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 General Presentation of the Master |
JOIN A NEW MSc COURSE IN SYSTEMS ENGINERING AND MIX WITH INTERNATIONAL AND FRENCH STUDENTS!
This Master course given in ENGLISH was launched in September 2005; it is now open to some partner Universities for a one or two semesters exchange to start with. Double Degrees might be a possibility at a later stage.
This course is at the leading edge of Systems Engineering (SE) and results from thorough in-depth exchanges with industrial leaders and SE consultants such as Airbus, Siemens, Thales and with AFIS, the French chapter of the International Society for SE.
A complex systems engineer could be compared to the conductor of an orchestra or to the architect in charge or designing a building and of coordinating the work of specialists. Aeronautical or automotive industries would be typical fields where a SE Engineer could develop his/her expertise. The first intake of INSA students recently went to Ireland and Spain as a field trip for a Project Management task; they visited companies and Universities and thus could assess the fact that their career opportunities were very good.
Leading project managers from industry combine their expertise to that of INSA or partner Universities academics so that the course contents are at the forefront of current corporate systems. Problem Based Learning
| 1 Master Stakes |
The industrial activity deals more and more with Systems Engineering, especially concerning design. This raises new issues that are mainly due to:
- a high level of complexity in cost , delays or performance control which can generate an important added value. In a competitive market, the progressive phasing out of physical prototypes and the reduction of time to market require specific methodologies that can take care of technical as well as management dimensions.
- a high level of multi-disciplinary integration. To generate or to satisfy customers expectations, industrial products tend to include more electronics, informatics and control of mechanical elements. Consequently todays engineer is required to have a strong multi-domain scientific and technical knowledge.
- the decentralization of contracting implies a centralized prime contracting system. For several years, economic factors have been prompting managers to delocalize their production towards low cost emerging countries, as observed for the textile industry. Moreover, these countries are now able to act as sub-contractors for computation (finite elements, computational fluid mechanics) or for code writing.
- the consideration of the whole product life, from needs to recycling that is now required by regulations.
This evolution generates a significant and increasing demand in Systems Engineering engineers that is poorly covered by the current education offer.
| 2 Master Objectives |
Setting up a new Master degree in Systems Engineering at INSA Toulouse aims at giving an answer to this need. The proposed course provides wide competencies, based on the complementarity of
- generic knowledge dedicated to systems that are relevant of methodologies and management,
- multi-domain scientific and technical knowledge related to mechanical, electrical, industrial and software engineering,
- practical knowledge and know-how about the main sectors of industry, acquired by projects and experience feedback,
- ability to include the human dimension in engineering.
The Master course structure will meet industrial needs for chartered engineers able to act as interfaces between financial managers and technical specialists. It focusses on multi-technologies systems that combine data and power transmission, as they can be found in the fields of transport or production industry. Typical examples are given below:
Automotive : vehicle, power train, road handling,
Aerospace : aircraft, flight control, electric and hydraulic power generation and distribution,
satellite, communications, attitude control,
Production : production lines, fully integrated factories
| 3 Career opportunities after the Master |
The profile of INSA Systems Engineering graduates will be attractive both to equipment suppliers and integrators. The numerous industrial relationships developed for years by the current project promoters definitely arose the interest of the following companies:
- Groups: Airbus, Eurocopter, Astrium, Snecma, Liebherr, Thales, PSA, Renault, Labinal, Zodiac,
- Suppliers: Valeo, Bosch, Borg Warner, Delphy, Eaton, Siemens, Comau, Motorola, Thomson, Parker.
This master degree also contributes to the competitive cluster "Aeronautics, Space and Embedded Systems" recently created in Toulouse.
| 4 Master Courses |
The two years education program is composed of three semesters including 1250 hours of academic contact and one full time internship semester. The Master in System Engineering includes 30% hours dedicated to human skills and 27 specific modules of 30 hours:
- Part A : Projects (90 hours of academic contact)
- Part B : System Development Process (330 hours of academic contact)
- Part C : Technical Management (120 hours of academic contact)
- Part D : Tools (270 hours of academic contact)
- Part E : Human skills (440 hours of academic contact)
The Master courses combine top-down (methodologies and management) and bottom-up (scientific tools and technologies) approaches. They are based on active pedagogy, including one group project per semester. In order to benefit from industrial experience, numerous industry engineers contribute to the education program, either giving talks or lectures.
PART A: PROJECT (3 modules of 30 hours each)
PJ01 - Project 1
- Presentation of Systems Engineering and organization of the education program: origins, needs, characteristics of systems. Impact on development (part B), on management (part C) and on tools (part D)
- Considering a given industrial application, each student group has to point up what the system is and why systems engineering is needed.
PJ02/03 - Projects 2 and 3
- Students work in small groups on industrial systems. The students are grouped together with respect to their prior education in order to take benefit of the multi-domain competencies of their group.
PART B: SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT PROCESS (11 modules of 30 hours each)
PR01 - MODULE Needs and requirements
- Functional / non functional, capture modeling - analysis
PR02 - MODULE Specification and preliminary design
- Characterization, expression, analysis, architectures, feasibility
PR03 - MODULE Engineering and implementation: overview of concepts
- Object models, platform dependent / non dependent models
- Models driven by architecture, validation
MODULES Engineering design of mechanical energy/power transmission systems
2 common modules (all students):
PR04 - Architectures: motors, power modulation, power transmission and distribution
PR05 - Technology: electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, thermal
3 advanced modules (for Mechanical Systems option)
PR06 - Advanced technology: components characterization, functional and parasitic effects, application to mechanical and hydraulic systems
PR07 - Design: global approach and preliminary sizing, interest of local approaches (CAD, FE, CFD, Computational electromagnetics)
PR08 - Mechanical structures (beams, plates, composites). Advanced multi-domain design
MODULES Engineering design of computerized systems
2 common modules (all students)
PR09 - Architectures of real time systems hardware: components, interfaces and protocols, integration and industrial implementations
PR10 - Sensors and instrumentation: sensors (principles, technologies, performance), data acquisition
3 advanced modules (for Computerized Systems option)
PR11 - Real time software architectures: tasks, synchronization, communication, integration on hardware
PR12 - Object oriented programming, JAVA
PR13 - Software implementation, micro-controllers, FPGA
PR14 - MODULE System dependability
- Dependability issues, methods to prevent, eliminate or tolerate faults - fault prediction -
PR15 - MODULE Industrialisation
- Production, service, maintenance, withdrawal
- Cross-relationships with development and management
PART C: TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT (4 modules of 30 hours each)
MG01 - MODULE Project management
- Scheduling (tasks and resources), organization (matrix, concurrent engineering)
- Reviewing (including technical and financial aspects)
MG02 - MODULE Quality management
- Concepts (maturity, improvements,
)
- Methodology and tools, standards
- Management of needs, configurations and documentation (traceability)
MG03 - MODULE Risk management
- Concepts, methodology and tools, standards
- System related risks, project related risks
MG04 - MODULE Innovation and economic management
- Intellectual and industrial property, management of creativity, knowledge capitalization
- Investments, cost reduction, profitability
PART D: TOOLS MODULES (9 modules of 30 hours each)
TL01 - MODULE Value analysis
- Initial specifications, requirements, functional analysis, conceptualization
- Technical and economic follow-up
TL02 - MODULE UML
- Elements, relations, diagrams
- Model based process, platform independent models
- Transformation models and modeling guides
TL03 - MODULE Optimization
- Linear / non linear optimization
- Optimization in graphs
- Multi-objective optimization
TL04 MODULE Discrete event dynamic systems
- State machines
- Petri charts, Grafcet and Gemma
- Performance evaluation and simulation
TL05 MODULE Requirements analysis tools
- Tools for capture and analysis of requirements
TL06 - MODULE Control
- Modeling, characterization, identification
- Analysis in frequency and time domains, modal analysis
- Architecture and synthesis of controllers (PID, internal feedback,
)
- Digital control
TL07 - MODULE Modeling and analysis of energy transmission systems
- Representation and analysis of multi domain power systems Bond graph
- Structural analysis, direct / inverse simulation
- Connection between lumped and distributed models
TL08 - MODULE Knowledge acquisition, capitalization and management
- Technological / methodological data bases, learning and data mining
- Computerized data exchange
- Integrated knowledge management (ERP, workflow)
| Master Semesters description |
Semester 1, September 15 - January 31, year 1
| Contact hours
| PJ01. Project "Understanding the need of Systems Engineering"
| 30
| PR01. SD Process Needs and requirements
| 30
| PR02. SD Process Specification and preliminary design
| 30
| PR04. SD Process Engineering design of mechanical systems
Architectures of power transmission systems
| 30
| PR09. SD Process Engineering design of computerized systems
Architectures of real time systems hardware
| 30
| TL01. Tools Value Analysis
| 30
| TL02. Tools Uniform modeling languages UML/SysML
| 30
| TL05. Tools Requirements analysis tools
| 30
| MG01. Management Project management 30
| 30
| Scientific
+ Human Skills
Total semester 1
| 270
130
400
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Semester 2, February 1 - June 30, year 1
| Contact hours | PJ02. Project "Mastering the System Engineering process"
| 30
| PR03. SD Process Conception des architectures des systθmes
| 30
| PR05. SD Process Engineering design of mechanical systems
Technology of power transmission systems
| 30
| PR10. SD Process Engineering design of computerized systems
Interfaces and instrumentation
| 30
| SD Process Engineering design
either PR06. Technology of power transmission systems (advanced)
or PR11. Real-time software architectures
| 30
| SD Process Engineering design
either PR07. Multi-domain / multi-scale approaches for mechanical systems
or PR12. Object oriented programming, JAVA
| 30
| SD Process Engineering design
either PR08. Mechanical structures - Design and simulation
or PR13. Software implementation, micro-controllers, FPGA
| 30
| TL06. Tools Control
| 30
| TL07. Tools Modeling and simulation of power transmission systems
| 30
| Scientific
+ Human Skills
Total semester 1 | 270
130
400 |
Semester 3, October 1 - January 31, year 2
| Contact hours | PJ03. Project "Mastering the technical management in Systems Engineering"
| 30
| PR14. Management Systems dependability
| 30
| PR15. SD Process - Industrialization
| 30
| MG04. Management Innovation and economic management
| 30
| MG02. Management Quality management
| 30
| MG03. Management Risk management
| 30
| TL08. Tools - Knowledge acquisition, capitalization and management
| 30
| TL04. Tools Discrete events systems
| 30
| TL03. Tools - Optimization
| 30
| Scientific
+ Human Skills
Total semester 1 | 270
130
400 |
Semester 4, February 1 - June 30, Year 2: Five month full time internship
| Master Pre-admission Form |
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