1st year students in IIT-B will undergo pre-internship
To get students excited about research, IIT Bombay, for the first time, plans to introduce “pre-internship” opportunities for first year students this year.
The students will get to work with faculties on specific projects, and the aim is to make them understand that even academics and research can be challenging. The initiative will start this year.
“We are still working on how to implement it. We have several hi-tech labs across the campus. The idea is that for the first time, students in the first year will get to do an apprenticeship within IIT Bombay at one of its labs. They will get to see the culture and know what happens at the institute,” said S Biswas, dean of academic programmes at IIT Bombay.
Currently, students get to do internship at the end of second year or third year.
It will be made competitive for the students and not everyone will be selected.
“It may be inter-disciplinary and students may get a chance to work in an area that interests them. For instance, a computer science student, who is also interested in chemical engineering, may get to work in that area,” said Biswas.
This is one among many initiatives being planned by the institute. All post graduate students of IIT Bombay, who attend conferences abroad and get to showcase their projects and research and development work, will now be explaining the same to the first year students.
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