Commitment, behavior and culture

The objectives are:

on the one hand, to take into account the student's commitment within the training program and outside the ENSC for the promotion and influence of the engineering profession and the cognitive discipline
and, on the other hand, to promote, in the form of a grand oral, the cultural and interdisciplinary openness acquired during the training program and more specifically in the register of cognitive sciences and technologies, the engineering context and the relationship between science and society.

Key words:
Culture, engineering, cognitics

This module is included in Semester 9, but requires the student engineer to invest throughout his or her time at the school.

Part 1: Commitment

This part concerns the student engineer's commitment to one or more communities, whether ENSC or another external collective (associations, state structures, NGOs, etc.). Associations may include the Junior Entreprise, BDE, BDS, BDA, etc.
This commitment may also take the form of elective mandates, participation in events promoting the school, or investment of time in experimental research carried out at ENSC.
The student's commitment takes place throughout his or her schooling and can be manifold.
Students are expected to participate regularly (every year) in experimental studies carried out as part of various projects, particularly those linked to the research activities of the school and associated laboratories.
Article 2.II.4 of the pedagogical regulations gives examples of the recognition of student involvement in associative, social or professional life.
Each student is required to submit a two- to three-page written document summarizing the involvement activities carried out during his or her studies.

Part 2: Culture

This part takes the form of an oral presentation, in which the student-engineer talks for a few minutes about his or her thoughts on a current scientific topic or a controversy related to cognitics. This oral presentation may be recorded. A written document of 3 to 5 pages is to be provided, outlining the arguments presented during the oral.
Conferences are regularly organized at ENSC to open up students' cultural and scientific horizons. Websites are recommended to engineering students (notably bernard-claverie.blogspot.fr).

Speakers: lecturers and Jean-Marc André, Bernard Claverie, Benoit Le Blanc, Serge Aries, Catherine Semal.

Transdisciplinarity