Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 74.30
Liaison Joséanne Bélanger-Gravel
Submission Date Sept. 2, 2022

STARS v2.2

Polytechnique Montréal
AC-5: Immersive Experience

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Joséanne Bélanger-Gravel
Sustainability Advisor
Sustainable Development Office
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Does the institution offer at least one immersive, sustainability-focused educational study program that is one week or more in length?:
Yes

A brief description of the sustainability-focused immersive program(s) offered by the institution:

A capstone project in Sustainable Development is available for undergraduate students in the 4th year of their bachelor's degree and is done over a semester, earning them 6 credits. The objective is to design a real-world sustainable building project in collaboration with students from the School of Architecture of the University of Montreal. This project is divided into two parts: teamwork and individual work. Team component: resolution of an engineering and technical design problem from a sustainable development perspective. Work in a mixed team, open to all engineering programs, supervised by a multidisciplinary technical team. Consideration in the design of the impacts of the proposed solutions on the environment, society and the economy. Individual component: development of individual expertise in sustainable development. This skill is transferable to the team project and linked to the interests and training of the student.
https://www.polymtl.ca/programmes/cours/projet-integrateur-en-developpement-durable-0

The Polytechnique Montreal chapter of Engineers Without Borders Canada (EWB) offers an overseas placement program every year. This placement requires that students assess the impacts of their projects on all three dimensions of sustainable development, sustainability being one of the pillars of EWB's overseas interventions.
https://www.facebook.com/ISFpolymtl/


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