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A. Industrial
Experience/Industrial Training – A Degree Requirement
B. Industrial
Training Arrangements and Details
C. Assessment of
Industrial Training
D. Training Safety
and Insurance
E. Exemption from Industrial
Training
F. Training
Certificates and Green Cards
G. Communication
Channels for Training at Hong Kong Polytechnic University
H. Enquiries
A.
Industrial
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A.1. Industrial Training vs Industrial Experience
For all BEng programs, Industrial
Experience or Industrial Training is a degree requirement. All students in these programs must complete
and pass the Industrial Experience course or Industrial Training course in
order to graduate.
Details of the corresponding UG Program degree requirements can be found at Program and Course Catalog.
A.1.1. For Students in the following Departments
·
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CIVL)
·
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE)
Students should complete the
prescribed industrial training program
by attending all the industrial training modules, submit and pass the Practical
Training Report required of each module, and submit and pass the overall Logbook. For details of exemption, please refer to
Section E Exemption from Industrial Training.
A.1.2. For Students
in the following Departments / Program
· Computer Science
and Engineering (CSE)
· Computer
Engineering (CPEG)
· Electronic and
Computer Engineering (ECE)
Students should fulfill the
requirements of the Industrial
Experience course by completing an approved
internship of no less than 6 weeks long.
Details of the internship have to be submitted on-line for the major
Department’s approval. Students who fail
to complete an approved internship can fulfill the requirement by completing
the prescribed industrial training program for that degree program.
A.1.3. For Students
in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics (IEDA)
Students can fulfill the degree
requirement by either completing the prescribed industrial training program or
completing an approved internship. Two (2) different courses are available for
the 2 pathways respectively – IEDA1990
Industrial Training and IEDA1991
Industrial Experience. Students must
seek approval from the IEDA Department before determining their pathway, and
seek their help with registering for the appropriate course.
A.1.4. For Students
in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE)
Students are required to complete an
approved internship or the required number of plant visits with satisfaction of
all related requirements. For details,
please consult the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering.
A.1.5. For Students with more than one major
If students enroll into more than
one BEng program, they must complete the industrial training or industrial
experience requirement of the additional major program. If a training module is a requirement for
both major programs at the same time, double-counting is allowed.
A.1.6. Contents of Industrial Training Programs
Click here for the contents of industrial training modules for each degree programs.
A.2. Course Registration
A.2.1. For all
Industrial Training Courses (except CIVL2020)
(does not apply to Industrial Experience
course)
Eligible students are pre-registered
for the relevant Industrial Training Course in the last term of their normative duration of study (which refers to the 8th Semester for students without transferred credits or the 10th Semester for dual degree program studnets without transferred credits). A final grade "P" will be awarded
to the students if they complete ALL training requirements by the end of that
semester. On the contrary, students will
be graded "F" if they fail to complete ALL training requirements by
the end of that semester. This
"F" grade will be permanently recorded on their official transcript. Those who do not plan to complete all training
requirements by the end of that semester can choose to drop the industrial
training course during the normal Course Registration Period or the Add/Drop
Period. Dropping the course would
require approval from the major Department and the Industrial Training Center
since industrial training is a degree requirement. However, by doing so, the students concerned will
not be eligible for graduation by the end of that term. It is the responsibility of the students
concerned to approach Industrial Training Center to complete the registration
when they are ready to complete the all training requirements.
Students who plan to graduate earlier than the normative period of study
must register for the industrial training course during the Course Registration
period of their anticipated graduating term.
Registration can only be done via ITC.
Therefore, they should visit the ITC Office in person during office
hours for arrangement.
A.2.2. For CIVL2020
Students in the Department of Civil
and Environmental Engineering will be pre-registered for CIVL2020 (Industrial
Training) in their Year 2 Spring Term. Students who pass CIVL2020 will be
pre-registered by the Department for CIVL3020 (Civil Engineering Internship) in
third year Summer Term (for CIVL & CIEV students), and fourth year Summer Term
(for CIGBM students). For CIVL 3020, there is NO add/drop arrangement.
Please
click CIVL3020 for the course details.
A.3. Taking Industrial Training Course Beyond the Normative Duration of Study
Students who do not complete the
industrial training during the last term of their normative period of study (please refer to A.2.1. above) may register for the industrial
training course in the following term PROVIDED THAT they have successfully
obtained the approval from the School of Engineering to extend their length of
study. These students should register for the industrial training course by
themselves during the normal Course Registration Period of the following term.
NO pre-registration will be arranged by the Industrial Training Center. Please allow at least 2 working days for
approval by ITC or your major Department which is required for all required
courses. Saturday, Sunday and Public
holiday is NOT a working day.
B. Industrial Training
Arrangements and Details
B.1. Training Venues
Students' training program comprises
a number of modules; some of which are conducted at the Hong Kong Polytechnic
University Industrial Center (HKPUIC) in Hung Hom and some at the Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Exact locations of each training
session will be specified in the training timetable.
B.2. Training Hours
B.2.1. HKPUIC
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08:30 –
12:15 |
Practical
Training Work, with a break at 10:15, if applicable |
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12:15 –
13:15 |
Lunch
Break |
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13:15 –
17:00 |
Practical
Training Work, with a break at 15:15, if applicable |
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17:00 –
17:30 |
Cleaning
up of equipment/machines and staff available for discussion, tutorials, etc. |
(Exceptions will
be specified in the students' timetable.)
B.2.2. HKUST
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09:00 – 13:00 |
Practical training work, with a break
of 15 mins, if applicable |
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13:00 – 14:00 |
Lunch break |
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14:00 – 18:00 |
Practical training work, with a
break of 15 mins, if applicable |
(Exceptions will be specified in the students' timetable.)
B.3. Training
Timetable and Grouping Lists
B.3.1. Training
Timetable
Industrial training is conducted
during the Winter and Summer Terms. Exact date/time of training for the Winter
Term is usually released in the preceding November, while that for the Summer
Term is usually available in the preceding April. The timetables for the upcoming summer will be ready in mid-May.
B.3.2. Grouping Lists
The student grouping lists are
posted together with the training timetables on the ITC homepage. The same
grouping lists apply to all training modules conducted at HKPUIC and HKUST.
B.4. Attendance and
Make-Up Requirements
Students are required to attend all
scheduled training sessions. The level
of attendance should be 100%. Punctuality in attending training is vital. On
arrival at the training venues, students are normally asked to "sign
in" on a timekeeping record sheet to certify their attendance. When
students apply for leave from training sessions with legitimate reason, they
should bear in mind that most modules are offered only once a year, either in
the Winter or Summer Term. It is the students' responsibility to check the
availability of training modules and to arrange for any necessary make-up.
It is students’ obligation to inform
Industrial Training Center, in advance, if they cannot attend their scheduled
training.
B.4.1. Application
for Leave / Make-up
If students need to take leave from
their scheduled in-house training, they must seek prior approval from the HKUST
ITC Office. They need to give as much advance notice as possible. Students
should complete the form UST-IT01
and submit it to ITC Office in person together with necessary supporting
documents during its opening hours for approval.
·
Students who are late for 30 minutes
(or more) or less than 30 minutes more than once will be stopped from the
training, and are required to make up for the whole module.
·
Unauthorized absence will not be
tolerated. Students have to stop
attending training of that module and make up at other session
· Students who have a legitimate
reason for taking leave from training for more than an hour, (e.g. when
training clashes with the starting time of their course registration window)
will have to seek PRIOR approval from ITC. When leave from training is taken on
grounds of emergency (e.g. illness), retroactive approval must be sought from
ITC with certificates issued by registered doctors. In both cases of prior and
retroactive approval, students have to stop attending the training of that
module and are required to make up from where they start missing.
In any case,
students are strongly advised to arrange make-up for outstanding in-house
training from ITC as early as possible as training places are limited.
C. Assessment of
Industrial Training
C.1. Practical Training
Report and Training Logbook
Students are required to submit a Practical
Training Report (also referred to as “Logsheet”) for each module and a Training
Logbook for the overall training. For
some modules, students are also required to complete Workbooks in addition to
the Practical Training Reports and Training Logbook.
The Training
Logbook is to be presented as a record reporting on the
whole training program, and a Practical Training
Report should be a brief technical description of the
jobs/tasks that the student has undertaken in a training module.
C.2. Practical Training
Report
C.2.1. Submission
Students are required to submit a Practical Training Report in soft copy/ hard copy within one week after completing each training module.
For hard copy, students should
submit to the collection boxes designated for
their group at the 6/F lobby of lift 27/28. The departments, year of intakes,
and industrial training group numbers are clearly indicated on the trays.
For soft copy, students should send their soft copy directly to the course instructor.
C.2.2. Contents of
the Practical Training Report
The content should be concise. Please use no more than the space available
in the blank form (four A4 sized pages). Use one set of blank forms for each Practical
Training Report.
C.3.1. Logbook
Submission
All students, except those in the Civil Engineering and Civil and Environmental
Engineering, are required to submit their Training Logbook within ten weeks from
the beginning of the semester which follows the Winter or Summer Term in which
the students have completed majority of their training modules.
C.3.2 Logbook Submission Deadlines
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Degree Program |
Timeline |
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BEng in Chemical Engineering BEng in Chemical Engineering and
BBA in General Business Management |
Not
Applicable |
BEng in Chemical and Environmental
Engineering
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Not
Applicable |
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BEng in Civil Engineering BEng in Civil and Environmental
Engineering BEng in Civil Engineering and BBA
in General Business Management BEng in Civil and Environmental
Engineering and BBA in General Business Management |
Year 3 Fall Term (15 Sept) |
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BEng in Computer Science BEng in
Computer Science and BBA in General Business Management
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Year 4 Spring Term (15 Apr) |
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BEng in Computer Engineering BEng in Computer Engineering and
BBA in General Business Management |
Year 4 Spring Term (15 Apr) |
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BEng in Electronic Engineering BEng in Electronic Engineering and
BBA in General Business Management |
Year 4 Spring Term (15 Apr) |
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BEng in Decision Analytics BEng in Decision Analytics and BBA
in General Business Management |
Year 4 Fall Term (15 Nov) |
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BEng in Industrial Engineering and
Engineering Management BEng in Industrial Engineering and
Engineering Management and BBA in General Business Management |
Year 4 Fall Term (15 Nov)
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BEng in Aerospace Engineering BEng in Mechanical Engineering BEng in Mechanical Engineering and
BBA in General Business Management |
Year 3 Fall Term (15 Nov)
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C.3.3. Contents of
the Training Logbook
The
Training Logbook should include all marked Practical Training Reports and
Workbooks of the modules that the students have completed. In addition to the
marked Practical Training Reports and Workbooks, students are required to
include in the training logbook a Front Page, Table of Contents, Introduction
of the Training Program, Description/Discussion on the Training Modules, and
Comments and Conclusions.
Logbooks can be submitted
individually to the HKUST Industrial Training Center. You can submit your
Logbook individually to the collection boxes.
There are larger trays on the top for collecting Logbooks.
There are specific deadlines for
submission of logbooks for each degree program, usually within 10 weeks from
the beginning of the semester that follows the Winter or Summer Term in which
students have completed majority of their training modules. All Logbooks should
be submitted to the HKUST ITC Office by the deadlines specified in Section
C.3.2. Late submission of the Logbook will affect your grades.
Upon
the Logbook submission deadline, if you still have not yet taken or not yet
made-up certain modules, or you have not yet submitted or re-submitted certain
Training Reports; or the marked report has not yet been returned to you, you
still need to submit your Logbook first and indicate the status of the report
in the ‘Remark’ column of the Appendix 1 and Appendix 2 tables in the Table of
Contents.
C.4. Forms
C.4.1. Practical Training
Report Forms
The Practical Training Report forms
for the respective training workshops and Logbook materials are personalized
and have to be downloaded and printed by the students.
[Downloadable
forms for Training Logbook and Practical Training Report]
C.5. Assessment of Modules
C.5.1. Practical
Training Reports, Training Logbook and Workbooks
The respective instructors will be
responsible for giving assessment to the respective Workbooks or Practical Training
Reports, while Training Logbooks will be assessed by the HKPUIC or HKUST ITC
depending on the overall program.
Grading of Workbooks and Practical
Training Reports for in-house modules conducted at HKUST will follow the grading
policy of the HKUST for undergraduate courses.
Only “Pass” or “Fail” will be given as the final grade.
For policies on assessment at
HKPUIC, please refer to the Student Corner at the HKPUIC
website for details.
Students who fail in the Workbook
will have to make up for the whole module and re-submit the Workbook. Students
who score a failure on any Practical Training Report are required to resubmit a
fresh report and to continue to do so until they score a pass.
Students must retain
all their Practical Training Reports and Workbooks, including any failed ones,
as they will later form the main body of their Training Logbook.
C.5.2. Safety
Training
The Engineering Students Safety Training (ESST) modules are now online. The safety modules will be rolled out in different time frames. Students will be informed about the confirmed trianing schedule when the training modules are available. Each safety training module would only be offered once a year. Combination of required modules is assigned by ITC and may differ according to different majors.
Students are expected to study through the provided content and to complete the multiple choices quiz. Students are offered 3 attempts for completing the quiz and the passing mark is 80%, which only the highest mark will be recorded among the attempts. Those failing a module (failing all 3 attempts) will have to retake in the next offering. Students need to compute the percentage of passing mark manually since Canvas does not offer percentage score in quiz interface.
C.5.3. Other form of
Assessment
Some modules may also require
individual and/or group projects, which will be announced by the instructor
during the training.
C.5.4. To pass the
Industrial Training Course
Students' attention is drawn to the
fact that they will not be allowed to graduate from their degree program if
they do not complete and pass the Industrial Training course. Students must
complete and pass ALL the assessment
elements of ALL the training modules
prescribed for their degree programs.
The same rule applies to students who use industrial training to fulfill
requirements of the Industrial Experience course.
** Failure in the Training Logbook assessment will result in
failure in the overall Industrial Training program and thus failure in the
Industrial Training Course. The student will be required to resubmit a reworked
Training Logbook. **
D. Training Safety
and Insurance
D.1. HKPUIC
Safety shoes (with non-slip soles
and steel toe caps) must be worn in all workshops. But for the Industrial
Project Unit and Electronics Workshop, strong leather shoes are acceptable, but
not sport shoes. Students have to acquire the safety shoes at their own
expense. Information of personal protective gear suppliers is available at http://www.safetydirectory.hk/comp_list.htm.
Protective gear – including aprons,
face shields, hard hats, goggles or gloves, etc. – will be provided in the
HKPUIC workshops where related hazards exist. Students are required to put them
on as instructed.
D.2. HKUST
No
protective gear is usually required of modules taking place on HKUST campus.
D.3. Insurance
The University has a Group Personal
Accident Insurance policy covering registered students participating in
academic or extra-curricular activities on-campus or off-campus, local or
abroad, subject to certain conditions.
For details of the insurance, please
visit https://sfao.ust.hk/individual.php?l=62.
E. Exemption from
Industrial Training
Students who are required by their
degree programs to complete industrial training can apply for exemption if they
have completed equivalent training elsewhere, or they have completed
internships approved by their major Departments. Students should apply directly to their major
Department for exemption from industrial training by using the ITC Exemption Application Form.
Application for exemption will be
considered by the major Department on a case basis. For exemption based on internship, factors
like duration of the internship, relevance to the degree program, company or
organization that the students have worked with, etc. will all be
considered. Students are also required
to submit a brief report and supervisor feedback form upon completion of their
internship for the Department’s consideration.
F. Training
Certificates and Green Cards
F.1. Training
Certificates
An HKUST industrial training
certificate collection notification letter will be sent to students by the ITC
Office in mid-October after their graduation. Owing to limited storage space,
certificates that are left uncollected after the deadline (which is normally 3
months from the commencement date of the collection period) will be disposed
of. Requests for re-issuing the certificates after they have been disposed of
are normally not entertained.
Note: Application for the HKPUIC
industrial training certificate or testimonial is subject to charge. For more
details, please visit the General Office in the HKPUIC.
F.2. Green Cards
The HKSAR Government requires anyone
who works on a construction site to complete relevant approved safety training
prior to starting work at the site. As a proof of the completion of training, a
Green Card approved by the Labour Department has to be carried whenever a
person works at a construction site. Students in the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering will be issued Green Cards after
they have completed the respective safety training at HKUST. These Green Cards
are approved by the Labour Department of the HKSAR Government and will be valid
for 3 years from the date of the completion of the relevant safety training.
Students will be notified in due course to collect it from the ITC office.
** CIVL/CIEV/CIGBM/CEGBM students need this Green Card for working
on CIVL3020 Internship in their Year 3 Summer.
Therefore, it is important for them to complete all Safety Training in
their 2nd year of study in the School (or 1st year of
study in the Program).**
G. Communication
Channels at HKPUIC
When students are undertaking
training at the HKPUIC, they can convey their questions to the HKPUIC staff at
the IC Student Enquiry Counter and seek assistance from them whenever needed.
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Location : |
3/F of the IC
Building (Room W309) |
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Telephone : |
2766-7579 |
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E-mail: |
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Web Site: |
Office hours:
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Monday
- Friday |
10:15
– 12:15 |
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14:30 – 16:45 |
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Saturday, Sunday & Public Holiday |
Closed |
Alternatively, they can contact the
ITC Office at HKUST at the following:
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Location : |
Room 6533 (Lifts 27/28)
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Telephone : |
2358-6969 |
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E-mail: |
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Web Site: |
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Office Hours: |
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Monday - Friday |
08:45 – 13:00 |
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14:00 – 17:33 |
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Saturday, Sunday & Public Holiday |
Closed |
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Enquiry Counter Service Hours: |
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Monday - Friday |
09:15 – 12:30 |
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14:15 – 17:15 |
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Saturday, Sunday & Public Holiday |
Closed |
H.
Enquiries:
For any enquiry
about industrial training, please contact Industrial Training Center (ITC) by e-mail
at egitc@ust.hk.
For
any enquiry about internship, please contact Center for Industry Engagement and
Internship (IEI) by email at iei@ust.hk.
Version 2.4 Update on 12 May 2022.