Industrial placements for engineering students
Introduction
This guide is aimed at academics and other staff involved with the provision of placements for engineering students. It provides practical advice about developing links with industry and setting up appropriate placement opportunities for students. Students will gain more from their placement if properly prepared and advice is given about how they can be supported both before and during the placement. Health and safety issues are addressed briefly, with links to further information and checklists. The guide discusses issues relating to the assessment of placements and provides some examples of approaches taken by universities.
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Acknowledgements
This guide is based on content from the Industrial Placements Guide published by the Engineering Subject Centre and based on the work undertaken by the Educational Quality in Placements in Engineering (EQUIPE) Project’s consortium partners at Loughborough University, University of Bath, Aston University and the University of Surrey. The EQUIPE Project was sponsored by the Higher Education Funding Council for England through the Fund for the Development of Teaching and Learning.
The precepts of Section 9 of the Code of practice for the assurance of academic quality and standards in higher education (2007) have been reproduced with kind permission of The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA).
Edited by Richard Newman, Debra Lilley and Adam Crawford, engCETL, Loughborough University and Carol Arlett, Engineering Subject Centre.
Individual institutions are welcome to customise this guide for their own purposes provided that credit is given to the original authors and that it is not used for commercial purposes.
A separate guide for employers is available from the Engineering Subject Centre website www.engsc.ac.uk/downloads/employers-guide-on-placements.pdf
