A Practical Education in Cooperation with the Local Industries

A practical education in cooperation with the local industries has been introduced into the curricula of Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology since 1999. This program is usually referred to as the Internship. This paper presents the discussion about the preparation, the organization and the results of the internship program conducted in 2003. This is the SIST's fourth full-scale program following the preliminary trial in 1999. Fifty-two companies in the western part of Shizuoka Prefecture joined this plan by providing their own internship programs for over one-hundred students. Seventy-eight students participated in these programs and obtained varied experiences. Recent five-years' results of this program are summarized and the future prospect of this program is also presented.