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93755 Engineering Training
Danish title: Ingeniørpraktik
Language: Danish Credit points: 30
Type: Language: Danish

Prerequisite: (1.-4. halvårs kurser)
Recommended semester: 5th semester
Examination: Evaluation of report(s) (Pass/fail)
Contact person: Poul Georg Duer, Building 373, Tel. +45 4525 5093, email pduer@iabm.dtu.dk, http://www.iabm.dtu.dk

Department: Department of Applied Civil and Environmental Engineering
Aim: To develop the students professional skill in the field of practical civil engineering the curriculum includes a term of practical training. The aim of such practical training, in which the student come into direct contact with civil engineering practice in one form or another, is to increase their maturity and to give the student an oppurtunity of applying some of the knowledge they have already acquired to solve practical problems and to increase the benefit they may optain from their subsequent studies.
Contents: Most of the students carry out their trainee work within the field of civil engineering constructions. However, as the training service not only aims at acquainting the students with worksite practice but also at giving them an insight into other aspects of a civil engineer's field of operations, it is possible for the students to carry out their trainee service in other branches of civil engineering. When the trainee service is carried out in a construction company, the student should spend some time at the office of the company in order to obtain an insight into the structure of the company and its administration. In the field the students usually act as assistants to the site engineers and shall endeavour to obtain an idea of what worksite really is, its terminology, see examples of constructions, of methods of execution and of site layouts and obtain an insight into the human relation problems on a worksite. The trainee service is also designed to give the student the opportunity of exercising their ability to formulate technical observations and problems. The students are therefore required to prepare a general report on their period of training, together with a special report on a topic in which they have been particularly interested during their trainee work.