• Mechatronics: Integrates mechanical systems, electronics, sensors, and control engineering to enable automation and precision-driven design.
• Electric Vehicles: Focuses on efficient system design, thermal management, lightweight structures, and scalable manufacturing.
• Sustainable Energy: Drives innovation in green energy, energy storage systems, and advanced renewable technologies.
• Robotics and Automation: Enables real-time communication, predictive maintenance, and intelligent connected systems under Industry 4.0.

• Over 50,000 new internship openings have been added in 2026 across sectors by AICTE. These include engineering, IT, management, and research, with plans to expand to 1 lakh opportunities this year. Stipends range from ₹8,000 to ₹25,000 per month basis the role.
• Private Technology companies like Google, Abobe and others can offer stipends up to Rs 40,000 and more per month.
• Digital India Corporation’s Technical Internship Scheme offers Rs 20,000 as a monthly stipend.
• Government and research internships are also offered to students in institutions like IIT, DRDO, IISc and others.

1. Lack of initiative, negative attitude, and not displaying interest.
2. Being too cocky, overconfident, poor listener.
3. More focused on your mobile phone instead of the task at hand.
4. Poor communication and networking skills.
5. Poor time management and lack of focus. 
6. Logging in late at work.
7. Overlooking professionalism.
8. Not responding positively to feedback.
9. Unclear goals and unwillingness to acquire new skills.
10. No drive and a flippant attitude.

Heads Up: What Recruiters Look For in Interns

• Knowledge of AI and technical skills
• Self-awareness, growth mindset, positive attitude
• Risk-taking, risk management, and learning from failures
• Networking, flexibility, adaptability

• Keep track of your achievements: Document everything and ensure any official appreciation can be presented at a prospective job interview, later. 
• Quality work matters: Deliver work that sparkles rather than aiming for multiple tasks that may lead to a mediocre output.
• Be proactive: Willingness to undertake new assignments, supporting the team, asking questions and collaboration count in many ways.
• Network: Extensively and ask for help from seniors.
• Set your goals: Adhere to deadlines, set weekly goals and track your progress.
• Criticism: Take constructive criticism in your stride and learn from your weaknesses.

• Communication, collaboration and empathy
• Problem-solving, critical thinking and reasoning,
• Agility, curiosity, innovative mindset and professionalism
• Time management, networking and work ethics

• Personality Development: Amity integrates a wide range of structured and informal learning experiences that support both academic growth, personality development, and personal transformation. These initiatives contribute to a dynamic college lifestyle, where students are encouraged to explore their potential and develop leadership qualities.
• Behavioural Science Education: These classes equip students with transferable life skills that enhance academic performance, workplace readiness, and interpersonal effectiveness.
• Holistic Growth and Learning: An integrated approach to academics and life enables learners to appreciate the complexity of human emotions, mental health challenges, and behavioural patterns.
• Networking Opportunities: Students have ample opportunities to connect with industry professionals through workshops, seminars, and internships, enhancing their career prospects.
• Placements: Amity’s placements create benchmarks every year, from garnering over Rs 7 crore annual job package to placement in 500 corporates in campus recruitment.

1. Micromanagement: Your seniors are breathing down your neck, display mistrust, and want everything done their way.
2. Negative Work culture: No collaboration in teams, lack of trust, no room for innovation.  
3. Extended Work Hours: Pulling back employees despite work being done, lack of boundaries between workplace and home life, and treating employees like slaves rather than co-creators of growth.
4. Lack of meaningful tasks: If you’re delegated to transporting coffee, taking printouts and given mundane tasks, then you’re headed for a troubled future.
5. No clear direction or guidance: Your seniors are unable to provide proper guidance because they are unclear about what is to be done.
6. Unprofessional Behaviour: If yelling, favouritism and abusive behaviour are considered normal at an organisation, that’s worrisome.

1. Physical Stress: Headaches, digestive issues, frequent smoking, easily falling ill and even autoimmune diseases are becoming increasingly common among interns.
2. Psychological Impact: Eroded self-esteem and confidence, lack of motivation, procrastination, feeling depressed, unhappy, lonely and anxiety ridden.
3. Productivity Issues: Finding: The productivity of Interns in toxic workplaces dipped from 40% to 60% in toxic workplaces. These are the findings of a 2023 report by the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS).
4. Stagnated Growth and Learning:  At least 78% interns have reported no skill development in toxic workplaces, and many plan to quit within the first three months of joining. 

1. Rule No 1: Find healthier organisations and opportunities before leaving. That way, you’re not leaping into the unknown. But if you are very stressed, then don’t prolong your decision to quit. 
2. Update: Tweak your LinkedIn profile and resume. Mention that you’re open to new and exciting opportunities and leverage your experience.   
3. Task completion: Ensure all assigned work has been completed, documented and approved before you quit.
4. The Conventional Style: Write an email politely thanking the organisation for their interest and opportunity. Mention the last day of work.
5. Keep a cool head: Colleagues will clamour for details when you quit. Avoid the gossip and drama. Instead, stick to saying you’re exploring new opportunities to align with your goals. Don’t badmouth your seniors.  
6. Gratitude: Express gratitude for the time spent in the workplace, but highlight your need to move on to align with future goals.
7. In-person conversation: If possible, initiate a brief two-minute chat with your manager about how you’ve learnt new things, but it's time to move on. 

1. Personality Development: Amity integrates a wide range of structured and informal learning experiences that go beyond academics, supporting both academic growth and personal transformation. These initiatives contribute to a dynamic college lifestyle, where students are encouraged to explore their potential and develop leadership qualities.
2. Behavioural Science Education: These classes equip students with transferable life skills that enhance academic performance, workplace readiness, and interpersonal effectiveness.
3. Holistic Growth and Learning: An integrated approach to academics and life enables learners to appreciate the complexity of human emotions, mental health challenges, and behavioural patterns.
4. Networking Opportunities: Students have ample opportunities to connect with industry professionals through workshops, seminars, and internships, enhancing their career prospects.

• Healthcare Interior Designer: Designs spaces such as wellness retreats, hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare facilities that offer a chance to heal, destress, and unburden the mind and body. These professionals use appealing designs that provide comfort, efficiency, a touch of nature and integrate natural lighting and other designs.
• Technical Designer: Uses precise technology and software tools like AutoCAD for visualisation, construction details and technical aspects like floor plans, elevations and other specifications are spot-on. 
• Spatial Designer: Deploys human-centric design methodologies by integrating several design concepts like natural lighting, furniture, colour tones, defining spaces, ensuring accurate layouts and more. 
• Colour Consultant: Uses his expertise in knowledge of colour psychology, its theory to help consumers choose their desired colours for homes and other spaces to create a new décor or enhance an existing one.  

• Smart and Sustainable Homes: Over the last few years, many discerning buyers across age groups have been leaning towards sustainable and smart homes and townships that feature green technologies, which are safer, efficient with intelligent appliances like refrigerators, smart lighting, save on energy, and reduce bills. These include motion-activated lighting that turns on and off, etc. 
• Modular Furniture: A report by Grandview Research has some interesting insights on modular furniture, which is both customizable and flexible. With rapid population explosion, urbanisation and migration within cities, there is a space crunch for homes. In this backdrop, there’s a need to have compact furniture that has multiple functionalities in both small and large spaces.
• Biophilic Design: This concept of connecting humans with nature is visible in the idea of integrated townships and modern homes. They are customising themselves to create green spaces, wellness corners, like planting Miyawaki forests to create an ecosystem that fosters physical and mental well-being. Internally, aspects like patterns and designs representing nature, the presence of plants, and ventilation for overall well-being. 
• 'Customised green’ home:  Recycled plastic lumber for decks, non-polluting organic chemicals for joints and adhesives, organic paints and sealants are the new heroes for interior design as they create a cooler environment and even a cooler look. For example, practices like upcycling shipping containers to create eco-friendly living spaces or décor are gaining ground. 

• Ticket to the world stage: Whether you’re aiming to be an insights researcher or a data miner, Amity provides internship opportunities with top industry giants and research projects.
• Toolkit for a Byte Hero: Students are encouraged to have a design thinking mindset by unearthing every possible solution or innovation to tackle real-world challenges through industry-live projects. 
• Innovation Playground: Amity’s labs are equipped with globally competitive machines and technology. You will also learn in-demand skills like leadership, teamwork, risk-taking, risk management, agility, and flexibility. 
• Placements: Amity University Noida's placements create benchmarks every year, from garnering Rs 2 crore annual job package to placement in 500 corporates in campus recruitment, including top Fortune 500 employers. 

• Interdisciplinary Approach: Integrates finance, operations, supply chain management, economics, marketing, and human resources to build advanced analytical and decision-making capabilities.
• Industry Collaboration: Strong industry-academia linkages ensure research relevance and real-world application.
• Skill Enhancement: Develops strategic decision-making, change management, data analysis, ethical leadership, and mentoring skills.
• Accessible and Impactful Learning: Allows professionals to apply research directly to their workplace while progressing academically.
• Enhanced Career Pathways: Opens opportunities across academia and industry, including leadership, consulting, policy advisory, entrepreneurship, and senior HR roles.
• Applied Research Focus: Emphasises solving real business problems through academically rigorous and practical research.

• Define your research focus clearly and align it with your professional expertise.
• Inform your employer and seek organisational support, such as study leave or flexible work arrangements.
• Leverage your work experience by documenting projects, reports, case studies, and publications.
• Build technical proficiency in digital research tools, academic databases, and online collaboration platforms.