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Présentation

Tackling the challenges of modern buildings and meeting the needs of today's construction industry and public works requires a variety of skills, in structural analysis, geotechnics, materials, superstructures, etc.

Engineers capable of stepping in at all stages of a construction project in various building sectors (structures, technical and comfort equipment) and public works (engineering structures, roads, earthworks).

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Programme

Presentation

ENISE's course in Civil engineering teaches future engineers how to:

  • Calculate the dimensions of a building and verify its envelope from a physical point of view (heat, acoustic, water)
  • Design, size and check sustainable structures under complex stresses
  • Optimise concrete formulations and implementation processes
  • Size free surface flows in urban hydraulics and for watercourses
  • Establish the soundness of classic geotechnical works
  • Research, analyse and synthesise today's main constructive solutions in the building industry in order to offer a comprehensive technical response adapted to a predefined context
  • Optimise the organisation of worksites in terms of economic, methodological, technological, human and material resources, planning, quality, safety and the environment
  • Build and manage digital project models using a BIM tool

In their 5th year, engineering students will choose one of these 3 specialities, consistently with their career objectives:

  • Buildings
  • Public works and structures
  • Eco-construction, wood, environment

 

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Fifth year students also have the possibility to begin with their occupational integration with a professional training contract, to complete their engineering training with a research masters degree, or to pursue a dual degree with one of our partner universities in the world.


Advantages

Substantial industrial integration

Internships, professional training contracts, courses with apprenticeship, lectures given by professionals, industrial contracts… all are projects of partnerships with socio-economic organisations, all examples of ENISE's strong bond with the business world.

 

Training in a professional environment / Internships

For their students to acquire a good knowledge of the working world, ENISE includes three internships in their courses:

  • An 8 to 12-week internship in the 2nd year 
  • An 18-week internship in the 4th year 
  • A 22 to 24-week internship in the 5th year 

 

Projects

During their professional life, an engineer will be faced with solving concrete and complex technical issues, while leading projects each with their own technical, organisational and financial dimension. Several professional projects are included in the course: 

  • The 3rd semester project confronts our engineering students with scientific and society issues taken beyond the strict teaching of the subjects
  • The project of the 5th semester aims for the students to use their skills in science and technique by working on a multidisciplinary issue, within the profession they have chosen (eg. projects in architecture, organising a construction site in Civil engineering); 
  • The project carried out in the 8th semester has an objective of development and innovation inscribed in entrepreneurship, by combining two complementary disciplines (eg. Mechanical engineering + Civil engineering, Civil engineering + Physical engineering, etc.). The idea is for the students to develop their innovation skills in a multicultural environment; 
  • The project in the 9th semester is dedicated to learning about a research activity linked with the domaines of expertise of ÉNISE. 

 

Global mobility

Spending some time in another country for the purpose of an internship or via an academic exchange is the opportunity for the students to reinforce their language skills and open up to other cultures. It is compulsory to study abroad for at least one semester to obtain any of our diplomas. It can be an Erasmus academic exchange, an internship or a dual degree at one of our 117 academic partners located in 34 countries. 

 

Languages

The language classes will give you the necessary fluency in a professional environment. The required level of English is a TOEIC score of 790 points in order to pass the exam for the diploma. One-week-long intensive courses are organised for this purpose in the course of the last 3 years. A second language is included in the course programme.

 

Bridging with Ecole Centrale de Lyon

For their third year, the engineering students recruited after the baccalauréat have the possibility to enter Ecole Centrale de Lyon and pursue with a non-specialist engineering curriculum (in the 1st year of the engineering cycle). A selection is based on application, with an interview.

In their 4th year, and depending on their career objectives, engineering students may choose one the specialisations offered by Ecole Centrale de Lyon for the fifth year.


Professional prospects

  • Works engineer
  • Lean construction engineer
  • Methods engineer
  • Research engineer
  • Contract manager
  • BIM manager
  • Project manager

Business sectors

  • Construction
  • Consulting or engineering firm
  • Design offices
  1. 3rd year

    Semester 5 (Post-baccalauréat)

    Computational Mathematics CU (Course Unit) (3 ECTS)

    • PDE and Tensor Calculus
    • Scientific computation

    Physics/Chemistry of Materials CU (7 ECTS)

    • Mechanics of Non-deformable Solids
    • Physics – Electronics & Electromagnetism
    • Physics – Theory of automatic systems
    • Energetics - Thermodynamics

    Floors, Infrastructures & Environment - Civil Engineering CU (1 ECTS)

    • Floor mechanics

    Structures and envelopes - Civil Engineering CU (3 ECTS)

    • Resistance of materials
    • Reinforced concrete
    • Metallic construction

    Methods, Organisation and Technologies - Civil Engineering CU (1 ECTS)

    • Methods in construction

    Optional subjects CU (3 ECTS)

    Languages CU (3 ECTS)

    Humanities and Social Science for Management CU (3 ECTS)

    Economics, Management & Law CU (2 ECTS)

    Personal development CU (2 ECTS)

    Project CU (2 ECTS)

  2. Semester 5 Admitted on the basis of qualifications

    Computational Mathematics CU (Course Unit) (10 ECTS)

    • PDE and Tensor Calculus
    • Scientific computation
    • IT
    • Mathematics

    Physics/Chemistry of Materials CU (7 ECTS)

    • Physics - General physics
    • Physics – Electronics & Electromagnetism
    • Energetics – Thermodynamics
    • Physics – Automated system theory

    Languages CU (3 ECTS)

    Economics, Management & Law CU (2 ECTS)

    Humanities and Social Science for Management CU (3 ECTS)
     
    Development CU (3 ECTS)

    Project CU (2 ECTS)

  3. Semester 5 CPGE (ie. preparatory class)

    Computational Mathematics CU (2 ECTS)

    • PDE and Tensor Calculus

    Languages CU (3 ECTS)

    Economics, Management & Law CU (2 ECTS)

    UE Sciences Humaines et Sociales, Management (3 ECTS)

    Humanities and Social Science for Management CU (3 ECTS)
     
    Development CU (3 ECTS)

    • Soil Mechanics and Hydraulics

    Structures and Envelopes CU (6 ECTS)

    • Building Thermics
    • Building Acoustics
    • Composite Materials
    • Reinforced concrete
    • Resistance of materials
    • Metal Construction

    GC Methods, Organization and Technologies CU (6 ECTS)

    • Building : technology and representation
    • Public works : technology and representation
    • Study of a simple construction
    • CAD and Building Methods
    • Typology of structural work

    Projects CU (2 ECTS)

  4. Semester 6

    Computational Mathematics CU (Course Unit) (5 ECTS)

    • Signal Processing
    • Statistics and data analysis
    • Digital analysis
    • Operational research

    Physics/Chemistry of Materials CU (8 ECTS)    

    • Continuum mechanics
    • Mechanics of deformable solids
    • Mechanics – Structural Dynamics
    • Physics – Electronics & Electromagnetism

    Structures and Envelopes - Civil Engineering CU (2 ECTS)

    • Mechanical soil recognition
    • Prestressed concrete

    Floors, Infrastructures & Environment - Civil Engineering CU (1 ECTS)

    • Mechanical soil recognition

    Methods, Organisation and Technologies CU (2 ECTS)

    • Pricing in construction
    • Project digital model

    Optional subjetcs CU (3 ECTS)

    Languages CU (3 ECTS)

    Economics, Management & Law (3)

    Personal development CU (2 ECTS)

    Humanities and Social Science for Management CU (1 ECTS)

  5. 4th year

    Semester 7

    Internship CU (22 ECTS)

    Optional subjects CU (3 ECTS)

    Structures and Envelopes - Civil Engineering CU (2 ECTS)

    • Prestressed concrete
    • Resistance of materials

    Structures and Envelopes - Civil Engineering CU (1 ECTS)

    • Free surface flow

    Methods, Organisation and Technologies - Civil Engineering CU (1 ECTS)

    • Optimisation of the organisation of a building site
    • Building design

    Humanities and Social Science for Management CU (1 ECTS)

  6. Semester 8

    Physics/Chemistry of Materials CU (6 ECTS)

    • Mechanics of Deformable Solids
    • Energetics – Fluid dynamics
    • Energetics - Energy efficiency

     

    Structures and envelopes - Civil Engineering CU (4 ECTS)

    • Physics for construction
    • Digital computation
    • Composite materials
    • Reinforced concrete

    Methods, Organisation and Technologies - Civil Engineering CU (4 ECTS)

    • Construction engineering
    • Optimisation of structural works
    • BIM

    Floors, Infrastructures & Environment - Civil Engineering CU (1 ECTS)

    • Geotechnics 

    Optional subjects CU (4 ECTS)

    Languages CU (2 ECTS)

    Computational mathematics CU (2 ECTS)

    • Digital analysis
    • Optimisation

    Economics, Management & Law CU (2 ECTS)

    Development CU (2 ECTS)

    Project CU (2 ECTS)

    Humanities and Social Science for Management CU (1 ECTS)

  7. 5th year

    Semester 9

    Optional subjects CU – further studies curriculum (19 ECTS)

    Humanities and Social Science for Management CU (5 ECTS)

    Project CU (3 ECTS)

    Physics/Chemistry of Materials CU (2 ECTS)

    • Mechanics – Structural Dynamics
    • Energetics - Energy efficiency

    Languages CU (2 ECTS)

    Economics, Management & Law CU (2 ECTS)

    Development CU (2 ECTS)

  8. Semester 10

    Internship CU (25 ECTS)

  9. The academic model

    in detail

    For more information on the Academic structure, please visit our detailed course offer.

Double degree in Engineering and Architecture

Presentation

ENISE and ENSASE (École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Saint-Etienne) have partnered up for both their students to obtain a diploma in Civil engineering and a state-registered diploma in architecture in seven years.


The course's advantages

Immersion

In the first semester, we organise an immersion period during which students are confronted with various experiences at both schools. This enables our eligible students to get a clear grasp of the partner schools' different working methods and scope of studies.

Starting after the Baccalauréat

ENISE students begin with the architecture prerequisites one and a half years into their foundation degree, ie. in Semester 4.

  • Architecture: constructive culture - the Environment 
  • Architectural object, landscape material
  • Transforming the City - urban project
  • Urban project workshop

Support

Students receive guidance from teachers in the disciplines of the architectural project intended for ENISE students.


Organisation

Class dispensation

Students are exempt from some classes in their original school.

Low teacher-to-student ratio

The number of students is limited so as to guarantee success in this double curriculum.

Tuition fees and status of the students

The students are enrolled simultaneously in both partner schools but they only pay the tuition fees for their original school.


Main disciplines

Lessons (in-class or independent learning)

  • History of architecture
  • Representing the city
  • Territory and Society
  • Anthropology of space and place
  • The Modern movement 
  • Nature, Local territories, the World - envision urban spaces today:
  • Techniques and materials 

Workshops

  • Architecture: constructive culture - the Environment 
  • Architectural object, landscape material
  • Transforming the City - urban project
  • Urban project workshop

Selection conditions

General information

The selection of applicants to this double degree takes place in several stages starting in the second year at ENISE.

From pre-application to the immersion phase at the Partner school

1. Applicants submit a pre-application in October
2. The jury communicates the results of eligibility in October
3. Immersion phase at the partner school: November and December

From application to selection

1. The engineering students selected for the immersion period must confirm their application as soon as it is finished, in December.
2. Interviews of the applicants in January. A joint jury from both schools is organised for the final selection of the applicants.

The jury hears the applicants to assess their motivation and aptitude.

From the selection to the beginning of the double degree curriculum

Selected students start the process of prerequisite acquisition in February, in the same year.

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