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Background
The engineering degree programme is one of ESTIA’s longest-standing courses, currently enrolling over 800 students. Recent years have seen the emergence of numerous industrial and societal challenges:
- the roll-out of Industry 4.0 concepts, and now 5.0, alongside the digitalisation of industry;
- energy and environmental transitions affecting all sectors of the economy;
- an increasingly uncertain international context generating new concerns regarding access to raw materials or certain manufactured goods, raising questions of sovereignty, regional resilience, and the relocation of certain skills;
- the growing development of artificial intelligence, which is transforming engineers’ day-to-day work.
That is why, in 2026, ESTIA decided to ask itself what an ESTIA engineer is and will be in the coming years!
We will be conducting a major survey among our alumni and our industry partners to:
- characterise these different profiles,
- formalise them in the form of ‘personas’,
- and adapt the engineering programme content accordingly.
What is a ‘persona’?
The type of ‘persona’ we will define will represent a typical engineer profile (Figure 1), personified to make it more realistic and easier to understand. It serves both as an accessible communication tool and a means of visualising future careers.
Figure 1: the information that an ESTIA ‘persona’ will gather
Figure 2 illustrates what the ‘persona’ of a future ESTIA engineer might look like, having followed a ‘mechatronics’ pathway
Figure 2: example of a ‘persona’
As you will have gathered, as the engineering degree is generalist in nature, several personas will be developed to represent the different types of roles our engineering students take on in product design, the integration of robotic solutions or production management.
Roadmap
This spring, we will be engaging our alumni and industry partners through surveys and workshops to gather the information needed to develop the personas.
These personas will be developed and finalised before the summer to initiate the first reforms to our programmes by the end of 2026, in preparation for the start of the 2027 academic year.
Thank you in advance for your participation, which will be essential in helping the entire teaching team to improve our teaching. This will facilitate the integration of our future students into the professional world, thanks to the acquisition of relevant skills.