Key words
Internship, IWETO code S136 Transport law, T003 Transport technology, S190 Management, P175 IT
Objectives
Internship allows students to have practical experience.
Knowledge, skills and attitudes taught in three years' training are developed further and are tested in the field.
General and job-related skills are developed further:- Exploration of theoretical basis
- Skills in interpersonal relationships, teamwork, handling information, dealing with tasks, functioning on, a personal level, reasoning skill and administrative skills
Writing a paper teaches students to make a report on their own.
Reports need to e limited to essentials wherever necessary and conclusions have to be unambiguous, clear and consistent.
Internship lasts sufficiently long for students to be able to put themselves into a job situation. Students get a view of employment possibilities after three years' training and they have the required application skills.
Topics
Internship lasts 3 months, from March through May. Internship may be in a transport company, a distribution centre, the logistics or import / export department of a company.
Students will work on their own and be of assistance in, e.g.:- Shipping
- Customs
- Transport management
- Transport insurance
- Administration
Students keep a logbook of their internship, describing in short any relevant activities during internship and giving a short personal assessment. Moreover, students write a paper on a subject determined in consultation with mentor and coach.
The paper consists of a practical study linked to subjects in Logistics Management and should have added value for students in their curriculum. It will be 'handed' in at the department in electronic form, along with 3 hard copies.
Students also give a copy to the provider of the internship.
Application training will allow students to get to know several jobs for which they were trained and to practice application for jobs.
Prerequisites
Students have the knowledge, skills and attitudes taught in their training.
Final Objectives
Skills:- Discerning problems
- Logical thinking
- Understanding of complex situations
- Being communicative to internal and external customers
- Efficiently checking gathered information and documents for their correctness, completeness and topicality, highlighting bottlenecks and making improvements. Wherever necessary: act to reach improvement.
- Choosing from different modes of transport and drafting, entering and following up route planning
- Drawing up technical files
- Applying rules of deontology proper to the profession
- Arriving at a precise description of the problem by listening and asking questions and discerning main from side issues
Attitudes:- Commitment
- Integrity
- Sense of cooperation
- Being customer-oriented
- Creative talent
- Eye for quality
- Meticulousness
- Eagerness to learn
- Self-reliance
- Discretion
- Awareness of image
- Being service-oriented
- Sociability
- Flexibility
- Order and neatness
- Being goal-oriented
- Working according to plan
- Assertiveness
- Perseverance
- Self-reliance
- Awareness of quality, loyalty, assertiveness in contacts with the employer
- Alertness to confidentiality
- Willingness to take responsibility
- Commercial view, empathy, persuasiveness and awareness of quality in customer contacts
- Assertiveness, empathy, loyalty, solidarity, sense of cooperation in colleague contacts
- Service orientation to customers and fellow workers
- Handling conflicts
- Being selective in information
- Practical attitude
- An eye for detail, without losing oneself in them
- Distilling relevant or goal-oriented information
- Precision in questioning
- Ability to act with perseverance and responsibility
- Willingness for lifelong learning in the field
- Having a diplomatic approach
- Sociability within a company context
- Coping with stress
- Problem solving work attitude
- Willingness to get advice
- Critical attitude
- Assessment of one's own capacity when limits of competence or knowledge are crossed.
Materials used
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Personal coaching by a coach (lecturer) and a mentor (company)
Study costs
Transport to site of internship
Expenses involved in the production of the paper
Expenses for the application seminar (approx. €160)
Any costs linked with internship, including the medical examination, are at the students' expense.
Study guidance
Teaching Methods
Students are involved in logistics workplaces in their companies. After a short introduction period, they are urged to work on their own in logistics functions.
Students analyse activities they can partake in and do research or make a study that could be useful for the firm.Internship activities should lead to a paper in which 3 aspects occur:- A description of the student's internship activities
- A critical discussion of the department or service
- Research or a study linked with their company or a subject suggested by the coach
The internship company determines the language of communication.
The paper is written in Dutch (in principle), unless otherwise agreed upon.
Assessment
First exam session:
Assessment has two aspects:·
Second exam session:
Students who did get at least 10 / 20 for either exam does not have to do this part of the exam again in the second session of the same academic year. They do have to be re-examined on the part for which they got less than 10 / 20, otherwise they will be considered to have been absent for the entire examination.
Students registered for the examinations only:
Lecturer(s)
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