► Acquired skills in general

• On leaving TPTI, students should be able to:
• Develop innovative applications in development of industrial and technical heritage, or in engineering heritage, in relation to historical research.
• Individualize and implement the interaction between different skills to develop a strategy of knowledge, inventory and conservation.
• Know how to identify and work within the ties developed between technical planning, land management, technical heritage and industrial heritage.
• Communicate their conclusions, knowledge, and reasoning with non-specialists or specialists in a clear and unambiguous manner.
• Reinvest their gains in similar situations, but in a different context.
• Demonstrate skills for learning throughout life, in a self-directed and autonomous way.

► Acquired skills in the History of Technology

History of Technology is the historical approach of all the objects created by humans in a defined context in order to solve a set of hardware problems. The skills needed to develop a research or applications in this area are as follows :

1. Concepts : technical systems and networks, operating chains, technical framework and culture, patterns of operating thought: practice/ technique/ technology, transfers, hybridisation, innovation/invention.
2. Methodological approaches : usage of a multidisciplinary approach, treatment of maps, plans and drawings, introduction to cultural heritage analytical methods (archaeology, anthropology), IT - type treatment of the data (introduction to SIG and web databases).
3. Know-how : how to identify and analyse a technical statement (text, image), to define a technical object and issues relating to it, to establish a relationship between text and field work, to establish a relationship between text / and experimenting; how to understand and interpret the mechanisms of technical transfers, how to establish analytical models, how to formulate and validate hypotheses by creating links with other historical fields (history of economics, social history) as well as with complementary disciplines (archaeology of technologies, industrial archaeology, archaeometallurgy).

► Acquired skills in Management and Enhancement of Cultural Heritage

Cultural heritage is the discipline that combines archeology of constructions, history of technology, economic analysis, social, cultural and geo-history in relation to human activities. The skills needed to develop research, conducting or constructing applications in this area are :

1. Concepts : material and intangible heritage; monumentality, forms and modalities, temporality and scale in relation to a heritage object, territorialisation, ranking of networks, metropolization; heritage land, reutilisation, and renovation.
2. Methodological approaches : landscape studies, land inventories, collections of documents (writings, iconography, objects), databases, application of special tools such as the land registry, land and building surveys; studies of monuments; image analysis: drawings & pictures, maps & plans, photograph collections; analyses of oral testimonies and trade-specific gestures.
3. Know-how : to historicize the landscape, to understand the frame of reference of how landscapes, building and objects are museumized; to distinguish the historical and cultural values of what is being studied; to connect the tools provided by the various disciplines that constitute the field in order to define and solve a certain issue; to interpret and historically reconstruct a past situation; to define development policies; to know how to position himself ethically regarding cultural marketing.

► Acquired skills in Communication and Didactics of Industrial Heritage

The industrial heritage is part of the cultural heritage, and the ensemble of documentary evidence, material, architectural, technical and infra structural business activity, areas and topics that relate to the interpretation, conservation and communication, always appear more numerous and diversified. Therefore the acquire skills in management and development of industrial heritage are :

1. Concepts : to define industrial heritage as relating to various historical fields (Industrial History, Architectural History, History of technology & engineering, History of landscape and Art History) and to the awareness of its cultural value – thanks to recovery projects both architectural and functional, museography, museology, and to the management of material, economic and human resources associated to heritage itself, but also with cultural communication and the promotion of tourism.
2. Methodological approach : understanding the transition from the material industrial archaeological heritage, to the immaterial, and the segmentation of industrial heritage. Methodological approaches, techniques and development of technical heritage inventory, industrial and landscape. Knowing how to identify and prioritize the elements of industrial heritage in the territory in order to interpret, evaluate and transmit through communication projects and educational programs that are effective.
3. Know-how : to identify and appraise industrial heritage elements in the terrain in order to evaluate and transmit them through effective communication and didactic projects; to understand the context of positive and negative experiences in heritage conservation and development, in order to recognize and enhance industrial assets.