Packaging, Wrapping and Packing Department

The PEC department offers a uniquely cross-disciplinary training programme, giving students a complete overview of the packaging field: from the initial marketing ideas to end-of-life recycling, including all the other phases: packaging design, manufacture and the packaging process.

why packaging training?

• The University Bachelor of Technology (B.U.T.) in Packaging Packaging and Conditioning (PEC) trains packaging generalists who are able to support companies as they evolve and adapt. Their skills are multi-disciplinary; they are able to participate in the stages leading from the expression of the need to the final packaging, its packaging, transport, inspection and recycling.
• The Packaging GOAL will provide candidates with :
  • training Scientific and technical product design, graphics, prototyping, etc., while mastering all the machines (3D printers, prototyping machines, laser cutting, etc.) and software (SolidWorks, ArtiosCad, etc.) associated with packaging.
  • research training for innovation new, recyclable, degradable materials and the design of new connected packaging, with environmental and sustainable concerns omnipresent.
  • training that is perfectly suited to integration into the world of work. the companies industrial.

• The course recruits both general baccalaureates (with a particular focus on scientific options) and technological baccalaureates (with priority given to the STI2D, STL and STD2A series). For the other options and series, we will recruit candidates who are highly motivated for the course and who can demonstrate that they have made an effort to find information in the field of packaging.

Applications for enrolment in the department are made via the Parcoursup.

INNOVATIVE TEACHING... BASED ON PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

The 4 skills developed during the course :

Eco-design, industrialisation, certification and flow optimisation.

The training covers the entire packaging life cycle, gradually developing these skills in three levels (novice, intermediate and expert).

Learning and assessment situations (LAS):

The SAEs put students in professional situations while being supervised by teachers during the BUT course (600h). They are carried out in small groups, each working on a variety of subjects as close as possible to a professional context. The aim is to develop students' interpersonal and professional skills by putting into practice the resources studied in class.

SUPPORT FOR ACADEMIC SUCCESS

• partnerships with high schools to promote continuity between high schools and university technology colleges;
• heterogeneous pairs to mix the profiles of each (technical baccalaureate - general baccalaureate);
• tutoring for 2nd year students to ease the transition to higher education;
• organising the timetable to spread work over the semester;
• the mid-semester review to monitor students in difficulty;
• personalised support on work methods;
• evaluation of teaching by means of a questionnaire, carried out for each semester and each course.

Further studies

With BUT 3 (or even after the 2nd year) :

•  Engineering schools or Masters : ESEPAC, ISEL, ESIReimsPOLYVIA Formation, INP-PAGORA, CNAM-ISIPetc.
•  Licences : FS PACK, ESEPAC, ALIPACKIUT Reims, IUT Evreux, Design professions,…

The mission of the Packaging Emballage et Conditionnement department is to train senior technicians capable of meeting the challenges posed by the necessary changes in packaging and packaging processes, with a view to direct entry into the world of work, as well as towards 5-year higher education qualifications.

Graduates in Packaging and Packaging must therefore have a solid scientific and technical grounding to be able to integrate and contribute their knowledge in a multi-disciplinary and evolving sector of activity.

Adaptability to the professional world

A course focused on professionalisation:

• Work placements: a minimum of 10 weeks in 2nd year (with the option of doing this abroad).
• Work-linked training in 3rd year (or 16-week work placement):

The department supports and encourages work-study programmes, which enable students to finance their studies by alternating periods of teaching at the IUT with work experience in a host company.

JOBS AND PROFESSIONS

Graduates go on to work in industrial or service departments, either directly at the BUT or by continuing their studies:

 Purchasing, packaging, quality assurance and control, testing, R&D, research labs, logistics, etc.

In various industrial sectors:

Cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, food, automotive, aeronautics, etc.

In particular, : 

Packaging designer, Quality control technician, Logistics technician, Packaging buyer, Packaging line manager, Packaging project manager, Packaging manager/engineer, Logistics manager...