Evaluating Student Industrial Placements Abroad 

A practical Guide

Methodologies, Case Studies, Guidelines

Project MESIPA(Methodology to Evaluating Student Industrial Placements Abroad)
See also http://www.fh-karlsruhe.de/fbmn/ft/mesipa/index.html

• The need for a practical guide to evaluating student industrial placements

1. A new emphasis on industrial placements
2. A movement towards international mobility
3. A growing importance given to assessment processes
4. A guide focused on three major concerns

• The need to develop industrial placements abroad

1. Giving added value to traditional engineering education
2. Specific motivations for placements abroad
3. New practices and new challenges
4. A first challenge: to involve industrial firms in the process
5. How to organize placements? (A wide range of preliminary tasks)
6. How to follow-up and monitor placements?
7. How to assess placements?
8. Specific challenges linked to international placements

• Managing student industrial placements

1. The various steps in the placement process
2. A first set of general guidelines (good practices in managing student placements)
3. Companies’ views on industrial placements

• A typology of industrial placements in engineering studies in Europe
• Assessing student industrial placements : elements of methodology, general guidelines
  1. The need to assess student industrial placements
  2. The basis for assessment the participants and their expectations
  3. The value of explicit commitments
• Assessing student industrial placements : processes and systems of reference
  1. Three main lines of evaluation
  2. The academic assessment of the student
• The validation issue
1. The various approaches of validation
2. Industrial placement quality assessment surveys
   
   
• Case studies

Claude Maury, Director – Sonia Gandolfi, in charge of international studies

Contact : Claude.Maury@wanadoo.fr - Sonia.Gandolfi@wanadoo.fr 

Professor Dr. Peter Moson, Director of BUTE French filial

Contact : moson@bme-tk.bme.hu

Prof. Dr. Otto Theodor Iancu, responsible for international exchanges

Prof. Dr. Edwin Hettesheimer, in charge of industrial placements Mechatronik Dept.

Contact : otto.iancu@fh-karlsruhe.de

Jean-Michel Alaverdov, AFSTE Secretary General, in charge of industrial and international relations at ENSTIMAC Albi Contact : alaverdo@enstimac.fr

Prof. Dr. Torbjörn Hedberg, Mathematics Department, Karin Carlsson, Project Manager, Christina Hamsch, international exchanges co-ordinator

Contact : torbjorn.hedberg@sm.luth.se

Prof. Dr. Robin Wilcockson, Chemical Engineering Department

Harriet Robinson, Research Associate

Contact : r.b.wilcockson@lboro.ac.uk

Prof.Dr. Javier Garcia Delgado, co-ordinator of ETSIM Placement-Employment Service, Prof. Dr. Isidoro Moyano, in charge of industrial placements at ETSIM

Prof. Da. Marinela Garcia Fernandez, UPM director for international affairs

Prof. Dr. Benjamin Calvo, ETSIM director for external relations, Prof. Dr. Patxi Elorza, ETSIM Dean for academic studies, Prof. Dr. Alfonso Maldonado, ETSIM Director,

Prof. Dr. Francisco Michavila Pitarch, director of UNESCO chair of University management and policy (UPM)

Ecole nationale des travaux publics de l'Etat

Ecole des Mines de Nantes

Ecole nationale d'ingénieurs de Metz

2 APIE Amiens

Emmanuelle Tricot, in charge of mobility programmes
Contact : 2apie.tricot@wanadoo.fr

Prof. Dr. Fernando de Cuadra Garcia, Director of Studies in Computer Engineering

Contact : cuadra@iit.upco.es

Prof. Dr. Ramiro Arenas, in charge of industrial placements – Contact : ramiro@afe.upv.es