Summer Internship 2012 : IIT Bombay

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Summer Internship 2012 : IIT Bombay

Program Overview

They undertake a significant amount of software and hardware development work in their Affordable Solutions Lab, to support their efforts in the National Mission on Education through ICT. Last year, they selected 60 interns to work on these projects, simultaneously enabling them to fulfill the summer internship requirements of their respective academic programs. This year also, they are offering a fresh set of projects. These are described in some detail under the subsection projects.

All the work under the mission project is released under Open Source.
Consequently most of the tools and software environment used in their R&D,
are also from Open Source Software(OSS). You will thus be working on Ubuntu
(a variant of Linux), and using Java, MYSQL/Postgress, GCC, and such other
packages. Even if you do not have adequate exposure to these, you will get
ample opportunity to learn them during your internship. All they expect is that
you are able to learn fast, and are able to meaningfully use what you learn.
You will be engaged for a period of 8 weeks. Your project leader will evaluate
your work at the end of the internship. We expect everyone to work hard, and
successfully complete the assignments well in advance of the last date.

You have to strictly adhere to the time slots. Requests to adjust the time slot
will not be entertained.
You have to stay within the IIT campus. A room (on a twin sharing basis) will be
made available to you during the period of internship.
They will extend nominal financial support which is designed to cover a major
portion of your expenses during your stay in IIT. Further details of the terms and
conditions are available under the subsection 'Financials'. The tentative schedule
for the program is available under the subsection 'Tentative Schedule'. Detailed
schedule will be given to you on the first day of internship.
IIT will provide you library reading room facility, and limited access to Gymkhana
facilities.
A certificate will also be issued on successful completion of internship.
Kindly note that Prof Phatak does not give any recommendation letter for
admission to Institutions outside India.

Eligibility

Students graduating in Computer Science/Engineering, IT,or Electronics.Who

will be completing 3rd year in April/May 2012. Students completing 2nd year,

with exceptional academic performance and other achievements,may also be

considered.Students with experience in programming and/or hardware design

will be preferred.

Financials

Internship and stay at IIT Bombay involves some items expenditure to be
incurred by interns. These are:

Rs. 6000/- to be paid to the IIT Bombay academic office (Internship Fee's)
Hostel room rent of Rs 1100/- per month or part thereof (totaling Rs 2200/-

for the internship period)
Additional Rs 20/- per day if you wish to rent a mattress + bucket
Approximately Rs 100/- per day for food (breakfast, lunch, dinner) in the

vacation mess

Of these, we will pay Rs. 6000/- directly to the institute, on your behalf.
In addition,we will pay you an honorarium of Rs. 8000/- on successful
completion of 8 weeks of internship. Please note that since this amount
will be paid at the end, you will have to make your own arrangements to
meet the lodging and food expenses initially .

For detailed information go to Summer Internship 2012 : IIT Bombay page

Hurry Last Date of application : Friday, 23rd March 2012