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Introduction
In management education, students have to undergo a Summer Internship Project (SIP) in organizations to enhance learning and experience current work practices. SIP is a simulation of the business environment and enables students to experience the rigors of a business organization.
An insight to the organizations which offer projects, the type of projects that they offer, the inferences that the student have been able to draw and the quality-applicability of the projects that the student has been able to achieve, etc. are important factors which need to observed and learnt from. SIP can also give important leads to the management institution to develop corporate interactions, management education and development programs and placements in the future based on these learning.
Each project is unique in its own way, and therefore it is imperative that the knowledge that is built is captured so that it can be of utility to students, faculty and the organizations. This knowledge can be captured and maintained in a digital library, so that there is sharing and learning from it.
Summer Internship Project at ICFAI Business School, Ahmedabad
The ICFAI Business School (IBS), Ahmedabad offers a two year full-time PG program in Business Administration. All students are required to undergo the SIP after the successful completion of the second semester.
The nature of the SIP depends upon the functional area the student is assigned to work, the type of organization, the organizational priorities etc. The types of projects students have been assigned are market research, feasibility studies, consumer awareness of specific products, product launching, business process studies etc
The orientation of SIP is not only academic research and report but making the students work on real tasks and get exposed to corporate work culture and environments. It provides students with opportunities to apply the concepts learnt in the classroom to real-life situations, to sensitize them to the nuances of a work place by assigning time-bound projects in a company.
The SIP has duration of 16 weeks with no parallel academic activity. SIP emphasizes faculty supervision during the project and the evaluation of the student's work with active involvement and supervision by the company guide at the organization. The student is required to submit periodical reports in prescribed formats and a final...