The Food and Health engineering program includes two internship periods, allowing students to benefit from a 10-month experience in a company, in addition to the 4 weeks of internship in the pre-engineering cycle.

The assistant engineer internship (4 months)

Carried out at the end of the 2nd year of the engineering cycle, the assistant engineer internship consists of carrying out technical and operational missions within a company or an institutional organization.

The student is placed in a situation of autonomy: he/she becomes familiar with the problematic of the internship, is confronted with professional practice (ability to adapt, sense of analysis, rigor in the execution of tasks, interpersonal skills), with a view to developing his/her personal and professional skills.

The following will be taken into account in the evaluation of this internship

• the approach taken in the search for the internship,   
• the ability to adapt (methods, tools, internal processes)   
• the ability to step back from the work that was done during the internship.

The end-of-studies internship (6 months)

The final point and determining period of the engineering training at UniLaSalle, the end-of-studies internship enables the student to experience a pre-professional situation in which he or she will have to respond to a problem posed by an organization. It is an essential piece of work which closes the curriculum and enables the jury to decide on the awarding of the engineering diploma.

It allows the student to :

• become familiar with professional practice,   
• develop personally and professionally,   
• showcase their skills,   
• facilitate their integration into the profession.

The student/apprentice validates certain notions acquired in the academic context; he/she understands their meaning, scope and limits. The student/apprentice also has the opportunity to develop management skills, listening, communication and teamwork skills. They carry out concrete projects. The professional practice provides valuable expertise to the student/apprentice at the beginning of his or her career.

This internship leads to the writing and oral defense of the final thesis.

The Food and Health engineering course is enriched by at least one compulsory 4-month stay abroad via the Go-LaSalle program. This stay in a Lasallian university is replaced by courses and an 8-week internship abroad for students entering the 1st year of the engineering cycle via parallel admission.

The student can add a second international experience in the last year of the engineering cycle, in the form of a semester, a double-diploma or a stay leading to a diploma at a partner university.

Dual degree and diploma stays

Longer than a simple semester of study, the diploma stay and the double degree constitute an experience :

• within a university that has an agreement with UniLaSalle or a university that does not have an agreement or partnership (on the student's proposal)   
• allows students to obtain 2 diplomas: that of the host university and that of UniLaSalle   
• from 12 to 24 months depending on the host university

A few examples of host universities:

• Bernese University of Applied Sciences (HAFL) (Switzerland)   
• University of Laval (Canada)   
• AgroParisTech (France)   
• University of Paris Saclay (France)