At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to : | |
| 1 | a. Contribution de l¿activité au référentiel AA (AA du programme) M1.5, M3., M3.2, M3.6, M3.7, M3.8, M3.9, M4.1, M4.3, M4.5, M4.6, M4.7, M5.1, M5.2, M5.3, M5.4, M5.7, M5.9, M6.2, M6.5, M6.8, M7.3, M8.1 b. Formulation spécifique pour cette activité des AA du programme Upon completion of this course, the students will know how to mobilize their knowledge of basic sciences and confront the technical and socio-economic constraints to carry out the study of a real case and propose a suitable solution. The student will know how to discern the determinants of the problem, how to determine the most effective approach in a typically ill-defined problem, often involving many factors and how to develop a technically appropriate solution. He/she will know how to write a report following professional standards, combining scientific rigor and conciseness, highlighting the main aspects and detailing in a comprehensive manner the proposed solution. He/she will know how to communicate orally to justify the approach, to present the main results of the analysis and to defend the proposed solution not only in front of the teachers, but also face-to-face to the sponsor of the study outside academia. By performing a relatively important group project, the student will learn the succession of stages necessarily involved in any group work, the sense of initiative and the management skills that are required, the creativity and the efforts which are necessary in order to meet the deadlines and to comply with a series of specifications. |
The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Following a first step consisting in the familiarization with the problem and its context, the steps and the distribution of tasks and deadlines are defined by the students in collaboration with the teachers. Students establish a schedule of meetings: internal working group sessions, interactions with the teachers responsible for the course and with the outside sponsor who proposed the project. During the sessions of interaction, work progress is discussed as well as the choices that must be decided on at the end of each stage to proceed to the next step. The project report is due for the last week of classes and presented orally during the examination session in January to the teachers responsible for the course and the sponsor.
Written report and oral presentation of the completed project.
