This module will enable students to identify themselves with a profession, in line with their recent choice of final year internship (they start the internship two months later), or prior to this choice if it is not yet finalised.

The objectives of the module are:

To throw light on professions in the perspective of pursuing a career beyond final year studies (to lead the student to look beyond the first choice of profession, to envisage a career start).
To put into perspective the relative importance of technical knowledge in the exercise of an engineering profession; to distinguish posts at the start of the career (executing and operational roles) from subsequent posts (consulting, management, commercial roles) and to contemplate this progression.
To imagine one’s own function in an organisation, taking into consideration the personal equation: to exert one’s capacity to review previous achievements to express personal aptitudes.

On this basis it is up to the student to find contacts of professionals working in this profession in order to investigate the skills/knowledge requirements and its dynamic positioning in a career path.

The work of each student is individual and will be finalised by the production of an electronic document (web page, video ..) which can be published on the School web site under the heading “professional videos”.

The contribution of each student will be assessed by the teachers and by the students themselves, on the basis of the following criteria :

Quality of information
Pertinence of supporting statements
The staging: questioning logic, presentation

The module is complementary to the “Activity sector” project and is provisioned by all the learning situations of the student, in particular the “observation” exercise in the 1st year and the “actor” internship in the 2nd year.
It constitutes preparation for the 3rd year “Engineer” internship, and its role as a final period of experimentation before starting his/her career.

Key words:

Professions Career Personal and professional project

Number of teaching hours

Fields of study

Teaching language

French

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of the unit, the student will be capable of:	Classification level	Priority
Discovering the engineering professions	1. Knowledge	Useful
Approaching and understanding the notion of a professional career path	2. Understand	Essential
Developing a "network" approach	3. Apply	Important

Learning assessment methods

Percentage ratio of individual assessment			Percentage ratio of group assessment
Written exam:		%	Project submission:	%
Individual oral exam:	0	%	Group presentation:	%
Individual presentation:	50	%	Group practical exercise:	%
Individual practical exercise:	0	%	Group report:	%
Individual report:	50	%
Other(s): %

Programme and content

Type of teaching activity	Content, sequencing and organisation
Conference	Feedback from practising engineers, company presentations, and professional unions Intervention from the Managers Employment Agency (APEC), “Emerging professions” (making students aware of the evolution of professions, providing basic information for piloting a career). Interventions from professional unions or federations: “Professional prospective” (Teams from GPEC, Provisional Management of Jobs and Skills)
Practical courses	Visits to industrial sites. Detailed analysis of a survey of senior managers and former students (use of the directory, setting up a professional network, using Web tools).

Type of teaching activity

Content, sequencing and organisation

Conference

Feedback from practising engineers, company presentations, and professional unions
Intervention from the Managers Employment Agency (APEC), “Emerging professions” (making students aware of the evolution of professions, providing basic information for piloting a career).
Interventions from professional unions or federations: “Professional prospective” (Teams from GPEC, Provisional Management of Jobs and Skills)

Practical courses

Visits to industrial sites.
Detailed analysis of a survey of senior managers and former students (use of the directory, setting up a professional network, using Web tools).