Under the guidance and supervision of Anthony QUENEHEN and Ana-Sofia JESUS GONCALVES, Romane COURAU, Vianney FERREY, Lina OUHAMMOU, and Emma SOUSA, second-year students in the Grande Ecole Engineering Programme at the Lille Campus, are working together as part of their PJT2A project to create a practical assignment aligned with the curriculum for future second-year PGE students.
The aim of thispractical assignment isto teach, in a practical way, concepts that were previously theoretical, relating to the "Just-in-Time" production system, in particular using the Kanban tool. "The objective is to design and implement a replenishment system for the U-shaped production line and its suppliers (supply chain) based on the collection and processing of information generated in real time during production," they explain.
Building an immersive and open work environment for students
To do this, the students first had to familiarize themselves with the concepts of just-in-time flows and Kanban. Their second step was to brainstorm all the possibilities and potential approaches to the subject for implementing the practical work in the field. They then worked with their teachers to identify the educational objectives, a strategy for achieving these objectives, a detailed schedule, and performance indicators to measure how well the students had understood the concepts. Finally, they worked on breaking down and creating educational scenarios for the practical sessions, as well as carrying out digital simulations. The final step will be to "test" the proposed solution with second-year students in order to make adjustments and determine the best distribution of operations and balance of tasks for each position, thus creating an immersive and open working environment for the students.
Skills-based learning brings real momentum for students and teachers alike. Being in the field, seeing, doing, manipulating, breaking down actions, trying, making mistakes, starting over... That's the whole point of Brousseau's method, which inspires the students in this PJT group: according to Brousseau, "students must be the builders and actors of their own learning."
Congratulations to them on this project.
Anthony QUENEHEN, co-supervisor of the project, says:
"This is the first time we have involved students so early on in the co-construction of a teaching sequence. This required a particular investment because part of the team had not yet taken courses on this topic and had to train themselves almost entirely on their own. This project, like other PJTs and PJEs related to the platform, represents an important step in the development of the ELF ecosystem on the Lille campus. It is a different, more creative way of working, where we constantly compare our ideas, and always putting the learner at the heart of our approach."
