Rationale
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An interactive presentation tool has been developed. The aim of this tool is to raise students awareness of the benefits they will gain from undertaking a placements and internships and also a clear understanding of common pitfalls they should avoid to maximise the benefits and learning impact from their placement. To maximise engagement and make it easy to follow this has been presented in the retro board game theme of a snakes and ladders see figure below. It is recommended that this is adopted by the Engineering Academy as a communication tool for all students undertaking a placement in the future.
Next steps
The next steps are to integrate the findings within the Engineering Academy this session and to identify opportunities for transferring lessons across the faculty of engineering and wider university.
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Students were involved at the core of all aspects of the project. A current student Kate Murdoch undertook the work as a student intern i.e. developing the methodology, collecting and analysing data, developing the snakes and ladders interactive presentation. Engineering academy students were involved extensively in the collection of data i.e. mobile survey, semi structured interviews and focus groups.
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Avril Thomson (avril.thomson@strath.ac.uk), DMEM, Faculty of Engineering