Curricular Practical Training Guidelines
Guidelines for Advisors and directors of graduate studies (DGS) relating to “Graduate Student Corporate Research Internships” under the auspices of Curricular Practical Training (CPT).
1. Any business relationship between the company and the advisor and/or the DGS must be fully disclosed prior to the student accepting an internship.
2. The DGS must review and approve the student’s plan to do a summer or academic year CPT course. For students applying to do an academic-year corporate research internship, the student’s dissertation advisor has primary responsibility for ensuring that:
a. the internship involves research of a nature that will directly benefit the student’s doctoral dissertation in a substantive way;
b. the student will have sufficient time to fulfill his or her other degree requirements within the department’s regular program length; and
c. any documents that the student is asked to sign concerning the content of the student’s internship work, confidentiality, or the host organization’s proprietary information be reviewed by the Office of Technology Licensing and/or the Office of General Counsel.
3. While certain confidentiality obligations may be appropriately accepted by the student, he or she must retain the right to publish all data and/or information
resulting from the research performed during the extramural internship (excluding the company’s legitimate proprietary information).
4. The corporate internship research advisor must be approved by the DGS and/or departmental graduate committee and must be informed of the provisions of these guidelines for the student’s CPT internship experience.
5. The DGS shall make these guidelines available to the student, advisor, and CPT institution’s hosts.
Revised 12/20/2006