IFMA Engineer
IFMA Engineer
IFMA Engineer
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T H E S C H O O L<br />
Editorial<br />
“<br />
Because it is necessary to respond to economic and<br />
societal conditions which are constantly changing,<br />
Because companies need engineers capable<br />
of developing technical expertise and<br />
adapting to multicultural environments,<br />
Key figures<br />
<strong>IFMA</strong> is committed to an institutional project<br />
(2008-2011) based on its distinctive advantages.<br />
• 623 student engineers<br />
and 36 apprentice<br />
engineers for academic<br />
year 2008-09<br />
• 1500 <strong>IFMA</strong> graduate<br />
engineers<br />
• 44 companies and<br />
organisations members<br />
of the <strong>IFMA</strong> Foundation<br />
• 58 permanent teaching staff<br />
• 39 administrative and<br />
technical personnel<br />
members<br />
• €8 216 221 consolidated<br />
budget (2008)<br />
• 3 research laboratories<br />
attached to a CNRS<br />
Research Federation<br />
• 21 current research<br />
contracts for a total of<br />
€587 965<br />
• 3200 m 2 of high-tech<br />
industrial equipment in<br />
the Technology Transfer<br />
Centre<br />
• Active participation in<br />
3 regional competitiveness<br />
clusters, ViaMéca,<br />
Céréales Vallée and<br />
InnoViandes<br />
• 600 high-school and<br />
university students benefit<br />
from <strong>IFMA</strong> equipment and<br />
personnel in programmes<br />
for sharing academic<br />
resources<br />
• 150 universities et 350<br />
companies in nearly 50<br />
countries are partners or<br />
in close contact with <strong>IFMA</strong>.<br />
The project<br />
is based on<br />
internal and<br />
external<br />
actions<br />
• The existence and role of the <strong>IFMA</strong><br />
FOUNDATION, veritable bridge between the<br />
world of Enterprise and the world of<br />
Higher Education and Research.<br />
• The affirmation of an AMBITIOUS RESEARCH<br />
POLICY within the framework of Clermont<br />
Université on the themes of advanced<br />
mechanics and production engineering.<br />
• <strong>IFMA</strong>'s INTERNATIONAL CULTURE, with<br />
100% international mobility in industry.<br />
• SPECIFIC ADVANCED MECHANICS TRAINING<br />
to produce experts in these fields.<br />
• The importance of HUMAN, SOCIAL AND<br />
INTERCULTURAL TRAINING to develop engineers'<br />
soft skills in parallel with their<br />
technical knowledge and know-how.<br />
INTERNAL ACTIONS via the renovation of the academic programme, carried out<br />
conjointly by the industrialists of the <strong>IFMA</strong> Foundation, the teaching and research<br />
staff, the Institute's graduate engineers and our students. Starting in September 2009,<br />
the student will become the actor of his training – training in direct contact with the<br />
realities of industry and the major questions of society, environment and research: a<br />
customised programme in a constantly changing socio-economic context.<br />
EXTERNALLY, the stakes are to affirm our position in the European field of excellence<br />
in advanced mechanics via relations with a national or international thematic<br />
network, using the enhanced responsibilities offered by the new French LRU law<br />
(increasing the autonomy and the responsibility of universities) and reinforcing our<br />
interaction with Clermont Université and the regional competitiveness clusters, in<br />
particular ViaMéca.<br />
Through this project, <strong>IFMA</strong> aims to bring a better response to the expectations of its<br />
partners: student engineers, apprentice engineers, partner companies,<br />
the <strong>IFMA</strong> Foundation, the Ministry of Higher Education and Research,<br />
local and national institutional partners and Institute personnel.<br />
Pr. Pascal RAY<br />
Director<br />
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