IWE-71318 BSc internship Irrigation and Water Engineering

Course

Credits 18.00

Language of instruction:

Dutch and/or English

Assumed knowledge on:

Students should have completed at least 100 ECTS of the BIL program, including the courses LDD-11806, IWE-21312, and YRM-21306 Research Methodology for Human Environment Interactions. Students are recommended to combine their internship with their BSc-thesis

Continuation courses:

BSc-thesis

Contents:

The BSc-internship is a supervised and structured working experience in a professional setting that enables students to gain practical and international experience in the field of land and water management. The internship should be of an academic level, which means that the student must perform an assignment according to a predefined proposal and workplan, resulting in a scientific report. Depending on the internship objectives, this scientific report can also be a project proposal, a policy plan, a design or research report etc. Crucial is that the scientific report reflects an academic level of thinking and scientific quality. In order to achieve this level, it is essential that before the start of the internship a proposal is written (including a workplan) by the student, consulting the WU supervisor and the host supervisor.
The data and information gathered during the internship can also be used for writing the BSc-thesis.

Learning outcomes:

An academic internship is a supervised, structured working experience, with the aim that the student: - applies the knowledge and skills, learned during the study in practical and real work situations in the domain of land and water management;
- acquires additional relevant knowledge, skills and insights in the workfield of irrigation and water management;
- learns to work independently and responsibly in an organisation or team;
- learns to know and deal with his/her own strengths, opportunities and weaknesses;
- gets acquainted in an intensive manner with the workfield of irrigation and water management, and with careers and employment possibilities in that workfield;
- evaluates ones own work and be able to accept and process criticism;
- writes an academic internship report, consisting of a reflection report and a content report.

Activities:

- writing and signing the BSc internship contract, including personal learning objectives;;
- execution of professional activities and research under the supervision of the host institution;
- collection and analysis of data and information pertaining to the research topic of the internship and the BSc-thesis;
- writing of a reflection and a content report.

Examination:

Based on the quality of the internship using the BIL BSc-internship evaluation forms

Literature:

Available on IWE websites http://www.iwe.wur.nl/UK/education/