The End-of-course projects (ECPs) of EMAC engineering students

Objectives of the End-of-course project

The aim of the End-of-course project (ECP) is to allow the final-year students to demonstrate their practical ability to apply, in a real industrial environment, the knowledge and savoir-faire that they have acquired during their three years of engineering science training and in their option year.
During this placement period, the students must show their capacity to manage a real project where the focus is on respecting the lead-time, cost and quality constraints that are required.
This fourth industrial placement will also give the students the chance to justify and confirm their career plan before beginning their professional lives.

Types of ECP

The students must take up and complete a project that corresponds to a given requirement, as would typically be asked of any young engineer. They should be capable of managing the project with a minimum of assistance, should define the phases and the organisation required, collect the necessary resources and conduct and complete the work so that it meets the objective that have been set.
Such projects may be carried out in various, contexts, such as a Research and Development centre, or a New projects, Production, Maintenance, Logistics or Quality department.
Given the overall curriculum of the School, examples of such project work could include :

development, sizing or optimization of a process,
defining, developing and optimizing industrial equipment,
drawing up specifications and requirements for new equipment or new procedures,
carrying out audits of installations or procedures,
putting quality procedures in place,
developing processes to re-use sub-products or industrial waste,
calculating the energy balance of a process or an installation.

Industrial sectors

Fields of activity – in line with the options offered at the School – consist mainly of the following:

materials (elaboration, application),
bio-industries et food industries,
chemistry, fine chemistry, special-field chemistry,
pharmaceuticals, cosmetics industry,
production and transformation of energy,
eco-industries.

ECP periods

The End-of-course projects last 17 weeks between February and June but may be extended up to mid-September

Mutual Obligations

The student must submit a detailed project report to the School. This report will be placed in the School's documentation center. It should be approved by the company concerned before submission. The student will defend his or her report in public.
If requested by the company, special procedures will be put in place to ensure confidentiality.
The School expects the company to ensure appropriate monitoring of the student and an evaluation of his or her behavior and capabilities; The School takes responsibility for preparing the project with the student, for providing the student with a tutor chosen for his/her particular expertise, for monitoring and visiting the student and for providing the student with the technical and scientific means available in the School.

Indemnities and completion bonus

It is customary to provide the trainee with an indemnity to cover the costs incurred for food, lodging, travel expenses, etc. The payment of an additional amount, for successful completion of the project, is desirable. The amount paid is left to the company to decide.

Contacts

Proposals for ECP subjects may be addressed to :
Pharmaceutical engineering	Michel BARON	(33) 5 63 49 30 63 baron@enstimac.fr
Materials	François RONDE-OUSTAU	(33) 5 63 49 30 03 ronde@enstimac.fr
Bio-industries	Jacques FAGES	(33) 5 63 49 31 41 jfages@enstimac.fr
Industrial Engineering	Michel ALDANONDO	(33) 5 63 49 32 34 aldanondo@enstimac.fr
Eco-industries	Bruno GRANO	(33) 5 63 49 30 94 grano@enstimac.fr
Information Systems Engineering	Hervé PINGAUD	(33) 5 63 49 31 37 pingaud@enstimac.fr
Energetics	Bruno LADEVIE	(33) 5 63 49 32 23 ladevie@enstimac.fr
Materials for Aeronautics and Space	Philippe LOURS	(33) 5 63 49 30 78 lours@enstimac.fr

The ECPs of 2004 graduates

The End-of-Course projects (ECPs) carried out in companies by our student engineers display, by their diversity and their results, the ambition of the Ecole des Mines d'Albi: to train general purpose engineers in the service of industrial development.

You can consult the ECPs of the 2004 graduates: The year is composed of 117 students, including 7 following the mature students' course and 110 in the undergraduate training program.

Contact : Jacques SCHARTZENTRUBER schwartz@enstimac.fr