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ISA Engineering Program
Catalog of Courses
Academic year 2012-2013
First year (all classes are all year long)
Courses Number of hours ECTS Credits Language Exact Sciences Mathematics 59 4.5 French Physics 72 6 French Chemistry 74 6 French
Statistics and Computer sciences 34 2.5 French
Biochemistry 53 4 French
Relation Skills
English 52 3.5 French
General communication and culture 46 3 French
Sport 40 4 French
Life Sciences
Plant Biology / Botany 85 6 French
Cell Biology 26 6 French
Animal Biology 40 4 French
Earth Sciences
Geology / pedology 85 6 French
Economics
General Accounting 18 1.5 French
Agricultural Management 18 1.5 French
General Economics 32 2.5 French
Professional courses
Crop profile 10 1.5 French
Introduction to Agriculture 20 French
Internship in a farm 120 6 French
Second year (all classes are all year long)
Courses Number of hours ECTS Credits Language Exact Sciences Mathematics II 22 4.5 French Physics II 58 6 French Chemistry II 58 6 French
Statistics and Computer sciences II 74 2.5 French
Biochemistry II 30 4 French
Relation Skills
English 52 3.5 French
General communication and culture 46 3 French
2 Life Sciences
Biology project 27 2.5 French
Genetics 54 4.5 French
Animal Physiology 70 5.5 French
Plant Physiology 48 4 French
Microbiology 48 4 French
Earth Sciences
Fertilization 12 1 French
Soil Sciences 30 2.5 French
Hydrogeology 24 1.5 French
Economics
General Economics II 60 2.5 French
Internship in a Farm 144 4 French
Internship in a Food Industry 75 2 French
Third year (all classes are all year long)
Courses Number
of hours
ECTS Credits
Language Information and Data Management
Data Bases and Data Analysis 24 2 French
Data Management Project 42 4 French
Engineering Tools
Relation skills / Intercultural Communication 32 3 French
Human Resources Management / Law 22 2 French
ERP 11 1
Quality Management 11 1 French
Elective 35 1.5 French
Foreign languages (English, Spanish, German, Dutch, Chinese) 33 3 Agriculture and Food: economical and society approach
Agriculture and Food Cultural Approach 32 3 French
Food Chains 34 3 French
Economics
General and Analytical Accounting / Management control 32 3 French
Economics of the Food Industry / Microeconomics 34 3 French
Agriculture
Plant Protection 22 2 French
Plant Production 22 2 French
Ruminants zootechnics 22 2 French
Food Sciences
Food Sciences and Technology 22 2 French
Food Industry Engineering 44 4 French
Environmental Sciences
Ecology / Industrial Environment 34 3 French
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Fourth year
Semester 1
Courses Number of hours ECTS Credits Language AgricultureAnimal Breeding and Genetic Selection 40 3 English
Advanced Animal Nutrition 40 3 English
Struggling Farmers 40 3 French
Plant selection 40 3 French
Agriculture and Environment 40 3 French
Crop Production Systems
Agricultural suppliers 70 5 French
Plant Biotechnology 70 5 French
Food Technology
Production Management and Continuous Improvement 40 3 French
Quality, Hygiene and Safety Management 40 3 French
Packaging 40 3 French
Food Processing Methods 70 5 French
Environmental Sciences
Environmental Law 40 3 French
Environmental Management 40 3 French
Risks Management 40 3 French
Land planning 70 5 French
Economics and Management
Corporate Strategy 40 3 French
Sectorial Marketing 40 3 French
Agricultural Markets and Future Markets 40 3 French
International Development 70 5 French
Semester 2
Courses Number of hours ECTS Credits Language AgricultureCrop Production Systems 70 5 French
Sustainable and Innovative Crop Systems 70 5 French
Plant Experimentation 40 3 French
Weeding and Entomology 40 3 French
Animal Production Systems 70 5 English
Aquaculture and Fisheries 70 5 English
Global Agricultural Production Models 40 3 English
Farm Animal Building and Conception 40 3 English
Animal Health and Welfare 40 3 English
Food Sciences
Quality Control and Food Characterization 70 5 French
Food Conception and Processing 70 5 French
Bioprocesses 40 3 French
Ingredients, Aromas and related regulations 40 3 French
Advanced Sensory Analysis 40 3 French
Workshop design and Costs Management in the Food Industry 40 3 French Environmental Sciences
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Water Management 70 5 French
Waste Management 70 5 French
Environment and Natural Resources Economics 40 3 French
Buildings Energetic performance 40 3 French
Applied Ecology 40 3 French
Environmental Law 40 3 French
Economics and Management
Advanced Marketing 70 5 French
Food Distribution 70 5 French
Finance Case Study 70 5 French
Quantitative/Qualitative Study Methods 40 3 French
Means Markets 40 3 French
Business Law 40 3 French
Sales/Purchase Negotiation 40 3 French
Fifth year – Semester 1 specialization (30 ECTS credits)
RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Issues and new engineering
Understand the new issues at stake in the agricultural world and acquire a work method in order to help the famers in a changing environment.
1- Objectives
The main goal of this specialization is to train engineers who will be able to determine and understand the new issues of agriculture and to set up appropriate methods to help the famers develop their businesses, with either:
- new sectors of activity
- a rural/local development project - a business consulting activity 2- Content
a. Understand the environment and determine the demand
product quality
specifics of the production methods consumer’s demand
globalization and its issues in the agricultural world
b. Tools to meet the demand
Technical itineraries (Bio, Fertimieux, etc.) Certification and qualification of a farm
Insertion of agriculture in a local territory project Diversification
Farm strategies
c. Tools of the Engineer (Development Engineering)
Needs analysis tools (interviews/questionnaires and typology) Project management with farmers
Partnership management
Group communication and social marketing in development actions Evaluation of actions
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Business consulting Period: September – December
Contact: Bruno Guermonprez, bruno.guermonprez@isa-lille.fr
INOVAL
Innovation project management in the food industry
1- Objectives
The emergence of competitivity poles has put innovation at the heart of the companies’ economic development strategies. Innovation allows companies to make new profits and to achieve an efficient and sustainable economical development.
In order to meet the market’s dynamics and the ever changing demand, the engineer has to be reactive and able to take into account the various economical and technical components.
2- Content
management of innovating projects, acquisition of management skills
thorough knowledge of the consumer in order to set up marketing and innovation strategies improvement of technical culinary skills
adaptation of the packaging to the product and the consumer
management of a professional project that meets the companies’ demands
INOVAL matches the companies’ new needs such as developers’ needs, executives’ will to link research and consumers’ needs, but it also transcribes the consumers’ needs into technical language. After this specialization, students often apply to positions such as project manager, marketing manager, R&D manager, etc.
Period: September – December
Contact: Flore RATAJ, flore.rataj@isa-lille.fr
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT Marketing/Finance
1- Objectives
This specialization offers a global approach of business management in the food industry using various teaching methods: modules taught by both ISA staff and professionals from the food industry and other sectors of activity (retail, banking, notary sector); business role playing.
Each module is based on the students’ knowledge and aims at making them fully operational in the prospect of a long term internship or a first job.
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The specialization is divided into a core curriculum and two options. It is aimed at both students who wish to have a career in sales and marketing, and students who want to work in business management and finance.
a- Core curriculum
Students have to attend all of the following modules: project management
sales management
motivation and management crisis management
finance management
preparation to recruiting techniques: individual and group interviews
b- Marketing option
This option offers a deeper knowledge in order for students to be as prepared as possible when they first enter the work market.
innovation management brand management
surveys (sample groups, etc.) industrial marketing
Supply Chain Management advertising communication
c- Finance option
This option (and a well adapted six months internship) allows the students to complete the Master 1 and 50% of Master 2 “Gestion du Patrimoine” (i.e. 90 credits) from the Ecole Supérieure des Affaires (Faculty of Management Sciences at the University of Lille 2), provided they validate the following modules:
Bank and risk management Business transfer
Financial/property transfer techniques Business forms
Business evaluation methods
The full Master (120 credits in a whole) can be completed, for those who wish to do so, by following a complementary training after the specialization (2 weeks in September and 2 weeks in October):
pair report (10 credits)
portfolio management (5 credits) taxation of financial products (5 credits) retirement pensions, life insurance (5 credits) patrimonial tools and negotiation (5 credits)
Period: September – December Contacts:
- Marketing option: Julie CHRISTIAEN, julie.christiaen@isa-lille.fr - Finance option: Corinne STATNIK, corinne.statnik@isa-lille.fr
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ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND EXPERTISE
1- Objectives
The main goal of this specialization is to train future engineers who will be able to: - identify and diagnose agricultural, industrial or local environmental problems
- treat them and prevent them by proposing feasible solutions (on a technical, economical and social level)
- manage projects in the various sectors of the environment, from industrial environment to the management of biodiversity
Future employers may be research offices, local governments, companies, public and semi-public organizations, associations.
Positions are as varied as project manager, environment manager, technical sales manager, research manager, etc.
2- Content
a- Core curriculum
noise pollution and odour treatment local governments
polluted sites and soils management air quality
water resources management
nature, detection and sampling of pollutants ecotoxicology
communication
Geographic Information System project management
English group projects six months internship
Pre-requisite/optional courses for students who haven’t taken these courses before: environmental law waste management water treatment risks management environmental management b- Options Industrial environment - Risks management
- Quality, safety and environmental management - Industrial environment
Energy – Ecobuilding
- Ecobuilding – Autocad (Computer Assisted Drawing) - Energetics
- Transport and logistics Natural environment management
- Modellizing ecology - Plant association
- Natural environment preservation - Hydrology – hydrogeology
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- Marketing and environment - Business start up
Period: September – April
Contact: Franck CHAUVIN, franck.chauvin@isa-lille.fr
QHSE MANAGEMENT
Management of Quality, Hygiene, Safety and Environment in the Food Industry
Fully taught in English 1- Objectives
This specialization aims at training future managers in the fields of quality, hygiene, safety and environment in the food industry. The concept of quality includes all its aspects, from the most general to the most modern point of view, which includes every operator from production to processing, selling, safety regulations and protection of the environment.
The teachings are based on three axes:
Developing and consolidating knowledge of the quality technical tools, as well as safety and environment related knowledge (scientific, technical and legal)
Broadening industrial, economic and social culture
Developing abilities in the fields of intercultural and non hierarchical communication and group activities
2- Content
This specialization is completely taught in English (courses, projects, supervision and exams). The final internship thesis is the only part that may be written in French.
This specialization is divided into three modules:
Technical module on Quality, Hygiene, Safety and Environment Management and business knowledge
Project (on a specialization topic linked with an industrial partner)
The MSc “Industrial Biotechnology Management” is in partnership with the Faculty of Sciences and Technologies of the Lille Catholic University and Loyola College in Chennai (India). It is made up of a dozen French students and about twenty international students.
Period: September – December
Contact: Audrey MISRAHI, audrey.misrahi@isa-lille.fr
HEALTH AND NUTRITION
1- Objectives
This specialization aims at giving engineers the necessary skills and knowledge to evaluate, master, improve and communicate about the health and nutrition impact of their technical choices all along
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the food chain, from agricultural production to storage, processing and distribution. Its other objective is for the future engineers to acquire a double competency in the field of health and food. Future jobs include Communication Manager, Food Industry Regulation Manager, R&D Manager, Health and Nutrition Manager in a food company, etc.
The main sectors of employment are agricultural chains, food companies, institutional catering, consulting companies, etc.
2- Content
This specialization is made up of 5 modules. Human needs
Objectives: to understand and anticipate human needs; to understand the relation between food and health.
o Physiological needs o Eating habits
o Link between eating and health o Nutritional pathologies
Food and its nutrients
Objectives: to have an overview of all the different types of food, from simple food to nutritional supplements, and to understand the concept of balanced eating.
o Food
o Food for specific target groups o Nutritional supplements o Food improvement o The impact of process
o The concept of balanced eating The role of official institutions
Objectives: to know the official institutions related to food and health, discover the political context that led to actions and regulations, to know which entities will help setting up actions in a company.
o Official institutions in the field of food and health o Public policies in the field of nutrition and health o How to support and speed up the growth of a channel?
Development of a nutrition and health approach in the food chain
Objectives: to think about the social role of a company, especially in the field of health. Discover the market, its size and evolution. To find a way to consolidate practices in an agro food chain or a company, in order to develop products that will meet both the consumers and society’s needs.
o Social role of each of the entities involved in the channel
o The nutritional food market and the people and institutions involved o How to create a channel, a product in nutrition and health?
o How to guarantee food safety?
o How to communicate to the final consumer? Scientific marketing Study of a channel – Testimonies channel by channel
Objectives: study the actions implemented by agro food chains or companies to create, protect and develop products in a nutrition and health context. Lectures by professionals.
o Dairy products o Meat
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o Sugar o Seafood
Professional study
This specialization also includes an industrial study ordered by a professional in the field of nutrition and health. Students will have to work in teams one day per week and present their report to the sponsor at the end of the semester.
Field trip
A 2- to 3-day field trip will allow the students to discover the organization of a health products oriented agro food chain. Student will see equipment and meet people involved in the whole chain, from agricultural production to process, and have the opportunity to exchange ideas with teams who work on the issue of nutrition and health.
Assessment
Written and oral reports of the various group and individual projects. Period: September – December
Contacts:
- Eric Taisne: eric.taisne@isa-lille.fr
