"Partners"n°3 December 2011

PARTNERS
FULL BUSINESS EDITION
NUMBER 03
DECEMBER 2011
EDITO
Company Day
“Think outside the box”
aude leclerc
President of the Company Day 2011
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CONTENTS
INITIATIVES (p. 2)
The power of a network
in the web 2.0 era
TRENDS (p. 3)
Closer inspection of internships:
destinations and key companies
MEETING… (p. 4)
Talents
When studies rhyme with passion
hink outside the box”, is the theme of our
20th Company Day. It is also the guiding
principle behind the teaching of engineers
at CPE Lyon, for whom an international dimension
and being open-minded are indispensable in their
future job in a climate where individualism reigns.
CPE Lyon is above all a large community rich
in diversity and new ideas, reinforced by the
collaboration between students, graduates, and
partner companies. Entering CPE Lyon means
being part of a network of exchange.
the ambition we have for a more open-minded
and dynamic community.
With this view, CPE Lyon has set up a variety of
actions that we invite you to discover, and so we
welcome you warmly to this Company Day.
Today, students and companies meet and
strengthen their relationship for their mutual
benefit, just like 20 years ago for the 1st company
forum in the school. At the heart, nothing has
changed even if everything seems different. The
Company Day is a story of projects led jointly and
with common objectives.
“Entering CPE Lyon means
being part of a network
of exchange”
We are happy to welcome you in the CPE Lyon
community and will help you discover the wide
range of possibilities open to you.
“Think outside the box” is our driving force. Our
young engineers have a great respect for what
constitutes the world, industry, interactions, and
sustainability. In our opinion, innovation should
not be confined to simple ideologies, but should
be real and concrete.
This means a real revolution in our thoughts and
behavior that we must change together. This is
The Company Day organizing team.
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News in brief
INITIATIVES
Partnership: International
Masters in Embedded Systems
and Medical Imaging (IMESI)
The power of a network
in the web 2.0 era
:: INSA Lyon and CPE Lyon are working
together to offer international students a
special master’s: the International Masters
in Embedded Systems and Medical Imaging;
part of the teaching will be ensured by
lecturers from CPE Lyon.
European Label - Diploma
Supplement
:: CPE Lyon is the first French engineering
school to receive the label Diploma
Supplement, for its exemplary application of
the European norms. In total, 55 institutions
in Europe have the right to use the Diploma
Supplement label. It consists of a document
attached to the diploma which describes the
university courses completed by the graduate
and their competences acquired during all
their studies.
CPE Lyon on your smartphone
:: A mobile version of the internet site
www.cpe.fr is now automatically offered to
internet users – more and more numerous–
connecting via their Smartphone. Discover
this new site by connecting to www.cpe.fr
from your Smartphone, iPad or equivalent. More than an internet site, www.ingenieurs-cpe.fr is the new exchange
platform for the alumni association of CPE Lyon. It will permit our
graduate engineers to stay in contact and work together wherever they
are in the world.
I
t is a meeting place for the whole community. This
space will enable graduates to get in touch with
each other. Even though it looks the same graphically as that of CPE Lyon, the site has its own
particularity of being specific to the network.
What can we find on this network? All the
information about the association, individual
accounts and services: the publication of internship
and job offers, payment of the subscription on line,
and help with company creation, etc. It also has the
news, events diary, and information letter. All in all,
it is a real exchange and work collaboration tool.
A vast network, a personalized space
The site brings into contact thousands of engineers
in the world. In order that information circulates
better, the function of updating the data for each
member of the network has been privileged: it is
possible to update one’s information file: contact
details, and professional situation, etc.
The site also enables each graduate to invite other
graduates on to their network, discuss nominations
and find the contact details and information about
former CPE Lyon graduates.
Rewards
2012 will be the hundredth anniversary of Victor Grignard receiving the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and for CPE Lyon, 2011 has been the year of numerous
rewards for graduates and researchers. Here are the details of three of them:
Sustainable development
Event
:: From the 6th to 8th September 2012, there
will be the 2nd edition of the International
Forum on CO2 “International Forum on
Sustainable CO2 Chemical and Biochemical
Recycling”, organized within the framework of
the CPE Lyon Sustainable Development Chair–
Dow Chemical. This event was first launched
in 2010. To know everything about these
conference days, visit: http://CO2forum.cpe.fr.
Nomination OF Claude de
Bellefon
:: Claude de Bellefon is Director of Research
in the CNRS and Catalytic Processes
Laboratory (a CNRS/CPE Lyon research
unit), and on June 1st 2011, he took up the
position as Head of the Chemistry and
Process Engineering Department in CPE
Lyon. In the past, he worked in a research
unit combining scientists from the CNRS
and Rhône Poulenc.
Bernadette Charleux
Rewarded by the Academy of
Sciences
Bernadette Charleux, CPE Lyon
graduate (year ICPI-C 1987), Director of the C2P2* Laboratory,
received the “GrammaticakisNeuman” Prize from the Academy
of Sciences, a prize rewarding the
best work in organic chemistry that
year. The Academy of Sciences attributes about 80 such prizes each
year. Due to the generosity of the
number of donators, a wide range
of scientific domains can be recompensed.
*C2P2: chemistry, catalysis, polymers
and processes.
Vincent Monteil
Bronze medal from the CNRS
Vincent Monteil, CPE Lyon engineer
(year 1999), also a researcher in
the Chemistry, Catalysis, Polymers
and Processes laboratory (C2P2),
is a 2011 laureate of the Bronze
Medal of the CNRS. As well as his
research activities, he teaches
“polymerization catalysis” at the
university and in several engineering schools, CPE Lyon being one of
them. The Bronze Medal rewards
the initial work of a researcher,
making them a talented specialist
in their domain. This prize represents an encouragement from
the CNRS to pursue the research
which has begun so successfully.
Patrick Flandrin
Member of the Academy of
Sciences
Patrick Flandrin, who received
the silver medal from the CNRS in
November 2010, became a member of the Science Academy at the
beginning of 2011. He is one of the
nine new members of less than 55
years old on the 1st January 2010,
elected by the Science Academy
in November. Patrick Flandrin is
a CPE Lyon engineering graduate
(ICPI-P year 1978), former lecturerresearcher in Signal Processing in
ICPI and is today CNRS research
director in the physics laboratory
of ENS Lyon.
Key figures
7,400
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CPE Lyon graduates working
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The Viadeo community
which has more than
1,200 members
85
grants attributed to students
at CPE Lyon in 2011-2012
via solidarity funds
“CPE Lyon – For a better world”
Trends
Closer inspection of internships:
destinations and key companies
questions for…
718 is the number of internships taken up by students from CPE Lyon
in 2010-2011. Here is an overview.
Jörg Sterner, in charge of
finding internships in Germany
Out of all the internships, 30% are international ones
Distribution France / International according to the type of internship
Initial work
placement (Year 3)
Student engineer
internship (Year 4)
87%
13%
Final year project
(Year 5)
80.6%
19.4%
Gap year (between
Year 4 and 5)
27.6%
France
In fact, working internationally attracts
30% of interns and even more in the gap
year, as 72% of students spend this year
in a foreign country.
94.3%
5.7%
72.4%
International
Germany: the principal destination
With a record percentage (40.8%),
Germany is the most popular destination
for CPE Lyon students to do their
internship. It is followed by the USA,
UK and the Netherlands. After that (less
than 4%) come Ireland, Spain, Canada,
Liechtenstein, China, Singapore, Australia,
Belgium and Switzerland.
Internships abroard: Germany at the top of the list
Germany
40.8%
USA
19.7%
UK
12.1%
Netherlands
10.8%
Activity sectors
Internship domain: chemistry - chemical engineering
Other* 12%
Analytical
science
30%
Chemical
engineering
17%
Internship domain: electronics - telecommunications - computing
Image processing
11%
Telecom 6%
Computing 35%
Other 16%
Formulation
19%
Organic chemistry
22%
Electronics 32%
* Environment, production, etc.
The “top ten” companies taking on CPE Lyon students
for their internships
Chemistry – chemical engineering
Electronics - Telecommunications – Computing
Boehringer Ingelheim
Infineon Technologies
Dow and daughter companies (Rhom&Haas, Polyo)
STMicroelectronics
GlaxoSmithKline
Lantiq
Merck
Analog Devices
Akzonobel
NXP Semiconductors
Henkel
University of North Carolina
Infinity Pharmaceuticals
University of Utah
Origenis
Intel Mobile Communications
Priaxon
DP Technology
Australian Water Quality Centre
Creative Micro Designs
How can you explain why such a large number of
students do their internships in Germany?
“Every year, we observe the same paradox.
Germany is a country which, a priori, is the least
attractive for student internships but finally and
for 25 years, it has been the country where the
majority of our students do a one-year internship
between their fourth and final year. The reasons
for this phenomenon are many. First and above
all, for 25 years I have built up very good relations
with about 60 companies in Germany, which are
constantly looking for interns or young graduates
in chemistry or electronics/computing, whatever
the actual financial situation. As these firms are
extremely satisfied with the quality of the work,
they increasingly ask for our students to come
and work for them.
Another reason is the image of Germany has
become more and more international and
attractive. It is an ideal country for young people
who can at the same time perfect their English
and German. The closeness to France is another
undeniable factor. Finally, the internship salaries
are very attractive at between 800 and 2,000
euros per month.”
On what criteria are CPE Lyon students recruited?
“In September, there are two information
meetings and a pre-start-of-year workshop on
international internships organized for the fourth
year students. Then, we receive each student
individually to advise and orient them. I give the
candidates the internship offers, and then put
them in contact with our students already doing
internships in the company in order to help them
make their choice.
The strong points of our candidates are based on
the good reputation of our courses and the fact
that we teach them to communicate in the specific
domain such as chemistry and electronics/
computing with the internship tutors. The latter
are convinced when CPE Lyon presents candidates
who know how to communicate, and are highly
motivated. In fact, many partner companies in
Germany today respond favorably to the invitation
to the CPE Company Day in December each year.”
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Meeting…
Talents
When studies rhyme with passion
Romain and Jonathan, two students from CPE Lyon, one in “electronics – telecommunications –
computing”, the other in “Informatics and communication networks”, share their enriching experiences.
Romain, in year 5, has just come back from his gap year. Jonathan, in year 4, helps us discover his digital
art projects.
Romain Delangle: electronic memory
During your internship in NXP in the
Netherlands, what were you working on?
I worked on a memory. The goal was to create a reprogrammable nonvolatile memory, thus using the value of the resistance as the logic state.
This memory will enable further miniaturization and could be installed
in a mass storage allowing a greater data density than on hard discs.
The objective of my project was to optimize and understand how a nonvolatile reprogrammable memory functions physically. This meant
using my knowledge in different domains. My years at CPE Lyon had
been very useful and I could profit from my courses in electronics. This
subject was at the same time technical and fascinating. Above all, to go
from the theory to practice enabled me to better understand everything
which is at stake in the work of an engineer, who plays a real role in the
daily life of everyone.
How did you succeed in writing a publication in a
review and in participating in an international
conference?
My internship supervisor told me that with my results and interpretations,
it was possible to publish an article. Concerning conferences, it was the
organizers who after reading the article, decided to choose it for an oral
presentation.
What have you learnt from this gap year?
I learnt a lot of things about physics in general after reading a lot of
books and lesson notes to understand certain phenomena. At the end of
this year, I would like to find a Final Year Project in the physics of semiconductors.
Jonathan Richer: when art encounters digital
What is digital art?
Digital art is a very vast artistic domain, and therefore difficult to give
a brief definition. It can be subdivided in the same way as there are different types of music. The single common denominator is the presence
of a technological element, such as a computer or electronic devices, in
the realization of the work of art.
The styles the most frequently encountered in France are Light Painting
(long exposure photo highlighting the light trails), the Vjing (projection
of videos during live concerts in order to « add visual appeal to » the
music) or architectural projection otherwise called “video mapping”.
What project are you preparing for the Lyon
festival of Lights “Fête des Lumières 2011”
from the 8 December?
With two friends, we are developing a project called
“Pacmanize me”. It will be shown in the Place
Saint-Anne in the 3rd district of Lyon. Everyone
knows Pacman: the small round yellow character
constantly eating seeds distributed over a game
terrain.
We offer people the possibility of playing using
simple hand gestures. Due to a movement
sensor, you can pilot your own Pacman however
you want. A second player will be there as back-up. But that’s
not all! The game is projected on a 200 m2 building façade! The least
of your actions will cause the game, the façade of the building and the
different screens positioned in different places to react.
What other projects are you working on at the
moment?
We have different projects in their starting blocks, which will probably
see the light of day in one or two years. One of them is to realize a
show combining video and mime projections, everything with beat
box background music. Another consists in creating the ambiance of
welcoming galas and other private events for companies.
How do your engineering studies help you
innovate in your personal
projects?
Undeniably, my academic courses have brought
me a certain number of competences notably in
the computing, electronic and project management
domains. The capacity to reason, teach myself
and extrapolate competences to other domains is
however an integral part of my daily life.
CPE Lyon
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Director of publication: Christine Legrand – Director of communication and corporate relations of CPE Lyon. Editorial content: Emmanuelle Almendra. Design: Kaélia
Photography: Romain Étienne/Item Corporate, B. Eymann/Académie des Sciences - Publication: december 2011 – Print: Imprimerie des Monts d’Or
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