To the Attention of Students Who Will Do Their Summer Practice!

                                                                                                                                                                                        January 15, 2025

Place of Summer Practice and Information:

- First of all, you need to find a suitable location for your internship that employs at least one civil engineer.

- CE 300 Internship: This is a site internship and spans 20 workdays. The project progress should be 5%-95% in large-scale projects (e.g., dams, roads) and 10%-70% in smaller construction projects.

- CE 400 Internship: This internship can be either a site or office (design) internship and lasts 30 workdays. You are expected to complete the CE 300 internship before starting CE 400. If the timeline permits, you may complete both internships during the summer term.

- Information regarding internship placements can be found on the "Internship Board."

Workdays:

If the workplace operates on Saturdays, Saturdays will count as workdays. However, workplaces that do not operate on Saturdays, such as government offices, are excluded. The Saturday work status must be confirmed by the authorized supervisor on the daily summary forms.

Internship Dates:

According to the 2024-2025 academic calendar:

• The earliest internship start date is June 24, 2025.

• The latest internship completion date is September 26, 2025.

• Students attending Summer School (July 14 – August 28, 2025) must complete their internship outside these dates.

Online Internship Application Process:

1. Start the necessary procedures by getting the "Doing summer practice is obligatory" document (if the company requests) from K1-209 and by downloading the "Summer Practice Approval Form" from the website. If the company requests the "Doing summer practice is obligatory" document, you need to deliver the form to the company.

2. Enter the information from the approval form into the online application form. After the internship, the original signed form (prepared by the company) must be submitted to the Internship Office during the registration period.

3. Complete the online entry process at least 15 days before the start of your internship. For special cases, consult the Internship Office (http://ce.metu.edu.tr/tr/stajlar).

4. Fill out and submit the Insurance Declaration and Commitment Form (for those receiving/not receiving healthcare through their family) to turanb@metu.edu.tr before starting the internship. (http://ce.metu.edu.tr/tr/stajlar or http://pdb.metu.edu.tr/diger-formlar).

5. Obtain your insurance declaration documents from e-Devlet three days before your internship start date to submit to the company. You should submit the insurance declaration/statement to the company hosting your summer internship.

You can obtain the correspondence you may need during the summer internship from the Summer Internship Office. Documents You May Need:

1. Compulsory Internship Document: The "Summer Internship is mandatory" document for your internship company (if required for insurance purposes).

2. English version of the "Compulsory Internship" document for internships abroad (email turanb@metu.edu.tr).

3. A letter explaining your internship for you to stay in the dormitory.

If necessary, these documents can be obtained from http://ce.metu.edu.tr/tr/stajlar or the K1-209 Summer Internship Office.

The Summer Practice Guide:

Download the Summer Practice Guide from http://ce.metu.edu.tr/tr/stajlar.

• Paste your photo and fill out the information on the first three pages. The first page will be attached to the front of your report.

• Students completing internships abroad must fill out the English version of the guide.

Course Registration for Internship:

Students who complete a summer internship must register for the relevant course (CE 300 or CE 400) at the beginning of the following semester. Internships not registered within two consecutive semesters will be invalid. This rule also applies to students on probation. Such students will need to complete a new internship after two semesters.

Internship Report Submission:

• Students must upload their internship reports to ODTUClass at the beginning of the following semester.

• Students on probation must submit hard copies of their reports to the Internship Office. Failure to do so will invalidate the internship.

Submission Guidelines:

Follow announcements for exact dates. Reports for this year must be submitted in October. Detailed instructions (e.g., submission during Add-Drop week and format requirements) will be shared.

Documents to be Submitted to the Internship Office:

1. The 2nd and 3rd pages of the internship guide: one copy remains with the company, and the other must be submitted in a sealed, signed, and stamped envelope.

2. The Employer's Questionnaire Form (http://ce.metu.edu.tr/tr/stajlar).

3. The Summer Internship Approval Form.

Submit these documents in person, by mail, or via email to turanb@metu.edu.tr at the K1-209 Internship Office.

CE Internship Office

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ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING SUMMER PRACTICE REPORTS

This semester, you must submit your summer practice reports to the CE300/ CE400 All Sections ODTUClass page to the assignment having the section number you are registered to (file types can be Word, PDF, clear/legible scanned/photo/image file, etc.). You do not need to get a printout of your summer practice report.

The deadline for submission of Summer Practice Reports is 20 October 2024, at 23:59.

Probation students should also submit their summer practice reports by the deadline, even though they cannot register for the course.

Please ensure you have registered for the CE300/CE400 course (section of the instructor that will grade your report) and get your registration advisor's approval.

With your summer practice reports, you are required to submit the following documents, item numbers (1), (2), and (3) written below, before 18 October at 17:00 to K1 Building, Room 209, to Ms. Belgin Turan (if you have questions you can contact Ms. Belgin Turan by email: turanb@metu.edu.tr):

1. Summer Practice Approval Form, signed and stamped by the company (at this link https://ce.metu.edu.tr/en/system/files/stajrehberi_summerpracticeguide_2..., page 5/10 in English, or page 6/10 in Turkish)

2. Survey Form (this form will be filled by the person/company responsible from the intern) (at this link: https://ce.metu.edu.tr/tr/system/files/staj_yeri_anketi_turkce.xlsx, if you need the English version of this document, please send an email to Güzide Atasoy Özcan, guzide@metu.edu.tr)

3. The Summer Practice Evaluation Form (2nd page of the summer practice guide) should be filled out, signed, and sealed by the company, and then it will be delivered to the summer practice office (room K1-209) in a closed envelope. The second copy of this form will be kept at the company. (This is available on page 3/10 of the following document: https://ce.metu.edu.tr/en/system/files/stajrehberi_summerpracticeguide_2...)

The files needed to be uploaded to ODTUClass Assignment are written below in item (4). The items (1), (2), and (3) written above need to be submitted to room K1/209 to Ms. Belgin Turan.

4. Summer Practice Report and signed and stamped Daily Summary Forms

SUMMER PRACTICE REPORTS WITHOUT FILLED AND SIGNED SUMMARY FORMS FOR EACH DAY OF THE SUMMER PRACTICE WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. If you prefer, you can upload Daily Summary Forms as a separate file to the ODTUClass assignment.

STUDENTS WHO ARE NOT ABLE TO REGISTER FOR CE400 SUMMER PRACTICE COURSE FOR 2 (two) CONSECUTIVE SEMESTERS NEED TO REPEAT THEIR SUMMER PRACTICES, AS THEIR INTERNSHIP WILL BE INVALID. THIS RULE APPLIES TO PROBATION STUDENTS AS WELL.

Regards,

To the Attention of Students Who Will Do Their Summer Practice!

                                                                                                                                              27/02/2023

Place of Summer Practice Preference and Information

First of all, you need to find a suitable place which has at least one civil engineer to do your summer practice.

CE 300 is the construction site internship (20 working days) and, CE 400 can be done as a site or office (project) summer practice (30 working days).

If you work on Saturdays at the company office or construction site, Saturday will be counted as working days. However, places such as public institutions that do not work on Saturdays are excluded from this scope. The Saturday working situation must be signed in the daily summary form by the chief who is responsible for the intern.

According to the academic calendar, the earliest summer practice start date is June 26 and, the latest summer practice completion date is September 26. 2023.

Students attending the summer school, which is between July 31 and September 14 2023 will be able to do a summer practice except for these days.

Students who will do summer practice have to add the summer practice course (CE300 or CE400) to their records at the beginning of the following semester. If a student does not register the summer practice course in 2 (two) semesters after the summer practice, the summer practice will be invalid. This rule also applies to students in Probation status. Students in this situation need to do a new summer practice after two semesters.

Students who do summer practice have to submit their summer practice reports to the "Summer Practice Office" at the beginning of the following semester. Otherwise, the summer practice will be invalid. This rule also applies to students in Probation status.

You can find information about places of summer practice in our "Summer Practice Board". The online summer practice application starts on February 20, 2023, and ends on August 28, 2023. (Except those whose excuse is accepted by the department chair.)

If there is a critical situation in which you cannot continue the summer practice, please inform the Summer Practice Office.

Please inform the Summer Practice Office at least five days in advance to make any change other than the dates you specified initially.

For those who take health care service through own family must submit "Commitment" and who do not take health care service through own family must submit "Declaration and Commitment" to the Summer Practice office until August 10, 2023. (http://ce.metu.edu.tr/summer-practice)

Online Summer Practice Application

You can start the necessary procedures by taking the "Doing summer practice is obligatory" document (if the company requests) from K1-209 and by downloading the "Summer Practice Approval Form" from the website. If the company requests the "Doing summer practice is obligatory" document, you need to deliver the form to the company.

Information on the "Summer Practice Approval Form" is written by the student on the online application form. After the summer practice, the original signed form prepared by the company is submitted to the Summer Practice Office.

You can make the online login procedures 15 days before the summer practice starts. (You can get in contact with Summer Practice office in special cases.) (http://ce.metu.edu.tr/summer-practice).

You must submit the completed insurance statement and commitment (in the form of receiving healthcare through your own family / not receiving healthcare through your own family) to the Summer Internship Office. (http://ce.metu.edu.tr/summer-practice or http://pdb.metu.edu.tr/diger-formlar).

You can get the "insurance statement" via e-devlet 2 or 3 days before starting the summer internship. An insurance statement must be submitted to the company you have done your summer internship with.

You can obtain the correspondence you may need during the summer internship from the Summer Internship Office. These documents;

1- The "Summer internship is mandatory" document for the place where you are doing summer internship.

2- English "Summer internship is mandatory" document for students who will do summer internship abroad.

3-The form required to stay in the dormitory.

If necessary, you can obtain these documents

on the website http://ce.metu.edu.tr/tr/stajlar or from K1-209 Summer Internship Office.

The Summer Practice Guide

You can print the summer practice guide from the http://ce.metu.edu.tr/summer-practice website.

a-You need to paste your photo and fill your information on the first three pages of the guide. The first page will be added to the front of your report.

b-Students who do their summer practice abroad will fill the documents in English.

While bringing your Summer Practice Reports "at the beginning of the semester";

The summer practice reports will be delivered to the Summer Practice Office on the dates that will be announced in October (Add-Drop Week). You are required to prepare your reports on time. Otherwise, late submissions will not be accepted. If the report cannot be submitted, the summer practice will be considered unsuccessful.

Documents to be submitted to Summer Practice Office;

1-One of page 2 or page 3 of your summer practice guide will remain in the company. The other one will be delivered to the Summer Practice Office in a closed, signed, and sealed envelope by hand or by post.

2-The survey form filled out by the company. (http://ce.metu.edu.tr/summer-practice)

3-Summer Practice Approval Form

These documents must be submitted to K1 209, Summer Practice Office.

Or you can send it via mail or e-mail, (turanb@metu.edu.tr).

A separate announcement will be made for this.

CE Summer Practice Office

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING SUMMER PRACTICE REPORTS*

To the Attention of Students Who Will Do Their Summer Practice!

Place of Summer Practice Preference and Information

First of all, you need to find a suitable place which has at least one civil engineer to do your summer practice.

CE 300 is the construction site internship (20 working days) and, CE 400 can be done as a site or office (project) summer practice (30 working days).

If you work on Saturdays at the company office or construction site, Saturday will be counted as working days. However, places such as public institutions that do not work on Saturdays are excluded from this scope. The Saturday working situation must be signed in the daily summary form by the chief who is responsible for the intern.

Online Summer Practice Application

You can start the necessary procedures by taking the "Doing summer practice is obligatory" document (if the company requests) from K1-209 and by downloading the "Summer Practice Approval Form" from the website. If the company requests the "Doing summer practice is obligatory" document, you need to deliver the form to the company.

Information on the "Summer Practice Approval Form" is written by the student on the online application form. After the summer practice, the original signed form prepared by the company is submitted to the Summer Practice Office.

You can make the online login procedures 15 days before the summer practice starts. (You can get in contact with Summer Practice office in special cases.) (http://ce.metu.edu.tr/summer-practice).

You need to deliver the filled insurance declaration and commitment (in the form of take health care service through your own family/does not take health care service through your own family) to the Summer Practice Office. (http://ce.metu.edu.tr/summer-practice or http://pdb.metu.edu.tr/diger-formlar).

You can obtain the "insurance declaration" from Summer Practice Office 2 or 3 days before starting the summer practice. Insurance declaration should be delivered to the company that you do summer practice.

You can obtain the correspondences which you may need during the summer practice from Summer Practice Office. These documents are;

1- "Doing summer practice is obligatory" document for the place where you do summer practice.

2- "Doing summer practice is obligatory" document in English for the students who will do their summer practice abroad.

3-The form required for staying in the dormitory.

If necessary, you can obtain these documents from the K1-209, Summer Practise Office.

The Summer Practice Guide

You can print the summer practice guide from the http://ce.metu.edu.tr/summer-practice website.

a-You need to paste your photo and fill your information on the first three pages of the guide. The first page will be added to the front of your report.

b-Students who do their summer practice abroad will fill the documents in English.

While bringing your Summer Practice Reports "at the beginning of the semester";

The summer practice reports will be delivered to the Summer Practice Office on the dates that will be announced in October (Add-Drop Week). You are required to prepare your reports on time. Otherwise, late submissions will not be accepted. If the report cannot be submitted, the summer practice will be considered unsuccessful.

Documents to be submitted to Summer Practice Office;

1-One of page 2 or page 3 of your summer practice guide will remain in the company. The other one will be delivered to the Summer Practice Office in a closed, signed, and sealed envelope by hand or by post.

2-The survey form filled out by the company. (http://ce.metu.edu.tr/summer-practice)

3-Summer Practice Approval Form

These documents must be submitted to K1 209, Summer Practice Office.

CE Summer Practice Office