Evaluation of an Interview-Based Internship Class in the Construction Management Curriculum: A Case Study of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

dc.contributor.authorKarji, Alien
dc.contributor.authorBernstein, Stuarten
dc.contributor.authorTafazzoli, Mohammadsoroushen
dc.contributor.authorTaghinezhad, Arashen
dc.contributor.authorMohammadi, Arefehen
dc.contributor.departmentEngineering Educationen
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-28T18:58:22Zen
dc.date.available2020-04-28T18:58:22Zen
dc.date.issued2020-04-16en
dc.date.updated2020-04-28T14:13:45Zen
dc.description.abstractInternships have been shown to be impactful tools to connect students’ learning in academia with real-world industrial needs. To help the students to get more out of their internship experience, some universities provide a summer internship class in which students do class assignments based on their experiences during their internship. There have been numerous studies on the benefits of internships. However, the benefits of a potential internship class for students in construction management (CM) programs at universities have not yet been investigated. This paper demonstrates the structure of an interview-based internship class and investigates its effectiveness. We have focused on the CM program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) as a case study. We sent online questionnaires to the intern students who took the class, students’ mentors, and the professors who taught the class. The results indicate that despite some challenges to meet the requirements of the class, the students, their mentors, and the professor found the class beneficial. The results of this paper are expected to help CM programs with the establishment and improvement of internship classes in their curriculum.en
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
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dc.identifier.citationKarji, A.; Bernstein, S.; Tafazzoli, M.; Taghinezhad, A.; Mohammadi, A. Evaluation of an Interview-Based Internship Class in the Construction Management Curriculum: A Case Study of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Educ. Sci. 2020, 10, 109.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/educsci10040109en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/97925en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherMDPIen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectinterview-based internship class assignmenten
dc.subjectinternshipen
dc.subjectconstruction educationen
dc.subjectclass assessmenten
dc.subjectjob market preparationen
dc.titleEvaluation of an Interview-Based Internship Class in the Construction Management Curriculum: A Case Study of the University of Nebraska-Lincolnen
dc.title.serialEducation Scienceen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
dc.type.dcmitypeStillImageen

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