Incoming Exchange Student Courses
Unité d'Enseignement Crédits (ECTS) Unité de Cours Contenu Nb d’Heures
Innovation Project S7 7 IP Ideation

Cours : 4h00
Projet : 2h00
IP Introduction Project Management

Project management through time and different types of management.

Definition of a project

Project Management Plan (PMP):
- Purpose and goals.
- Structure of the PMP.

Tasks, milestones and deliverables:
- Definition of a task
- Defining Project Milestones
- Definition of a deliverable

Project planning:
- Definition of project planning
- The breakdown of the project
- Task scheduling
- The schedule

Risk identification.

Quality of planning.

Planning techniques: GANTT, PERT, …:
- The GANTT diagram
- The PERT technique
- The History Network

Budgeting a project:
- Example of budgeting

Project management software:
- BITRIX 29

Project management.

Resource monitoring.

Prior planning of human resources.

Human/material resources management and communication:
- The climate, the working atmosphere
- Human resources monitoring.
- The follow-up of material resources

Pilot indicators:
- The notion of indicator
- Examples of indicators

The quality approach:
- Definition of the quality approach
- The quality approach during the project

Project communication management.:
- Communication plan
- Communication technologies and media

Relevant project information.

Case study corresponding to a project within a Small and Medium Industries that designs, manufactures and markets connected objects linked to the ECAM 4.0 platform.

TD : 4h00
Cours : 5h00
Projet : 4h00
IP Project Management Review

Cours : 1h00
Projet : 2h00
IP Marketing

TD : 2h00
Cours : 8h00
Projet : 8h00
IP Requirements

TD : 2h00
Cours : 8h00
Projet : 8h00
IP User Research

TD : 4h00
Cours : 4h00
Projet : 8h00
Mechanical Engineering 12 Advanced Vibrations

1. Introduction to vibration
a. What is vibration
b. Industrial issues
c. Degrees of freedom of a system
d. Reminder stiffness, mass, inertia
e. Motion equation for one degree of freedom system
2. Two degrees of freedom system
a. Motion equations based on an example
b. Matrix notation
c. Free motion – Eigenvalues and vectors
d. Equations decoupling
e. Forced motion
3. Damping – frequency response
a. What is damping
i. Viscous
ii. Structural
b. How to model it
i. Impact on the equation
4. Vibration isolation and reduction
a. Passive isolation
b. Active isolation
5. Weighted thread
a. Exercise with three degrees of freedom
b. Extension of what was seen to continuous system
6. Vibration experiments
From measured data to frequency response

TP : 8h00
Cours : 16h00
Compressible Flows et Propulsion Systems

• • Jet propulsion systems and their performance criteria applied to Air-Breathing and Rocket engines: Thrust; Specific Impulse;Propulsion efficiency; Tsiolkovsky rocket equation; Breguet aircraft equation.
• Fundamental of Compressible flows: Mach number and thermodynamics of compressible flows; Shockwaves; Conservationlaws; application to Isentropic flows.
• Rocket engine design: Stagnation and critical states; operating mode of nozzles in rocket engines; influence of combustionpressure and temperature and of nozzle geometry on the thrust finally produced. Calculation of the resulting specific impulse.
• Propulsion systems combustion processes: influence of fuel composition and of Air-Fuel Ratio on the performance of air-breathing combustion processes; use of liquid and solid propellants in rocket engine combustion processes.
• Air-breathing propulsion turbomachines: Thermodynamic cycles used in turbojet or turbofans engines; influence of pressureratios, air and fuel mass flow rates, blades geometries on the engine performances (specific impulse, propulsion efficiency andspecific fuel consumption).

TD : 12h00
Cours : 12h00
Computational Fluid Dynamics

This course introduces the student to the subject of Computational Fluid Dynamics, as well as numerical methods for predicting fluid flows and heat transfer in flows. This course aims to help students get a good level of expertise in flow modeling for engineering applications by conducting practical work on a well-known commercial tool.
Lectures content (6h)
• Introduction to CFD: CFD fundamentals, principles, and steps
• Turbulence modeling for CFD part I: Turbulence characteristics and properties, Mean-flow equations
• Turbulence modeling for CFD part II: Turbulent-viscosity models (RANS models), Near-wall treatments
Practical work: (16h)
• Introduction to Ansys Fluent CFD tool: Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in a Mixing Elbow
• Practice on Ansys Fluent CFD tool: Modeling external Compressible Flow
• Practice on Ansys Fluent CFD tool: Modeling Transient Compressible Flow
• Practice on Ansys Fluent CFD tool: Assessment project

TP : 16h00
Cours : 6h00
Materials 4 (Polymers)

Macromolecules: degree of polymerization, tacticity, synthesis.
Polymers: structures, thermoplastics, thermosets, state changes, thermal and mechanical properties, additives.
Specific applications of polymers. The use of conductive polymers, bio-sourced and biodegradable polymers, polymers for packaging or fuel cells are discussed. The interest of developing copolymers is also treated.

TD : 10h00
TP : 8h00
Cours : 10h00
Semester Project 6 Semester Project

Choice of topic: Students select a project topic in agreement with their supervisor. The topic can be technical (such as developing an application, data analysis, etc.).

Implementation: Execution of the project according to the established plan, with possible adjustments based on needs and unforeseen circumstances.

Write-up: Compilation of results, analysis, and conclusions into a written document.

Preparation for the defense: Preparation of a structured and convincing oral presentation.

TD : 20h00
Projet : 130h00
Sustainable Management S7 4 Carbon Footprint

This course is an introduction to the carbon footprint calculation method proposed by a French association, "Association Bilan Carbone".
It will consist of a :
- Reminders about Green House Gases and introduction to global warming potential
- Definition of carbon footprint
- Definition of the 3 scopes
- Presentation of the carbon Footprint computation method
- Presentation of th Carbon Footprint approach

TD : 6h00
Cours : 4h00
Projet : 4h00
Operational Quality And Lean Management

Introduction to experience plans :
- What is an experience plan and how to implement it ?
- Several notions : factors, levels of the factors, mathematical model
- Experience plans : 2 factors and 2 levels
- Experience plans : 3 factors and 2 levels

Product FMECA :
One case of study to understand what is the purpose of product FMECA and how to implement it : how to reduce the problem at the conception phase of a product

Lean-6 sigma tools :
Discovery of the different lean tools in the context of a problem-solving approach :
- What is the Lean (context and historical approach)
- What is 6 sigma (context and historical approach)
- What are the tools related to these topics (DMAIC, 5S, Ishikawa, root causes : 5W…)
- Possiblity to implement all of these tools with one tutorial : A3 problem solving method.

TD : 12h00
Cours : 4h00
Research Methods

TD : 8h00
Cours : 4h00
Systems Engineering S7 1 Electrical Machine et Drives

This course covers the basic characteristics of DC and AC motors and describe their principle of operation and control within a power electronic environment. Basics in power electronics, electric machines and control circuits are reviewed and the overall systems is studied. Control techniques for DC drives are underlined and the four-quadrant operation is analysed. Control strategies for AC drives are discussed as well, mainly the scalar control, the field oriented control and the direct torque control. Detailed modelling of the control of induction motors using the FOC method is carried out.

o Electrical Machines Drives – General Overview: Review on Control Systems, Review on Power Electronics, Review on Electrical Machines
o DC Motors Control: Introduction to DC Drives, Four-Quadrant Control, Closed Loop Control, Electronic Control
o AC Motors Control: Basic Control of Induction Motors (Vs, Vr, F, V/F), Scalar Control
o AC Motors Control: Understanding the Challenges, Park Transformation (dq domain), Dynamic Model of Induction Motors, DC Machine Analogy, Field Oriented Control

TD : 6h00
TP : 4h00
Cours : 8h00