Industrial Internships

The Faculty encourages graduate students to undertake internships of work within industry. These internships will allow students either (a) to focus on the practicalities of an already determined research project or (b) to develop and define a research project from a need that arose during the internship. Encouragement to undertake an internship will be given only where it is clear that one of these expectations can be met.

Students registered in the M.Eng. program may, with the permission of their supervisor, the dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, and the dean of Graduate Studies, select the industrial internship option. Students registered in this option must satisfy the degree requirements for an M.Eng. program, in addition to the following:

Must take at least nine credit hours of the courses required for their program on campus. The remaining required courses may be taken on or away from campus. Those taken at other universities require pre-approval from the dean of Graduate Studies on the recommendation of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science.
Shall normally spend eight to 12 months of their program at an industrial internship.
Shall normally spend at least two semesters on campus on a full-time basis as a graduate student of this university.
Shall submit a concise progress report to their supervisors no later than the end of each semester while on an internship.

For more information please contact the office of the Associate Dean (Graduate Studies and Research).