Internship during summer

*I have only 6 spots left. If you want in, let me know by Monday, May 30th, 2011.

 Project Oriented

Technical & Business Skills Development Workshop

At NMIT – Summer 2011

Proposal

Goals:

The goal of this initiative is to provide deserving students with real world experience, encourage creative thinking in engineering and incubate future entrepreneurship endeavors. This could also be a launchpad for their final year project as well if needed.

Background:

During their 6^th semester, students worked on a project of their choosing as part of the Software Engineering course. They went through the entire software lifecycle to produce a relevant software product and demonstrated it at the end of the semester. Some of the projects were very high quality and this initiative is to keep them working on these endeavors until a professional product is made.

Students:

Students will be chosen on the strength of their Software Engineering project. We would draft individuals who are wholly committed to this, since this won't be a spoon fed type of an approach.

Students will be awarded certificates of completion on the conclusion of the workshop.

Supervisor:

Mr. Navpreet Randhawa , Sr. Lecturer,NMIT, Bangalore shall act as the supervisor. Each team will have a team lead that would report to me directly. My involvement with the teams would be to provide guidance, supervise their progress and do professional evaluations.I will expect high professionalism and single-minded focus for this.

Environment:

This will be a simulated work environment. Students will be expected to behave in a professional manner, work to complete their tasks and submit to evaluations on their progress.

The setup would work in a ‘startup’ mode – issues ranging from technical proficiency to finding revenue streams to creating business plans would be covered.

This would be a much tougher environment than the SE class project since they will have more ambitious goals and challenging deadlines to meet.

Since this is a simulated work environment, students who do not perform upto the professional standards set would be terminated from the workshop.

Requirements:

·      A lab is needed to give the students a workspace.

·      Students will bring their own laptops.

·      We will begin the workshop on 20^th June and end it on 19^th August.

·      Students will be granted a few days off or work out a flexible work schedule in case they are appearing for professional exams such as GRE or GMAT.

·      Students will be responsible for their own transportation in case the college is not able to provide it.

·      There will be 2 professional evaluations conducted by the supervisor, one midway through the studentship and another at the end of it.

·      Students will give a final presentation of their work during the workshop.

·      Official working hours will be 9AM to 4:20PM, Monday through Friday.

ChoosingStudents:

As mentioned above, students will be selected on the strength of their SE project. Those who already have internships outside the college may not need to join this initiative. In case a team has fewer than required members, more students will be recruited to fill their place. The projects shall remain static.

A maximum of 30 students will be recruited with no more than 6students per team.

Process:

Agile processes will be followed during the workshop. Extreme programming, sprints and daily scrums will be used to keep the projects moving forward. An SRS will be designed in the first week of the studentship and the teams will have to implement all the requirements during the workshop.

Navpreet Randhawa                   Dr Nalini N                                      Prof.Ranganatha Setty

Sr. Lecturer                                 HOD, CSE                                      Dean (Academic)

NMIT, Bangalore                       NMIT, Bangalore                             NMIT, Bangalore