Experience in Development and Implementation of the Information System, Supporting Students Assignment for Practice to NRU MPEI

Abstract

The article describes the arrangement of internship for students that is required for higher educational institutions of the Russian Federation; provides links to regulatory documents, describes the approach established at NRU MPEI. Prior to the beginning of the internship, each student should be assigned to a particular internship place - an institution with corresponding specialization that matches the student’s major. That institution will conduct and supervise the internship. In case of external internship place, i.e. if it is not included into the organizational structure of an educational institution, then an agreement with this organization should be concluded. This article presents the experience of the development and implementation of the information system at NRU MPEI which automates the students’ internship assignment and prepares the related documentation. The program implementation includes a module for data import from other information systems, a module for the internship schedule editing, a module for reference information on partner institutions, a module for the formation and coordination of internship assignment applications, a module for the preparation of the printed forms of documents, a module for statistical reporting. The article describes the functioning of each module with the observation of its advantages over the manual data processing. Some technical solutions and characteristics of the program system have been disclosed; special attention is paid to the access rights management.