STUDENT GUIDE
(2024 - 2025)
Bachelor's degree programme in
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING (change programme)
Location: Torino
Class: INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
Internship
Internships are offered to students as the first real chance to gain experience in the world of work. An internship gives you the opportunity to put into practice what you have learned during your studies and it will help you decide about your future professional career. Politecnico di Torino promotes internships and guarantees insurance coverage both for civil liability and occupational injuries.

Before starting an internship, you need to include it in your Personal Study Plan/Annual Personal Study Plan in the academic year in which you would like to do your internship. Students wishing to carry out an internship must complete the training project from their personal page on the education portal, stage section.

Information on the online process to submit the training project and to track its progress until its conclusion, together with the general rules to undertake the internship, can be found at the following link > CURRICULAR INTERNSHIPS.
University Regulations on curricular internships and practical evaluation internships can be found HERE
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Additional information:
  • Both face-to-face and remote internships are permitted; however,you cannot undertake the internship completely remotely unless expressly stated in the course guidelines. The study course may therefore specify the maximum percentage of remote activity allowed. Unless indicated, the internship may be carried out in mixed mode without further constraints.
  • Since the internship consists of a newly formulated activity, no internship activities already carried out or in progress will be recognised. However, you can always apply for recognition of professional skills as free credits by following the procedure indicated in the section Free choise credits - Other learning activities.
Check the guidelines to apply for a curricular internship
Prerequisites
You can apply for a curricular internship upon reaching at least 100 credits
You can carry out your curricular internship at public and private companies/organizations, in Italy or abroad, at the Polytechnic of Turin as well as other unviersities.
How to put it in the PSP/APSP and undertake the internship
CREDITS/HOURS WORKLOAD
6 credits/150 hours 
TYPE OF ACITIVITY 
elective
INCLUSION IN THE PLAN OF STUDY AND ANNUAL STUDY PLAN
to be requested via email to the Internship Coordinator following up the procedure below
TO START THE INTERNSHIP
  • choose the host insitution you intend to undertake the internship with and and make sure that it is affiliated with the Polytechnic; 
  • choosethe person who will serve as your academic tutor from among the teaching staff in the College of your study course and make sure they accept the role, then ask the host institution to send an email to the Internship Coordinator, including in copy you, in which the company declares its availability to host the internship, specifying the content of the activity and the expected time period to host the you as an intern;
  • request via email to the Internship Coordinator, the inclusion of the internship and the name and code of the eventual elective course to be replaced;
  • complete the training project from the personal page in the internship section > new project, when the internship is included in the course load.
 REPLACING THE ELECTIVE COURSE WITH THE INTERNSHIP
yes, you can replace with the internship the third year elective course 
Completion and registration
For the conclusion and registration, refer to the information provided on the website in the page related to curricular Internships, in Italy or abroad, section "Developing and ending of the Internship".
The study course has defined the requirement for writing a report (maximum 10 pages) on the activity performed, to be uploaded in the system at the end of the internship.
Internship Coordinator: Prof. Stefano PASTORELLI (stefano.pastorelli@polito.it)
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