Health research, alongside developments in care, its implementation and its organisation, now requires complex technological systems that fall within the engineering sphere: medical imaging, interpretation of analyses, hospital and pharmacological logistics, omics approaches, new surgical procedures, precision medicine, new production chains, etc.
With one of the largest university hospitals in France and the new Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport (UFR3S), the Lille site represents a group of leading international players, both in medical research and in the implementation of care.
The École Centrale de Lille is part of this framework to meet the challenges of engineering and health, with a new cross-disciplinary third-year theme entitled “Engineering and Health“, in collaboration with the UFR3S of the Université de Lille.
Structured around a common core and two courses, this new theme includes two weeks of hands-on immersion at the Lille University Hospital.
The common core will enable engineering students to be brought up to scratch on the major themes of the health world. For 5 weeks, it will focus on the following major areas of education:
- Vital functions and senses;
- Human and social sciences;
- Organisation of the medical world;
- Statistical analysis and inference for medical data.
The underlying core of the two paths is “care”. The first course focuses on health organisations, as close as possible to the patient. The second course focuses on the design of care tools (physical or non-physical), found notably in companies that design medical devices.