About MoU

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is a formal agreement between two or more parties. Companies and organizations can use MoUs to establish official partnerships.

Purpose of MoU

The MoU is intended to recognize the general basis for a cooperative and a collaborative working relationship between the two parties. The purpose of MoU is to have mutual intentions to jointly work on projects required for industries and research needs, with learned faculty of good industrial experience and promising students, jointly agree to exchange their expertise for mutual benefit and growth, on the areas specified below:

• Industrial Visits
• In-plant Training & special Technical Training to make the students industry-ready
• Guest Lectures
• Mini Projects and Main Project Work
• Research & Development
• Problem Solving
• Studies & Survey
• Placements
• Internships
• Establishing Advanced Labs

 INTERNSHIPS

Students work at a company for at least ten weeks during the summer or at least sixteen weeks during  the Summer Vacation. In order for their experience to be considered an internship, they cannot work more than two terms with the same company and still be affiliated with this office. If a student chooses to work more on his or her own, that is acceptable. However, only the first two terms will be noted on their academic transcript.

 BENEFITS OF MOU’s:

Company will get:

• The opportunity to prescreen our most ambitious and enthusiastic students—the kind who thrive on challenge
• The opportunity to evaluate temporary employees while deciding whether to make a permanent offer
• An infusion of new ideas and methods
• An excellent source of short term employees
• The opportunity to train an employee in your particular methods and processes
• Greater visibility on the UT campus
• Participation in the educational process
• Increased opportunities for technology transfer

Students will get:

• Bridge the gap between theoretical study and the professional world
• Find out exactly what engineers do in order to decide if they want to spend their lives as engineers
• Discover why they’re studying math, physics, and theory
• Become professionals who can take their learning in the classroom and adapt it to the workplace
• Get a head start on classroom learning by working with engineering principles on the job
• Have Internship Program participation noted on their transcripts
• Gain self-confidence and motivation and develop expertise in interacting with people
• Become more attractive to employers because they’re already trained and can be productive immediately
• Improve significantly the level of job and salary offers they get upon graduation
• Develop professional behavior and social skills

College will benefit through:

• Better use of classrooms, laboratories and other facilities
• Better relations with industry, government, and business
• Better prepared students who are more desirable to employers and are ready to meet today’s challenging work environment.
• Better educated students with leading edge technology training in the workplace as well as insight into professionalism and proper social behavior
• Technology transfer Fiscally responsible students
• Better education to all students by students returning to school and sharing their experiences with professors and classmates
• Partnerships with students and sponsoring corporations and be able to establish the Engineering Professional Practice program as one that is nationally recognized among students, parents, employers, and peer institutions

Department Memorandum of Understanding (MOUs)