Academic programs > Materials and mechanical engineering
The programs are based on the research laboratories' expertise of the Schools, and have consequently strong links with research and development. They cover present and future materials used in the industry, and the techniques to design and process them. Each program offers a specific training based on the :
type of materials, materials characterization, design methods, processing technologies, domains of application.
Major: Materials Engineering
Goal: to provide skills in modelling materials and creating the digital simulations needed for dimensioning and optimising structures and material processing operations.
The materials studied are metals, polymers, composites, ceramics...
Major: Aeronautic and Space Materials
Goal: to master
technical aspects of materials use, controlling and monitoring the metals and composites employed, proportioning aerospace structures.
The materials studied are adapted to aeronautical and space industries (launch vehicles, aircraft, and satellites)
Career opportunities : aeronautical and space industries
Major: Materials
Goal: to master relations between the characteristics of raw materials, the processes of elaboration and the in-service behaviour of materials.
This program propose a multi-materials approach, with teaching centred around four classes of materials : cements and concretes, polymers, metals and powders.
Major: Polymer and Composite Technology
Goal: to master and develop:
plastic processing technologies, using polymers and composites.
Career oportunities:
manufacturing, design, organisation, commercial positions, research and development, technical or commercial management in industries such as
converters, materials producers, machine or peripheral equipment manufacturers, mould manufacturers.
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Goal: to provide competencies in modelling a structure to size in order to design and create future products efficiently.
Content: the program is based on a global vision of mechanical design, which necessitates skills in the fields of mechanics, properties and analysis of materials (metals and alloys, polymers and composites), numerical calculation, Computer Aided Design and Manufacture and engineering processes.
Career oprtunities: manufacturing, design, drawing offices, etc, in many industries such as automotive, aeronautic, equipment manufacturers, CAD software and mechanical materials development.
Major: Mechanical engineering
Goal: to respond to the industrial requirements linked to new product development (quality, technological evolutions, financial, markets).
Content: the program is based on a global vision of what is involved in the area of optimal design and provides a background in the fields of value analysis and design, metrology, control, automation, industrial information technology, production management and quality management.
Major: Materials science and Mechanical Engineering
Goal: the Materials Science specialisation aims to provide understanding of
the functional properties of materials and presents certain classes of materials such as e dielectric, magnetic materials and semi-conductors materials.
Students acquire knowledge of various processes which make it possible to obtain a semi-finished product having a specific microstructure (with related properties), starting from gas, liquid or solid phases.
Major : Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering
Goal : The specialisation in Analysis and Design of Structures is adapted to students whose personal project is oriented towards careers in project management in the field of scaling and/or structure design and testing.
The specialisation in Materials is adapted to students whose personal project is oriented towards careers in the field of selection, use, control of materials (such as composites, technical ceramics, metals and alloys), and any other step of the materials life cycle.
Career opportunities : manufacturing, design, consulting, quality control, environment.
In addition in its graduate program in science and executive engineering (master degree), the field of materials science and engineering is largely addressed through one of its minors
The table below summarises the range of Master of science in Materials and Mechanical Engineering and their relationship to the doctoral programs.
| Majors leading to a "Diplôme d'ingénieur" | Doctoral programs | Masters Recherche (MSc) | Post-Master's non doctoral programs | |
| Albi | - materials engineering | - tooling, materials and processes | ||
| Alès | - materials | - widely-used materials | ||
| Douai | - technology of polymers and composites | - polymers and composites processing science | - organic and macromolecular chemistry (polymers) - mechanics of solids | |
| Nancy | - materials science | - science and engineering of materials production - microstructures and properties - surfaces and interfaces | - physics and chemistry of matter and materials | |
| Paris | - materials science and engineering | - material behaviour and structural design - numerical mechanical engineering | ||
| Saint-Etienne | - analysis and design of Structures - materials science and engineering -mechanical engineering R&D | - materials science and engineering - mechanical engineering | - materials science and engineering - mechanical engineering |
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