The integrated intership is intended to be done in your ninth semester.

The duration of the recognised practical activity shall be at least 18 weeks. Hourly or casual activities (parttime activities) are not the same as the purpose of apprenticeship and can therefore not be recognised. Lost working days (vacation, illness, but not public holidays) has to be made up for. If the practical activity is exceptional done in intervals it should be noted that the time of apprenticeship shall be at least 2 coherent weeks.

Student temp activities (but no hourly or daily activities), other apprenticeships (e.g. respective apprenticeships with final exams at the chamber of commerce and industry), professional activities aswell as the industrial practice of graduates of Constance Universities of Applied Science can be recognised, when their purpose and type of the practical activity correspond with the actual internship guidelines. In a specific application of recognition of respective apprenticeships with final exams at the chamber of commerce and industry and student temp activites, please contact our Internship Office.

During the practical activity the theoretical knowledge and the experience requirements principally can be acquired in middle and large industrial enterprises or in larger technology enterprises oriented to system development. There should be at least 20 core employes, including at least 5 engineers. In addition enterprises can be considered like power plants, large research establishments, audit office of the Telekom and corresponding communication transmission companies. Small enterprises without developing and system orientation, like craft enterprises or comuter shops are ruled out. Because of the short apprenticeship period not all activities can be recognised in which engineers operates. This approach applies to e.g. small engineering companies and to public service (e.g. university institutes). Furthermore companies/ enterpises from relatives in the first degree (e.g. own or parental company) cease to apply.

Every enterprise which allows an apprenticeship falling within the scope of this directive is qualified for carrying out the industrial practice. The applicant is responsible for meeting these commitments.
 

The internship office of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology does not find you any internships, but it gives you advice on internships you may be suitable for.

In the anteroom of the internship office you will find a notice with the latest interships.

The students representatives of the faculty maintain a card index on internships. Moreover, IAESTE, which has a branch office at the RWTH Aachen university, helps you to find internships.

Further links to internship exchange homepages:
http://www.jobpilot.net/
http://www.stepstone.de/
http://www.monster.de/
http://www.wiwo.de/
http://www.jobware.de/
http://praktikum-service.de/

In addition, both the local job centre and the chamber of Industry and Commerce my support you in finding recognized and suitable training companies for trainees.

(Jeder Betrieb, der eine Ausbildung im Sinne der vorliegenden Richtlinien ermöglicht, ist für die Durchführung der Industriepraxis zugelassen. Der Bewerber ist selbst verantwortlich für die Einhaltung dieser Richtlinien.)

Doing internships abroad are recommended and will be recognized, if they correspond to the guidelines in all respects.The report folio has to be written both in German and in English. You have to enclose an authenticated translation, if the report has been made out in a language different from the languages mentioned before.

Any deviations from the rules above always require consultation with the internship office.

Your internship is supposed to contain main engineering workings in the field of electrical engineering, covering the following areas:

• manufacture, assembly, production process, maintenance, checking, bringing a machine into service and/or
• research, development, planning, computation, project management planning, design and integration of hardware/software components or systems (concerning the degree program computer engineering)

Unfortunately, for example administrative activities, domestic installations, the repair of household applicances, radio or television sets are not a part of main engineering workings. In like manner, both working only with software and pure software installation and programming courses will not be recognized.

All reports subserve learning the represantation of technical issues. Thats why the reports have to be self-written. They can contain descriptions about manufacturing processes, facilities, tooling equipment etc. and should contain  notes about the experinece of the practiced activities.   

This work report should be as full as possible, but aswell as clearly and succinctly as possible. The report must identify clearly that author did all descriped work by himself. Freehand sketches, drawings from the workshop, wiring diagrams, flow diagrams etc. save often a long text. Not permitted are: photocopies, scanned illustrations or prospects (extraneous material).

The reports should have an average of 1 up to 2 DIN A4 pages including at least one drawing per week.  There may in fact be written one coherent report with an appropriate extent and appropriate number of drawings. 

Further to these reports the report card should content a daily enumeration of the manual labours under specification of the work time. These systematic collections and/ or the reports have to be approved by the adviser in the business at the end of the practical activity.

In addition the mentoring company has to certificate the practical activities. Further informations to certificates see below.

Your are supposed to submit your report six month at the latest after you have finished your internship.

For the recognition of the completed practical activities you have to -along with the reports- provide a certificate from the company as orginal or as certified copy. The certificate has to content:

• Personal information (last name, first name, date of birth und birthplace),
• Apprenticing company, depatment and place,
• Time and duration of the apprenticing,
• Topic and task (with the processing on a project),
• Absences and vacations, alternatively a declaration that there are no abcences and vacations drop out.

The certifivate should give a reliable information about success of the activity and assessment of the report card. you can find a model certificate about the practical activities as download on the webpage of the internship office.

The necessary practical activity in the case of exchange programs (e.g. TIME-double-degree program) is arranged  by contactual arrangements of the partner universities .  In this case please come forward personally to the internship office.

The internship semester includes a one-semester seminar event. Every participant must give a talk (report of one's experiences) during the seminar. You should choose the seminar which is organized by the university lecturer who is probably going to take care of your diploma thesis.You will find more information about the seminar in the announcements of the departments. Another possibility would be to contact the department yourself. The department in charge will tell the Examination Office about your participation.

The Internship Office is not responsible for the enrolment and the course. Morover, it is not responsible for announcing the successful participation of the seminar to the Examination Office!