Objectives

The Industrial Internship comes at the end of 1st year and is an integral part of the program. It is an important constituent in the multiple relations between the student, the School and the world of industry.

This is a practical internship, in direct contact with the day-to-day manufacturing of an industrial product that the host corporation is delivering to its customers. It is essentially fieldwork in a spirit of reflection and synthesis.

THE INTEREST OF THE INDUSTRIAL INTERNSHIP

For most of the students, this Industrial Internship is going to be their first contact with an industrial corporation, and an opportunity to live with a work-team made up of the firm's production workers, so as to get to know:
 how they are organized for production (schedules, pay, manual work that is often repetitive and hard);
 the life of a group in liaison with the social rules of work and the various agents (line supervisor, shop steward, health and safety committee, etc.);
 corporate targets (quality, efficiency, safety, productivity, innovation, etc.).

In this way, the most useful conclusions can be drawn for a future executive who is going to exercise organizational, technical and hierarchical responsibilities.

It is worth bearing in mind that this internship may be a unique chance to be in direct contact with workers without being in any kind of position of authority over them. Such an opportunity is one to be seized, to enrich one's personal experience and develop one's thinking. This is the prime aim of this internship.

Content

FINDING AN INTERNSHIP

Students are asked to do their Industrial Internship in a firm that is sufficiently large, representative of modern industrial structures, and ready to host interns.

The present economic situation means that smaller host corporations (of 50 persons) are acceptable.

Internships can be sought with the help of:
 External Relations Dept documentation on the previous year's 1st year internships;
 advice from the Service Entreprise and Centrale Lyon graduates (see year-book);
 professional journals, available in the School library;
 the web server (http: //stages.ec-lyon.fr);
 documents published by:

- L'Usine Nouvelle
- L'Atlas des Usines
- Les 500 Premières Entreprises
- La France et l'Industrie

INTERNSHIP CONTRACT

An internship contract is to be drawn up and signed by the firm, the School and the student.

The student signs once the firm's written agreement has been secured.

The School External Relations Dept sends the contract to the firm.

REPORT

Students are asked to write a memo of 2 pages maximum. This is an update on the student's professional project, including what has been learned about corporate life from the internship, factory visits and talks given.

INTERNSHIP ASSESSMENT

- An internship assessment form is sent to the firm along with the contract. The student must make sure that the industrial tutor has this document, or else ask the External Relations Dept to send it.
The assessment form, completed, is to be sent to the Business Relations Dept.

- A talk about the internship is to be done at the start of tne next school year

- A report of at least 2 pages