Providing students with a solid international experience to help them develop the skills and abilities necessary for their future professional and personal life is at the centre of our universities’ training and student mobility initiatives. Since 2019, bilateral exchange agreements between Polytechnique Montréal, Instituto Superior Técnico Lisboa, Lunds Universitet and Universidade de São Paulo have allowed close to 100 students to spend a semester abroad and draw the benefits of international mobility.
With partners located on both sides of the Atlantic and representing the North & South of each continent, Polytechnique Montréal (Fabiano Armellini,Julie Defretin, and Delphine Julen), Lund University, Instituto Superior Técnico, and Escola Politécnica da USP. propose to create a 2-semester International Specialization in Industrial Engineering (ISIE) consisting in an international mobility, as well as an industrial engineering hackathon. This is a TIME initiative, selected under the T.I.M.E. Call for projects. Among the 23 proposals, ISIE project was selected.
Students will have the opportunity to complete 2 semesters in 2 of the consortium’s universities, following a programme built on each partner’s specialization in the field of industrial engineering. In addition, a 2-day Industrial Engineering Hackathon will be set up, bringing together ISIE students for a hybrid-mode event supervised by academic coordinators. We are very happy to count now on the involvment from L’Oréal, our first corporate partner.
They will propose a capstone project, allowing students to work collaboratively on an industrial challenge and devise an innovative solution for a real-world problem. This gives students a chance to bring their inter-cultural, leadership and management skills alive and get real industry feedback on their proposal in a ‘safe space’.
We are excited to go further! The next meeting is planned in Paris next June gathering the full consortium. Very happy about it!