What is an industrial attachment?
An industrial attachment is what NUS and NTU call a placement with an employer during a degree: NTU describes its internships of 10 to 24 weeks as full-time practical industrial attachments, credit-bearing or voluntary.
NUS's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering lists the College of Design and Engineering's EG3611A Industrial Attachment, a 20-week placement, and requires internships totalling 10 units of students from the AY2021 intake on. Singapore Polytechnic's page calls its placements internship programmes and does not use the term.
3 sources · checked 9 Nov 2026
- NTU, Hire NTU students as interns: Local internships, checked 9 Nov 2026
- NUS Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Industrial Attachment, checked 9 Nov 2026
- Singapore Polytechnic, Internship timeline and schedule, checked 9 Nov 2026