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[ UPDATE: As of Summer 2015, I can no longer supervise CPT. ]
If you have taken a class from me at USC,
I would be happy to supervise your
Curricular Practical Training (CPT),
provided that you agree with the terms described below.
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Before I Agree
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You need to read the following two web pages and understand all the requirements:
I need to see your offer letter to make sure that your internship
will be CS-related. Please send me an e-mail and include your offer
letter in an attachment. The letter should (a) state your job title
and preferably contains a job description so I know that your work
will be CS-related; and (b) state your salary (I don't think it qualifies
for a CPT if you won't get paid).
In your e-mail to me, you need to say that you agree with the following terms:
- You will satisfy the "bi-weekly reports" requirement.
For a Summer CPT,
you need to turn in 6 of these reports, properly spaced out in time. For a Fall or Spring CPT,
you need to turn in 7 of these reports, properly spaced out in time.
You need to send an e-mail to me every one to two weeks describing
briefly what you've been doing in the past one to two weeks. The
e-mail should be in plain text (no attachment please) and
about two medium-length paragraphs (please don't just send an itemized
list). This report is informal. But just because it's
informal, it does not mean that you can write sloppy reports.
You need to remember that you are getting CREDIT for this and
you need to write reasonably professional quality reports.
If you really need to know how long is a medium-length paragraph,
I would say that it's about 1,000 characters long (including punctuation marks).
Although this is called "bi-weekly reports", sometimes, the reports
can and may need to be more frequent than bi-weekly.
The reports must be at lease one week apart or they will be considered
as one report. If you failed to send in the required number of
reports by the final report deadline, you will NOT receive
credit for your CPT. I will not accept additional bi-weekly
reports after the final report deadline.
If you have read the CPT web site, you should know by now that it is
the requirement of the US Government that you submit these regular reports.
So, please take this very seriously.
- You will satisfy the "final report" requirement.
A formal final report is required. Please go to the CPT web site
mentioned above and find out when the final report is due (it's
usually before the end of your internship). You must NOT
turn in the final report after the mentioned due date, no matter
when your CPT starts or ends.
Regarding what to include in the final report...
Please send me a final report (in PDF format) with the following section headings
(you may modifify the wording but not the required content):
- Introduction to the project
- Description of your project
- The importance of the work to the company
- What you learned
- What problems you encountered and how you solved them
Please see the "syllabus" link above and look at the last section
regarding Final Report and read about additional requirements such
as the length of the final report. (The first 4 sections were
mentioned in Sample 1 and the last section was mentioned in Sample 2.)
Please note that these are my requirements. Therefore, you
must use the above section headings (and not come up with your
own or follow the samples in the "syllabus") or I will have to ask you
to resubmit your final report.
Your final report must be single-spaced and 6 pages or longer
and reads like a report (i.e., don't use itemized lists).
Anything shorter than 6 full pages will not be acceptable.
(Therefore, it's a good idea to send a final report that's longer that 6 pages.)
If you use a "titlepage", it will not be counted as part of your final report.
If you don't use a "titlepage", please make sure to include your
name and e-mail address at the top of the first page of your report.
If your report has figures/diagrams, please move them all to the end
of your report (into an "appendix" section) and the space they take up
will not be counted as part of your final report.
You cannot send your final report before you send any of your bi-weekly reports
for obvious reasons. But it's perfectly fine if you send your final report on
the same day as your last bi-weekly report.
Again, please remember that you are getting CREDIT for this and
you need to write a reasonably professional quality final report.
Please take this very seriously.
- You will send me a schedule for your reports as soon as your
CPT starts. You agree that once your schedule is approved by me,
you will use a calendar program to remind yourself to send in all the
reports on time.
If you can agree with the above requirements, then we can proceed.
These days, you won't need to see me or get my signature. Just go to
the GAPP office to do the paperwork. They will enter me into the
system and the system will send me an e-mail. When I get the e-mail,
I will just have to go into the system and approve it.
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After Your CPT Starts
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Please keep in mind that the requirements and deadlines are independent
of when your CPT starts or ends. Once your CPT starts, please plan out
exactly when you will send me which report and e-mail your the dates to me so I can
verify if your plan satisfies all the requirements in terms of schedule.
Once I approve your reports schedule, please use a calendar program to
remind yourself to e-mail each report according to your approved schedule.
Finally, plesae consider this approved schedule a promise from you to me.
I will not be keeping track of your deadlines and will not send you
reminders. Please take all these requirements very seriously!
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