EN-GIN-EER-ING
The branch of science and technology concerned with the design, building, and use of engines, machines, and structures.
- The work done by, or the occupation of, an engineer.
- The action of working artfully to bring something about.
Source des définitions : Oxford Languages
It is always a good time to celebrate having wonderful paprents and family. I will then start here saying my dear Mum kept telling me during my chidhood that since the age of 7, I told her I would build her one day a bridge up to the Ocean especially for her.
Hopefully, and especially as we were in Elsass at that time, this never happened! But I fully owe them my success and motivation for school, self-learning and self-practice.
I also knew I would enjoy studying science and engineering as I was also very surprised at that age by how many incredible and mysterious machines and technologies were surrounding us, while few people seemed to understand how they worked.
I followed general science studies in High school with early and strong interests in sport, music and arts (that is what I would name Science or Engineering when the practice is not reaching high level standars, if ya know what I mean), as well as cultural and associative involvements, and of course my first music bands and my first electric guitars, electronics and computer programs interests to get my guitar sound like the one of Jimy.
Growning in the countryside also surely left me a high level of concern regarding the property of my environment, the quality of the air, and the quality of the water for what we grew and forwht we ate.
Burning like a lizzard during the summer time as much as today remains a present souvenir, and I also got early concened by caring for my CO2 exhaust, notably thanks to my favorite Burger. Since 2014 I have been calculating this through online calcuator and I rarely passed 2000Kg/year. The average for USS and EU citizens are said to be 10000Kg). Héhé! I tell you my secrets in a dedicated part below.
I then naturally found my way through an Engineering school from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble, where I obtained in 2003 an Engineering degree from Pagora (formerly EFPG or “Papet”), along with a Master of Reseach in Materials Sciences, various internships and contractual engineering experiences among which a highly memorable 9 month internship in the other side of the World with Norske Skog, Hobart, Tasmnie and the Australian Monash University of Melbourne.
Later on in 2005, another Master of Research in Arts, Science and Technologies with ACCROE, INP-Grenoble lead meto Canada for a new internship where I could apply my previous skills to new mutli-disciplinary engineering domains.
I present these experiences below as a curriculum, and also as a toolbox for the Swiss-knife thinkers like I am, and I will probably always be.
Some French generalist engineering schools are sometimes very old, such as for ENSAM, originaly created by Napoleon. The Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble has among among the oldest Engineering Schools in France, created at the beginning of 1900, among which the School of Génie Electriaue and the School of Papermaking and pricing (now Pagoa, my own engineering school) and the shool of Génie industriel.
These school have all in common to initially form their students to work in specific industries relqted to the school. Some schools can be particulaar and concern middle to small size companies, but most of these schools used to lead to standard engineering to leading careers in the industries.
After these schools, many students pursue with a complimentarry MBA today in order to be able to reach leading positions in a company and/or to create new companies or activities.
In my Case, Pagora provided me with an intensive generalist program with a scientific and technological focuse on the ndustries of papermaking, printing and converting, long with a solid management and leadership program that enable many of Pagora engineers to quickly become high level directors in their companies.
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Converting Engineering
This is my engineering degree specialty: converting soft and flexible polymer materials into products. Originally imagined for mass-production industries in the field of packaging and many other unthought domains.
I have used this knowledge, know-how and skills many times since them for the now digital to hardware production of a variety of paper-based, textiles, or synthetic-based solutions, from their invention to their product development and mass-production, especially in the sub-fields of paper-based and printed electronics.