Overall Benefits of the internship

Internship is a class healed at site to provide an enhanced understanding of the outside

working environment before the student graduate. The main aim of this practice
(internship) was to teach students communication with different workers or
employees, to improve practical skill what they learned at class, up grading the
theoretical knowledge in addition to the class, improve their leadership skill, team
playing skill and etc.

Upgrading interpersonal communication skill

Communication is sharing or exchanging information or ideas with others in order to

get some messages and knowledge. The communications systems within the building
design and construction enterprise has taken on a large role in the achievement of
profitability and efficiency. A basic understanding of communication systems is
beneficial to all building professionals and trades, as they all play a part in the success
of the construction. Construction is one of the places that ask a good communication
skill either managing every trade of work or asking what is gowning on over there. So,
communication is an important way of learning, which can be defined formally as the
act, process, or experience of gaining knowledge or skills and sharing what we know.
Cool communication is important in the real constructions world and it can appear in
different forms as speaking, writing, and listening. In the site the most things I gain is
due to communication with other workers like engineers, skilled and non-skilled
workers, Forman etc. in some place/case it is very difficult to talk workers and ask
them what we want because of that they underestimate us and sometimes they are not
eager to tell. But I improve and know how to communicate with different classes of
workers in the site.
Improving team playing skill

Team playing skill for construction work Team works, especially for engineers, involve in
every piece of task and achieving good team playing skill is essential for Effective
completion of tasks and Increasing productivity. This skill already exists in my
personality in the campus due to different assignment and project works that I work
together with student. But this skill is more than this in the construction site. In the
construction site the work is already a team work and it needs more closeness of
workers to solve problems arise in different aspects, misunderstanding in the drawing
or working methodology and consult every work. We the student at the site also works
together as a team to get more understanding and share ideas. More or less I improve
my team work status by working together with different professionals, student and
workers as a whole in the civil engineering works and consulting.

Improving practical skill

The aim of the internship is to address more practical knowledge for student. So, I
found a practical knowledge at the site as much possible. The knowledge we have
learn in the class is helpful to get those practical or real work in the site and totally
different from the actual knowledge gained from the class. Thus I found some
knowledge in the site which helps me to work with the site environment or site
peoples.

Some of the practical knowledge I gain from the internship class was:
In any construction work the first stage before casting of concrete is designing and
constructing of form work. As I explained in the work procedure the formwork and
false work must be stiff and must resist the fresh concrete till the concrete gain its
strength.

We conduct the surveying class in the field for its lab session of the course in the
normal class. But we don‘t know about how it is going to be in building construction in
particular and in which particular stage of the construction work it used either the super
structure or sub structure.
Work ethics and related issues

The concept of work ethics may be summarized as the overall quality in one‘s
behavior towards appreciating the process of work flow and performing rather well on
the job so that this work flow will not be jeopardized in the long run. During my
internship program, I could say that I have managed to do my side of the job
description with a high spirit and enthusiasm so that there was a smooth flow of
activities both in the office and on construction site. Work ethics involve such
characteristics as honesty, responsibility, reliability, accountability and etc.

Upgrading the theoretical knowledge

The internship class is not only depending on the practical aspect but it also helps
students to upgrade or increase knowledge on already that they have. I try to integrate
the practical knowledge with that of the theory learned in the class in different place in
order to get more knowledge than the theory we learned on the class. I got the internship
class very interesting in terms of upgrading a theoretical knowledge and I learned from
the site some theories that we haven’t learns in the class room by searching different
related literature. Some of this is:

 Quantity surveying
 Construction equipment
 Report writing
I learned those things in exclusive cause it is hard to read and understand everything from
books and asking some peoples at site to those things ashamed me. Generally I change myself
alit bit after the internship period in my knowledge than before I took it.
 Conclusion and recommendation
Conclusions
The internship is a bridge between the theoretical knowledge and the practical or the reality work at
the field of construction or civil engineering work. I go to companies that already working either as a
consultant or a contractor. The responsibilities of the hosting company are toteach student and shape
them as a real site worker. My hosting company is a contractor team and they help me in acquiring
different knowledge in different positions.

This program played an important role to break the conventional thought that field works canbe only
implemented by students who hold a degree or people who have experience in building
construction. We were able to acquire a high level of confidence to deal with problems that arise in
a building construction.

Overall the internship program laid sound foundation for us to start our career. We are proud tobe able
to contribute towards nation building during the country's extremely critical period of the history. It
will be definitely sensible to scale this practice up and to replicate in other disciplines as well.

Recommendation

Most works in the site needs careful attention and successive supervision of works but the in
some case the site works goes improperly due to different causes. This kind of carelessness
is not good for neither the consultant nor the contractor. Therefore, I suggest supervisors
and site engineers to take a care full look after the work executed on the site and the work
that will be executed.

In the site there are works which is performed in the way that not to be performed.
Such works lids to safety problem, loose of human power if its degree is high and
economy if it is ordered to demolish it. Thus I recommend for the company the
following:

 1st of all level all the constructed area according to the drawing level.
 Testing of material before it delivered to the site and after it delivered and also when
it is in use for construction.
 It is better to use steel form work than wood (plywood) formwork as it is very
repetitively used, stiff, and not flammable easily and removed easily without
damaging the concrete structure.
A cover material could be used for curing for any casted concrete structure until it attains its strength.