GTU makes 6 months internship compulsory for engineering students

Students who fail to complete their internship will not be handed over their degree certificates. 

The Gujarat Technological University (GTU) has made six months internship compulsory for its engineering students. The internship has to be done under the guidance of a mentor and will carry a weightage of 12 credit points. 

The decision will affect over 30,000 final-year engineering students. To begin with, 12,000 students, who are currently in the final year of civil and mechanical engineering courses, will have to adhere to the new internship format. Students who fail to complete their internship will not be handed over their degree certificates, reported Ahmedabad Mirror. 

Students received certificates sans internship 

GTU Vice-Chancellor Navin Sheth said the decision was taken in wake of various complaints regarding discrepancies in the current internship format at the university. Students who did not even complete the internship and visited the company irregularly received certificates from the company and their colleges. 

Additionally, there were complaints that students instead of making projects bought them from the market. Sheth said these practices had to stop and future engineers needed to get practical exposure to using modern technology. 

Website to track students’ progress at company  

The university has partnered with various engineering firms and associations to develop a website to register students and report their weekly progress from the company and the college. 

It has also partnered with Gujarat Contractor’s Association (GCA) that has more than 3,500 firms under its umbrella, for providing internships to the students. GCA’s chairman Arvind Patel said most of the students who were coming out of engineering colleges were not job-ready. While internships were compulsory on papers, they so far had not been implemented effectively. 

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