Practical Training 2 (12 cr)

Objectives (course unit)

A student can utilize basic engineering knowlwdge and skills in practice when working as a practicant in industry.

Content (course unit)

8 weeks industrial training
Working as a student in a professional field as part of a work community. Getting a deeper insight into the usual work tasks, techniques, occupational safety and different practices in your field at work.Training diary and reporting.

Prerequisites (course unit)

Practising plan, practising diary, practising report

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2) (course unit)

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Assessment criteria, good (3-4) (course unit)

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Assessment criteria, excellent (5) (course unit)

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Assessment criteria, pass/fail (course unit)

The second part of the internship must be a sectoral work placement, which the student performs in an industrial enterprise with 12 credits. Approved work (8 weeks = 8 * 40 h = 320 h) at the traineeship and completion and return of the trainee diary and traineeship report.

Exam schedules

No exam.

Assessment methods and criteria

The traineeship is accepted or rejected by the instructor.

Assessment scale

Pass/Fail

Teaching methods

The general objective of the traineeship is to familiarise the student with the key tasks of the field of education and to enable the application of the learned information and skills to them. In addition, the aim is to combine theoretical and practical work tasks and to provide insight into the practices and practices of companies and organisations in the field of education. The internship also supports post-graduate employment.

Student workload

The internship requirement is 20 weeks (5 months), which corresponds to 30 course credits (cc) in the degree. As a rule, the traineeship is carried out as a student present in two or three periods, which must be enrolled in the Student Administration System (PAKKI). In exceptional cases (e.g. studying abroad), the traineeship can also be completed in one period, which can be started when there are at least 130 credits of completed studies. The traineeship agreement and the traineeship plan as part of it must be approved in advance by the traineeship instructors at the workplace and polytechnic.

Content scheduling

As a rule, only full-time periods of work of more than 1 month in the service of one employer are accepted as traineeships. The number of hours worked per week for part-time work shall not be less than 10 h/week. In part-time work, 160 h corresponds to one month's traineeship (the number of hours is then verified from the work certificate).

The traineeships mainly take place in the summers between academic years.

Course

TRAINING 2, 12 CC (8 weeks = 8*40h = 320h)

Completion alternatives

As a rule, multiform students receive a credit transfer from an internship based on their work experience. In this case, the contract is based on a written report and a work certificate.

Practical training and working life cooperation

The internship familiarises the student with being a member of the work community and teaches the rules of working life and gives an insight into the organisations and duties of mechanical engineering companies, which can be related to e.g., design, production, maintenance or technical trade. It is especially advisable to work at employee level, especially in the early part of studies.

Further information

Students will be provided with information sessions on the internship and related procedures, as well as instructions on how to apply for an internship. For each traineeship (1,2 and 3), a teacher who supervises the traineeship is appointed separately. Students are added to internships on behalf of the school, meaning that the student does not have to enroll themselves. The name of the instructor for each traineeship can be found in the PAKKI. The instructor is a teacher of the internship course.

The training takes place step by step as follows:

The student will find an internship.
The student inspects pakkinen for which traineeship implementation he or she has been added. At the same time, the name of the traineeship supervisor (implementation/small group teacher) can be found. At the same time, the instructor's name is the course key to Moodle.

The student fills out an internship agreement/plan at IVA and approves and signs the contract with the traineeship instructor (adding a instructor) and the representative of the internship, before starting the internship. (https://oiva.tamk.fi/harjoittelusopimus-opiskelijan-ohje)
The student adds a signed contract to Moodle.

During the internship period, communication between the supervising teacher and the student takes place by phone or email, if necessary. During the last (Traineeship 3) internship, the supervising teacher will visit the workplace (possibly).

The student keeps an internship diary, in which a new thing can be recorded weekly, which may relate to the structure and operation of machines and equipment, working methods, materials, information systems, quality system, occupational safety j.n.e. As part of the last internship period (Internship 3), the student conducts an interview regarding the company's training and development needs and fills in the relevant form and saves it to Moodle.


Returns must be made by the end of September or within four working weeks of the end of the traineeship. If the traineeship is carried out in several instalments, each traineeship is reported separately.
The student records the internship report, the internship diary, the work certificate and CV in Moodle, where the instructor processes it.

Assessment criteria - pass/fail (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

With the progress of the studies, the content of the internship must approach future engineering tasks, in which the student can apply the things he/she has learned at the Polytechnic. In addition to their own work task, the trainee must familiarise himself with the activities of the company or work community in such a way that he or she can demonstrate this in his/her traineeship report.