PIPS (Professional Information Technology Placement Scholarship)

PIPS is a work-based learning program that allows final-year information technology students to spend up to six months in industry while still gaining full academic credit.  It works in a similar way to the PEPS program.

Students undertake vacation work and then, during semester complete a project proposed by the placement organisation.  It can be either a major investigation or research project or a significant design task that integrates technical, commercial and other factors including risk and project management.

Placement organisations pay a fee to participate in the scheme and students receive a tax-free scholarship.  Students gain academic credit for the placement semester by aligning the tasks they perform with the learning objectives of two university courses.  The project accounts for the bulk of the credit while the professional knowledge and skills they gain count towards a professional development course.

 

For more information, contact

Associate Professor Paul Strooper, School of Information Technolgy and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland

pstroop@itee.uq.edu.au