EIL Côte d’Opale students are put in contact with the world of research through several training schemes, spread over two years (ING2 and ING3), either as auditors or as actors by participating in R&D approach.

Presentation of research in ING2 (20h)

In the second year of the engineering cycle, students of the EIL Côte d’Opale benefit from a course presenting the functioning of research (4 hours), during which the following will be discussed:

• Research professions, access to research,
• The PhD thesis (funding, procedure, defense, professional integration & careers),
• An overview of national, regional and local research, 
• The organization of public and private research.

Following this course, students participate in thematic conferences (16 hours) given by speakers from the support laboratories.

Several themes are thus proposed in parallel. Groups of 15 to 20 students are formed in order to discover a subject developed by a university lecturer and researcher through a presentation of the developments of his research and an application through practical work.

Some examples of seminars (2023-24)

“Image processing and classification of color textures”, “Signal processing and earth observation”, Energy: sources, storage and materials”, “Experimental analysis and benchmarking of AI models and algorithms”.

Training in bibliographic study in ING3

This through research training module (40 hours) includes:

• 2 hours of presentation of bibliographic methodology.
• A bibliographic project whose objective is to produce a bibliographic synthesis while respecting the criteria of quality, form and content.
• A defense allowing to present the methodology used to carry out this bibliographic synthesis.

Research training in the framework of projects

EIL Côte d’Opale students also have the opportunity to discover the world of research within the framework of technical projects (ING2) and Innovation and Design Projects (ING3). These projects can take place either in an industrial context or in a research laboratory. A subject is then proposed by a university lecturer and researcher, in connection with his or her research activities. More information on technical and Innovation and Design projects can be found here.