TECH Project – ING2

The technical project (TECH) allows engineering students in the second year of the engineering cycle (ING2) to train in project management and relationship between the project manager and the client. The project is led by a group of 4 or 5 engineering students, with a set of resources and, is guided by lecturers-researchers and/or consulting engineers. The projects are approved and jointly defined upstream by the contracting authority and the school.

The TECH project allows the contracting authority to solve its technical problems in an innovative way. Conversely, it gives engineering students the opportunity to learn how to manage a project, study a market, express needs, analyze risks and constraints, formulate controllable objectives, establish specifications and a project master plan, manage resources, plan, prototype, control quality, and defend the project in front of a jury. It also allows them to learn how to collectively lead a project using communication, facilitation and conflict management, and by distributing tasks appropriately.

The technical project takes place from December to April, with the delivery of the deliverables and the final defense in front of a jury. It corresponds to a group investment of 50 hours per student.

The Innovation and Design Project – ING3

The Innovation and Design Project deals with a concrete problem of a company or research laboratory, in an engineering situation. It offers the company or laboratory the means to entrust innovative research and technological development actions, such as the production of a prototype or a hardware or software model. The problem is dealt with by a team of 3 or 4 engineering students, supervised by lecturers-researchers and/or consulting engineers. The projects are approved and jointly defined upstream by the contracting authority and the school.

The Innovation and Design Project allows final year engineering students (ING3) to perfect their teamwork in order to develop solutions in response to specifications. As a project manager, each group of engineering students proposes and defends its technical, organisational, economic and temporal solutions, in a competitive situation to obtain the contract.

These projects are also an opportunity for the contracting authority to work in a collaborative mode with engineering students with a fresh perspective. This form of co-working is also an opportunity for him to detect interesting student profiles for a first job while assessing their skills.

The Innovation and Design Project take place from mid-October to the beginning of March. They correspond to a group investment of 150 hours per student.