This page does not apply to those students who are on a scheme without an integrated industrial placement - e.g. joint honours, or major/minor with business. For these students, there is no assessment, as it does not contribute to their degree.
Your sandwich placement is assessed in two ways: firstly, by a report you write on your year, and secondly by a form that your employer will fill out for us at the end of the year. Each of these two parts contribute equally towards the assessment.
Being a full year, it is worth 120 credits. But it is weighted 1/4 on the cascading system. For details on how this affects your degree mark, see the official information on the cascading system.
As a result, the report you write contributes around 2% of your degree (somewhat less for MEng). This is a lot of marks, considering the size of the report (guideline 5000 words). So it is worth putting effort into it. You don't need to include everything you did; make it a good read, and leave out things which were trivial or might not be interesting to a reader. Include diagrams and pictures to help tell your story. Don't assume the reader knows about the technologies you used, even at a relatively basic level. But most importantly, follow the guidelines that are on the web page (here).
The hand-in date may be found on the IY web page.
Your employer has the right to see the report before you hand it in, to make sure no confidential information is included. In practice, most employers do not ask to see your report, however. If your employer is concerned, you can offer to mark the front page of your report "CONFIDENTIAL"; it will then only be read by your supervisor and examiners, and will not be made available to anyone else to read.
You can see the form we ask the employers to fill out; it's linked from the bottom of the IY web page. It would be helpful if you could point your employer to this at the end of your placement. Doing so yourself, rather than us having to chase them for it, might also make them feel more kindly disposed towards you when they fill it out!
Last modified ais, November 2013.