Submission
Information and Due Dates
Submit
the report and evaluation forms are
due by 5:00 PM on the Thursday of the last week of classes each semester you are
completing an Internship. The
report and evaluations must be mailed to:
All
reports within one week late will be reduced one letter grade, reports between
one and two weeks late will be reduced two letter grades, reports received after
two weeks will be an automatic failure.
Report
Format and Length
The
report must be typed (double-spaced), using your best grammar, and be 5-6 pages
in length. You must have a cover
page in an identical format to the example provided below, which includes a
signature line that must be signed by your supervisor to signify that the report
does not contain company proprietary information. You must include an abstract
as the first page of your report.
An abstract is not an introduction; it is a brief (50-70 words) summary
of your report.
Course
Grade and Credits
Your
internship advisor in your major will assign a letter grade based on your report
and your employer evaluations. Your
graded reports can be picked up from your department.
Reports
per the following guidelines must be submitted each and every semester that you
are completing internship experiences.
If you would prefer to do a project different than the basic report (a
plant tour, a presentation, etc.), project proposals will be considered by the
intern advisor in your major.
Cover
Page:
The following information must be provided in the top left-hand
corner:
Name
Option
(AS or BS)
IST 295B or IST 495
Internship
Semester and Year
Employer
and Employer Location
“I
will be returning to campus:” Semester you will return
“My
on-campus address will be:” On-campus address
Centered
on the page should be the report title in big bold
letters.
Below
this title should be the following statement and location for your supervisors
signature:
I
have read this internship report and agree that it contains no proprietary
information and it may be submitted to the IST Internship Program at Penn
State.
Supervisor
Signature: __________________________________
Supervisor
Title: ______________________________________
IST X95
Internship Report Content
In your
report, you should talk about the company where you worked, the actual work you
did as an intern, and your overall impressions about your experience as an
intern.
(Please
note: If you are doing a second or
third semester of IST 495, you don’t need to talk much about the company;
instead, focus on the type of work you did and your impressions of
it.)
The company
at which you worked:
1.
Describe the
company or corporation at which you worked. (If your division is part of a large
parent corporation, describe the parent corporation here.) What are its namve and the location of
its headquarters? How many
employees doe it have (worldwide)?
How large are the U.S. and the world markets (annual sales volume in
dollars)?
2.
If your
division is part of a large parent corporation, describe the division in which
you worked. Where is it
located? How does the division fit
into the parent corporation, with respect to products and market? How large is your division compared to
the parent corporation (number of employees and annual
budget)?
3.
What is/are
the major product(s) of the division or company in which your worked? What is the intended use of this
product? Who are the major
competitors (U.S. and worldwide) for the products made by your division or
company?
4.
In which
department or unit did you work? What is the primary responsibility of the
department? How large (number of
employees) is your department?
5.
How well did
the company assist you in adjusting to your job? Did they help you find housing? Did they provide an orientation? Were your duties and their expectations
clearly explained?
Your
internship work assignment:
1.
Describe a
typical day at your internship assignment.
What kind of work did you do?
2.
Describe the
project(or projects) on which you worked.
How much supervisory help did you get? Were fellow workers helpful in answering
your questions? To what degree were
you expected to answer your own questions?
3.
Did you use
any skills learned in your PSU courses?
Did you feel that you were lacking particular technical abilities
necessary for your assignment? If
so, in what course(s) would you expect to learn these
skills?
Your overall
internship experience:
1.
Has this
assignment motivated you to remain in the IST Internship
program?
2.
What advice
would you give to a student who is ready to start his/her internship
assignment:
3.
How could
the IST Internship program be improved (both at Penn State and at the
company)?