The Master's (M2) internship has a minimum duration of 20 weeks and takes place during the second semester, either in a company or a research laboratory. It aligns with the overall objectives of the program, which aims to train students with advanced skills in the main current techniques of industrial engineering, Graduates are primarily expected to find career opportunities in R&D and methods departments.
The main objective of the internship is to develop students’ innovation and creativity by producing original results or developing innovative solutions to major industrial challenges. More specifically, it aims to develop:
(1) The ability to successfully lead a research and/or development project, (2) The capacity to conduct a literature review related to identified research questions, (3) Critical thinking and the ability to identify and justify research directions, (4) Skills in the operational management of research projects, (5) The ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both in written and oral forms, (6) The positioning of the work carried out with respect to existing literature, including developed models, proposed methods, obtained results, and acquired knowledge.
Therefore, the internship topic must be directly related to the field of industrial engineering and include a research and development component. This excludes (but is not limited to) internships that are purely operational in nature (e.g., production monitoring, reporting, client contact, 5S workshops, etc.).
For students pursuing a dual engineering/master’s degree, it is possible to complete a single internship that satisfies the requirements of both degrees, provided that all conditions set by each degree are met.