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BSc in CS & Data - IUT Reims Chalons Charleville

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Presentation

This Bachelor of Science focuses on web development, with a specialization in data science / data engineering.

I completed this BSc at the IUT of Reims (France) in computer science. The general program focuses on web development, as the school aims to prepare students to work in the field. In the second year, students choose one of three specialized paths:

  • Data path (mine): focused on database management, data engineering, and data science
  • Dev path (C): students learn low-level programming in C
  • Dev path (C++): similar to the C track, but with C++

Details

The program lasts three years and includes two internships: one in the second year and one in the third year. Instead of a third-year internship, students can do an apprenticeship in a company. Students who choose the third-year internship work on projects while apprentice students are in companies.

In this program, I learned a lot about computer science and web development, mostly in PHP with Symfony, but also with React and Express.js. I also learned how to design databases—mainly relational SQL databases, but also NoSQL databases like MongoDB.

My specialization also allowed me to learn more data-related topics, such as Power BI, data engineering with tools like pandas, web scraping, etc.

The projects we worked on were very interesting. For the final one, we explored tools used for data-related tasks: we chose to compare ClickHouse, GCP, and PostgreSQL from a data engineering perspective. We also used dbt, a practical tool I discovered during an internship.

Internships and Projects

Internships

My second-year internship was at IIAS, at the University Hospital of Reims, where I worked as a data manager intern. I mainly worked with SQL to migrate and implement new pipelines in ClickHouse using dbt.

In my third year, I did an internship at Axon’Care, where I worked as an AI engineer. I developed an application using local LLMs to help occupational doctors in their day-to-day work, with the intent to later integrate the app into Axon’Care’s main software. This internship later led to a Fixed Term contract to continue the project over the summer.

Projects

In my third year, I worked on a group project to compare different data-related tools and write blog posts. It was a very interesting project: we learned more about ClickHouse and GCP, and how to use these tools for data engineering, in addition to dbt.

Another project I worked on in my third year was an AI explainability project. It can be used to help people understand the risk of bias in AI by letting them play a simple game, while an AI learns the player’s behavior and mimics it.

Please note that most of the projects in this program were in French, so the README files are also usually in French.