Each course meets once a week on Mondays from 0830 to 1600, including a lunch break, for a total of 28 weeks. Participants are grouped in teams of 3 or 4 engineers from various disciplines. Team formation is left to the students, permitting diversity and balance. Each week, a new problem is assigned. Students on a team work jointly on the problem, but submit individual reports.
Teams take turns correcting the assignments.
Each week, members of the team in charge present and defend their solution to the problem, then grade everyone else's reports. The course director grades the reports of the team in charge. Graded reports are returned the following week. Since the problem solutions, reports and presentations are the center of performance assessment, we require adherence to sound writing techniques that meet or exceed industry standards. The morning session deals with the weekly problems.