Study the impact of internship on improving engineering students' competency

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Marsono, Machmud Sugandi, Tuwoso, Purnomo

2017 AIP Conference Proceedings Vol. 1887 Conference paper Cited by 8 SDG 4 Quartile

Abstract

An effort to improve human resources quality in higher education can be done through an internship program. This program is important for the graduate student to enhance their self-development and entrepreneurship ability. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of internship course on the student's achievement, particularly of their professional competencies. Furthermore, this research was conducted to identify the type of industries that are suitable for internship program of the engineering students. The results showed that the investigation information related to data collection and assignment, lodging, suitability of expertise and some matters correlated to the process students' internship in industry. This study also found the method to improve the services of industries and university. © 2017 Author(s).

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Mechanical Engineering Department, State University of Malang, Indonesia; Civil Engineering Department, State University of Malang, Indonesia

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