An internship is a period of time in which you are offered a position in a company or an origination to work with them. internship can be done with businesses, non-profit organizations and government agencies. It’s done to gain knowledge and relevant work experience, generally by undergraduate or graduate student for a period of few months ranging from 1 to 3.
TYPES: 1. Research Internship
2. Industrial Internship
RESEARCH INTERNSHIP
- Institute:
- IIT: The premier institutes offer one off the best opportunity for student to work along with best professors of country. They generally offer internship in engineering domain. The institute offers fellowship programs for pre-final years and for post graduate students.
- NIT: Most of the NITs also offer internship in field of engineering and science. But, only a few of them have fellowship programs unlike IITs. The quality of work is as good as and other premier institute. Internship in these colleges is relatively easy to get as there is less competition.
- IISC: This institute is rated as the best research institute of India by majority of organisations and reports. This is reflected in the quality of work they do and the amount of applications they receive for just a few opening positions for internship. I can say this is the toughest to get into, but once you get selected the work experience will be worth it.
- ISI: Indian Statistical Institute is one of India’s best mathematics dedicated research institute. They generally accept students for working on statistical projects on various topics. As the name suggest, the work done there is mathematics heavy and you are expected to be good in number crunching if you want to work there.
- IIST: Indian Institute of Space and technology is in Kerala and is India’s only space and technology dedicated research institute. Surprisingly there isn’t much of competition for internship there but still the number of applicants is high every year. Person from aerospace or Mechanical will definitely have and advantage in such institute.
- NISER | IISER: these are top Science research colleges of India. They are known for basic sciences studies. Interested students with high motivation for science study here. Getting internship here is not as easy as it seems initially.
- IIM | ISB: they are undoubling the best management and business schools of India. Internship in these college is one of the dream intern an Indian student can get. You can expect a lot of exposure to business world once you get an intern there.
- Apply:
- Mail: You have to mail the professor a few months prior to your holiday beginning. Your main focus in the mail should be to convince the professor that you have genuine interest in the subject and are highly motivated to work in that field. Some tips for improving your chances are;
- Find out the professor with area of interest, similar to yours.
- Try to find out the ways you can contribute to their projects.
- Convince the professor that you are the perfect fit for any requirement on project.
- Keep your mail properly structured and short. Remember, prof. don’t have enough time to read lengthy mails. Most of the time they don’t even open it and all your effort goes in vain.
- Keep following up your mail at regular time. This shows them that you are not just spamming, and you are genuinely interested in working with him/her.
- Mail: You have to mail the professor a few months prior to your holiday beginning. Your main focus in the mail should be to convince the professor that you have genuine interest in the subject and are highly motivated to work in that field. Some tips for improving your chances are;
NOTE: Don’t give up! Getting a positive reply from professors can take ages. As I said, most of them don’t even open your mail and even if they do, they generally don’t reply. You should keep looking out for opportunity and find similar professors with similar interests and mail them.
- Fellowship Program: Most of the colleges have this fellowship program for proper and formal intake of interns for assisting researchers/ Professors on their projects. They will release the notice a few months prior to the start date. Follow the institute website and keep looking out for any notice from that institute. The process will be simple and will require a few official signatures from your college staffs. Your selection in such process is mainly dependent on your statement of purpose and CGPA.
- Meeting In person: Students and professors don’t generally like this option. Meeting professors directly can be little tricky. The professors can take a small test of you right at that moment and you will not have any time to prepare. If you impress him then you might get an intern the same instant and if you fail, then you will lose it altogether. Keep this your last option.
- Work:
- Civil: 1). Research Paper
2). Enhancement of existing system like equipment’s and methods.
3). Designing Feature and Structures for new and existing system.
3.2. CSE: 1). Making Algorithm more efficient.
2). Website and App development.
3). Machine Learning and A.I Modelling.
3.3. General: 1). Research paper
2). Assisting professor in lab work and on ongoing projects.
- 4. Benefits:
4.1. Recommendation letter from Professor.
4.2. Huge benefits for student aspiring for higher studies.
4.3. An opportunity for students who wish to go into research fields.
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