Stu­dents are not the only ones who have com­mit­ted them­selves to this dif­fi­cult peri­od. Many UTC grad­u­ates have rolled up their sleeves to fight the pan­dem­ic in their own way. Here are three of their projects. 

For Titouan Galopin, a 2018 UTC grad­u­ate, com­mit­ment rhymes with “dig­i­tal­ly”. As a com­put­er engi­neer, Titouan found­ed with sev­er­al of his friends the plat­form “On the front line”, to help peo­ple exposed to this dead­ly virus.

“On the front line allows all pri­vate indi­vid­u­als faced with virus­es, whether they are health­care work­ers, sales peo­ple or indi­vid­u­als at risk, to have their chil­dren looked after and receive home-deliv­ered shop­ping”, explains the engineer.

On the one hand, those exposed or at risk reg­is­ter and detail the ser­vices they need. On the oth­er hand, all cit­i­zen vol­un­teers can reg­is­ter to respond to spe­cif­ic requests. “We make sure that the peo­ple who reg­is­ter are not car­ri­ers of the virus, the idea is to guar­an­tee the safe­ty of the var­i­ous peo­ple involved,” explains Titouan Galopin.

Since the plat­form was launched, near­ly 1 500 vol­un­teer projects have been deployed. This plat­form, which is so use­ful in full or par­tial lock-down should be destroyed by its founders after the peak of the epidemic. 

Kari­ma Joly is also a UTC grad­u­ate. As a bio­med­ical engi­neer, she joined the Paris Hos­pi­tals in 2018 upon grad­u­a­tion. What was her job before the health cri­sis? Man­ag­ing the sup­ply of med­ical equip­ment in hos­pi­tals. Faced with the cri­sis, her mis­sion changed scale, upwards. “We found our­selves in a total­ly new sit­u­a­tion where all the hos­pi­tals start­ed order­ing exact­ly the same parts,” explains the young engi­neer. We had to find the best solu­tions to order the equip­ment our staff need­ed for inten­sive care. In the face of the cri­sis, Kari­ma acknowl­edges the val­ue of her train­ing at UTC. “Dur­ing my years of study, I learned how to han­dle numer­ous top­ics simul­ta­ne­ous­ly and to crit­i­cal­ly analyse all their dimen­sions (tech­ni­cal, busi­ness…) togeth­er. “All this knowl­edge and know-how has been of great help to me dur­ing this crisis”.

An obser­va­tion like­wise shared by Antoine Lablée, a mechan­i­cal engi­neer­ing grad­u­ate and engi­neer with Decathlon. He has set up a real ecosys­tem for the cre­ation of indi­vid­ual pro­tec­tive equip­ment: fab­ric masks and reusable over­alls. “With my room­mates, we had sewing knowl­edge that we put to use in a vital social project,” con­fides the young man. For him, short-time work­ing in his com­pa­ny was an oppor­tu­ni­ty to imple­ment a large-scale project to sup­port the nurs­ing staff. 

More than ever before, these UTC grad­u­ates have held high the mot­to of their estab­lish­ment: “Let’s lend mean­ing to innovation”.