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M2-WICS: Research Internship

Objectives:

The objective of the intership is to assure research by being "immersed" (except during covid-19 times.....)  in an research team (univ laboratory or company) during 6 months.

The intern must spend around 6 months (5 months at least ) working in intership.

The internship can start from February the 1st .

Subject:

 1  Subject choice

Several research laboratories and companies are operating in the Wireless Integrated Circuit and Systems fields.

Student will have to contact them directly.

The received offers will be send to you by email.

-TIMA lab

-CEA (http://www.cea.fr/recrutement/Pages/je-cherche/un-stage.aspx)

2    Administrative Protocol

The different steps to establish an agreement between the hosting laboratory / company and Phytem (or Phelma for INP students).:

1/ The subject has to be validated by the master2 (Please contact Emmanuel PISTONO to validate this),

2/ The student has to connect to PSTAGE App (on UGA-Intranet-LEO) and to complet the form. Some help is here to connect to PSTAGE and to fill the form.

Do not hesitate to contact Estelle Lauga-Larroze or Emmanuel Pistono if you need help.

3/ Once filled, you have to contact phitem-master-eea@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr in order to validate the convention and to print it.

4/ Then, the different parts have to sign the agreement.

3 Internship work

Once the agreement is done, the intership will take place in the host laboratory February to July.

Examination:

The internship assessment is based on three criteria:
50% : the overall assessment from the company/laboratory supervisor (Appendix 1),
25% : the assessment of the final report from the academic tutor (Appendix 2)
25% : the assessment of the oral examination from the jury (Appendix 3).

The Master WICS internship guidelines are detailed in this document.

1 During the internship period
The internship is supervised by the company/laboratory supervisor and the academic tutor of the School.

During the company/laboratory internship phase, the student should keep his academic tutor informed of the state of progress with his project (one email per month, at least), especially in the event that any problem arises. For example, if the subject is substantially modified, if the anticipated resources are not made available, etc. In such circumstances, the student should contact his academic tutor as quickly as possible, who will brief the Master supervisor and contact the company/laboratory in an effort to find a solution to the problem.
 If the company/laboratory supervisor requests that the internship should be treated as confidential, please inform the Master supervisors as soon as possible. In that case, specific procedures will be considered for the internship report and oral examination.
 Before the end of your internship, the Master WICS supervisors will send the overall assessment to your tutor (Appendix 1) who should return it duly completed. For G-INP students, a second evaluation sheet will be also sent by PHELMA administrative staff for the engineering degree evaluation1. These forms are essential and mandatory because the oral examination in order that they could be consulted by the members of the jury at the time of deliberation.

2 Confidentiality
If the company/laboratory supervisor requests that the internship should be treated as confidential, please contact your academic tutor in advance. In that case, the teachers (academic tutor and president of the jury) shall be bound by professional secrecy. No confidential document is kept at the School. The report and the oral presentation must not be emptied of their scientific content so that the jury judges the internship work at its fair value.

3 The final report

3.1 Sending of the final report
The final report must be written in English.
Any delay will be mentioned in the defense transcript and sanctioned in the internship mark.
It is mandatory that your final report should be validated by your company/laboratory supervisor before sending it.

3.1.1 UGA students
The student should up-loaded an electronic version (pdf file) of this report on chamilo.
In case of confidential internship, a paper version (no electronic version) of the report will be only sent or directly given to the academic tutor. After the oral examination and if the company/laboratory supervisor cannot attend the defense, the student will have to give the paper reports back to the company/laboratory.

3.1.2 G-INP students
The student should print and bind the report in two copies and send:
-One copy to the administrative staff of PHELMA (à l'attention de la gestionnaire de la filière au service Relations Entreprises de Phelma). This copy will be given to the Président of the jury.
-One copy directly to your academic tutor (academic tutor may accept pdf, please contact him)
In case of confidential internship, the company/laboratory will have to sign a privacy sheet during the oral examination. After the oral examination and if the company/laboratory supervisor cannot attend the defense, the student will have to give the paper reports back to the company/laboratory.

3.2 Content of the report
All reports should include as a minimum:
-The cover page with full contact details — (address, telephone number, e-mail, etc.) — making it possible to directly contact the student, the company/laboratory supervisor and the academic tutor. For double degree students please refer to the section 6 for the cover page.
-A table of contents (numbered pages)

-Abstract + keywords (1 page)
-List of acronyms (1 page)
-An introduction presenting the subject in its general context and its value or importance (1 or 2 pages).
-A presentation of the company/laboratory and of its activities (2 pages).
-State of the Art: specify the innovation of the research or R&D subject relatively to the literature. Expose the main concepts of the subject, and related references, highlight the bottlenecks. Insist on the novelty of the proposed idea, the way the proposed approach will overcome the identified bottlenecks (5 pages minimum).
-Define precisely the objectives of your work, the identified tasks and the provisional schedule, presented in the form of a Gantt diagram (2 pages).
-Theoretical and technical contributions parts: develop your theoretical and technical contributions by insisting on the proposed methodology and justifying your choices to achieve the objectives (around 20-25 pages).
- Conclusion & prospects + personal assessment: the conclusion must detail the contributions made by this project, both on a professional and technical level, and from a personal point of view.
-References
All equations should be numbered, all parameters included in the Equations should be identified. All Figures should be with a title and numbered. All equations and Figures should be introduced in the text.
This report should not exceed 40 pages. It may have additional appendices. The language used is definitely English.
The report should demonstrate the student’s systematic approach and his ability to analyse the solutions studied and to justify the choices made based on a bibliographical and technical study.
The student will have to present a critical analysis of the chosen solutions and their implementation, their limitations, and their ongoing development and the envisaged prospects.

4 The oral examination
For WICS students, the oral examinations are held at the end of June.

For PHELMA students, the planning will be commmunicated by REA staff. Be aware that this oral examination allows validating the internship for both engineering and Master degrees.
The jury is comprised of the company/laboratory supervisor, the academic tutor, and is chaired by a chairman.
The oral examinations are organized in one hour slots. The student’s presentation lasts 25 minutes (not more), followed by 10 minutes of questions from the jury, and finally the discussions.

In case of remote oral defense, a corporate visio-tool (like renater) has to be choose.

Language used for the oral presentation, slides will be English and the questions/answers will be in English or French.

If the company/laboratory supervisor is exceptionally unable to attend the oral presentation, (chiefly in the event of a project being carried out abroad) he should send back the assessment sheet for the day of the oral presentation to the academic tutor (cc to the jury chairman).
For the defence, make oral repetitions (ideally with your internship supervisor) before the defence day (rule-of-thumb is 1 slide per minute). You may change the content of the presentation compared with the report content, which is usually appreciated by the jury, to highlight your technical contribution and refer to the report sections eventually for the details concerning a few technical details. Do not forget to indicate your slide number.
Take a paper version of the report (last version, the same you have sent to the jury member) with you in case a jury member ask a question on the report.
Make sure before the defence that your company/laboratory supervisor has sent the assessment sheet to the academic tutor (cc president of the jury chairman).

Have a good continuation of internship and take care of you.

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