How an internship can help
Paid internships allow you to apply what you learned during your classroom/lab sessions at Delta College in a real-world setting. This also helps you become familiar with the dealership environment, its organizational structure, and what is expected of a professional service technician.
Upon completion of eight weeks of classroom instruction at Delta College, student technicians will complete eight weeks of internship at their sponsoring dealership, earning four units of college credit. The internship requirements include:
- Completing a list of learning objectives
- Keeping an Internship Logbook
- Performance evaluations by the supervisor and internship coordinator
Internship Goals
Each internship has a list of objectives that relate directly to your learning objectives in the classroom, and determine the key activities you'll experience during the internship.
This list will be the guide for planning each internship so that as many of the objectives as possible can be accomplished.
A checkoff signature with the date for each objective accomplished with serve as a record of these experiences and will be used to ensure that the appropriate instruction has been achieved. The objectives not accomplished during the program can be used to plan for future training needs.
Internship Logbook
As part of your internship you will keep a logbook with a record of your learning accomplishments. This logbook will be part of the final course grade for the internship. It will be used by the dealer program coordinator, dealer internship coordinator, and the dealer program instructor to assess your progress, and will also help to ensure that the goals of the internship have been satisfied.
The logbook consists of:
- Dealer information
- Contact information
- A list of objectives for the internship period
- Personal safety reminders
- Service report sheets to record daily accomplishments.
Recordings in your logbook may include a short summary of activities performed, equipment used, systems used, people contacted, training achieved or any other significant event. This is an opportunity to record anything that you feel is related to your learning experience. You should also fill out a regular service report for the work you perform at the dealership, when appropriate.
Internship Coordinator
The internship coordinator is responsible for making sure all students have equal opportunities to succeed and are progressing at the same rate. The coordinator will perform evaluations and will be the main liaison between the college instructor and the dealership regarding student internships.
The College instructor will visit you during your internship to see how you are progressing. The instructor will assign a grade to your internship worth four units of college credit based on the evaluations, dealer visits and your logbook.
Internship Evaluations
During your internship you will be given a minimum of two formal evaluations by your supervisor. An evaluation by the mentor should also be given, if available. You will also complete an evaluation of the dealer at the conclusion of the eight-week period.
Student evaluations are scheduled as follows:
- Evaluation No. 1: Four weeks
- Evaluation No. 2: Eight weeks
