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IS492

Cloud Solution Development Work-Study Elective

2 CreditsTerm 1

Description

The Cloud Solution Development Work-Study Elective is a six-month internship attachment program under the SMU-AWS-Accenture Cloud Solution Development Work-Study Program. During the vacation period, students work five days a week at Accenture. While undertaking the work-study elective, students may also enrol in 1-2 CUs of courses at SMU during the same term and are allowed to be back in campus up to one day each week. Students will be assigned to a SMU Faculty Advisor and an Internship Supervisor (from Accenture). This elective provides students with an opportunity to do an extended internship with Accenture and applies the solution development skillsets that they learnt to contribute to the industry sector in Singapore.

Requisites

Prerequisites: (IS213/CS302) & (CS301/IS458) - Pre-req

Co-requisites: None

Anti-requisites: None

Attributes

Department: SCIS

Course Level: Undergraduate

Tracks: IS/T4BS: Product Development Track

Areas: Business Options Econ Major Rel/Econ Options Grad Req - Dig Tech/Data Ana (Intake 2024 onwards) IT Solution Development Electives Social Sciences/PLE Major-related

Learning Outcomes

1) Explain the key business areas and how Cloud solutions has impacted the business of the internship company 2) Acquire domain-related and industry-relevant knowledge 3) Analyse industry specific problems with understanding of industry constraints and context 4) Identify business objectives, KPIs and performance targets/goals of the required tasks 5) Apply and practise the best practices learnt 6) Propose practical solutions to task assigned 7) Work with others towards accomplishment of common goals 8) Present the result (or a case study of selected aspects of work done) and/or implemented solution 9) Write the work-study elective report to document the tasks completed during the internship, reflection of the work-study process, lessons learned and possible areas of improvement

Graduate Learning Outcomes

Disciplinary Knowledge, Multidisciplinary Knowledge, Interdisciplinary Knowledge, Critical thinking & problem solving, Innovation and enterprising skills, Collaboration and leadership, Communication, Self-directed learning

Competencies

Software Design, Solution Architecture, Applications Development, Applications Integration, Cloud Computing