Université Saint-Louis - Bruxelles
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Programme d'études 2020 - 2021

Acquis d'apprentissage

In the Business Engineering programme, you will focus on managing and optimising business processes. You will become acquainted with business economics as well as the different functional domains in companies (e.g. accountancy, financial management, marketing, production and logistics, human resource management). You will learn how a company operates on a daily basis and how its processes are organised. Designing business processes is often at the core of the business engineer's activities, e.g. in companies looking to launch a new production process, optimise it or make their service process run more efficiently. In doing so, you will pay attention to human behaviour and the social phenomena that determine the way we think and act. As you need to know how the economic world surrounding the organisation works, you will learn about important economic concepts and methods through economic analysis. 

Topics dealing with law and tax regulations are also a crucial part of the programme, seeing they can have a major impact on business.

In addition to advancing your managerial skills, you will also sharpen your analytical skills. You will master the necessary mathematical and statistical techniques to analyse business problems and work out optimal solutions (e.g. staff planning, organisation of a production process, sales predictions for the next quarter, measuring the impact of an adverstising campaign). Considering information is more important than ever, you will also acquire a solid background in ICT skills and information management. As a business engineer, you need to know how companies can manage and analyse information. After an introduction to natural and applied sciences, you will understand critical technological processes and are able to assess the impact of innovation on companies, their environment and sustainability.

The combination of business economics, quantitative methods and technology offers you the opportunity to develop a unique multi-disciplinary approach towards business, which makes the Business Engineering programme extremely relevant in today's world. Moreover, the integration of all these disciplines is a priority in many companies, both in production environments and in the service sector (e.g. consultancy or ICT). After all, many solutions to complex business problems require input from a variety of disciplines.

The BBEng programme has also a strong international focus. Students can participate in exchange programmes with numerous partners both within and outside Europe.

 

At the end of the programme students will:

I. Be conversant with the discipline’s core teachings and methods.  

Students will acquire
• A practical command of the fundamental concepts and models of economics and management
• The basic methodological tools needed to undertake academic work in economics and management.

More specifically, students will:

  • Acquire, step-by-step, the ability to model economic phenomena.
  • Acquire, step-by-step, a command of the principal fields of management.

All CU in BAS 1 and 2 in economics and management.

  • Acquire the ability to analyse real economic and management phenomena.

The CU of Economics I, II, Introduction to financial markets, Business Project.

The advanced courses in economics and management in BAS 2 and 3.

  • Develop a sophisticated understanding of the ethical and political dimensions of economic analysis.

In particular the elective CU in BAS 3 in economics, in their critical reflective dimension. The CU introducing the interdisciplinary dimension (Geopolitics, Ethics and the Economy).

Students will acquire:

• The ability to use mathematics and computer models to support analytical reasoning. In particular, students will learn to:

  • Apply mathematical modelling to economic and societal problems.
  • Exploit mathematical and statistical tools to resolve economic and management problems.

All the CU in quantitative methods at the introductory and advanced levels.

  • Reason in the abstract using standard disciplinary language and develop a critical approach to this process.

All CU in quantitative methods; Set of CU in computer science and data management.

II. Possess a grounding in fields that are complementary to economics and management.

Students will acquire:
• A practical command of core academic knowledge and skills in the human, legal, and social sciences that are essential for the analysis of economic and management questions. In particular, students will acquire:
• A grounding in the major fields of thought that underpin the human and social sciences.

Introduction to Law, Communication science, Ethics and the Economy, Geopolitics, Elective courses.

III. Possess a grounding in science.

Students will acquire:
• An understanding of the scientific underpinnings of technological processes and information management and their respective implications in a management perspective. In particular, students learn/acquire:

  • The fundamental concepts in chemistry and physics.
  • The basic technologies in chemistry and physics.
  • Experimental experience of the complexity of the processes of industrial chemistry and physics and discuss these with specialists in the field who are active in a business context.

Science and Technology courses.

  • A command of the basics of how ICT software functions and be able to set out problems in an algorithmic form.

Foundations of Business Information Management, Statistics for Data Science, Software Development.

IV. Know how to use the scientific method.

In particular, students will learn to:
• Apply intellectual rigour in their academic work and to produce intellectually sound analysis
• Critically compare theoretical insights learned with real situations.
• Exploit the knowledge resources available at university, notably by acquiring expertise in the use of the methods and tools of documentary research.

In practical terms, students will learn to:

  • Use of the models presented in lectures to resolve real-world problems.

LO of the practical exercise classes for CU in economics, Production and Logistics Management.

  • Manipulate and present quantitative information to illustrate economic and societal phenomena.

LO of the practical exercise classes for statistics, LO of the practical exercise classes for Economics II and Introduction to financial markets. 

  • Adopt a critical distance towards theory and develop the ability to critically review and analyse scientific papers.

Economic history, Ethics and the Economyadvanced economics elective courses.

V. Have a command of oral and written communication

At the end of the Programme students will be able to:
• Use written and oral communication skills in English and be able to defend a scholarly argument or present a piece of research in accordance with academic ethics. In particular students will acquire:

  • The ability to produce intellectually rigourous personal reasoning and to defend it both in written and oral forms ;
  • The ability to produce university-quality research work, notably through the manipulation of statistical information ;
  • The ability to produce scholarly writing in accordance with academic norms.

LO of the practical classes for all economics and management courses; the CU of Business Project.

  • Oral and written (passive and active) communication skills in English and another foreign language, -  and ability to converse in everyday and specialised language (in the fields of the human and social sciences) in either of these two languages;
  • The programme includes a period of ‘immersion’ in a language other than the student’s mother tongue (language trips abroad).

ERASMUS exchanges in BAS 3.