Objectives

The job of an engineer is a varied one, ranging over disciplines and scientific fields and also over types of post and occupation. On leaving the School, students have to decide in which area to start their career, and what type of work to go into. To choose properly, they need to have a professional project so as to be able to define medium-to-long-term objectives and make their short-term choices accordingly. The prime objective of the Engineering Profession Unit is therefore to let the students find out about the job of an engineer, via talks, factory visits, interviews and industrial internships, and to help them make the most of all this information in drawing up their professional project. This involves their asking the right questions about themselves, their interests, their strong and weak points: the Unit is also there to help them in this process of self-discovery.

In their professional life, young engineers have to find their place in a team quickly, adapt to the corporate culture, and begin running groups, negotiating and communicating.  Later on in their career, they will be in charge of large-scale cross-disciplinary innovation projects, where they will have to lead and motivate teams made up of people with divergent technical and cultural backgrounds. To make a success of this, they need not only their own scientific and technical knowledge and know-how, but also project-leading skills as such. Some of these skills may be picked up during classical courses; others need to be learned in action. And, for this reason, most of the activities making up this Unit - the Study Project, the Industrial Project, Sport, and the 1st and 2nd year internships - have a strong practical bent.

The Engineering Profession Unit's aims are:

 to enable students progressively to discover the work of an engineer, in all its forms, so as to define and put together their professional project;
 to inform the students of the various courses on offer during the 3 years of the degree course, and help them choose among these in the light of their professional project; 
 to encourage students to take charge of their training in the light of their professional project;
 to help students acquire those skills (project leading, research training, communication, etc.) that require learning in action.

Content

1ST YEAR

PRt1.1 - Seminars
PRt1.2 - Industrial visits
PRt1.3 - Discovering engineering

PRt1.4 - Study project
PRt1.5 - Sport

PRt1.6 - Expression and organisation methods

PRb1.1 - Communication

PRt1.7 - Industrial internship