@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2024.1143, 

TITLE={What training is needed for industrial research?}, 
  
AUTHOR={Eric Schaer
, Frédéric Demoly
, Jean-Claude André, }, 
	
JOURNAL={Entropy: Thermodynamics – Energy – Environment – Economy }, 
	
VOLUME={5}, 

NUMBER={Issue 2}, 
	
YEAR={2024}, 

URL={http://www.openscience.fr/What-training-is-needed-for-industrial-research}, 
	
DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2024.1143}, 
	
ISSN={2634-1476}, 
	
ABSTRACT={A look at the curricula of many French engineering schools reveals that their global vision is reflected in educational categories geared towards theoretical, rational and deterministic generalist learning, with a focus on the main application targets. Links with industry are developed in large part through internships, which broaden the somewhat closed vision provided by their school. This situation has its roots in history, with the need to master mathematical models to design structures, weapons, bridges, factories, material and energy transformation processes, and so on. What we are witnessing is the decline of technological eras from coal to electricity to electronics, with an increasingly constrained environment and demands for ever more sophisticated devices, with ever shorter life spans, in a changing social context. The question posed in this reflection is to analyze whether the impact of the major trends we have just mentioned is likely to call into question, at least in part, the fundamentals of current training courses. What we are showing is the importance of rigorous concepts, which must nevertheless be extended in different ways to other fields, promoting creativity, imagination and agility to bring the engineer’s work closer to the social demand for new needs. For the time being, the authors see this as a flexible/adaptive approach that should encourage creative modes on the part of students, the mastery of doubt, interdisciplinarity and the management of complexity in the development of industrial processes.}}