Professional Internship

Subject: 2023/2024 - 1S

Programmes

Hours Effectively Taught

Aims, Skills and Learning Outcomes

The professional internship report consists of a work of description and reflection on the activities developed within the scope of a professional internship carried out in a company or organization, approved for this purpose by the Scientific Committee of Masters. It should describe the functions performed and tasks performed, in the light of a brief theoretical and methodological framework.

Programme

Considering the specific nature of the professional internship, the realization of professional internships by interested students must comply with the following set of rules:

1. The internship is a job accompanied by initiation into qualified professional activity;

2. This activity is carried out in an entity, public or private, with which the ISAG establishes a collaboration protocol aiming at training objectives for this purpose, and during its execution, the existence of any employment relationship between this entity and the intern;

3. The management of this protocol must originate, for each student-intern, the detailed definition of their work plan, start and end date of the internship, number of hours of duration and nomination of the professional supervisor of the internship in this entity;

4. This training program is organized by the Master's Scientific Committee, and must have a minimum duration of 400 hours, and be carried out within a maximum period of 6 months;

5. The ISAG will appoint, upon proposal of the Scientific Committee of the Masters, a follow-up professor who will ensure the connection with the entity where the internship takes place and will monitor the intern's work.

6. The internship report must respect the following structure:

the introduction

b) (Short) Technical and scientific framework

c) Diagnosis of the company/organization and the problem

d) Methodology, activities developed and contributions to the organization

e) Reflection and self-assessment of the work

f) Conclusion

Learning Methods

1. The completion of the internship is guided by doctors or specialists of recognized experience and professional competence, national or foreign.
2. The appointment of supervisors will be made by the Technical-Scientific Council, upon proposal of the Scientific Committee of Masters, after hearing the master's students and supervisors to be appointed.
3. The appointment of a professional advisor, as representative of the organization hosting the internship, is mandatory.
4. The supervisors must monitor the progress of the work, periodically meeting with the respective mentees or, alternatively, ensuring the existence of any other means of communication, in order to help the student to achieve the goals set.
5. The supervisor is responsible for ensuring the adequate depth and scientific content of the work, as well as ensuring compliance with the defined presentation standards.
6. The student must deliver to the advisor a copy of the version of the work considered final up to 15 days before the deadline for the delivery of the professional internship report, so that the advisor can pronounce itself in time for the student to make some final corrections.
7. The Master's internship report is individual.
8. Students who meet the following conditions will be unable to defend the final work:
a) Flagrant and/or systematic disrespect for the rules and principles contained in the Guide for the Preparation of Final Papers for Master's Degrees, approved by the Technical-Scientific Council of ISAG;
b) Detection of copying, plagiarism or any other type of fraud. In this case, the student will fail the course in this academic year, and will be subject to the disciplinary procedure provided for in the ISAG Disciplinary Regulation.
9. The formalities and dates contained in the schedule of the Masters Final Works Guide must be respected.

Assessment Components

Avaliação apenas com exame final

Assessment Components

Proofs and special works

Improvement of final grade

There is no possibility of grade improvement.