Engineer and fervently researcher...
Native
to North France, I arrived in Orleans in September 2008 as Dean of
Polytech'Orléans.
Polytech'Orléans is the engineering graduate school of University of Orléans.
I have been retired professor (Professeur Emérite)of Laboratory PRISME since March 2012. Thus I can carry on researches on data fusion for smart buildings and multicriteria decision making for ecoconception.
Moreover, as Advisor of the Dean of Polytech'Orléans for external relations, I am particularly involved in international engineering education questions, from Paris to Beijing, and Vienna to Sao Paulo.
Being dual skilled in top research and in the management of engineering graduate schools,however, comes step-by-step...
Engineer and researcher : from Process Control to Smart Building
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In 1974, I was diplomed Engineer from Polytech'Lille (formerly named "EUDIL"), a French broad-based Grande Ecole, with speciality in "Informatique, Mesures et Automatique" (Computer Science - Systems and Control Engineering). |
At the same time, I joined the Polytech'Lille's teaching and managing team. There, I was a teacher in process control, I also took part in the setting up of 'Microprocessors and Industrial Logic' learning laboratories and 'Professional Support' unit. I was also in charge of several electives and professional trainings.
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Afterwards, being dual skilled in education and research enabled me to be promoted as Associate Professor in Process Control at Universite Lille 1. I stayed there from 1988 to 1999. |
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Then, from 1999 to 2008, I was appointed as Full Professor in Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Industries Textiles (ENSAIT, EPSCSP in Roubaix). I had there different tasks, namely entreprises relations Director; Dean of studies (setting up of options 'logistics' and 'information design'); Research in Logistics and Process Control Director -GEMTEX UPRES EA 2461-; Communication Director : I was particularly in charge of the Establishment Project |
In the same time, I acquired a solid experience in criteria for premium engineer trainings, in France and abroad : as a Head of project in CDEFI (Conférence statutaire des Directeurs des Ecoles Françaises d'Ingénieurs à Paris), I designed and realized a quality referential for French schools of engineering ; then, from 2007 to 2008, I was responsible for external communication and quality process in the Commission des Titres d'Ingénieurs CTI , and specially I wrote the Eurace file for ENAEE.
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Last, in 2008, I was Dean of Polytech'Orléans, a French engineering gradutate school in Orléans : there are 1000 students and 250 graduates per year. Among other projects, I set up a shake-up of the |
Over the course of these last years, I have particularly put a lot of myself into the 'Smart Building' Polytech'Orléans unit. This new training, accredited by the CTI in March 2011, fits with the skills of the Prisme Laboratory's Teaching and Research Professors. They were already involved in 'Green Building' and 'Electronics-Optics Environmental Technologies'. As designer of groundbreaking building materials, 'Smart Builing' training meets entreprises needs. That's why I have decided to undertake some research in this field. Furthermore, I am still involved in higher education as member of several French and International organizations :
- AC of Centre Sciences -Science Education Plan in Centre Region- as representative of the Orleans University ;
- AC of European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI, at Brussels) - responsible of the 'Sustainability in Engineering' Task Force and member of 'Accreditation and Attractivity' Working Group - representative of France;
- Expert for AERES - Institutions Department ;
- Expert for the French Association Nationale de la Recherche et de la Technologie (ANRT) and the French National Research Agency (ANR);
- Expert for the Swiss Center of Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education (OAQ) and ENAEE (European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education) ;
- Expert at European Commission : in FP6 and FP7 (Marie Curie ITN, Science and Society) and for DG Education (Erasmus Network, Erasmus Mundus).
Being an active participant in French and International Engineering Education organizations and conventions is a way for me to maintain expertness in the setting up of premium Engineering Trainings and their international accreditation.
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My associative involvements
I am a woman of action and I think that it is essential to taking part in civil society and so giving my energy. So, I have decided to invest time in two associations, whose ideas and actions are close to my heart : Femmes Ingénieurs and EPWS, Voy'elles and Ingénieurs et Scientifiques du Loiret (ISL).
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I have been a member of the AC of Femmes Ingénieurs since February. I work as representative of the French Centre Region. As such, I am also a member of the European Platform of Women Scientists in Brussels. These associations encourage the youth of today, especially girls, to embrace studies in Engineering. |
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I am also one of the founder members of the French association Voy'elles. It gathers about twenty women from varied backgrounds, which include corporate managers, public sector responsibles, elected representatives. It aims at 'promoting and backing women in Entrepreneurship, using social pressure'. |
| I have become President of the association 'Ingénieurs et Scientifiques du Loiret (ISL)' since the end of 2011. ISL is a county representative of the French association 'French Engineers and Scientists', which gathers engineers and scientists together and promotes their position in society. |