All environmental engineering students at other Universities would be conducting a summer practice as well. As a result, it is to your advantage to arrange your summer practice as early as possible. Please follow the steps in the flowchart.

1. First, decide whether you are going to conduct any internship in the following summer. If so, send an email to the Teaching Assistants of the course, including your NAME, SURNAME, ID NUMBER, POSSIBLE LOCATION, and POSSIBLE DURATION. TAs will enroll you in ODTUCLASS as a “Guest Student”

2. Conduct research and decide which companies/institutions you would be contacting. Check whether they are accepting interns and whether they will accept you as one. Most of them will require a statement from the Department indicating that you are obliged to conduct a summer practice. Please fill-in the 

• Summer Practice Application Form (Turkish - English) Form and 

• Course Information Form

and upload them into the Documents for Internships file on ODTUCLASS. Your application form will be signed by the Summer Practice Coordinator and then uploaded to the same file by TAs. Submit the application form to the company/institution where you will be conducting your summer practice. 

3. Ask for an acceptance letter from the company/institution. Upload it to the Documents for Internship file as well.

4. To be insured during the internship, you have to fill out two forms. First, you have to fill out the insurance application form (Stajyer Öğrenci Bilgileri Anketi / Student Information Survey for Summer Practice). Next, you have to fill out the statement of your current insurance status. If you are currently covered under the health insurance of your family/parents (your answer to question at the end of the Student Information Survey should be “Var/Yes”), then fill out Form A. If you are not currently covered under a health insurance (your answer to question at the end of the Student Information Survey should be “Yok/No”), then fill out Form B. Additionally fill-in the 1st, 3rd and 5th pages of ‘Summer Practice Evaluation Booklet’ and upload all pages of the document to the “Document for Internship” which is on ODTUCLASS. The booklet will be uploaded back into the same file after it is signed by the Summer Practice Coordinator. You should be submitting this signed booklet to the company/institution where you will be conducting your summer practice. Remind them to send the evaluation form to the Department once the internship is completed.

Additional information is available at METU-Human Resources Website. Please note that the personnel take their vacation during summer. Therefore, fill out and submit the forms as early as you can.

5. After you fill out and sign the forms, upload them to “Documents for Internship” on ODTUCLASS. Please note that the majority of the Human Resources staff are on summer vacation leave during the summer period. Therefore, fill out and submit the forms as early as you can.

6. Register for ENVE 300 and/or ENVE 400 for the next Fall semester. You will be registered as a “Student” since you will be evaluated for the course. Submit your report at the beginning (Monday) of the 3rd week of the Fall Semester. Your summer practice will be valid only for two semesters. If you do not submit your report and are not evaluated as successful within the two semesters following the completion of the internship, then you will have to complete another summer practice.