GRADUATE PROGRAM "Ingénieur Civil des Mines"
OBJECTIVES
The educational program at the school aims at training engineers to be capable of innovating and leading change in all aspects of business and society, capable of working in a team in a complex international and multicultural environment, driven by an entrepreneurial spirit.
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The objective of the options program is to establish a means for acquiring knowledge and skills in an engineer’s area of specialization, thus giving him the capacity to become an expert in this field. It allows for putting basic scientific knowledge into practice and thus helping to develop the methodological spirit and adaptability of a civil engineer from the Mines of Nancy.
DIVERSIFIED TEACHING METHODS
> Using differentiated teaching methods means that the diversity of the talents and objectives of the students are recognized and it allows each one to create their own personalized curriculum.
Recognizing that students’ talents are diverse and many is also recognizing that their objectives, especially professional, can be quite diverse: it is giving them the possibility to choose their courses and to understand the reason for their choices and thus the reason for each course’s content. It is for this reason that the school gives details about the objectives for each of the courses in the program.
Offering a very extensive program allows the student to make several substantiated choices, in particular in second and third year, and thus to create their own personalized curriculum.
> Learning by action to learn to act: taking risk and exercising responsibility.
Learning to act can only be learned by practicing action itself.
To this end, the student is put in active situations on numerous occasions, in particular with project activities and internships: being involved with extra-curricular activities is also, in this respect, an excellent way to learn, and is encouraged by the school for this reason.
> Learning to deal with what is complex
The scope of an engineer’s activities deals with what is real, thus with what is complex. Several times during their academic career at the Mines, students be confronted with a complex situation that they will have to learn deal with, in particular with the ARTEM labs
(see the chapter devoted to this subject), which combines carrying out a real project with multidisciplinary learning, as much by the complexity of the project as by the composition of the groups of students involved.
> Learning about living in society
An engineer is not just responsible for making sure that a company adheres to laws, that is to say, the rules and regulations that define the organization and functioning of the company; he is also very often the author/producer of rules and new organization (quality management, sustainable development, etc.).
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Another example: students are invited to give their opinion and to make propositions for any changes to the rules on how the school operates. They are periodically asked to evaluate the quality of the teaching and to participate in discussions on pedagogical
developments. The school is itself a place to learn to exercise responsible power.
TEACHING METHODS BUILT AROUND TWO INTERACTIVE AND COMPLEMENTARY TIME PERIODS
It is, above all, about developing the best minds, capable of creativity and an entrepreneurial spirit.
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The students of the school create and manage these activities in complete autonomy.
AN ENGINEER'S SKILLS AND CAPABILITIES
The capabilities and skills needed for an engineering graduate have been set out by the Commission des Titres d’Ingénieur (CTI) N.B. Besides these general skills, they have defined specific requirements that the Ecole des Mines of Nancy must adhere to. There
is a general chart that indicates what pedagogical elements correspond to these specific competencies listed below.
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N.B. – The CTI (Commission des Titres d’Ingénieur) is an independent body fully involved in the development of the European Higher Education Area, established by the French law in 1934. Its missions are respectively: the evaluation and accreditation of higher education institutions in the fields of engineering, computer science, applied mathematics, project management, etc.: the development of quality in engineering education: the promotion of engineering curricula and careers in France and abroad. (i.e. Germany, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Viet-Nam, others in process...)
CTI competencies | 1A | 2A | 3A |
Stage de fin d’études |
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Fundamental Sciences Modeling, optimization, visualization | Scientific Core Curriculum | Option Electives | Option Electives | |
A speciality in a field of activity | Option Electives | Option Electives | ||
Engineering methods Industrial Engineering Economics and management | Scientific Core Curriculum, Business Management Core Curriculum Business games | Operation Research Business Management Core Curriculum and Managerial Sectors |
Managerial Sectors Electives | |
Professionnal issues Sustainable development Innovation and responsability | Innovation activities Work experience, tutorials Company visits, Professional and alumni meetings Sport, Associations | Internship and gap year internship Option project Artem project Departmental Week |
Option project | |
Enjeux professionnels Développement durable Innovation et responsabilité | Semaine recherche-innovation Projet 1A | Option project Artem project Sustainable Development events | Option project Business games | |
International Context Intercultural Collaboration
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Languages and foreign cultures | Languages and foreign cultures Intégration étudiants étrangers Integration of foreign students Departmental week abroad Artem labs Internship and gap year internship |
Languages and foreign cultures | |
Societal values Humanities Cultural Diversity Global issues | Humanities Work experience Project Sport | Humanities Business Management Core Curriculum Managerial Sectors Foreign cultures Electives | Managerial Sectors Foreign cultures Electives |
TEACHING METHOD
A normal teaching unit includes one hour of “class” and two hours of tutorial.
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The practical work involves, for the most part, projects and internships, which make up 40% of the global time for the curriculum of the student’s program At the Ecole des Mines, the teacher is, under these teaching conditions, positioned as a mediator between the student and the knowledge to be learned: disciplinary as well as pedagogical. In fact, it is important that students acquire knowledge and that they understand how to do it.
EVALUATING THE TEACHING METHOD
For more than forty years, the Ecole des Mines de Nancy has had the students evaluate the quality of its teaching methods.
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