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Four good reasons to become an engineer - the student

Parl'Etudiant Fab, published on June 01, 2021 9 min

Do you like scientific materials, but you dare not turn to engineering trades?The Mines-Télécom competition, which enables thousands of young people each year to integrate grandes écoles in the fields of the future, gives you four good reasons to set your eyes closed.

1. Participate in the digital transformation of our company

Digital (or digital) transformation is now an integral part of our daily life and our economy, impacting all sectors.This process is led to intensify in the coming years, in particular thanks to the upheaval represented by the advent of new technologies and the development of the Internet.The engineering profession is a real engine, both in terms of research and in management, and is offered a multitude of perspectives.

To meet the expectations of the market in this area, Telecom Sudparis has developed four new routes.It now trains students in all key digital fields, namely cybersecurity, data science, artificial intelligence, information systems, digital project management and media as well as video games.There is also the ENSSAT (National School of Applied Sciences and Technology) which is a real innovation catalyst.It offers three IT engineers and digital systems and is one of the three schools in France to offer photonics training [1].Finally, at the EIVP (the School of Engineers of the City of Paris), in addition to numerous works and courses around innovations in terms of urban engineering, an entire semester is devoted to the "data" project and digital data in thetown.

And if an international career interests you, Eurecom trains engineers in digital sciences and is distinguished by its international character and its close links with companies.

2. Contribute to ecological transition and sustainable development

As a future engineer, acting for progress is working to preserve the environment around us is also to give meaning to your job while taking on exciting challenges.

In this perspective, the ENSG Geology is positioned as an actor of the energy and ecological transition (Big Data, valuation of mineral raw materials, polluted sites and soils, hydrology, etc.). Like the IMT Nord Europe, where you will find courses specializing in renewable energies for housing, prevention and treatment of pollution or even in production and conversion of energy. The National Meteorology School (ENM) in Toulouse, on the other hand, focuses on the issues of the climate and the forecast of time (the campus is also located in the heart of operational services). Without forgetting Ensta Bretagne, where you are offered a rare and exciting training in ocean and climate physics. Then there is IMT Mines Alès and IMT Mines Albi, recognized for their training in underground engineering and exploitation of mineral resources or even eco-activity and sustainable development.

3. Reinvent the industry

In the world of industry too, technologies contribute to the reinvention of manufacturing processes and the evolution of production standards, impacting the pharmaceutical sector, telecoms, food, transport, etc.Deeply involved in research and management, the engineer then plays a major role.

As we know, robotics and nanotechnologies are about to deeply modify our industry. To this end, ENSTA Bretagne offers autonomous robotics curriculum through key mechanics, materials and civil engineering, automotive engineering or software engineering. On the side of Mines Saint-Etienne, it is possible to study photonics, a branch of physics which allows generation, transmission and processing or conversion of optical signals. We find this area in three of his training: telecom, photonics - electronics and photonics - Vision. Like Telecom Saint-Etienne, for which photonics are part of optics technologies. The school also makes it possible to specialize in network infrastructure, their safety and their modeling. In the fields of food and health, IMT Mines Albi was able to find its place with training in agro-bio health and pharma-bio health.

Obviously, companies and manufacturers cannot do without marketing and digital communication channels, central areas for marketing and sale.This is why Institut Mines-Télécom Business School today offers engineers to obtain a double diploma focused on business and management with curriculum in digital marketing, digital project management and media or even innovation management.

4. Entrepreneur, having the opportunity to make an international career and earn a living

Some young graduates and future engineers embark on the entrepreneurial adventure once their studies are completed.If this is your ambition or you simply have a project in mind that you want to make a realization, ENSIIE, Télécom SudParis and IMT-BS jointly constituted a course dedicated to entrepreneurship as well as a technological incubator, the IMT Starter.Results ?Businesses created by students experience a survival rate of 81 % at five years.

Being an engineer is also to practice a universal profession.To allow you to choose an international career, all schools in the Mines-Télécom competition are open to mobility.Either through internships or apprenticeships with partner companies, or thanks to a large number of courses provided in foreign languages or certain courses to validate international diplomas.For example, at IMT Mines Albi, 10 foreign languages as well as sign language is on the program.

In terms of remuneration, according to a recent EISF survey, in France, the salaries of freshly graduated engineers are among the highest in the labor market.This observation is reflected in particular through the results of all the schools of the Mines-Télécom competition to the first employment survey of the conference of the grandes écoles: in Télécom Nancy, for example, the means of research of the first job is less15 days.It is just as encouraging for Telecom Sudparis, which is placed as the school allowing one of the best study wages to study in France, estimated on average at 43,595 euros.Finally, over the year 2018–2019, the results issued by Télécom Saint-Étienne confirm the growth of the professional integration of business graduates, with a median salary that increases (+1 k to 36.6 k).

More than a job, being an engineer is above all a state of mind made of rigor, curiosity, common sense and organization.It is also passion for science, the discovery of solutions that will upset the world of tomorrow and a career dedicated to learning.The Mines-Télécom competition is direct access to Schools of IMT and the Ministry of Industry who have a formidable link with research, in particular thanks to dedicated teacher-researchers body and soul to the profession and who have at heartto transmit the taste of engineering.

[1] The photonics engineers master the properties of light and digital technologies.

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