16.6 Internship
UD’s ICDC unit of UD provides this service to the students who require to undergo Regular Internships as part of their Bachelor Degree program. Some of the companies offer sponsorship opportunities providing students with a monthly allowance and other benefits such as internship and employment opportunities during and after university studies through their coordination with UD Students via ICDC.
16.6.1 Regular Internship
The purpose of Regular Internship is to provide students with practical experience in an organizational setting where learning and doing are the chief objectives. Regular internship is a twelve weeks training period in a relevant position at workplace. it is mainly undertaken by non-working students as well as students with less than two years of work experience. The Regular Internship is offered
- to such students who completed 114 Credit Hours with a CGPA minimum of 2.25 (for Business Degree students)/2.0 for Computer Information Systems Students
- during the Fall & Spring semesters with working hours from either from 8.00/8.30AM to 2:00/230PM.
16.6.2 Industry Project
Industry project is designed exclusively for working students with minimum of two years of work experience. The purpose of this course is to provide the working student an opportunity to develop competence in applying learned theories and gained skills to an actual business problem or issue. A student will undertake a supervised project to tackle an existing Business/IS problem at his organization, explore possible causes of the problem, alternative solutions, and assess the effect(s) of each solution on the organization. Alternatively, a student may develop and document a business case dealing with an actual organizational problem that the organization managed to identify and solve it. Each student will present orally the result of his/her project in addition to a written report.