Improvement of communication skills
The trainees also takes a personal development module.
This module seeks to develop a high level of oral expression in various situations (communication operations, negotiations, group leadership) and more specifically prepares students to manage crises (technical problems, natural disasters, strikes, etc.).
Improvement in conducting working groups
During the course, trainees are required to establish a number of fairly large working groups: experience feedback between trainees, case studies, presentations, mini-seminars for group study of cross-functional topics, etc.
These different tasks, supported by OpT academic staff, are powerful vectors for personal development, increasing the ability of the trainees to lead groups (running meetings, organisation of collective tasks).
Development of a lasting network of professional relationships
The OpT programme also provides an opportunity to build an address book and develop a personal network of professional relationships, which includes classmates, academic staff and all speakers, who can, through their professional role, "open doors" to funding organisations, engineering and/or development companies, research organisations, etc.
The OpT academic staff maintains a network which includes former graduates using different means of communication (Intranet site in particular).
Language courses
The teaching language of the OpT programme, either French or English, will be selected each year in order to best suit the selected applicants. The selected language is French for 2009-10, English for 2010-11.
In addition, and independently of the teaching language chosen for the year, foreign language learning is organised in small groups of levels in the form of courses and conversation workshops.
All trainees must register for foreign language courses according to their level and choice : French, English and Spanish.
