Alstom plays the student card
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- Six Alstom Transport employees were awarded diplomas on 17
December under the rail Masters "Guided rail transport systems"
at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (France).
Alstom took part in 2008 in preparing this course which is
designed to meet specific expertise requirements and which is
taught by nine Alstom internal trainers.
- The Tunex programme (Transport University Networks of
Excellence), launched by Alstom two years ago, encourages the
development of partnerships with universities around research
themes including aerodynamics, man-machine interfaces or
traction engines. Alstom supports a dozen internationally
reputed research laboratories, including MIT (Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, United States), Virginia Tech, ETH
Zurich and the Technical University of Lisbon.
- At La Rochelle, Alstom is a partner to the new Institut
Universitaire Polytechnique, which offers a course on
industrial risk. Three Alstom employees share their expertise
in operational quality and integrated logistics support. In
July 2009, Alstom became a member of the Foundation of the
University of La Rochelle.
- Illustrating Alstoms commitment to diversity, the
partnership with the association
Elles
bougent ("They move") entered a new phase in December 2009
at the Brasserie Le Procope (Paris, France), where the first
womens forum «Elles bougent for rail» was
held. 16 sponsors - engineers or technicians - from the
three partner companies, Alstom, the SNCF and Systra, met 45
women engineering school students who had come from all over
France to enable these young women to discover their field of
activity. Alstom has been a partner of the association, which
promotes scientific and technical careers to young girls in
high school, since 2007. Bruno Guillemet, Alstom Transport
Personnel Director, was the President of Honour from June 2008
to June 2009
- Lastly, in Portugal, Alstom Transport, in collaboration
with the Studio Design FEUP (University of Porto Faculty of
Engineering), involved 6 schools and nearly 200 students in a
design competition to imagine a new interior for the AGV. In
November 2009, the prize for the best project was awarded to
three 3 students at the FAULT (Faculty of Architecture) for
their concept-FUI, with a design training course at Alstom
(Barcelona and Paris), and the prize for the best school was
awarded to ESAD (Escola superior de Artes Design Matosinhos), 2
of whose students were given a special distinction for their
interior Filigree.