Course content

• IT support in research environments
• Large-scale infrastructures
• Routines and documentation in IT environments with frequent employee/co-workers changes
• International collaboration in IT projects
• Project work within IT

Learning outcome

Knowledge

• Explain how security, scalability and reliability are ensured in a real IT infrastructure
• Explain IT operational routines that are used in practice in international IT operational environments

Skills

• Be able to communicate and collaborate well in an international IT environment
• Be able to understand assigned tasks within IT operations in a real work situation and solve them
• Be able to describe a large-scale IT infrastructure with all components, and orient oneself to the correct components to solve practical problems
• Be able to document one's own work effort on an hourly basis divided into different projects

General competence

• Reflect on one's own knowledge and learning, and reflect on one's own role in collaboration with others in an international environment

Learning methods and activities

The student is placed at CERN and is assigned a supervisor from both NTNU and CERN. Both during and at the end of the internship, the student submits written reports with the aim of showing the extent to which the learning outcomes have been achieved. Elective course only. The course requires that the student participates in the CERN Technical Student Program for at least 10 months within the IT subject.

Compulsory assignments

• Oral presentation

Specific conditions

Required previous knowledge

For the student to be able to choose this course, admission to the Technical Student Program at CERN is required.