INFORMATION ON ATTACHMENT (IA, EIA, IRA)

1 1 INFORMATION ON ATTACHMENT (IA, EIA, IRA) IMPORTANT: 1. Depending on various Schools requirement, students may or may not be allowed to do their IA in their final semester. Students who choose to do IA in their final semesters and if their IA ends later than the official end date (31 May 2014 for IA in S2, AY 2013/2014), they will not be able to attend the convocation in July that year. These students will still graduate and be conferred their degree after successful completion of their IA. They can join the following year s convocation by informing OAS. 2. Students are not allowed to do IA concurrently with Final Year Project (FYP) during the whole FYP period.

2 3. Each student is only allowed to do one ATTACHMENT option from IO/IA/EIA/IRA/GEM Discoverer Work & Study/GEM Discoverer Research. The work component in GEM Discoverer Work & Study is towards fulfilling the requirement for ATTACHMENT for the respective courses. 4. Students are not allowed to read courses during ATTACHMENT . Students on IO/IA/EIA/IRA/GEM Discoverer Work & Study/GEM Discoverer Research in Semester 2 are not allowed to read courses during Special Term I and Special Term II (for EIA/IRA). 5. Students on ATTACHMENT are not allowed to shift their ATTACHMENT period, take leave or end their ATTACHMENT earlier to participate in the GEM Discoverer Summer Studies, Work & Travel, other internships, read courses etc.

3 Industrial ATTACHMENT (IA) Acad Year 2014-2015 (Semester 1) 4 August 2014 to 20 December 2014 Acad Year 2013-2014 (Semester 2) 13 January 2014 to 31 May 2014 Enhanced Industrial ATTACHMENT (EIA) 13 January 2014 to 9 August 2014 International Research ATTACHMENT (IRA) Acad Year 2013-2014 2 CONTENT Page A) Objectives of ATTACHMENT 3 B) Industrial ATTACHMENT Steering Committee 4 C) Criteria for IA 5 D) ATTACHMENT Registration & Selection of Organisations/Projects for IA 6 E) Definition/Terms for Participating IA Organisations 7 & Projects Offered F) Registration, Selection & Application Framework 9 G) IA for Sponsored Students 12 H) Industrial ATTACHMENT for Students on GEM Explorer 13 I) Rules on Sourcing for Your Own ATTACHMENT Placement in Singapore 14 - Industrial ATTACHMENT - Enhanced Industrial ATTACHMENT J) Rules on Sourcing for Your Own Overseas ATTACHMENT Placement 17 - Industrial ATTACHMENT - Enhanced Industrial ATTACHMENT K) Overseas IA 20 L) In-Camp Training (ICT) during ATTACHMENT 21 M)

4 Leave during IA 22 N) Exemption of ATTACHMENT 23 O) IA Briefing 24 P) NTU ATTACHMENT Assessment System 25 Q) Engaging Student s Service Before/Beyond the Official IA Period 27 3A) OBJECTIVES OF ATTACHMENT In the curriculum structure at NTU engineering students must successfully complete one of the ATTACHMENT programmes before their graduation. The ATTACHMENT programme is considered as partial fulfillment for the Bachelor ofEngineering degree courses at NTU. The purposes of ATTACHMENT are to supplement NTU's in-house practical professional training and to instill in the students the right work attitudes and professionalism so that they could become effective and productive to their respective organisations much sooner than is usual for fresh graduates.

5 ATTACHMENT is a learning process which by exposing the students in real life working environment as part of an academic curriculum helps the students to develop and enhance academic, personal and professional competencies. Due to the diversity of the training environments and backgrounds of organisation supervisors, a significant part of the ATTACHMENT programme is based on a self-directed learning approach by the students. Organisations participating in our ATTACHMENT programmes are required to provide a structured ATTACHMENT programme with emphasis on applications, management and hands-on experience for the students to: (a) apply knowledge learned (b) acquire practical skills (c) strengthen work values (d) gain interpersonal skills Back to Content 4B) INDUSTRIAL ATTACHMENT STEERING COMMITTEE The Industrial ATTACHMENT (IA) programme is administered by the Industrial ATTACHMENT Steering Committee (IASC) and the Career & ATTACHMENT Office (CAO).

6 The respective School Representatives appointed by the Chairs as the members of IASC for Academic Year 2013-2014 are: School Name Tel No. Rm No. CEE CEE Dr Lum Kit Meng Mr Teh Kong Leong 6790 5318 6790 5282 N1-01b-52 N1-01c-76 EEE EEE Assoc Prof Tan Soon Yim Assoc Prof Soon Ing Yann 6790 4505 6790 5638 S1-B1b-44 S2-B2c-114 MAE MAE Assoc Prof Teo Ee Chon Assoc Prof Huang Weimin 6790 5529 6790 4859 N3-02b-44 SCE SCE Assoc Prof Deepu Rajan Asst Prof Philip Fu Chi-Wing 6790 4933 6790 4928 N4-02c-78 N4-02c-104 MSE MSE Assoc Prof Oh Joo Tien Assoc Prof Chen Zhong 6790 6408 6790 4256 SCBE (BIE) SCBE (CBE) Asst Prof Kang Yuejun Asst Prof Lau Wai Man 6316 2894 6790 8830 Back to Content 5C)

7 CRITERIA FOR IA FOR ALL COURSES A level students: - admitted to Year 1 in AY2010-2011 and before Year 3 standing and have completed at least 4 semesters of study - admitted to Year 1 in AY2011-2012 and after Likely to be Year 3 standing and have completed at least 4 semesters of study Direct Entry students: - admitted to Year 2 in AY2011-2012 and before Year 3 standing and have completed at least 2 semesters of study - admitted to Year 2 in AY2012-2013 and after Likely to be Year 3 standing and have completed at least 2 semesters of study Back to Content 6D) DATES OF REGISTRATION FOR IA ATTACHMENT Registration & Selection of Organisations/Projects for IA S1, AY 2014-2015 Please read the Section F on Registration, Selection & Application Framework before you proceed with the IA registration.

8 Schedule Period Round 1 26 March 2014 (Wednesday) to 1 April 2014 (Tuesday) Round 2 12 May 2014 (Monday) to 14 May 2014 (Wednesday) Round 3 9 June 2014 (Monday) to 11 June 2014 (Wednesday) Round 4 7 July 2014 (Monday) to 9 July 2014 (Wednesday) 1. Interview schedule for interviewing organisations for either local or overseas IA placement will be updated by the organisations concerned directly. An email will be sent to your NTU email account directly as and when the organisation enters the interview schedule in the system. Please check your email regularly for updates.

9 Alternatively, you can also logon to StudentLink to check the status of your application. 2. If you are selected by the organisation, you have to accept or decline the offer by the date requested by the organisation. Please note that you can only accept one offer. 3. Under the policy of CoE, students who rescind accepted offer will be dropped from the current IO/IA. You may participate in the next ATTACHMENT programme. 4. The full results of IA allocation & online IA package will be available from 15 July 2014. Back to Content 7E) DEFINITION/TERMS FOR PARTICIPATING IA ORGANISATIONS & PROJECTS OFFERED During the period of Registration for IA and Selection of IA Organisations, students who are eligible or likely to be eligible for ATTACHMENT will be given access to view the list of organisations and the projects they offer for IA under Search for ATTACHMENT Projects.

10 Participating organisations are classified as: 'Overseas' One which offers overseas IA placement(s). 'Interviewing' One which wants to select suitable students by 'interview' or other means. Each organisation will have a code number (Organisation code). The projects by participating organisations will be classified by field of engineering (Field code) and work nature (WN code). Each project will also have a code number (Project code) which is unique for the course. The fields of engineering and work nature for each of the courses are as follows: Programme Field of engineering Work Nature (for each field of engineering )