Internship

The aim of the internship is to expose students to a real professional work environment different from that of TU Delft. The internship has a minimum duration of 10 consecutive weeks on a full-time basis. Full time means approx. 40 hrs p/wk and without interruption (vacation). To guarantee the real professional work experience outside the perimeter of TU Delft the internship has to take place at a company/research institute or at another university. The internship provides the opportunity to get a glance of the technical, social, economic and organizational aspects of Aerospace Engineering or related professional fields. It enables students to acquire professional skills different from those taught in the rest of the MSc program. During the internship the student will apply her/his academic skills and knowledge acquired during the MSc courses already taken so far. Therefore, earned a minimum of 30 EC before starting the internship is mandatory. The student has to aim for a project or tasks at academic master level that have well-defined outcomes and clear deliverables.

There are four milestones in the evaluation of the internship:

1. Internship Approval

All assignments must be individually approved in advance by the Internship Office.

The assignment should be centered around an analytical/technical component, cohesive with your MSc AE study and on an academic MSc level.

No later than four weeks before students start their internship they must hand in the "Approval Form" to the Internship Office via the OnStage system (tudelft-onstage.xebic.com). In this form students have to describe in detail a clear assignment/project students will work on, including the planned deliverables and outcomes, their choice regarding the "Engineering Profession", and they also have to provide a "Self Evaluation" in which they define their personal learning goals for the internship period, and their plan how to fulfil them.

MSc course list from Osiris with obtained EC has to be uploaded in OnStage under 'study progress'.

2. Midterm evaluation

Half-way their internship, students have to fill in the Evaluation Form together with their internship supervisor. Once filled in and signed by the supervisor, students upload this evaluation form in the OnStage system.

3. Final evaluation

At the end of the internship, the supervisor fills in the Evaluation form once again (same grading form as the midterm evaluation form). This final evaluation form will be included in the internship report and can be of help when writing the Self-Reflection chapter. Students have to make sure to have received the final evaluation form from their internship supervisor before leaving the company.

4. Internship report

Once students have finished their internship, they must upload a digital version of their internship report in the OnStage system no later than 2 weeks after completing the internship. The report has to comply with the rules of Technical Writing and thus should also be structured as such. Students have to write their report according to the guidelines for internships reports that can be found on Brightspace AE5051.

The digital Onstage system has been built to treat content strictly confidential, this means that all reports can be handed in online.

Please consult Brightspace AE5051 for more information on confidentiality, guidelines, and forms to be included.

In the case the 2-week deadline cannot be met, students have to contact the Internship Office in advance to request an extension of the deadline. Whether there is enough ground for an extension is decided by the Internship Coordinator.

The internship report is assessed at three criteria:

1. Quality of the work that student has done as assignment/project during the internship and the evaluation from their supervisor (Final Evaluation Form);

2. Dedicated assignment about the Engineering Profession; topic to be determined before start of the internship;

3. Personal reflection on student's personal professional performance in the internship and the personal learning goals they defined in the Self-Evaluation prior to the start.

The internship report is first checked by the Internship Office, to see if it meets all the requirements and can then be forwarded to an assessor; an academic staff member of the faculty. It is then assessed by the assessor and can be rejected if the student does not meet the requirements as mentioned on Brightspace AE5051, if the level of the reporting is insufficient or if the work performed does not meet the requirements. One opportunity for revising the report will be given. After feedback from the assessor, the revised internship report has to be handed in within two weeks. If a report still does not meet the requirements after it has been resubmitted, a new internship will have to be carried out.

Grades will be registered in Osiris using the date that the student has handed in the version of the internship report that is accepted for grading by the Internship Office and forwarded to an internship report assessor. The result of the report will be made public no later than at the last day of the period following the period in which the report was handed in.