3A Expertise - "Science and Technology for Digital Transformation" Program

Engineering students study industrial management

Fundamentals and applications combined in the teaching chair SOPRA STERIA NEXT on the digital revolution: the company and its ecosystem facing technological development.

General engineer, student curriculum, third-year expertise inScience and Technology for Digital Transformation.

Campus

Arts et Métiers Campus Arts et Métiers Paris

Background

Digital technology and globalization are transforming businesses. Everything is being called into question: strategies, management, organizations, ways of designing, manufacturing, and selling products or services, information and communication systems, and more. This context of the preeminence of the intangible, due to the rise of digital technologies, and of expanded competition is forcing companies to increase their agility and speed and to constantly adapt. They can only succeed in these transformations by opening up to their customers, their employees, their ecosystems, and innovation.

The digital revolution is a major upheaval for individuals, businesses, and society as a whole: nothing and no one is immune to it. It must be taken into account in university education, particularly for the engineers of tomorrow.

In the field of engineering, the challenge is enormous. Digital technology is revolutionizing technical activities, some of which are highly specialized, in areas such as materials, transformation processes, structures, systems, systems of systems, etc.

But digital technology is also revolutionizing management and working methods. It is transforming product sales into service sales. It focuses on usage. For example, equipment manufacturers no longer sell landing gear, but a number of successful landings.

Tomorrow, in order to lead and make decisions, engineers—our engineers—will need to understand all aspects of the digital revolution.

And they will have to reconcile deterministic, well-founded models applied to measurable, repeatable, and controllable realities with practices derived from agile methods (test and learn, minimum viable product, short iterations, etc.) in order to cope with an environment that has become volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous.

The program we offer aims to prepare students, future technicians, and managers for the technological, human, organizational, and societal challenges of digital transformation.

Program

Module 1: The Digital Factory (40%)

Data types: continuous, discrete, categorical, qualitative, etc.;
Cleaning, repair, storage, protection, etc.
Visualization
Modeling (Machine Learning): regressions, neural networks, etc.
Knowledge extraction
Explainability, certification, risk, uncertainty, etc.
Ethical and legal aspects, acceptability
Verification and validation
Data, information, and knowledge
Hardware and Software: edge, cloud, embedded systems, quantum computing, etc.
Virtual, augmented, and hybrid reality, collaborative platforms, etc.

External contributors: Thales, Naval Group, Dassault, EDF, Renault, PSA, Safran, Michelin, Airbus, ESI, etc.

Module 2: Digital Technology and Operational Excellence (30%)

Intelligent automation: IoT, Blockchain, AI, Digital Twin
AI in and for digital transformation
Component, system, system of systems, complexity, etc.
From product lifecycle management to performance management
End-to-end alignment of the value chain
Augmented employee
Lean Six Sigma, Business Process Management (BPM), Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
Management of innovative ecosystems

External contributors: IBM, Total, Hutchinson, Thales, ESI, etc.

Module 3: Skills and people at the heart of digital transformation (15%)

Agility, Squad, Guilds
Multi-Functional Team (MFT)
Collaborative platforms
New Way of Working
Co-development
Design thinking
Fab Lab
Digital Workplace
Culture of boldness

Module 4: Information Systems (15%)

Governance models
Partner and Start-up Management
Cybersecurity
Interoperability
Open data, Open API
Open source
Hackathons, Open innovation

In-depth project

Application and consolidation of knowledge acquired through participation in industrial projects, carried out in groups (4-6 students) on a given theme, with the support of Sopra Steria Next.