Industry-Based Learning
IBL Success Stories
Employer Testimonials
In a recent survey IBL employers were asked what they regarded as the best aspect(s) of the program. Here are some of their answers:
The program provides us with a much valued extra pair of hands and enables us to train possible future staff.
IBL allows students a time to consolidate their learning, apply working knowledge and return to uni with new skills and motivation.
Students are given a chance to experience a professional placement in order to decide whether they are taking the correct path.
I think IBL is the most important thing you can do at uni. It seems that the most dedicated and valuable students are those with a genuine passion for what they do. I will continue to endorse the program and employ future students.
We have been very lucky over the years to have had an opportunity to work with an enthusiastic and delightful group of Swinburne students. We have employed quite a few of them and they are all very valuable members of our department. We hope to continue this trend in the future.
We get to work with intelligent, bright and enthusiastic students who are eager to learn and very keen to impress. The students are given important tasks and treated as employees of our organisation, with the same demands, expectations, guidance and support given to all staff members. As a result of their studies, they bring new ideas and different approaches for us to consider.
Student Testimonials
Here's what recent students on IBL placements have said about the experience:
The IBL experience was beneficial on many levels, from the development of a transferable set of practical skills to dealing with the interpersonal relationships you develop between patients and staff.
The information you learn in the universities' lecture theatres are put to the test in a real life situation and you are realistically able to appraise your career plan.
I will continue working there part-time while I finish my course, and have been told that there is a full-time place for me once I do.
I feel that the knowledge I have gained and the skills I have improved throughout my IBL placement will greatly help me in the future and will prepare me extremely well for a career in the industry.
My IBL placement has confirmed to me what a good and fortunate decision I made.
I have found the IBL year to be an extremely enjoyable, rewarding and a maturing experience.
...feel more motivated with where I would like to take my career path.
IBL has opened up many doors for me in terms of future employment.
More Information...
IBL Co-ordinator
Faculty of Engineering & Industrial Sciences
Telephone (+61 3) 9214 5081,
Fax (+61 3) 9214 8484,
email: eisibl@swin.edu.au
Office: Room EN153 Hawthorn Campus
