CODEx Internships, Commercial Outcome-Driven Experience Internships, are unique on-campus internship opportunities for undergraduate UTS students from different faculties.
This programme provides students from any Faculty with real workplace experience, in a simulated environment. Students will work in a team with similar skills and educational background, and will interact with other teams that have their own sets of skills. The teams will have the same ultimate objective, the way that a business is made up of different teams with the same strategic goal. Each team will have its own targets and objectives, and each team member must feed information to the team to ensure the optimal outcome.
Participating students will be mentored and work in teams, with students from other disciplines, to deliver business-based projects within a fictional organisation.
(Sequence of shots of various people speaking to camera, uplifting music in background)
Lady in pink: I’m from India
Thomas Hueneburg (man in grey striped jumper): Germany
Alison Tran (woman in black): I’m from Australia
Man in white: Hong Kong
Man in suit: China
Robert Kirollos (man in blue jumper): I’m studying a Bachelor of Biotechnology
Alison Tran: Environmental Science and International Studies
Thomas Hueneburg: Biomedical Science
Lady in pink: Bachelor of Medical Science
Man in suit: IT
(lecturer and students engaging in discussion)
(Alison Tran speaking to camera)
Alison Tran: I enrolled into CODEx because I wanted to have an internship on my résumé and I wanted the experience of having an internship and I believe that it would give me a competitive edge.
(sequence of shots of presentation/lecture, shot of Professor Bradley Williams talking to camera)
Professor Bradley Williams: The success of CODEx really relies on students from different disciplines coming together to bring their core skills in other disciplines like business or law
(students working and discussing, gathered around a table)
into an area that they are not familiar with.
Thomas Hueneburg: I enrolled in this internship program because we are provided with a business case which is related to the real world.
(students working and discussing, gathered around a table)
Robert Kirollos: In the beginning you are assigned teams, and these are people that you may not have met previously in studies.
Alison Tran: getting different perspectives was really interesting and working together was challenging but really rewarding in the end
(students discussing, Robert Kirollos talking to camera)
Robert Kirollos: It was the first time that I actually had to take control of a larger group and that was something that I didn’t think this internship would prepare me for, but I’m glad it did.
(students working with laptops, Professor Bradley Williams speaking to camera)
Professor Bradley Williams: They work in different teams on the same brief, one on the regulatory and business side and one on the technology side, that’s their brief really is to create a business case for a set of investors to decide whether a particular aspect is worth investing in or not.
(Professor Bradley Williams walks up to students and engages in conversation)
Alison Tran: Our brief was pharmaceuticals from algae
Thomas Hueneburg: Novel treatments about autoimmune diseases.
Robert Kirollos: Assessing air quality for respiratory health.
Alison Tran: I personally looked at the regulatory side of things.
Thomas Hueneburg: It was not always easy, it was sometimes quite challenging.
(Professor Bradley Williams talking to students working together, Professor Bradley speaking to camera)
Professor Bradley Williams: At UTS we are trying to push creativity and innovation and we’re hoping to develop student graduates who are really employment ready.
Robert Kirollos: The mentors are all industry professionals.
(Professor Bradley Williams talking to students working together, Thomas Hueneburg speaking to camera)
Thomas Hueneburg: Working with our mentor was amazing.
(Professor Bradley Williams talking to students working together, Thomas Hueneburg speaking to camera)
Thomas Hueneburg: He had high expectations and he also guided us in the right direction.
(students chatting in student space at UTS, Alison Tran speaking to camera)
Alison Tran: In the end I was really happy with how it went. It gave me a lot of skills and it was great meeting a lot of like-minded people.
Thomas Hueneburg: It was amazing, a great experience, and I can only recommend it.
(students socialising in student spaces, Alison speaking to camera)
Alison Tran: I would say it’s definitely a great experience and I would do it again if I could.
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Benefits and learning objectives
- build essential professional skills such as problem-solving, teamwork, communication skills;
- gain a genuine understanding of a professional work environment;
- learn from experienced UTS industry partners, alumni and academics;
- network with students and mentors from different backgrounds;
- apply your discipline-specific knowledge to manage real-world projects;
- potentially develop a suite of outcomes that can be used by real companies; and
- have the opportunity to gain leadership skills by becoming mentors for the next generation of interns.
Student eligibility criteria
- Enrolled in 2nd or 3rd year of any UTS degree in 2020
- Achieved a Credit Average or above over the duration of their current UTS course
- Demonstrated capacity to work and communicate effectively in a team environment
- Demonstrated professional skills required for a work environment.
How to become involved
Applications for Autumn 2020 intake will be opening soon
Students
All current undergraduate UTS students, from all faculties, are invited to apply for this program. Places are limited and will be offered on a competitive basis.
For further information please contact the UTS Science Internships team, science.internships@uts.edu.au.