O6 - PROFESSIONS

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.