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Bilkent
University
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Summer Practice Guidelines for Students
GENERAL
REMARKS
You
are required to complete two 4 week-long summer practices before
graduation. The first is to be completed after the second year
and the second after the third year.
You need to satisfy the following conditions for the validity of your summer practice.
Summer practice must be done at an institution hiring at least one full-time professional electrical engineer. This does not include the consultants, part-time engineers, graduate students, part-time professors etc. The evaluation form of the summer trainee must be filled up by the professional engineer.
Every evaluator (full time professional engineer) is normally expected to sign the form of at most a single (Bilkent) summer trainee.
Under special circumstances, this rule can be modified with the approval of the department.
Summer practice cannot be done while attending the summer school concurrently. Summer practice is supposed to be a full-time occupation.
The department must be contacted beforehand if there is any doubt about the validity of the summer practice institution.
An
evaluation form will be mailed to your supervisor at the company
of practice. This form is going to be filled out and mailed to
the University directly by the supervisor. If the form is not
received by the University or, your supervisor finds your practice
unsatisfactory, you will be requested to repeat the practice.
After
each summer practice you have to submit a report. The deadline
for submitting the report is the third Friday of the fall semester.
The
reports will be evaluated by a faculty member on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory
basis. If your report is found to be unsatisfactory, it will be
returned to you for revision and/or rewriting. If your revised
report is still unsatisfactory you will be requested to repeat
the summer practice.
The
company of practice should be approved by the Department or the
Faculty. If you are proposing a company, make sure that at least
one electrical engineer is employed at the company/department
you will spend most of your time.
INSTRUCTIONS
The
report must be written according to the rules covered in courses
such as ENG-102. It is strongly recommended that you consult appropriate
references on report writing. The report should be written in
good English with your own words. Plagiarism must be avoided by
all means. The report must be typed by a typewriter or by a wordprocessor,
and must be bound. You can get help on writing and grammar from
BILWRITE (www.bilkent.edu.tr/~bilwrite).
The
report must consist of the following sections:
- Cover Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Products and Production Systems (at most a couple of pages)
- Work Done
- Conclusions
COVER
PAGE
The
cover page is formatted as follows:
Name of the Student: ___________________________________________
Name of the Company: ___________________________________________
Address of the Company: _________________________________________
Dates of Summer Practice: _________________________________
WORK
DONE
Clearly
indicate the goal, the method and the result of your project.
If you were involved in more than one project, then itemize all
projects.
Your
summer practice report will be evaluated on the basis of proper
English, originality of content, quality of presentation, and
technical content.
While writing your summer practice reports, you should follow the rules of ethical writing. You can find an extensive guide on ethical writing here.
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