Practical Training in Industrial Asset Management (IAM680)

Content

This is a practical training course where students can participate in an industrial work environment outside the university. A suitable training position in an industrial or a public organization must be found by the students themselves. The intention of the course is to give the students an opportunity to gain practical experience, and to enable deepening of knowledge and expertice within the relevant topics selected w.r.t. the company's practices.

The actual scope and content of the selected industrial training must be related to engineering, operations, and managerial aspects of Industrial assets, systems, processes, and equipment in any industrial or public sector.

An agreement between the university and the company, describing tasks and supervision work has to be signed. Each Student project must also be pre-approved by the Academic staff responsible for the Course, prior to start of Industrial training.

Practical training can be carried out in another semester than the course is scheduled for if this has been agreed upon with the course coordinator and the student meets the entry requirements.

Individual student registrations for this course must be done upon application in Studentweb.

The registration deadline for the practical training course is 20th August (or 20th January for the spring semester) every year. The application is assessed by the faculty, and approved if the prescribed prerequisites are met.

Learning outcome

Knowledge

• Acquire practical knowledge about engineering, operations, and/or managerial issues in a multi-disciplinary industrial setting.
• Gain understanding of cross-disciplinary industrial practices and systems thinking related to Industrial assets, systems, processes, and/or equipment in an industrial setting.
• Gain practical knowledge about processes, entities, events, conditions, and production and service systems that are required to ensure reliable, safe, secure industrial assets.

Skills

• Define, map, and analyze important aspects of assets, systems, processes, and/or equipment embedded in an industrial production and service system.
• Can work with practical issues in assets, systems, processes, and/or equipment, and select effective ways to perform tasks and interpret effects.
• Able to analyze performance of assets, systems, processes, and/or equipment, based on key data, and make reccomemndations and/or suggest solutions to improve performance.

General competence

• Understand system-thinking, decision-making, and problem-solving approaches in practice.
• Can analyse relevant practical and ethical challenges in real industrial contexts
• Can communicate practical work professionally and independently, and master terminology, language, and expressions related to a selected industrial context.
• Can communicate professional issues and can contribute to new thinking w.r.t. practices in an industrial setting.

Required prerequisite knowledge

Students must have completed a minimum of 40 ECTS in the Master's degree in accordance with the approved education plan in order to be granted access to the practical training course.

Other academically relevant subjects outside the education plan can also be approved as counting after academic assessment by the Study Program Leader.

Students in a one-year Study program on master’s level are exempted from this rule.

Exam

Coursework requirements

The student is responsible for finding and arranging practical training themselves.

There must be a formal contract between the practical training institution, the student and UiS. This must be signed and submitted to the course coordinator by September 1st (February 1st).

Timesheets certified by a responsible person in the Company should be delivered by the end of the training period. There is an expectation that the student spends min. 150 - 200 hours in the company. This is equivalent to min. 20 working days.

Course teacher(s)

Course coordinator:

Course coordinator:

Head of Department:

Method of work

Practice

Practical training is compulsory. The student has to submit a certified timesheet in order to get the practical training approved. Practical training has to be approved in order to be able to submit a final report and receive assessment in the course.

There must be a formal contract between the practical training institution, the student and UiS. This must be signed and submitted to the course coordinator by September 1st.

Open for

Course assessment

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