Experiential Learning through Industry Partnership

Experiential learning gives students the abilities they need for actual-global achievement. Students as well as their parents are seeking the education that teaches them skills that can be utilized in real world applications. Despite the fact that colleges and universities are able to replicate or simulate some of real-world problems within the lecture room or laboratory settings, exposing students with actual real-world experiments as well as hands-on practices can bring another dimension to their learning and understanding of the subject. Experiential learning creates a useful possibility to prepare students for profession or research carriers. When college students are given opportunities to examine a real-world situation on campus or in the network like the ones furnished in internships, area placements, and industrial project partnerships, the mastering becomes extensively more effective. By way of engaging in formal, guided, proper, and actual-experience, the students can increase their knowledge, develop skills and enhance their learning. One of the most effective ways of conducting internship program is to engage and partner with industry and find proper projects for the students. Selection of a project must be done carefully to meet certain requirements such as; degree of difficulty, matched with student’s technical background, duration of project, safety, availability and logistics. This paper provides the challenges regarding the creation or securing of actual projects suitable for experiential learning, evaluation and assessment of three internship projects conducted with the industrial partnership.