Industrial Technologies

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

• Teamwork: Half of the course assessment is based on a group company visit report.
• Assisted by teachers, students must exercise their creativity to obtain a visit to a company in the sector they are interested in.
• They will exercise their digital and informational skills by gathering data from different sources: the company's websites, competitors, the people of the company itself, and, using their critical thinking, and their writing and oral communication skills, produce a written synthesis and defend it in front of the jury of professors.
• The interdisciplinary aspect is inherent in the exercise, insofar as the company's observation grid is oriented towards both technology and management.
• The dimension of global citizenship is linked to their reflection on the place of the company visited in its economic, social and cultural context.
• The problem solving aspect is mainly related to the logistics of the visit and the functioning of the team's work.
• The lecture is used to bring the theoretical notions to build the observation grid necessary for the company visit.

• describe a specific place of the management engineer in his role as an interface between management and the technical and technological components of a company;
• explain the basic principles and concepts of the main technologies encountered in modern industries;
• identify the specificities of the different industrial sectors and their environmental impacts;
• analyze the links between the operation of a company, its management, its industrial sector, its technologies, its place in a world that is developing sustainably and the place occupied by digital technology.