Words fromArts et Métiers is back with a new episode: “The Angers ‘ Arts et Métiers ’ campus: a diverse educational and partnership network centered on the industry of the future—an interview with its director, Amandine Duffoux.”
Background
In *Paroles d’Arts et Métiers*, we discuss industry, innovation, transitions, health, materials, new technologies, and many other topics related to engineering sciences and Arts et Métiers. Everyone in the Arts et Métiers community—students, staff, and alumni—is part of this adventure. In each episode—conceived and hosted by Carole Wahnoun, a research engineer at the Paris campus, with technical support from Jean-Marc Rousseau, Multimedia Designer and Producer atICIFTech—we take time to discuss an important topic related to Arts et Métiers with one or more guests.
Podcast introduction
Amandine Duffoux, Director of the Angers-Laval “ Arts et Métiers ” campus, will present this campus here, where collective intelligence and multidisciplinary collaboration are a daily reality. She will discuss her commitments both as a faculty member and researcher and in leading educational projects rooted in the region’s socioeconomic fabric and public policies.
Highlights
- A variety of initiatives for a campus at the intersection of technology, industry, and the local community;
- Opinion: AI in Higher Education and Engineering Education;
- To train, through a multidisciplinary approach to technical expertise and collective intelligence, future engineers who are committed and engaged;
- Unite around a common project with L'Evolutive Learning Factory ;
- Laval Institute and Immersive Technologies: Tools for Enhancing Engineering Education and Advancing Research;
- Keep students at the center of educational issues and develop the solutions of tomorrow.
Who is Amandine Duffoux?
With a background in data mining and machine learning and several years of research in these fields, Amandine Duffoux has been actively involved for more than twenty years in issues related to pedagogy, digital transformation, innovation, and support for institutions of higher education.
In addition to teaching machine learning and cybersecurity, she has developed and led training programs in France and abroad (ESAIP, EIGSI, etc.), directed several engineering programs, and held positions of increasing responsibility in the areas of academic leadership, educational innovation, digital technology, and the transformation of higher education institutions.
Since 2020, Amandine Duffoux has also chaired the Digital Strategies and Distance Learning working group of the Conférence des Grandes Écoles. She has led various studies on the impact of digital technology on the Grandes Écoles and helped oversee the work that led to the publication of the collective volume *Digital Transformation in the Grandes Écoles: A 360° Approach*. As part of this effort, she co-authored a chapter on the uses of artificial intelligence in the Grandes Écoles, a publication more recently supplemented by a national study conducted among member institutions to analyze the uses of AI within the Grandes Écoles and its impact on educational programs, the evolution of professions, and the schools’ strategies and governance.
As a member of the jury for the Jean-François Fiorina Prize—an award dedicated to educational innovation and established by the Conférence des Grandes Écoles—she has been contributing to discussions on the evolution of teaching practices and supporting learners as they develop their skills for many years.
Amandine Duffoux will join Arts et Métiers in 2024 as director of the Angers campus and the Laval Institute.
References
HAPPY LISTENING
- Check out Episode 30 of "Paroles d'Arts et Métiers " at: https://youtu.be/mbWR_-jex08
- Find all episodes of ParolesArts et Métiers theArts et Métiers YouTube channelArts et Métiers https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0XGr5F6_s9h5bV9GTjclwtNW_8aV9s66&feature=shared
