The Higher School of Engineering and Technology (ESIT) currently collaborates with a group of companies and institutions whose profiles align with the degree program's requirements and who meet the demand for enrollment in curricular external internships. These collaborating entities have formalized agreements with the University of La Laguna (ULL) (Educational Cooperation Agreements), as required by current regulations. These agreements can be consulted. here the collaborating entities with which we have worked in the different courses since the implementation of the External Internships subject (history) for Industrial Engineering studies. At the end of this page you can also consult the internship offer only for the Degree in Industrial Electronic and Automatic Engineering.
The contact person for any matter related to External Internships is the one who occupies the Subdirectorate of Institutional Relations and the Coordination of External Internships of the Industrial Engineering studies. relindus@ull.es, positions that he currently holds Ms. María Hernández Molina.
External internships in companies and institutions are an essential training complement for future graduates to have direct knowledge of the practice of their profession and face the world of work. It is a subject located in the last year of the study plan so that students can be well trained and can fully develop their profession. In this sense, the degree establishes minimum requirements that students must meet in order to enroll and take the subject. The student must have passed a total of 150 ECTS credits, distributed as follows:
In any case, and for the reasons mentioned above, it is recommended to take the subject with the highest number of credits passed.
The External Internship subject has a load of 12 ECTS credits and must be taken by students in order to obtain the degree, according to Royal Decree 1393/2007, of October 29, with the aim of providing each student with the following skills and abilities to improve the quality of their training and promote their insertion into the workforce:
External internships will be governed by the "Regulations for the Management of External Internships for Students of the University of La Laguna," the link to which is available at the bottom of this page. In addition, the center has the External Internship Committee for Industrial Engineering studies, which centralizes all the organization, management, evaluation, and monitoring of internships for these studies, as detailed in the "Organization of External Internships" section. This committee has tools for monitoring internships that allow it to assess the effectiveness of the course and the level of satisfaction of the stakeholders involved (SASPE Analysis and Monitoring System and Student Satisfaction Surveys for External Internships). These tools are an excellent complement to those established generally by the University of La Laguna as an institution.
The planning, development, evaluation, and improvement of the External Placements course is currently established in a specific sub-procedure of the Degree's Internal Quality Assurance System (SAIC) – formerly called the Internal Quality Guarantee System, SGIC – which can be consulted through the following link.
The organization, management, evaluation and monitoring of external internships in Industrial Engineering studies are channeled through the External Practices Committee (CPE). The following members of this commission are:
The management of External Practices is supported by a institutional virtual classroom for the course located on the ULL virtual campus. The virtual classroom will be the official means of communication for the development of the course. The internship offer managed and agreed with the companies will be published there. For the monitoring of the internships, there is also a tool developed by the FGULL: External Internship Analysis and Monitoring System (SASPE).
Planning for internship positions begins once the second semester (June-July) has finished, by sending an initial proposal to potential collaborating entities, which will finally be confirmed in the weeks prior to the beginning of the academic year (September). In any case, management of the internship offer is dynamic and does not close at a specific time, and new positions may be added throughout the development of the course.
The internships are organized in shifts. In the case of the Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Electronics and Automation Engineering, there are four shifts – two in each semester – as it is a year-long course. The internship period is 150 hours, which is usually 5 or 6 weeks (depending on the schedule agreed upon with the company).
For the management of extracurricular practices, the contact person is the General Coordinator of Industrial Engineering studies (relindus@ull.edu.es). In order to access extracurricular internships, the student must have passed the curricular internships.
The list of agreements signed between the University of La Laguna and various companies, institutions or public administrations for the completion of external internships by undergraduate and postgraduate students at the University of La Laguna can be consulted at the following link: link.
Information on the places offered in the current academic year will be managed through the virtual classroom of the subject "External Internships". This information will be published in a timely manner before each assignment process through said classroom as an official communication channel, so that it will be available to students enrolled in the subject.
As a guide for companies that have collaborated with the training of students for the degree, the following links provide information on the total number of External Internship places offered for the degree in previous years:
The following link contains a history of places offered for External Internships for the Degree in Industrial Electronic and Automatic Engineering in the different collaborating entities, both public and private (companies and institutions), and the specific type of activity associated with these places:
The following table lists the entities, companies and institutions with which the Higher School of Engineering and Technology has collaborated to carry out the external internships of the Degree in Industrial and Automatic Electronic Engineering during the last academic years, along with the number of places offered and assigned.
General university regulations, national, regional and those of the ULL.