The Effect of Internships on Computer Science Engineering Capstone Projects

Arturo, Jaime; Olarte, Juan J.; García‐Izquierdo, Francisco J.; Domínguez, César

doi:10.1109/te.2019.2930024

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“…This can be related to technical communication (Dansberry, 2012), writing both individually and, less so, collaboratively (Kreth, 2000), and finally oral communication (Renganathan et al, 2012). In some of the reviewed studies, students also reported an increase ability to manage their time (Anderson et al, 2011;Jaime et al, 2020;Kovalchuk et al, 2017) and organize/plan for themselves (Dansberry, 2012). As we can see, it is evident that WIL experiences are valuable, but as noted in Filfolt and Searby (2010), it is important to provide quality work experiences that are planned, substantial and occurring in real settings for them to be most effective.…”

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Surveying Design Skill Development in Work-Integrated Learning Experiences: A Review of the Literature

2021

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Work-integrated learning (WIL) is an educational approach that intentionally scaffolds work experiences throughout undergraduate education. This approach has been proven to provide many benefits to students, including increased grade point averages, better job prospects after graduation and skill development. As such, we expect WIL experiences to contribute to engineering student's ability to design, a central aspect of both engineering education and practice. We found little evidence of research related to WIL experiences in the design literature, so we conducted a secondary data analysis on 33 publications from engineering education literature focusing on student WIL experiences with design. The review found evidence of students using a design process and recognizing the importance of designing within context, focusing on health, safety and ethical concerns of being an engineering designer. However, there was little evidence found of what students actually designed (i.e., components, systems or processes). We highlight some interesting areas for future research, specifically for design researchers to investigate how student work experiences are contributing to their development of design knowledge, skills and abilities.

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Section: Other Competencies Gainedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Surveying Design Skill Development in Work-Integrated Learning Experiences: A Review of the Literature

2021

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“…El-Sheikh et al [13] presented an analytical cross-sectional research design (51 academic advisors and 424 students enrolled) in the faculty of nursing at Mansoura University to develop corrective actions and to improve the academic advising process through investigating the obstacles and solutions from the perspective of both academic advisors and students. According to Jaime et al [14], obstacles related to advisors scored higher than the obstacles from the students' point of view. Students' levels varied significantly with advisors' performance and obstacles but there was no significant correlation between advisors' performance and academic advising obstacles as observed by students.…”

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Considering Students’ Abilities in the Academic Advising Process

2020

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Academic advising is time-consuming work. At the same time, it needs to be efficient and productive in assisting the students to choose appropriate academic courses towards the completion of their selected programs in a beneficial manner. In addition, both private and public educational institutions are, currently, operating in an extremely competitive market and are, thus, faced with various challenges. Among these are the twin challenges of student retention and the rate of success in completion of their chosen academic courses. The mentioned challenges have a direct bearing on the quality of academic advising and services provided to the students, by the individual academic institution. A number of research studies have been carried out suggesting various online academic advising systems for undergraduate and graduate programs. In this context, we develop and present, here, an academic advising system which differs from and improves upon previously suggested methodologies with the inclusion of the facility to track individual students’ performance and, thus, ability in educational subjects and programs, taken in the previous academic terms. Our suggested methodology is based on the use of this facility to guide students in the selection of courses that they may register for the forthcoming academic term. We believe that the consideration of individual students’ past academic preformation, in our suggested methodology, is a significant improvement and will assist students in making more beneficial choices when registering for academic courses.

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“…In Australia, work integrated learning is a requirement for professional body accreditation of our computing degrees [1]. However, there are also many academic benefits and advantages to students undertaking internships as part of their degree [4]. Students who complete internships have been shown to achieve better academic results [2].…”

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Setting Students up to Succeed in Computing Internships

Sweetser

King

DeWan

2020

Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Australasian Computing Education Conference

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Work integrated learning and professional practice skills are fundamental to computer science education, in addition to forming a requirement for professional body accreditation of courses. The Australian National University (ANU) offers internship placements as a project-based work integrated learning opportunity for undergraduate and postgraduate students. The ANU Computer Science Internship Program is innovative in its design, as it provides three streams: (1) placement in a host organisation, (2) an academic project-based program, and (3) professional mentoring and support via workshops and peer circles. Students entering internship placements find themselves challenged by leaving the university to engage in work-integrated learning, and even more so if they are international students encountering foreign workplace culture. We support our students in managing and growing through these challenges by providing a supportive network, both academically and professionally. This paper reports on the design, development, ongoing improvements, challenges, and outcomes of our internship program.

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The Effect of Internships on Computer Science Engineering Capstone Projects

Cited by 17 publications

References 28 publications

Surveying Design Skill Development in Work-Integrated Learning Experiences: A Review of the Literature

Surveying Design Skill Development in Work-Integrated Learning Experiences: A Review of the Literature

Considering Students’ Abilities in the Academic Advising Process

Setting Students up to Succeed in Computing Internships

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