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We requested students to tell our readers about their Summer Internship Experience. We are publishing below their experiences for internships in India during summer of 2009. We have randomly picked some of the students to tell their experience. We hope that their junior brothers will find the article useful.
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Praharsh Sharma (4th year-Electronics Engineering)
(Praharsh Sharma)
After Semester VI, I pursued Summer Internship with one of the world’s leading EDA (Electronic Design Automation) industries of the world viz. Cadence Design Systems (CDS) Inc. (http://www.cadence.com/), at their Noida SEZ (Noida Special Economic Zone) R&D Centre during May – July 2009 for a period of 8 weeks. I worked as a part of Mixed Signal (Custom IC) Division in Cadence Virtuoso Schematic Editor – Integration team (VSE-Integ), CDS India which works for Cadence Custom IC EDA tool Virtuoso used by leading Design Companies of the world for Circuit Simulation and associated tasks.
Why Industry Internship?
Industry Summer Internship after Semester VI is also a part of B. Tech. Curriculum and is subject to evaluation in Semester VII as a 2 credit combined course on Tour/Training Viva-Voce. Also it happens to be a practical pre-requisite for an Undergraduate student looking forward to be an Industry professional to pursue at least an 8 week Internship in a good company to procure the necessary industry experience that he/she needs to imbibe in him to conductively aspire for a great start to the career.
Internship application and procedure:
Industries have their own policy oriented and well defined procedure to offer Summer Internships which are often more difficult to crack as compared to Research Internships in the country. The rule of thumb is to keep submitting your candidature to the companies of one’s interest through HR and alumni. In due time, depending on the candidature, one gets to read/hear back from the companies which mostly test the candidate and suitability through variably 1-3 rounds of Interviews which are almost always telephonically accomplished.
Experience with Cadence:
It is a great experience, learning and fun to be with Cadence Design Systems. I availed rampant support, expert guidance and unparalleled encouragement at Cadence during my endeavor, without any of which my first industry experience would not have been that worthwhile and productive. It was an unforeseen and mammoth knowledge gaining experience for me during the course of work that I preformed with Cadence as Summer Intern.
Technical Learning:
Within the constraints of Industry Non-Disclosure Agreement, I would mention that the projects I carried out were technically based on Scripting Languages and Makefiles and were about EDA Test-Case regressions, Automated Report Generation and Script Based Analysis.
Firstly, I started off with the basics of Linux and Scripting Languages like Bash Shell, Bourne Shell, Perl, C Shell and introductory Tcl and later moved onto write small application utilities for dedicated tasks. I also had hands-on experience with CVS, GCOV and similar common industry code utilities. Finally I also worked with Makefiles and EDA test-cases.
Incentives:
Though I was not provided any accommodation or stipend for the internship as such but I availed all local travel and in house facilities. Cadence Design Systems provides world class in house facilities (gymnasium, sports, recreation, food, to/fro door pick-up/drop, cubicle, and consultancy) to its employees comparable to any company in the world.
Mentions of advice:
A good industry experience and pre-placement offer opportunities should be one’s foremost consideration while deciding between procured Internship offers rather than stipend as often (as in my case), companies spend as much on employee satisfaction and facilities as another company may offer as stipend during the two months. I chose summer Internship opportunity with Cadence over another equally good Industry Internship offer I had, based on my career vision and prospects.
Lastly, my words of advice to all brethren would be to extensively hunt for a good Summer Internship with time in hand as at almost all times, there is deep emphasis on and intense benefit from Summer Internship experience, work and contribution to the organisation during recruitment procedures.
In the month of August, I was recruited by Goldman Sachs Inc. as New Associate Programming Analyst (NAPA) and I felt the dire leap my Summer Internship experience and learning gave me in comparison to others during the selection procedure. An Industry Internship experience is not only about technical learning but more about the grooming from ‘a just another Senior Undergraduate Student’ to ‘a very near in future Industry professional’.
Best Wishes,
Praharsh Sharma
Senior Undergraduate (B. Tech. Part-IV),
Department of Electronics Engineering, IT-BHU, Varanasi.
Contact: praharshsharmaster@gmail.com
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Miss Akanksha Trigun (3rd year -Electronics Engineering)
I am currently a student of B. Tech. Part-III (Electronics Engineering) and I did Summer Internship at IISc Bangalore after completion of my Semester IV.
Email: aksbest@gmail.com
(Akanksha Trigun)
I applied for the annual Summer Research Fellowship offered by Indian Academy of Sciences. This scholarship is given to a very limited number of students of varied disciplines from all over the country. The academy is a joint facility of many reputed scientific institutions across the country. JNCASR, IISc, NCBS, BHU, NIOS are but a few to name its associates. Similar fellowships are also offered by JNCASR (Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research) and TIFR (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) every year. I was offered fellowship by JNCASR too but I had to choose one.
About IAS Fellowship
The academy invites student applications and the selected students are assigned to reputed professors and scientists in reputed scientific institutions across the country according to the field of interest and idea of work given by the students. The scholarship is decent. It covers all the travel expenses. The accommodation is more than satisfactory and a stipend is also given. Daily shuttles are provided for transportation from and to the place of work. Apart from that, regular seminars and meetings are organized for IAS fellows to share experience.
About my work
I worked under Prof. S. B. Krupanidhi (Material Research Center, IISc, Bangalore). He is a landmark in the field of ferroelectric thin films. I worked on the various compositions of Thin Film Super-lattices deposited through Pulsed Laser Deposition Technique to find a highly efficient Ferroelectric composition which could be effectively used in SRAMs and DRAMs to enhance electronic memory.
About Indian Institute of Science and my work experience
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore is hailed as the top most scientific institute of the country and it has totally earned its reputation. Apart from anything else, the very aura of the place spells academic dedication. Being a part of an Undergraduate curriculum rarely gives one, the feel of serious science and research. India has been spending generously on education and once one gets a chance to be a part of such institutes, he/she gets to think that indeed, the taxpayers’ money is not all in vain. The greenery, the peace and the tranquil environment of the beautiful campus is quite relaxing. If one has grown up being ‘the little engineer’ of the house making designs out of motors and toy car batteries then IISc is the place for him/her to be at, as it is all about having original ideas and pursuing them. Apart from an enhanced access to international journals, best books and the best equipments, it is a different feeling for any curious student to stay all nights at lab and see his/her idea actually materializing in a machine.
IISc takes a limited number of students for training and mainly they come from the IAS and the JNCASR summer fellowships. Some students also contact individual professors in their field of interest and then it remains at the professor’s discretion to invite them for Internship or not. Generally, students going in for internship/training by individual approach do not get accommodation or stipend but as mentioned earlier, it is solely on professor’s discretion.
As a concluding thing, I would mention that after completing two years of engineering education, if one opts for summer training, it should preferably be in a scientific institute. This is the time when one is most undecided about what to be pursued next and also is a lot unaware of the various possibilities that exist in basic sciences and how much exciting can it really be. Meeting people working in different disciplines that one does not even know the existence of, surely makes one think out of the box. It is the best way to weigh the future prospects because information about MBA or Economics is commonplace and fancy but to know about future in science one needs to really be near it for a while.
(Akanksha at IISc, Bangalore campus)
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Additional Link
*“Summer Internship Experience-First Hand Report” in Chronicle August 2008 issue
http://www.itbhuglobal.org/chronicle/archives/2008/08/index-campus-view.php#003639
* Prof. S. B. Krupanidhi, Professor and chairman, Material Research Center, IISc, Bangalore.
http://mrc.iisc.ernet.in/Faculty/Regular/SBK/SBK_Profile.htm
* Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
http://www.iisc.ernet.in/
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Varanasi 221005, UP
I think IISc Bangalore is one of the best institute for those student who is passionately curious about science ,engineering and technology and becoming one of the part of it is really more delighting than anything else in life.......
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