Internship I

Coordination

• Anna Maria Dalmau Roda

Objectives

The subject External Internships I has the following objectives:

• Know the organizational structure of a company or external entity.
• Identify the tasks of a Mechatronics engineer.
• Apply knowledge to professional practice.
• Consolidate and relate technological concepts from various subjects.
• Participate and reflect on situations typical of a professional activity.

Learning outcomes

1. Know and apply work mechanisms and team communication.
2. Know and apply technical resources to develop technical office projects.
3. It consolidates and relates technological concepts from various subjects.
4. Plans and manages the tasks entrusted to the external entity.
5. Learn the applied principles of the organization of entities.
6. Acts with commitment and responsibility in common situations and those specific to the profession.
7. Resolves problems and situations inherent in professional activity with entrepreneurial and innovative attitudes.
8. Identifies their own training needs and organizes learning with a high degree of autonomy in all types of contexts (structured or unstructured).

Competencies

General skills

• Be prepared to overcome adversity in professional activity and learn from mistakes in order to integrate knowledge and enhance one's preparation.
• Combine scientific knowledge with technical skills and technological resources to deal with problems in professional practice.
• Show a positive attitude to lifelong learning, innovation, creating value and acquiring knowledge.

Specific skills

• Know about and apply the principles of analogue and digital electronics, and be able to use the resources of electronic instrumentation and the principles of digital electronics in microprocessors. Apply knowledge of power electronics to mechatronics engineering and design electronic analogue, digital and power systems in the field of mechatronics engineering.
• Know about and how to apply the theoretical principles of production and manufacturing systems, and metrology and quality control in engineering, in order to create and interpret statistical data and analysis results. Apply environmental and sustainability technology in engineering.
• Understand material structures, properties and processing systems, relating microstructure, and synthesis or processing and properties of materials. Plan and analyze tests and interpret results, and apply the principles of strength of materials and elasticity to the behavior of real solids. Understand the principles of strength of materials, failure theory and fatigue problems.
• Understand the concept of enterprises, and their institutional, legal and economic framework, in order to organize, manage and plan business strategy and marketing, and apply this to the organizational structure and operation of an engineering project office.
• Understand the principles of applied thermodynamics and heat transfer in order to solve engineering problems, and apply the basic principles of fluid mechanics to solve problems in the field of mechatronics engineering. Analyze and calculate piping, channels and fluid systems using thermal engineering applications.
• Understand the principles of circuit theory and electrical machines, apply them in design and use electric drives and switchgear. Calculate and design electrical installations of low, medium and high voltage.
• Understand the theory of machines and mechanisms, and be able to apply techniques of calculation, design and testing of machines. Understand and know how to design transmission systems, motors and receivers, machine drives and constructive forms in the field of mechatronics engineering.
• Work in a multilingual, multidisciplinary environment, and give oral presentations and write reports in English in the field of science and engineering.

Basic skills

• Students can communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialists and non-specialists.
• Students have developed the learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of independent learning.
• Students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (usually within their field of study) in order to make judgments that include reflection on relevant social, scientific and ethical issues.

Core skills

• Be a critical thinker before knowledge in all its dimensions. Show intellectual, cultural and scientific curiosity and a commitment to professional rigor and quality.
• Interact in international and worldwide contexts to identify needs and and new contexts for knowledge transfer to current and emerging fields of professional development, with the ability to adapt to and independently manage professional and research processes.
• Project the values of entrepreneurship and innovation in one's academic and professional career, through contact with a variety of practical contexts and motivation for professional development.

Content

• Organizational aspects of a company or external entity
• Functions of a Mechatronics engineer and their professional environment
• Methodologies for working with interdisciplinary teams of professionals
• Technical resources to develop technical office projects
• Processes developed in the company or external entity
• Communication with professionals from the same or different discipline

Evaluation

The annex to the agreement specifies the tutors associated with the student in this internship subject, both from the company or external entity and from the University.

The tutor of the external entity is the person designated by the entity who maintains constant contact with the student and accompanies him/her throughout the internship period. The tutor of the external entity must fill out the evaluation form provided by the academic tutor of UVic-UCC, which evaluates:

• General aspects of student activity
• Achievement of learning outcomes associated with competencies
• Development of the tasks that need to be done in the external entity
• Overall assessment of the student's activity during the internship
• Strong points to highlight and aspects to improve

The academic tutor at UVic-UCC ensures compliance with the internship program, monitors it and requests an assessment of the internships carried out by the student from the company or external entity. The academic tutor is responsible for correcting and evaluating the report.

The academic tutor at UVic-UCC gives the final grade taking into account the following items:

• External tutor rating: 60%
• Practical report: 20%
• Academic tutor assessment: 20%

They are reasons for "failure" of curricular practices:

• Failure to comply with the hours corresponding to the internship at the company or external entity
• Failure to submit the internship report within the deadlines and with the established requirements
• Failure to complete the tasks assigned to the student (within the framework of the internship) at the company or external entity
• Lack of discipline, breach of the code of ethics or breach of confidentiality

Methodology

In the year in which you want to do an internship, you must register for the internship together with the other subjects of the course on the July registration date.

1. Notify that you want to do an internship

At the beginning of the course in which a student wants to do an internship, they must notify this by filling out the form. "Notification of intention to do internship during the course", which is located in the center classroom, practical section.

Once the internship coordination knows which students want to do an internship that year, mandatory orientation and training sessions are planned to help the student in preparing the internship. curriculum vitae, cover letters and learning how to conduct an interview.

The internship coordination and the Professional Careers Service accompany the student in their search for an internship position.

2. Application for internship agreement

When the student has already contacted a company or external entity and has been accepted, they must fill out the form "Application for internship agreement", which is located in the center classroom, in the practice section.

Once the form is filled out online A copy of your ID and CV must be sent by email to scp.practiques.fcte@uvic.cat.

3. Signing of the annex to the agreement

Once the agreement request form has been completed, the Careers Service prepares the annex to the agreement for the student in question. The agreement between the company or external entity and UVic-UCC must already be signed (if not, it is signed at that time).

This annex to the agreement is sent to the company or external entity, the student and the UVic-UCC tutor for signature. This way, all parties involved have all the information associated with this internship position (the UVic-UCC tutor, the company tutor, the internship period, etc.).

4. Carrying out the internships

• It is essential that the agreement and annex have been signed before starting the internship, in order to have valid insurance coverage (compulsory school insurance, accident insurance and civil liability insurance).
• When starting the internship, the student must contact the UVic-UCC tutor to establish how the follow-up will be done, to find out how it will be evaluated and what the report should be like.
• You cannot be at the external entity after the final date stated in the annex to the agreement.

5. Delivery of the report

Once the internship period has ended, a internship report must be submitted to the corresponding space in the classroom of the internship subject within a maximum period of 10 days after the internship has ended. In internships that end at the end of January, at the beginning of June or at the end of August, the report must be prepared during the internship period and must be submitted no later than January 30, June 5 or September 5. This way, it can be evaluated before the closing of the proceedings.

It is important to remember that each practical subject has an associated report, even if the subjects are taken consecutively and at the same company or external entity. Each report must be uploaded to the assignment in the Moodle classroom of the corresponding practical subject.

6. Evaluation

Based on the monitoring of the student, the internship report and the report made by the external tutor, the UVic-UCC academic tutor evaluates the internship.

Others

• The agreement is the document that regulates the collaboration between the company or entity and the University. The annex to the agreement is the specific document for a particular student in which all the details of the internship are specified (student details, tutors, period, tasks, skills, etc.).
• It should be noted that carrying out an internship in an external company or entity does not entail any employment relationship (Royal Decree 1791/2010, of December 30).
• No annex may be submitted after September 14, the official end date of the academic year. Furthermore, to facilitate the evaluation of internships, agreements are only made until August 15.
• If either party, student or external entity, wishes to end the internship before the established deadline, they must notify the UVic-UCC tutor and complete the termination form in the annex.

Extracurricular internships (PEC)

In the event that they wish to do extracurricular internships, the student must contact the external entity where they wish to do the internship and fill out the "Agreement Application Form" with all the details. It can be found in the center classroom. Once sent, the Careers Service prepares the documentation to be able to sign the agreement between the University and the external entity and to be able to assign a tutor to the student. From here on, the procedure is the same as for curricular internships.

On UAcadèmic (accessible from the main page of the UVic Virtual Campus) you can consult the PEC offers that the University has for the degree.

The evaluation of PECs follows the same procedure as curricular internships (PC): based on the monitoring of the student, the internship report and the report made by the external tutor, the tutor from UVic-UCC evaluates the internships. Since they are not curricular internships, the grade can only be pass or fail.