This Thursday morning in October, on the newly renovated campus of the IMT Nord Europe engineering school, in Douai (North), around twenty students gathered for an electricity course. At the bottom of the small amphitheater, Gabriel Morin, 21, volunteered to carry out calculations on an electrical circuit drawn on the board.
In complete relaxation, with one hand in his pocket, he juggles with the law of knots, the law of meshes, complex numbers, to answer the teacher’s questions without difficulty. “Yes, the current in the capacitor is ahead of the network voltage. » In the aisles, his comrades try to follow him, a scientific calculator in hand. The passing observer does not understand much about this fundamental science course…
Just a few weeks ago, Gabriel and the other students present were not as comfortable with all the concepts covered today. This course, like all those given as part of the “apprenticeship engineer integration program (“πA”)” of IMT Nord Europe, aims precisely to give (or give back) to everyone solid fundamental scientific bases to continue in the establishment’s apprenticeship course. .
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Created in 2022, this one-year training is intended for young people who were not aiming not initially studying engineering, or whose level was insufficient to qualify for it. Halfway between an integrated prep and a “Higher technician adaptation” preparatory class (ATS, preparatory class for the grandes écoles [CPGE] in one year accessible after a BTS or a DUT), it is part of a strong trend towards the diversification of recruitment from engineering schools in recent years to meet business demand.
“Find new breeding grounds”
At the beginning of October, during its back-to-school press conference, the Conference of Directors of French Engineering Schools recalled the need to train 15,000 more engineers per year to meet market needs. By expressing her concern about the insufficient number of candidates, she also pleaded for the development of apprenticeships in this type of establishment.
“Everyone agrees today that society needs more engineers to develop its industrial and technological project. And schools are capable of training many more”observes Alain Schmitt, director of IMT Nord Europe. But, to meet this ambition, according to him, they must now demonstrate innovation to “find new pools of students”.
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