Industrial Project - Pre-project

The Industrial Project is a situation simulation of a form of “micro design and technical department” allowing a group of students to respond to a demand from an industrial client for a proof of concept or prototype. The Industrial project forms the main theme of students’ skills acquisition during the academic year, serving as an application support for all the non-technical courses (project management, industrial law, communication …) but also as implementation of all the acquired technical and scientific skills.

This first part, the pre-project, is devoted to the study of the client’s demand, the drafting of a technical proposition and the contractual part. It is finalised by the signature of an agreement and the project presentation (pitch and display).

The students accompany the client in the definition of his need through to the drafting of the specifications. They then make a survey of existing material (bibliography, study of patents …), propose and justify a technical solution, then draw up the partnership contract.

The course is characterised by a reduced number of teaching hours, essentially presentation of tools and tutorials. The actual work is carried out independently, drawing also on skills acquired in the “Engineering Methods” course.

Pre-Project unit: presentation of objectives (production of specifications, technical response, contract agreement).

Documentary Research unit: basic tools and inquiry methods for documentary data, presentation of a bibliography (production of a bibliographic summary –articles and patents).

Communication unit: basic techniques of oral and graphic presentations (production of pitch and display).

The course represents the application of the “Engineering Methods” course to a concrete case. It follows on logically from the introduction to project management acquired during the 1st year SEA project course.

For the technical response students will have to draw on skills acquired in all or part of the “Scientific and Technical” courses and acquire independently certain knowledge bases.