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Project-based teaching

Being an engineer involves leading projects which include a wide range of technological, organisational, financial and human aspects. This practice is at the heart of the school’s work, shown by its ‘Creativity & Initiative Project’ and ‘Engineering Project’ schemes. The school also clearly marks out and structures the makeup of its ‘Personal & Professional Project’ scheme.

The Personal & Professional Project

The aim of this scheme is to enable students coming to ESIGELEC to specify the type of engineer they want to become.

In order to do this, certain activities are left for them to choose themselves :

  • The Creativity and Initiative Project and the Engineering Project
  • The choice of majors and professional courses
  • Engaging in the student association life of the school and/or school projects
  • Personalised study of international practices
  • The possibility of following double curricula in the third year (Master of Research or Master of Business Administration or Master of Science studied abroad)
  • The possibility of extending studies with a double degree curriculum (with Rouen Business School or Audencia Nantes)

At the end of studies, the student should have sufficient knowledge and know how to be able to plan the following 5 years of their development.

The Creativity and Initiative Project – openness onto project management from the first year of study

As soon as students begin the first year of the Engineering cycle, they are split into teams of 3 to 5 for a cultural, sports or humanities based project. They run the project for a year until its completion. The project can involve an external partner, for example a charitable organisation or various clubs. Previous projects include information campaigns for organ donation, accidents in the home, an introduction to roller hockey and a Franco Cameroonian solidarity day.

The ‘Engineering Project’

This takes place in the second and third year of the Engineering cycle, in teams of 6.

Most projects are proposed by businesses or thought up by students if it concerns a business start-up. Some projects are undertaken with students from Rouen Business School within the context of the ‘MANAG’ING’ start-up support programme.

Students have worked on projects as diverse as the design of an intelligent refrigerator, energy savings in buildings and the production of a flux video analyser.

The objectives for each team are:

  • To research the subject by liaising with businesses or research and development organisations
  • To carry out a technical/cost feasibility study, validated by the ordering party
  • To develop a specification list
  • To carry out the project
  • To publish the results of their work

Co-tutoring of the project groups is supervised by a steering committee. Each group is monitored by a supervisory partner and an instructor. Specific experts may be consulted for particular aspects of the project.

Consult the Engineering Project posters

For more information about the Engineer Project : projet_ingenieur@esigelec.fr

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