FET: Internship Report Layout

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Title Page
University of Buea, Bachelor of Engineering Programme
Faculty of Engineering and Technology

<<Title of Report>>
offered by <<Company Name>>
by
<<Your Name>>
<<Your Matriculation Number>>
<<Your email address>>
Performed at
<<Company Name>>
<<Company Address Line 1>>
<<Company Address Line 2>>
<<Company Address Line 3>>
in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Bachelor of Engineering Programme in
Computer Engineering
Report of Internship from <<duration: example 7th July 2013 to 20th February 2014>>
Date Submitted: <<Date submitted>
Declaration
This report has been written by me and has not received any previous academic credit at
this or any other institution.

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Signature
John D. Doe
Acknowledgement
This section should contain any acknowledgement of assistance: your supervisor, friends,
etc.

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List of Figures

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List of Tables

List of Photographs

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List of Symbols

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ABSTRACT
For most of the students, internship has two parts (i) Training provided by the organization
on facility/system available during initial period of the internship and (ii) Task/problem
assigned/selected by you to solve it. In such cases, abstract should include introduction to
the internship training undergone, type of facility /system that was explained, purpose of
it..etc. This should be followed by the information on task assigned to you/task selected to
be explained briefly along with major findings/results, discussions and conclusions of it.

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CONTENTS
Table of contents

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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
The Introduction defines the subject of the report so that the reader is prepared for the text
that follows. Here you can outline the company and/or department for which you worked,
and you can summarize the work you performed at the company. Setting the background is
important because the staff member evaluating the report may not be familiar with the
detailed operations of your employer. Of course, there is no need to give a highly detailed
account. The information on the site layout and number of employees would only be given
if it relates to later parts of the report. An introduction answers the question, ``Why was the
specific work or study done?''. Keep your introduction brief, but remember to outline the
background and scope of the report and give a clear statement of objectives of the study.
Ask a question that you will try to answer in this study. After reading the introduction, your
reader should be prepared for the report that follows, and remember that a reader will be
looking for sections dealing with the issues addressed in the introduction.
CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW
Under literature review chapter, student should write about the theory related to the facility/
system on which training was provided. Working principle, advantageous and limitations of
the system, applications of the system, Other types of systems available (advanced) and
their merits and demerits..etc . Technical papers/books/conference proceeding/ worldwide
web should be referred in order to write and explain about Other types of system available
and their merits and demerits.
CHAPTER 3 IMPROVEMENTS TO THE EXISTING SYSTEM
Based on the existing facility/system available in the organization, student should propose
the possible ways to improve the existing system. Improvements may be in the form of low
cost technology, better facilities to suit the present and future requirements, modernization
of the existing facility..etc. Also the methodology to be adopted for improvement should be
explained along with proper justification. Flow chart, diagrams, calculations ...etc may be
provided in support of the methodology.
CHAPTER 4 (Give Appropriate Title)
CHAPTER 5 METHODOLOGY ADOPTED
Various procedure/ methods available to solve the task/problem undertaken should be
mentioned from the review of literature under this chapter. For this, a few technical papers
and web sources should be referred and the same should be cited in the text at appropriate
place. After this, methodology adopted to solve the task to be explained followed by
procedures, flow charts, calculations..etc to be reported.
CHAPTER 6 RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS
From the work carried out, the results obtained should be provided in the form of tables and
figures under this chapter and each of these should have caption. Proper reasons and
justification for the trends observed in the results should be provided under discussion on
the results.
CHAPTER 7 CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE SCOPE OF STUDY
From the work carried out and results obtained, specific conclusions should be drawn.
Similarly scope for the further work to be identified and placed under this heading.
REFERENCES
APPENDICES
Appendices are provided to give supplementary information, which is included in the main
text may serve as a distraction and cloud the central theme.