GUIDELINES FOR SUMMER INTERNSHIP PROJECTS

1. OBJECTIVES To enable students to transfer their analytical, integrative, team play etc. skills honed in classroom to the work place as well as to understand the complexities of the corporate world first hand.

To train students to focus on a narrow bandwidth of a selected topic/field, (micro and not

macro themes) to facilitate its in-depth study using quantitative/qualitative measurement tools to organize data, intensely focus on the area and arrive at reasoned conclusions/about the issue or problem. organizations.

To provide opportunities for networking with people who matter in industry/corporates/ To aim at the acquisition of pre-placement offers wherever suitable and appropriate.
Recruiters attach great significance to the Summer Internship Project Report in the final placement interview and in depth questions about on it can be expected. Hence, the Project Report should be perceived as a critical tool which signals a students potential to the recruiter. BIMTECH expects every student to take this activity very seriously and turn in an excellent Project Report at the end of internship. 2. DURATION Barring the PGDM (SDP) programme, the duration of the summer training project for all the other streams (PGDM, IB, IBM and RM) will be for the two months between 15th April to 15th June 2012. 3. OBJECT COMPANY Students should aim at working with companies who provide challenging learning opportunities rather than make their decision on the basis of hometown convenience or stipend. 4. COMPANIES FOR SUMMER PROJECT CCR will strive to bring to the notice of students summer project opportunities available at different companies from the month of November onwards or even earlier.

Students are also permitted to pursue summer internship projects in companies which

are identified by them on their own, subject to the approval of faculty mentor chosen by them. may approach CCR for allocation of companies/organizations.

Those students who are without viable summer projects in their hand as on 1st February
5. SUMMER INTERNSHIP WORKSHOP Between the months from January to March, two/three interactive workshops will be held in the campus to give detailed guidelines and a roadmap to students on the nitty gritty of summer projects, the dos and donts etc. Students will also have occasion to interact with executives from corporates in the workshop; will be told as to what is expected of them during their internship, the needs of the industry etc. Attendance will be compulsory for all the workshops.

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-26. FACULTY ALLOCATION, REPORTING & SUPERVISION Prior to finalization of a particular faculty as the academic mentor, students should submit one A4 size page note to the mentor as to the proposed area of research, intent and objective of the summer project. The academic mentor would give approval for being the mentor if he/she is satisfied with the students submission after assessing the potential learning opportunity and commitment of the student. Students should give their write-ups well in time so that the mentor has adequate opportunity to go through them.

Students are advised to access BIMTECHs Knowledge Portal (see website) as well as
TATTVA for guidance on model Summer Project Report.

Students are free to choose any faculty from the domain area of the project from
amongst the regular BIMTECH faculty (including the adjunct faculty) as their academic guide/mentor.

Not more than 10 students can register under any one faculty as a mentor for summer

internship. The date from which summer internship can be registered with a faculty mentor will be announced by the CCR. The basis of selection will be first come, first served if more than 10 students apply for registration with any one faculty mentor. (The aim is to provide adequate attention for each student.) for the week. This e- report should be submitted to the faculty mentor on the first working day of the ensuing week. Irregular / habitual late submission will entail a penalty up to 5 marks. the academic mentor before finalization of the project topic and the title of the project. The student is expected to be in telephonic contact with the academic mentor at least two to three times a month.

Students will be given a reporting format which will record the activities, date/day wise

The internee shall arrange for a telephonic discussion between the industry mentor and

The faculty mentor would be making at least one visit to the workplace of the student for
meeting with the industry mentor to review the progress made by the student and also to build up long term relationship between BIMTECH and the company. entrusted to an outside expert for detailed scrutiny to assess the overall quality of the project report. Closing Date / Needed Unit 23rd 2012 April,

On a random basis, at least one completed project report per academic mentor would be

7. DATE SCHEDULE Sr. No 1 2 3 Milestones (Internship period 15th April to 15th June 2012) Project subject/topic finalization First draft of synopsis Contact details of industry guide to be given to

4th May, 2012 4th May, 2012

Mr. Jai Singh (jaisingh@bimtech.ac.in) 4 5 6 7 Final synopsis submission First draft of the Project Report to Faculty Mentor [soft copy] Final draft [soft copy] to Faculty Mentor A hard copy of the Final Report plus its C.D version to be presented to CCR in person by the student. (The student should also preserve a hard copy for reference at Viva Voce and the final placement.) 10th May, 2012 8th June, 2012 15th June, 2012 22nd June, 2012

Note: (i) Outstation students should make their travel plans well in advance so as to meet the above deadline for submission of final report to CCR. (ii) The final Project Report should contain (a) the photostat copy of the industry mentors certificate and (b) the original copy of the faculty mentors certificate without which the report will not be accepted by CCR.

Those students who submit their project reports complete in all respects to CCR on or
before 20th June, 2012 will earn a bonus of 5 marks. Late submission (on or after 24 hours) past the due date will attract a penalty of 5 marks. [Issued by CCR Dt. 30/12/2011]