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Internship
17FWYSM
A.A. 2024/25
Course Language
Inglese
Degree programme(s)
Master of science-level of the Bologna process in Data Science And Engineering - Torino
Course structure
| Teaching | Hours |
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Lecturers
| Teacher | Status | SSD | h.Les | h.Ex | h.Lab | h.Tut | Years teaching |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apiletti Daniele | Professore Associato | IINF-05/A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Co-lectures
Context
| SSD | CFU | Activities | Area context | *** N/A *** | 12 | D - A scelta dello studente | A scelta dello studente |
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2024/25
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.
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.
You can do a curricular internship only as an integral part of the final examination. For this reason, you need to request the subdivision of the thesis credits (30 CFU) into 18 CFU Thesis and 12 CFU Internship. Please note that the Thesis and the Internship must focus on the same topic. However, it is recommended to keep the 30 CFU thesis and only include the internship when a thesis agreement with the company/institution can't be found.
To add the internship to your Annual Personal Study Plan, you need to send an e-mail to segreteria.collegioICM@polito.it asking to split the Thesis credits into Thesis and Internship, sending the following information:
NAME OF THE COMPANY AND OF THE COMPANY TUTOR;
NAME OF THE STUDY COURSE AND OF THE ACADEMIC TUTOR;
INTERNSHIP DURATION;
INTERNSHIP DESCRIPTION (4 LINES).
Your request will be forwarded and evaluated by the Internship Coordinator of the your degree programme. Please note that the Coordinator will approve only internships that can be considered as true training experiences with a specific planning to be analysed more in depth in the thesis project.
After the approval, the Secretariat will send a communication to the Students Office. At this point you will visualize two modules in your APSP: 12 CFU Internship and 18 CFU Thesis.
You need to wait for the approval before you can start your internship and fill out your Training project.
* Data Science Eng.: the curricular internship takes the form of a training activity worth 12 CFU (free choice credits), corresponding to a workload of 300 hours at the host organisation. You are allowed to add the internship to your Annual Personal Study Plan only after earning at least 48 credits and with the prior authorization of the Internship Coordinator (follow the same procedure required for the separation of the thesis credits). At the end of the internship, you will have to write a report in agreement with the academic tutor.
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)
You can find the instructions about the platform that you need to use to upload your internship project and to report the internship progress till its completion at:
https://www.polito.it/en/education/applying-studying-graduating/internships-and-thesis/curricular-internships-in-italy
https://www.polito.it/en/education/applying-studying-graduating/internships-and-thesis/curricular-internship-abroad
An end-of- internship report is not required.
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 internshipand 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-credits threshold required for Master’s graduation).
Internship Coordinators:
Prof. Daniele APILETTI (Data Science and Engineering)
You are not allowed to obtain the recognition of activities that you have already carried out. The internship is considered as an activity formulated from scratch.
However, you are allowed to request the recognition of professional skills in substitution for your free choice credits. Please follow the procedure explained in the "Student Guide": free choice credits ---> other learning activities ---> other learning activities outside the University.
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.
Exam: Check;
In addition to the message sent by the online system, students with disabilities or Specific Learning Disorders (SLD) are invited to directly inform the professor in charge of the course about the special arrangements for the exam that have been agreed with the Special Needs Unit. The professor has to be informed at least one week before the beginning of the examination session in order to provide students with the most suitable arrangements for each specific type of exam.