Engineer specializing in Composite Materials - Mechanics

Train engineers in composite materials and mechanical engineering, with skills in the development, industrialization and certification of materials and/or structures.

"An original dual skill set: in materials science, particularly composite materials, and in structural design."

• Design, select, characterize and implement a structural material, from laboratory scale to industrial sector prototype.
• Dimension structures at different scales (from material to system) and determine their mechanical behavior.
• Select and implement manufacturing processes for materials or structures in response to the specifications of an industrial sector.

Target skills 

Designing a structure, selecting materials

• presentations by manufacturers
• On-site practical work in an industrial environment
• focus on materials selection and eco-design
• high-level scientific teaching on the mechanical behaviour of homogeneous and composite materials

Dimensioning a composite or metal structure

• certifications on industrial calculation codes
• in-depth scientific grounding in finite element analysis and mechanics

Managing a project from specification to certification

• innovation project: from product idea through design, simulation and marketing to prototyping
• courses in business science, INPulse incubator

Develop specific skills in the context of company assignments

Examples: carbon-carbon composites, fatigue problems on structural components for the aeronautics industry, building up a materials database in conjunction with the company's quality processes, etc.

Apply interpersonal and managerial skills

A professional stay abroad is an exciting and essential part of an engineer's training. It must be carried out over a minimum of 12 weeks, which can be split up.

• A training program supported by a network of local teacher-researchers and 23 industrial contributors
• Carrying out an innovation project over the first 2 years of school, from design and structural design to prototyping.
• The 12-week mobility requirement in a foreign company or laboratory
• The opportunity to spend 16 weeks in 3A at a university abroad
• A choice of specialization in the third year, enabling apprentices to play an active role in their training.
• High employability of junior engineers in companies that match their target sectors
• The opportunity to spend a week in Bilbao on additive manufacturing and non-destructive testing.