CLAYTON SCHOOL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
BACHELOR OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROGRAM
Vacation Employment Cover Sheet
(Please enter these details electronically - Do not submit a handwritten certificate. Only dates of employment
period, student signature & date are to be entered by hand. )
Name of Student:
ID:
Company Details: [Company providing employment]
Address:
Person to whom you reported:
Position:
Phone:
Fax:
Email:
Employment period: From:
To:
Signature of Student:
Date:
The Body of the Formal Report:
Report writing is an important skill for a professional software engineer. References on
report writing are available at Andrew-Hargrave Library. Writing for Science: a practical
handbook for science, engineering and technology students written by Silyn-Robert,
Published by Longmna, NZ, 1996 is recommended by the Mechanical Engineering
Department for their vacation employment students. Students should refer to that and
any others that are available to produce a professional report about their vacation
employment. For example, a formal report should contain a title page, an executive
summary, a table of contents, an introduction and a conclusion. The sections headings
(and subheadings) need to be appropriate, though they may vary depending on nature
of the work experience, and can be based on the following:
1. A Brief Description of the Vacation Employer’s Business and its
organisational structure (max. 3000 characters)
2. A description of the engineering process involved from project /job allocation
to its completion in terms of assignment of tasks, monitoring of work in
progress, how is evaluation done to ensure completion of the job on time and
within budget. Include comments on any outcomes of interest out of the
assigned work and process (max. 3000 characters)
3. A description of the interactions and communication flows in the company
between various groups: between (software) engineers, between management
and staff, and between software engineers and technicians. Give names and
positions of people to whom you were responsible (max. 3000 characters)
4. An overview of the projects in which the student was involved and details of
the actual work that the student did (max. 3000 characters)
5. References to how the theoretical/practical knowledge in the BSE course was
applied in the vacation work and any difficulties experienced (max. 3000
characters)
6. A critical review of the value of the vacation employment experience to the
student (max. 3000 characters)