4th year of Engineering degree (Biotech 4)
4th year of Engineering degree (Biotech 4)
Engineering students in the 2nd year of the Engineering cycle personalize their curriculum and specialise in one of the 5 sectors of activity in biotechnology:
health, cosmetics, environment, agribusiness or bioinformatics
Skills acquisition
Common core science and technology
Special sciences
- Membrane Systems
- Pharmacology
- Toxicology
- Product and innovation development
- Physicochemical analysis
Engineering Sciences
- Fluid physics
- Genetic engineering
- Molecular modelling
- Biostatistics
- Automation
- Chemical synthesis strategy
- Signal processing
- Innovation Project (SBIP)
Transversal teaching
- Introduction to labour law
- Corporate Strategy
- Sociology of risk
- Intellectual Property
- Economic Intelligence
- Intercultural Negotiations
- Management of innovative projects
Personnalisation of the student’s educational path
Professional Majors
- Major in Research and Development: stem-cell engineering, genomics and proteomics engineering, plant physiology, integrative biology, human genetics
- Major in Bioproduction and Quality: practical exercises on biodigesters, industrial organisation, logistics, GMP standards, quality assurance, bioprocess, industrial transposition.
- Major in Marketing and product management: BtoB marketing, strategy, negotiation techniques, marketing and innovation, finance
- Major in Robotics and Biomedicine:physiological sensors, mechanical properties of tissues, robotics, machine learning, articulated systems
In partnership with ESME Sudria - Major in Numerical and Biotechnology:
- medical imagery techniques, image processing and analysis, machine learning, big data, medical devices for e-health
In partnership with ESME Sudria
Sectoral Minors
- Health: nucleic acid/medication interactions, applied organic synthesis, from molecule to medication, clinical development
- Cosmetics: practical exercises in formulation, materials and reglementation, biology of aging
- Environment: microbiology of soil and water, podology, reglementation, experimental sessions, marine ecology
- Agribusiness: nutraceuticals, nutrition, agri-food innovation, practical exercises in formulation
- Bioinformatics: gene and genomic expression, 3D molecular modeling, introduction to molecular dynamics and the metabolic network
- Entrepreneurship: market surveys, economic models of innovation, finance, fund raising, marketing plan, pitch
- Food and health: nutraceuticals , food supplements, microbiota, health claims, labeling
Application of skills
Project
The acquisition of knowledge in the Engineering cycle is through project-based teaching. Project work helps the student to become a true professional and a sought-after element in the market of Biotechnology.
The projects come together in specific subjects. Learning is through scientific case study analysis (articles, protocols, patents). Using the experience of the professional teachers in the Engineering cycle, students acquire certain reflexes in their work adapted to their future career.
Projects also come together transversallly. Students learn core-business skills around their Major. This project called “common theme” specifically molds the acquisition of practical skills in Research & Development, Bioproduction & Quality, or Marketing & Project Management around a joint subject thought up by the team. Each team of students achieves prefixed objectives in the teaching process by applying each student’s own method. Each team develops its own creativity and through its competitors looks into other methods of approach that they were not familiar with.
These are role play type projects with a certain urgency involved. These projects can pop up at any moment with no prior planning. The student spontaneously learns how to be reactive, available and act as an entrepreneur.
Finally, the student has an initial period of 6 months to prove the feasibility of his SBIP. Three whole weeks are put aside specifically for the project teams to bring all their resourcefulness into play to cope with all the obstacles encountered during this practical exercise.
Internships
It is about visualising your action in a professional perspective.
Majors and Minors help t make choices, work placements can refine them. In order to improve a student’s chances of finding an internship and a place in the highest level of professional integration, job interview simulations are held in English and French. CVs are also written in the two languages, in a different cultural context.
A 4-month work placement: an internship with responsabilities, with a long enough time period to take in the specific functions of the company.