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    Convergence between French Multidisciplinary engineer curriculum and Chinese Bachelor degree: application to the project activity

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    International audienceProject activity is one of the most important activity in the final year of the Bachelor in a Chinese University as well as in the first year of a French engineering « Grande Ecole ». Under a same name « project activity » different goals, different organizations exist. As a starting point, one can observe that the Bachelor project corresponds to the last activity of a cycle, leading to the Bachelor graduation, while the project activity in the first year engineering school is one of the first activities of a three years curriculum. From the Chinese side, Bachelor project help students to summarize and digest what they have learnt, to finish the elementary scientific research and engineering design, to master the fundamental scientific paper writing method. At last, the students will get the synthetic ability of theory and practice, the individual ability to solve an actual problem under the direction of their Bachelor tutor. On the basis of regulations of the People's Republic of China on academic degrees, the students can be graduated only by have finished their bachelor project and public reply successes. From the French side, project activity is mainly used to confront students at a teamwork activity, to face to a client need (generaly a company), to develop autonomy, leadership, and to confront them to take risks. This is the first time that students are exposed to such context. They will have the occasion to redo such experience during the 2 nd and the 3 rd year of their engineering activity
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