Redesigning a Compulsory Computing Internship Course for Massification

This paper presents the design and management issues of a compulsory computing internship course in Malaysia. In the course, all computing students are required to complete a minimum of twelve weeks on the job training as part of the requirement for graduation. Extensive measures were put in place by the department to ensure that students are thoroughly assessed and monitored during their placement by both company supervisors and academic staff. We discuss our observations and scalability constraints with the course as student recruitment for all programs increases. An alternative model of assessment and administration is also presented to overcome the shortcomings of the current course design. Early implementations of the revised course resulted in better overall management by streamlining processes but also brings about new challenges.