The primary objective of  the " polytechnic " minors organized by the Faculté des Sciences Appliquées is to allow students taking a baccalaureate in engineering science, if they so wish, to acquire, through a polytechnic major/minor, basic training in two specialist areas of engineering science, and thus to broaden their technical range of skills, or prepare for a master's in engineering science in a domain which spans the various basic courses offered at baccalaureate level. 

The disciplinary objectives of the minor in mechanics are to allow the student to acquire the basic concepts of theoretical and applied mechanics. For precisely, s/he will need to:

• Master this discipline via project and laboratory-based learning.
• Develop a deeper grasp of continuum mechanics (solids and fluid mechanics), in order to master the techniques of scale model studies and mathematical modeling required by these disciplines. 
• Develop a deeper understanding of thermodynamics, both from a theoretical point of view (a deep understanding of thermodynamics, both from a theoretical point of view (understanding macroscopic concepts starting with kinetic theory of gases) as well as an applied point of view  (technical and energetic thermodynamics).
• Acquire specialized training in machine design.