During the Ingénieur Manager end-of-year dinner cocktail event, the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering hosted Nectarios Economakis, Agency Lead responsible for developing Google Québec agencies. His topic: “Urgence numérique au Québec - Comment rattraper le reste du monde (the digital emergency in Québec – how do we catch up with the rest of the world)?

 
Nectarios Economakis, responsible for developing Google Québec agencies

That same evening, PolyFinances presented its report, Campus de printemps à New York, put together by 20 students from seven branches of engineering. The group is made up of bachelor's and master's students as well as exchange students. The students' complementary ranges of experience and technical expertise allow PolyFinances to cover all the industry's fields. Supervised by Thierry Warin, professor in the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering and the person in charge of the International Projects stream, this project was conducted as part of the course titled Éléments économiques des stratégies technologiques (IND6116), which addresses the economic elements of technological strategies.

 
The PolyFinances delegation on its New York City mission.

From March 3 to 10, PolyFinances students travelled to New York City to meet with various financial players on Wall Street. The purpose of the educational campus is to understand the interactions between the main players in the world of finance. The students made a number of official visits, including to investment banks, the Federal Reserve Bank, credit rating agencies, the New York Stock Exchange, and the offices of various consultants and financial analysts. The conclusions of this campus project in the U.S. were released in a report, along with the results from the stock portfolio of the first PolyFinances cohort.

To read the report, click here(in French only).

Source: Campus New York 2012 report