Professional undergraduate courses Careers in Artificial Intelligence: Tools and Methods
field(s) of training :
Science, Technology, Health
diploma level :
Three-year degree
duration of the program :
1 year
location(s) :
Caen
Course overview
Artificial intelligence is booming in every field. In order to make the most of this new tool, companies are looking for professionals in AI. You wish to acquire the skills necessary to pursue careers in artificial intelligence? The professional bachelor’s degree in Careers in Artificial Intelligence: Tools and Methods is a stepping stone to become intermediate executives in AI!
This one-year work-study programme trains intermediate executives or engineering assistants in the methods used in AI careers.
Application requirements
Entry requirements
To enter this master’s, you should
- Be interested in AI
- Be serious and organised
- Graduate from a degree in
- Computer Sciences
- Mathematics
- Electronics, Electrical Energy, Automation
Course structure
Courses
- Take place on site in the campus 2, within the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Caen Normandy
- Amount to 17 weeks of training per year, the other weeks being in apprenticeship
Course units
The professional bachelor’s degree in Artificial Intelligence is made of 6 course units dealing with various tools and methods used in AI. Courses rely both on theory and practice:
- Programming: to acquire requirements in AI development
- Software: to master agile project management and software architecture implementation, as well as to analyse visual data and to conceive adaptative and interactive user interface
- Modelling and optimising: to understand main AI models and algorithms
- Machine learning: to master AI learning techniques
- Rollout: to master written and oral professional communications, both in French and in English, as well as ethical, legal and environmental considerations related to AI. You can also attend an optional module on the practices in various applications of artificial intelligence.
You will develop your team work and put these skills and knowledge in the last course unit, Technicity. As such, this course unit is a supervised project, which will be evaluated through a detailed report.
Language
French
Learning outcome
By the end of this course, you will be able to
- Develop an expertise in programming in every paradigm (procedural, object-oriented, functional), including in AI libraries used to implement complex solutions and to automatise processes
- Develop and optimise programmes that can execute AI tasks efficiently, such as data processing, machine learning and predictive AI
- Identify problems in a AI task and solve it
- Take part in modelling job issues, such as logical or optimisation problems
- Take care of technology intelligence regarding AI evolutions and norms
- Develop and adapt to AI ethical and environmental impacts
- Implement one or several parts of an AI application according to informatics standards
- Choose and implement an AI technique (including a large language model adapted to the objective, and run requests according this model)
- Design a project using AI techniques to meet the needs of all stakeholders and ensuring the quality of the result
- Design user adaptative and accessible user interfaces to improve the efficiency of the interaction through AI systems
Further study
The professional bachelor’s degree gives you every skill and knowledge you need to start an AI career. If you wish to pursue further training, check the entry requirements of the course that interests you. After a professional bachelor’s degree, you can for example consider work-study master’s programmes.
Careers
Once you’ve obtained a professional bachelor’s degree in Careers in Artificial Intelligence: Tools and Methods, you can work for companies specialised in digital – or not! Health, banking & insurance, cybersecurity, robotics, sports… The use of AI is blooming in all fields, with many career opportunities such as:
- AI engineering assistant
- Business intelligence decision analyst assistant
- Computer systems analyst assistant
- Deep learning developer
- AI computer science developer
- AI continuous integration programmer
- Deep learning programmer
Address
Université de Caen Normandie
UFR des Sciences
Boulevard Maréchal Juin · CS 14032 · 14032 Caen Cedex 5
France
Course leader
formation : Amal Mahboubi · amal.mahboubi@unicaen.fr