Debre Markos University

Institute of Technology
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Internship Report Format
Part 1 Report Format
The internship report needs to include the following main issues.

1. A cover page describing the following items:

 Your name alphabetically and ID.No.
 The names of your University, Institute, and School
 The name of your internship hosting company
 The duration of your internship
 The date of the submission of your report
 For whom you submitted
2. 3-5 Inner preliminary pages describing the following items:
 Declaration of the student and the approval of the mentor and the supervisor - one page
 Acknowledgements (If any) – only one page
 An executive summary – only one page
 List of tables and figures (if any)
 Table of content
3. 3-6 pages describing the background of your internship hosting company, including:
 Its brief history
 Its main products or services
 Its main customers or the end users of its products or services
 Its overall organizational and workflow
4. 5-10 Pages describing your overall internship experience, including:
 How you get into the company _What steps you have followed to join the company?
How? Who helped you to get to the company?
 In which section of the company you have been working in - Briefly explain the part of
the company you have been assigned to work or practice during the internship period. If
you were moving from section to section mention all the sections and activities and roles
you have played.
 How does the work flow in the section look like? - Explain with block diagram the work
processes/flow of the section(s) you were assigned for

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  Which work piece or work tasks you have been executing - Among the work tasks in
your section, briefly explain the part of the work flow you were mainly part of it.
 What procedures you have been using while performing your work tasks - With a
block diagram, try to explain how you have been performing the tasks
 How good you have been in performing your work tasks - If you have brought better
working system than it was previously, please explain it briefly
 What challenges you have been facing while performing your work tasks - Explain
all the technical challenges that you faced while performing the tasks
 What measures you have taken in order to overcome these challenges, etc. - What
technical solution you suggested to the company to tackle the challenges you have been
facing? Do you think you were beneficial to the comapny
5. 3-7 Pages describing the overall benefits you gained from the internship, including:
 What you gained in terms of improving your practical skills - Mention all practical skills
you have gained during your stay in the company. Explain how you gained those skills
 What you gained in terms of upgrading your theoretical knowledge - What
additional new theoretical knowledge you have gained?
 What you gained in terms of improving your interpersonal communication skills -
Explain briefly how you have been interacting with other internees and company
workers
 What you gained in terms of improving your team playing skills - Mention in brief
how you play in team works.
 What you gained in terms of improving your leadership skills - Were you played
like a team leader? If so mention what you have gained out of it.
 What you gained in terms of understanding about work ethics related issues - Were
you punctual in coming to work? What did you learn from company workers? Do they
respect work time?
6. What you gained in terms of entrepreneurship skills
Were you able to develop entrepreneurial skill? What things you have observed to develop
entrepreneurial skills? How? Is there anything you gained which initiates you be an
entrepreneur?
7. 2-4 Pages describing your conclusion and your recommendations for the company.
Recommendation needs to address technical issues in the company. Do not mention irrelevant
issues here
8. References
In this section put all references like manuals or company websites you have used to finish your
document.
9. Appendices(optional)
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Part II: Project work Report Format
If you have accomplished a project work during your stay in the company, follow the following
format to report the project work.

1. Title of the project

2. Introduction
3. Problem statement
4. Objectives
a. General objective
b. Specific objective
5. Scope of the project
6. Methodology
a. General Procedure
b. Data collection
c. System block diagram
d. System Design
e. Simulation work
f. Prototype with pictures (if you have developed a prototype)
7. Results and Discussion
8. Conclusion
9. Recommendation

NB:

If there is more number of students working in the same company, not more than three
students can prepare internship report together. Copying from each other and submission of
identical reports will be invalid for all.