1st year | Semester 1
Business knowledge, languages and culture 1 6 ECTS

Management economic and social sciences – knowledge of the company

Tags: company, corporate social responsibility, engineer, entreprise, gouvernance, governance, ingénieur, management, organisation, organization, professional project, projet professionnel, responsabilité sociétale de l’entreprise-RSE
Evaluation method:
Summary note on a company + Articulation with the 1A internship where they will be in a participant observation posture
Course outline:

This UE aims to train and professionalize engineers capable of having a global and transdisciplinary vision of their environment. It is about giving them the tools to enable them to integrate into an organization and to understand the complex challenges of the company.
Course topics – 12h
– The contributions of SHS to the understanding of the company and management (economics, sociology…)
– Engineers and their professions within the organization.
– The major changes in managerial thinking.
– The fundamentals of management: managerial skills and leadership.
Workshop topics – 14h
– Professional project: career path, ambition, French-English CV, cover letters
– Economic approach of the company: definitions, actors, goals, organization, economic, societal and environmental performance
– Governance: awareness of the different modes of governance, identification of stakeholders
Seminar topics – 14h
– Team-building: inclusion-cooperation seminar (7h)
– Corporate Social Responsibility: the responsible engineer, exchanges with professionals (3.5h)
– Round tables: engineering professions, exchanges with professionals (3.5 hours)

Learning objectives:

At the end of the modules, the student will be able to:
– Understand basic business vocabulary and concepts
– Understand the reality and complex challenges of the company: economic, social, societal and environmental performance
– Have benchmarks in an organization
– Start getting to know himself, reflect on his career plan, master job search too

Teaching language: FR