The internship for the master degree in Data Science and Engineering is an activity carried out in a company. The activities carried out during the internships are oriented towards the development of technical and practical methods, relevant to the course of study and applied to realistic cases relating to the company proposing the traineeship. As part of the internship, problems relating to management and activity in the corporate team, mechanisms and the development of real impact solutions with effective technological advancement are supported by the joint cooperation between the company and the Polytechnic. Companies have the opportunity to offer internships throughout the academic year. The internship proposals will be subject to approval by the Traineeships Commission (made up of the internship Referents of the courses of study) which will decide whether or not to make them visible to the students. The internship corresponds to 12 credits (300 hours of activity). At the end of the internship, the company will have to produce an evaluation of the same to be forwarded to referente.tirocini.lm.icm@polito.it prof. Luca Sterpone indicating an assessment of the specific skills acquired and the skills developed / difficulties encountered during the activity carried out.

The internship experience is only allowed upon reaching 48 ECTS. If the proposals received by the companies are positively evaluated, they will be made visible to students from the teaching portal through the Career Service Office. After having submitted the application for the internship and passed the selection with the company, it will be necessary to send an email to the internship referent of the course of study to obtain the approval for starting the activity. The actual student-company matching must in fact be agreed with the Internship Commission. The tutor of the internship may be proposed by the student or indicated by the Internship Commission. Only after confirmation by email of the internship referent of the course of study, students will have to modify their personal study plan at the Student Secretariat and insert the internship activity in their personal study plan in substitution of the Free ECTS credits. The internship contact will send a communication to the Didactic Secretariat, with the Career Service Office in cc, so that this change can be correctly inserted. Students who have applied for an internship proposal, but who have not received approval of the application, will in no way be able to start the internship and make requests to change their personal study plan. The Commission will also evaluate the internship proposals received by students which will be approved only if the internship experience will be considered adequate.

Instructions on the platform through which students can insert their internship project and track/report the internship progress till its completion, can be found at: https://didattica.polito.it/pdf/Procedura_Lato_Studente.pdf Extending the duration of your internship. Internships have a given duration (hours) and provide a certain number of credits as specified in the annual personal study plan. You can extend the duration of your internship (number of hours) by selecting one of the options available in the field “Expected no. of hours”. You can only do this operation before the beginning of your internship and not while you are doing it. In any case, you cannot do more than 900 hours (maximum amount of hours may vary for each study course). Any request to extend the duration of an internship must be decided together with the Host Company. It MUST also be approved by a Polito faculty member (your Academic Tutor or the Internship Coordinator for your degree programme) who may reject your proposal. In this case, you need to make a new proposal and fill out a new “Progetto Formativo”. If your “Progetto Formativo” is approved, it means that the extension of your internship and the extra hours have been accepted too. At the end of an internship with extended duration, you will see that the internship is recorded in your transcript as follows: INTERNSHIP with standard hours/credits in accordance with the rules of your degree programme (i.e., 6 credits/ 150 hours) plus the annotation “curricular internship extension” with your extra hours/credits. These credits will be recorded in your transcript as credit overload (they do not count towards the 120-credit threshold required for Master’s graduation)

Modalità di esame: Accertamento (esame senza voto);

Exam: Check;

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Gli studenti e le studentesse con disabilità o con Disturbi Specifici di Apprendimento (DSA), oltre alla segnalazione tramite procedura informatizzata, sono invitati a comunicare anche direttamente al/la docente titolare dell'insegnamento, con un preavviso non inferiore ad una settimana dall'avvio della sessione d'esame, gli strumenti compensativi concordati con l'Unità Special Needs, al fine di permettere al/la docente la declinazione più idonea in riferimento alla specifica tipologia di esame.