Implement a project with IMT Mines Albi engineering students

Accelerate your innovation projects with IMT Mines Albi engineering students

Whether you are a company, a local authority or an association, you can submit a project to the engineering students and challenge them! Projects carried out in collaboration with companies, local authorities or associations are integrated into the students’ curriculum. They correspond to learning objectives.

I would like to submit a project to IMT Mines Albi students

Challenge the engineering students at IMT Mines Albi

Acquiring skills through real collaboration with local economic players brings true added value, both to engineering students in terms of commitment, and to project leaders who find in these projects a simple mechanism enabling them to make progress with regard to an Innovation or Organizational Performance issue.

This is a win-win situation that also provides companies with a means of raising their profile among IMT Mines Albi engineering students. These projects are showcased at the annual Ingé’Innov trade fair held at IMT Mines Albi. They can be followed up by second-semester internships or by collaboration with our training and research centers and platforms.

Take inspiration from some of the completed projects

Turning a project into a business: it can be done!

A success story: the start-up HOPPER

In September 2019, Airbus proposed a challenge to engineering students as part of an innovation project: what solution can be proposed to design a running blade in a way that is cost-competitive and therefore accessible to all people with disabilities who might be interested? To meet this demand, the engineering students had to take into account various constraints: mechanical strength, adjustability, use of low-cost materials (such as recycled materials), constraints due to different disabilities, etc.

The Hopper start-up was created in 2021 by five engineering students at IMT Mines Albi, who took up the challenge of improving accessibility for people who have had amputations. With the help of materials expertise from the Albi site of Institut Clément Ader UMR CNRS 5312, IMT Mines Albi’s education and research center, the challenge led to the creation of sports blades that are:

eco-responsible: blades made from carbon fiber scraps supplied by Airbus,
economical: final cost 4 times less than blades currently on the market,
accessible: enabling all disabled people to take up sport,
high-performance: these blades enabled disabled people to climb a 3,000-meter peak in the Alps for the first time.