Case study: time for the MSc ITE students to defend their work!
The CEA, which is sponsoring the ITE MSc Class of 2022-2023 through its research institute IRESNE, offered the students a case study led by Christophe DESTOUCHES, project manager for the development of instrumentation for experimental nuclear reactors at CEA IRESNE.
The aim of the case study was to identify and propose one or more strategies for securing the medium and long-term supply of specific sensors operating in irradiated environments and associated measurement systems dedicated to measuring a wide range of parameters: neutron and gamma radiation and physico-chemical parameters.
To gain a better understanding of the case study, the students were given the opportunity to visit the CEA's and handle the sensors back in December 2022.
The aim of the assignment for our students was to put forward several scenarios for securing the supply of these sensors and ensuring the long-term future of CEA's expertise.
Presentation of results to the jury
The two groups of students coached by Christophe PRIOR (Digital Transformation Office leader at Airbus Helicopters) and Céline ROUSSEAU (Co-founder Calanques Valley, Startup Studio MedTech) presented their results on Tuesday 20 June 2023 in front of a jury composed of :
- Paul Vincent BONZOM: Head of the instrumentation systems and methods laboratory (LISM) at CEA's IRESNE institute and patron of the class
- Olivier PROVITINA: Head of scientific partnerships at CEA-Cadarache
- Christophe DESTOUCHES: Project Manager at CEA IRESNE
- Paul GIMET: Director of the Msc ITE and Professor of Strategy and Innovation at KEDGE BS
- Claude SPANO: Director of Innovation in Corporate Relations at KEDGE BS
The students brilliantly tackled the challenge of solving this innovative and complex problem. They mobilised a range of specific skills provided by the Msc ITE that they will use tomorrow to launch an activity from scratch or within a mature company.
Creation of an EITI start-up
This event allowed to set-up of a unique teaching innovation in a Management School.
In addition to the case study, the CEA offered one of its MSc ITE students, Jean Baptiste ALLA, the opportunity to help set up an EITI start-up.
By redefining the strategy, market opportunities and levers for value creation, Jean Baptiste ALLA not only highlighted the levers for growth of the new company, but also implemented key skills that will benefit him in his project to create a bicycle travel agency.
The ITIE start-up project involves a major innovation in the field of high-speed Electrical Impedance Tomography.
The CEA is a major player in research, serving the State, the economy and citizens. It provides practical solutions to their needs in four main areas: energy transition, digital transition, technologies for the medicine of the future, defence and security. With a workforce of 20,000, the CEA is based at the heart of France's regions in 9 centres equipped with major research facilities, and benefits from a wide range of academic and industrial partners in France, Europe and the rest of the world. According to the 2019 Clarivate rankings, it is the leading French research organisation in terms of patent filings in France and Europe.
FOR MORE INFORMATIONAbout CEA's IRESNE institute
Based at the CEA's Cadarache centre and attached to the Energy Division, the Institute for Research into Nuclear Systems for Low-Carbon Energy Production (CEA/DES/IRESNE) is tasked with researching and developing innovations in the field of nuclear fission energy (reactors, fuels and nuclear technologies in particular) as part of the energy mix. Its numerous simulation and experimental platforms, as well as its 'hot' laboratories, are recognised throughout the world. IRESNE also has a nuclear safety research reactor (CABRI) and will operate the Jules Horowitz Research Reactor (RJH), a future reactor dedicated to the study of fuels and materials, as well as to the production of radioisotopes for nuclear medicine for diagnostic and/or therapeutic purposes.
The IRESNE Institute in brief
- 900 employees, including 150 doctoral and post-doctoral students and 100 long-term trainees and apprentices
- 34 research laboratories
- 12 digital and experimental platforms
- 150 scientific publications in 2020
- 130 patent families
