Advanced Master's in Project Management in Industry 4.0
ITECH Lyon
Key Information
Campus location
Lyon, France
Languages
French
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
1 year
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
EUR 9,000
Application deadline
08 Jul 2024*
Earliest start date
Oct 2024
* The application deadline is the beginning of July.
Applications are now open!
Applications for an entry in October 2023 are currently open.
Introduction
The Advanced Master's program Project Management in Industry 4.0 is a degree accredited by the Conférence des grandes écoles (CGE). It is run jointly by ITECH Lyon and IRIIG, a partner school.
The aim of this Advanced Master's in Project Management in Industry 4.0 is to train managers who are able to design, implement, manage, lead and optimize advanced 4.0-type industrial projects that rely on the combination of advanced technologies, new forms of information management, organizational structures, marketing and management for the overall success of the company.
Objectives
- To design and transform an industrial process in an innovative way by digital transformation, in coherence with the development strategy of the company in order to reinforce its agility, its economic, organizational and environmental performance
- To lead this transformation, in conjunction with the market and partners, while supporting the change with internal teams
- Manage an industrial process and make it evolve towards greater integration in the global value chain
What is an Advanced Master's?
An Advanced Master's degree or Mastère Spécialisé has a bac +6 level in France and it's the next level after a master's degree. It is a degree highly appreciated by French companies. In order to apply, students must have done at least 5 years of higher education (a master's degree), but exemptions are possible for people with several years of professional experience.
This Advanced Master's will allow you to acquire specialized and cross-disciplinary skills in one year by alternating between school/projects or assignments in companies.
Curriculum
The Advanced Master's is given in person, mainly at ITECH Lyon (Écully campus) and IRIIG.
Curriculum
As an engineering school, ITECH and its partner IRIIG, which is dedicated to innovation and business growth, together offer a multidisciplinary training program combining technological knowledge, managerial skills and industrial organization skills that can be applied in all business sectors.
The overall hourly volume of training is 500 hours organized into 5 modules and a supervised research module:
- Contemporary world and innovation: Industry 4.0 and previous approaches, new economy and new consumers, as well as lecture conferences.
- Technical systems of industrial processes 4.0: elements of the digital chain, advanced technologies and systems foresight, reliability and cybersecurity of systems.
- Organization and transformation of industrial companies: organization and forms of work, management of change, methodology and posture of the council, legal and normative implications.
- Industrial project 4.0: the fundamentals of project management, building and implementing a project 4.0, innovating through design thinking, tutored consulting mission.
- Evaluation and performance of organizations: performance and transformation of economic models, business plan and industrial project, environmental impact assessment
More than half of the training is provided by professionals, company managers and consultants.
Professional thesis
The professional thesis, worked on throughout the year and accompanied by methodology lessons, is divided into two distinct parts, each presented before a jury:
- A research paper on a subject directly related to the content of the course, constructed during the first six months of the curriculum.
- A professional report prepared during the company assignment, which presents the treatment given to a problem.
Organization of studies
The one-year training course is accessible under student status and runs from October to the end of September. It includes:
- A 7-month teaching period, from October to April.
- A full-time activity phase in a company lasting at least 5 months from the end of the teaching period to the end of September, leading to the completion of a professional thesis.
Evaluation methods
The various courses are evaluated by practical work, case studies, reports and oral presentations.
A global evaluation of skills is carried out jointly with the company at the end of the industrial mission during the defense of the professional thesis.
The grades obtained allow for the validation of ECTS: 45 for the academic part, 30 for the company mission and professional thesis part.
Graduation is subject to the acquisition of 75 ECTS.