

AlGhamdi

2022

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PurposeThis paper examined the evaluation of the virtual internship program for KAU IT students during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 summer.Design/methodology/approachA mixed-method survey was utilized for the data collection. Out of 164 enrolled students in the 2020 summer training program, 147 students opted to participate. This gives a response rate of 89.6% of the total students' number who could participate. In addition to collecting quantitative data, qualitative data were collected. The sources for qualitative data were survey open questions, weekly reflective writing and video recordings.FindingsThe quantitative result showed that the students were satisfied with their virtual internship. These results were further qualitatively explored and discussed under five themes: information and knowledge, work experience, live interaction, the comfort of achieving tasks and soft skills. The outcomes showed that the plan which offered students opportunities to be trained online with real companies accomplishing real work tasks was the best in fulfilling the requirements of the internship. Thus, it emphasized the importance of a strong alliance with the industry to provide useful virtual internship opportunities.Research limitations/implicationsThough this study made a novel contribution to the timely literature on the COVID-19 pandemic, it is not without its limitations. The difference in the three sample sizes makes it difficult to get in-depth comparative analysis. For future research, it is highly recommended to study the impact of online training with real existing companies on a relatively larger sample number.Practical implicationsIn order for a higher educational institute to successfully adopt the proposed plans for the virtual internship, here are the reflections and lessons learned from our three plans. (1) Emphasize your efforts on extending your partnership with the private sector and computing industry. (2) The MCIT training focuses on developing technical skills; therefore, it is great to be offered to students in the computing field as extracurricular activities but not as the fulfillment of the internship program. (3) Blackboard training sessions, which cover nontechnical skills, are good to be offered prior to the internship.Social implicationsFor governmental human resource agencies, it is highly recommended to further develop and invest in manpower to develop online platforms. In normal situations, these platforms act as an extra training resource. In abnormal situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic, they act as useful source for online training. For students, this sudden unexpected transition from normal to online training should enrich them with the ability to be flexible and adaptive, tune them with opportunities for independent and innovative creative work, encourage them to take risks and provide them with opportunities to do things differently. As an outcome, students will enhance their self-efficacy and capabilities.Originality/valueDue to the COVID-19 pandemic, not only classes and internship programs have been done remotely but increasingly jobs have also gone in that direction. A virtual internship today might be good preparation for the virtual/remote work of tomorrow. For this reason, this study was conducted to add a novel contribution to the virtual internship literature.

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“…At the end of each week, students were supposed to share their interviews with other students. It is shown that when students share what they have learned and the key takeaways from their internship experience with other interns, it creates an environment where all the students learn from each other's point of view [46]. Therefore, the instructor of the class made a private Google + Community, which the students were members of, and they could create a blog post to share their interviews with other students (Figure 1).…”

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“…Figure 1 shows an example of a blog post. other interns, it creates an environment where all the students learn from each other's point of view [46]. Therefore, the instructor of the class made a private Google + Community, which the students were members of, and they could create a blog post to share their interviews with other students (Figure 1).…”

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Evaluation of an Interview-Based Internship Class in the Construction Management Curriculum: A Case Study of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Internships have been shown to be impactful tools to connect students’ learning in academia with real-world industrial needs. To help the students to get more out of their internship experience, some universities provide a summer internship class in which students do class assignments based on their experiences during their internship. There have been numerous studies on the benefits of internships. However, the benefits of a potential internship class for students in construction management (CM) programs at universities have not yet been investigated. This paper demonstrates the structure of an interview-based internship class and investigates its effectiveness. We have focused on the CM program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) as a case study. We sent online questionnaires to the intern students who took the class, students’ mentors, and the professors who taught the class. The results indicate that despite some challenges to meet the requirements of the class, the students, their mentors, and the professor found the class beneficial. The results of this paper are expected to help CM programs with the establishment and improvement of internship classes in their curriculum.

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Sharing Student Learning from Individual Internship Experiences

Cited by 5 publications

References 4 publications

Surveying Design Skill Development in Work-Integrated Learning Experiences: A Review of the Literature

Surveying Design Skill Development in Work-Integrated Learning Experiences: A Review of the Literature

Virtual internship during the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring IT students satisfaction

Evaluation of an Interview-Based Internship Class in the Construction Management Curriculum: A Case Study of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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