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-In your studies an industrial internship is mandatory, but may be replaced by other modules, see below.
+====Industrial internship====
-Some facts about the internship:
-  - You must provide a Prof. of the department willing to act as a supervisor. When looking for this Prof. please go by the topic/field of the company ideally matching the research field of the Prof.
+In your studies you may include an intership within the core subject area.
+  - You must provide a Prof. of the department willing to act as a supervisor. When looking for this Prof. please go by the topic/field of the company ideally matching the research field of the Prof. You may contact potential supervisors by telephone, by email or in person. For details on which persons may act as supervisors [[thesis|please see here]].
   - It must be done in a German company. In case of large companies and upon request to the examination board it may also be done at a European branch. Please note that anyway point [1] must be fulfilled.
   - Duration is defined as "at least 10 weeks". This means it can be longer, of course, but not shorter, of course.
+  - Should a company ask for a letter stating that this internship is part of curriculum please forward the text asking for it to Master-MatEng@rwth-aachen.de.
+**Please note that work experience from the time before your studys at RWTH may not be recognized.**
+**Please note that the intership must ce carried out in industry.
+Internships in research facilities are not acknowledged. In this case you may opt for a mini thesis instead.**
+===When to do the internship===
+The industrial internship is foreseen in the elective field in the third semester (Winter semester). However, as with thesis work it may be done whenever it fits into your individual study plan.
+Thus, you may do it in the lecture-free period as well as during the lectures.
 __
 How to register/get the credit points:__
-- **No registration prior to the internship required**.
+  * **No registration prior to the internship required**.
-- You find a supervizing Professor of our department.
+  * You find a supervising Professor of our department.
-- You do the internship.
+  * The supervisor signs the registration form (multipurpose form from www.muw.rwth-aachen.de).
-Afterwards, you make an appointment with your supervisor for an oral presentation.
+  * You do the internship.
-- The supervisor confirms the internship in your workbook.
+  * Afterwards, you make an appointment with your supervisor for an oral presentation (colloquium).
-- You present the workbook to ZPA and get the CP.
+  * The supervisor confirms the internship and the colloquium on the form above and sends it to ZPA. The internship is not graded, just acknowledged.
+  * The Examination Board is not involved.
+===Proof of mandatory internship in the curriculum===
+The industrial internship is listed in the core selection field of the curriculum. In consequence, if you opt for an internship it becomes a mandatory part of your curriculum.
+The proof is to be found in the examination rules in the RWTH OFficial Announcements.
+Please note that in accordance with the rules a maximum duration of the internship ist not defined. It has to be a minimum of 10 weeks but may also take 6 months or even longer.
+In case a company asks for a confirmation by letter please forward the request to [[master.mateng@rwth-aachen.de]]. Should the company request a definition of the maximum duration this may not be issued (see above). In this case you will have to find an alternative company.
-__The intership may be exchanged by:__
+===Confidentiality in internships===
-  - An intership in a research center rather than in industry, e. g. in FZ Jülich or a Max-Planck institute or a Fraunhofer institute. Please not you need a supervisor (see above) and an application to the examination board to be permitted to do this.
+A potential internship host company may ask for confidentiality of content of the internship. This can be achieved by a non-disclosure agreemnet between the company and the supervizing institute/Prof. However, that means that the Prof. significantly narrows down his research field without a proper scientific research cooperation on the basis of a student´s work. This may happen but is highly unlikely.
-  - A so-called "second" mini-thesis. The name "second" does not imply that you need to have accomplished your regular "first" mini thesis first. This thesis has to be experimental since it replaces a practical internship! To make it absolutely clear: A pure simulation work or a literature survey are not complying to this rule.You still need to find a Prof. and apply to the examination board.
+Since there is **no report and no publication** but only a certificate of the company to be issued declaring the duration and the rough content of the internship there is no need for confidentiality regulations. Even the presentation at the supervizing Prof.´s institute may be carried out exclusively with the Prof. alone.
+Thus, there is no need for any type of regulations.
+Should the company insist then this internship would turn impossible and students need to opt for any other subject from the core selection catalogue or for a min thesis. [[blog:thesis|For conidentiality in theses see here.]]