understanding the world, succeeding in corporate life

the national institute of applied sciences of strasbourg

National School for Engineers and Architects

accredited by the Ministry of Higher

Education and Research

Engineer ing courses accredited by the French Commission for Engineer ing Qualif ications (CTI)

Architectural degree courses accredited by the Cultural, Scientif ic and Technical Commission of the French Ministr y of Culture

Insa Strasbourg has been working hand-in-hand with industry for over a hundred years, training engineers with a strong technological background, while highlighting the specif ic values that provide the school’s vitality and driving-force.

Insa Strasbourg students join the school at all post - secondary (or equivalent) levels and for vocational training. The 5-year syllabus is compatible with the Euro-pean Licence Master Doctorate (LMD), while the modules enter within the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS), which aims to facilitate inter-University exchange programmes.

1,550 students

12.5% foreign students

100 % of our students spend 3 months to 1 year abroad

116 lecturers and academics, 7 research units (7 by 2009)

76 engineers, technical and administrative staff

about 260 visiting lecturers

a 27, 000 m2 campus in the city centre

sport and studies: the syllabus is arranged to allow top-level athletes to study and have a sports career at the same time.

seven engineering fields: mechanical engineering, plastics, mecatronics, civil engineering, topographical surveying, energy and environmental engineering and electrical engineering. Short-course graduates or currently employed technicians can also follow a three-year engineering degree course.

apprenticeships or vocational training can also be the springboards into two engineering courses, in partnership with the alsace institute of industrial engineering techniques: mechanical engineering and energy and environmental engineering.

3 specialist masters degrees, accredited by the Conference des grandes Écoles: MS in design innovation, MS in facilities management, MS in Environmental Counselling in partnership with the Institute for Environmental Counselling.

3 national masters degrees:• Masters in health, science and technology, major in materials engineering,

specialty: mechanical engineering• Masters in land spaces, societies and territories, specialty: architecture,

structure and urban projects• Masters in information systems, specialty: geomatics

Marc renner, Head of school

Insa Strasbourg is a leading school

for architectural and engineering

degree studies, located in the cen-

tre of a European capital.

Insa students work in close coo-

peration with both companies and

our international partners to fulfil

their projects and gain a global

outlook for their future.

The school is a committed propo-

nent of sustainable development

and students’ work focuses on

finding solutions that help protect

our fragile environment.

Insa Strasbourg also offers a large

number of extra-curricular sports

and cultural activities to help stu-

dents’ personal development and

allow them to put something back

into the community.

The school instils in its students the

ability to respond to the changing

needs of society and helps them

acquire the values and the taste for

learning, innovation and enterprise

that will give them a better unders-

tanding of the world and prepare

them for a successful career.

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understanding the world, succeeding in corporate life

Insa Strasbourg is a national school for engineers and architects under the administrative supervision of the French Minister for Higher Education.

The school’s mission is to provide 5-year training courses for engineers and architects, to carry out high-level scientific and technological research, to offer vocational training for engineers and technicians and to foster the dissemination of scientific and technical culture.

The Insa network: 5 national engineering schoolsThe Insa network consists of five national schools of applied sciences, in the cities of Lyon, Rennes, Rouen, Strasbourg and Toulouse. The schools are all public higher education and research establishments and comprise the largest network of engineering schools in France. They offer over 80 specialist engineering courses and operate in 80 research laboratories.

A multidisciplinary schoolInsa Strasbourg is authorized by the French Commission for engineering qualifications to award engineering degrees in 7 specialities in full-time degree courses and 2 sandwich degree courses. The school is also authorized by the French Ministry of Culture to award the Insa Strasbourg degree in Architecture. It is the only school in France qualified to award these two degrees and the HMONP qualification, which allows architects to manage projects under their own names.

An active regional networkInsa Strasbourg is a founder-member of alsace tech, an association of nine Alsatian engineering and mana-gement schools. Insa Strasbourg was set up in 2003, the last of a long line of schools, the first of which was founded in 1875. The school has close relationships with its region and partnerships with the main regional so-cio-economic players. Insa Strasbourg is also a founder-member of the Conectus Alsace regional exchange platform, the Semia technological incubator and is a partner of the Alsace technological network.

Player in a developing worldInsa Strasbourg is constantly developing in tune with its environment, putting forward local, national and international solutions to some of the major issues of the day: the land use, construction and industry sectors must all lead the way by incorporating the principles of sustainable development. Inventive design, one of the key areas of Insa Stras-bourg research, is helping society come up with innovative, applicable solutions for the future.

Insa Strasbourg is a member of the Alsace Tech association, the Conectus Alsace network and belongs to the Confé-rence des Grandes Ecoles (Graduate School Conference), the CDEFI (Conference of directors of French engineering schools) and international networks facilitating student exchange, such as Erasmus, N+1, Crepuq, Brafitec, UFA (Franco-German University) AUF (University Agency for Francophony).

a networkof 5 insaschools Lyon, Rennes, Rouen, Strasbourg, Toulouse

10, 000 alumni engineers(60,000 with the Insa network)

6th ranked engineering school in the 2010 L’Etudiant magazine survey

1st ranked engineering school in Alsace in term of size

www.insa-strasbourg.fr/en

Jérôme amann, graduate in mechanical engineering. Joined seW usocome, the world’s leading manufacturer of speed reducers, in June 2007

I manage 40 people and it was a an opportunity for me to get important responsibilities right from my first job. I was hired by the company from my end-

of-year assignment. My job is 70% management and 30% tech-nical. The school taught me the technical side and the human resources management skills I learned there have also been of great help.

The fact that I’m a top-level cyclist has also helped me get where I am today. Performance is part of my culture. At Insa I had to work hard to do my studies and find time for my training, especially as I went straight into the 3rd year after gaining a BTS technical diploma. I think that my being a top-level athlete has made the lecturers more understanding.

BTS people help each other a lot and I even went on a course in Australia with one of them. It was an unforgettable experience. Australians are really different to us, especially as far as human relations go. After that trip, I might well be tempted to go abroad again, I think travelling is important for opening up your mind.

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“ performance is part of my culture ”

Jérôme Amann in the lobby of the school.

engineers connected up to the world

Insa Strasbourg engineers are highly regarded in industry. The projects they work on teach them to work outside the framework of their specialty and to be part of multidisciplinary teams.

The students are all encouraged to follow induction courses in entrepreneurship, security and safety and research.

Insa Strasbourg engineers are given a general engineering background which is supplemented by specialist courses. They have a technology- driven, practical approach with highly - developed skills in product and system design and development. They are all ideally equipped for interdisciplinary work.

Admission is based on qualif ications, the students’ f i les and an interview for stu-dents reaching the second phase of the process. First -and third year admissions are common to all 5 Insa schools. There are 220 f irst year places available.

7 engineering specialities: - mechanical

engineering- plastics- mecatronics- civil engineering- topographical

surveying- energy and environ-

mental engineering - electrical engineering

2 sandwich-course specialities: - mechanics- energy and environ-

mental engineering and electrical engineering

37 weeks of internships

20% extra speciality compulsory courses

“ performance is part of my culture ”

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the first four semesters take place in the stH department (science,

technology and Humanities)

the six final semesters are spent in one of the 7 engineering specialties: mechanical engineering, plastics, mecatronics, civil engineering, topographical surveying, energy and environmental engineering and electrical engineering.

s1 s2 s3 s4 s5 s6 s7 s8 s9 s10

Common core: initial consolidation of basic knowledge

Acquisition of individual and team working methods, stimulating learning and preparing for corporate

practices.

Career guidance...

induction internship, possible s2-s3

(>6 weeks)

Manual worker internship(> 6 weeks)

technician internship(> 8 weeks)

Technological Research Project

End-of-Year Assignment

Choosing a dept.

Choosing a specialty

Acquisition of professional skills and knowledge for a business specialty (3 years)

ten semesters of studies

www.insa-strasbourg.fr/en/, section: training

a unique curriculum for architects

Insa Strasbourg is authorised by the French Ministry of Culture to award its own degree in architecture. It is the only architect degree course within an engineering school in France. This juxtaposition encourages architects to pool their knowledge with engineers and allows them to share their combined skills to better understand and address professional problems.

45 students are selected on a national basis each year through an entrance examination.

The teaching is active, stimulating and project-based, involving extensive co-teaching and team-based work with students from other years and specialities.

Work is at a sustained level throughout the course and there are plenty of opportunities to rub shoulders with experienced professionals.

The HMONP degree, which allows architects to manage projects under their own names, is awarded after the student successfully completes a comple-mentary course and at least 6 months experience in an architect’s office.

Admission to the architects’school is through an entrance examination. The science part of the exam is based on the f irst year of the French scien-ce preparatory class.

4 weeksof intensive work at the start of the year: this is a unique approach that allows each student to concentrate on preparing his/her degree, with the help of a mini-architect’s office made up of a student from each year. This system provides the driving force for Insa Strasbourg architects

60 peoplemake up the examining board, 2/3 of whom are professionals from outside the school*

4 years degree course, admission through baccalauréat +1 (or equivalent)

100% of the students have an experience abroad, some going several times. 50% in a foreign university, 75% in a foreign-based architect’s office

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* architects, architecture school teachers, representatives of French and non-French institutions and experts in related fields.

www.insa-strasbourg.fr/en/, section: training

“ I worked in a group with 2 engineers ”

Marie-ange Hammy,architecture student

I come from Bordeaux. Since I was aged 16, I’ve been wanting to study architecture in this school. I’m now in my last year.

My degree project is a new town in Morocco. I did a three-month course before in Marrakech. i’ve been abroad several times during my studies, in Verona, Vicenza and Venice in my first year, Istanbul in the 2nd year, Tampere and Helsinki in my 3rd year and Barcelona in my final year, all of which helped me find out about new types of architecture.

I think that with these trips, courses and university exchanges abroad, you’re ready to work anywhere you want. Why not Marrakech? I love the city, and earth architecture is a subject I find really interesting and which fits in well with sustai-nability.

That’s one of the reasons why I’m going to continue my studies at Insa Strasbourg, in energy and environmental engineering. archi-tectural studies bring the cultural side, while the engineering studies teach you the techniques of energy control. It could be a good mix. I’ve worked in a 3-person team on a solar façade with a student in environmental engineering and an architect who was also studying the same subject. We won first prize for the engineer of the future, in the construction category. It was a good example of successful collaboration between architects and engineers.

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”Marie-Ange Hammy in the «Botanical Garden» of Strasbourg, next to the school.

“ Research has close links with companies ”

Cécilia Zanni, lecturer - researcher, argentina

After 15 years in Argentina teaching computer studies in higher education, I defended my thesis in Marseille in 2004. My research work at Insa Strasbourg began in 2005 at the LGéco, the en-gineering design research laboratory. After 2-years post-PhD work in the la-

boratory, I became a senior lecturer in computer sciences. My speciality is knowledge engineering and I teach artificial intelligence to 5th year students.

At Insa Strasbourg, research is closely linked to corporate needs: all the projects I’ve worked on have been in partnership with companies. one of the great strengths of our laboratory is its

multidisciplinary base. We can tackle an issue from various points of view. We have specialists in production systems, in mechanical engineering, management sciences and artificial intelligence. this multi-facet approach means we are able to come up with original solutions.

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Cécila Zanni in the new part of the premises.

Insa Strasbourg is driven by an ambitious regional policy. The institute uses its skills base to develop applied research based on internationally -recognized fundamental research.

Insa Strasbourg is able to leverage its unique features to meet the constantly changing needs of both the present and the future. Design is its speciality: design improvement, ongoing innovation, research programmes driven by industry, land use, construction, urban planning with a multidisciplinary approach to problem solving.

Insa Strasbourg is a founder-member of the CONECTUS platform for promoting research work in Alsace. The institute is also an active contributor to the Therapeutic Innovations and Vehicle of the Future competitiveness poles.

working in the realworld

7 research units in architecture and urban planning (Amup), electrical engineering (Green/Ergé), innovative design (Lgéco), photonics (LSP), architectural photogrammetry and geoma-tics (Map/Page), in fluid and solid mechanics (IMFS) and in computer sciences, remote sensing, imaging, photo-grammetry and robotics (Page/Trio and Eavr of LSIIT)

59 academics

€1.4M of research contracts per year

The research teams belong to

2 PhD schools.

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www.insa-strasbourg.fr/en/, section: research and development

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tailored solutions for industry

INSA – enterprises is a branch of Insa Strasbourg that sets up partnership with companies of all sizes and needs. There are many facets to these partnerships, including internships, technological research projects, end-of -year assignments, and transfer, development and research contracts.

INSA – enterprises is the gateway for companies, of fering tailor-made technical, f inancial and legal solutions to specif ic corporate needs. Each partnership is unique, of fering multiple two-way benef its.

The vocational training centre provides development training for company employees, with courses culminating in a diploma or other qualif ication, in line with corporate needs. The cen-tre is based on the Insa Strasbourg research laboratories and works in partnership with other vocational training organisa-tions.

Companies working with Insa also benefit from all the institute’s partner networks.

62 contractsper year, of which 50% with SMEs

50%increase in apprenticeship tax over the last 5 years

100 companieswere met in 2009, two-thirds of them on their premises

270 traineesin vocational training in 2009

26 studentsin entrepreneurship training in a course open to all 5th-year students or recent graduates

www.insa-strasbourg.fr/en/, section: partners and businesses

“ This school is an extraor-dinary source of ideas and innovation ”

Christian Muller has been head of Cooltech applications since the company started in 2003

I set up Cooltech Applications in 2003 after I realised the potential of magnetic refrige-ration and its applications. As a start-up, the company won an award in 2003 in the national competition for the creation of innovative technology companies and won

the prize for Company of the Future, eastern region in 2007. There are currently 14 of us in the company, including 12 researchers. We have number of partnerships with Insa Strasbourg, including internships, end- of-year assignments, R&D studies as part of the Klimatic project driven by the Vehicle of the Future competitiveness pole, problem solving using the Triz theory with the innovative design engineering laboratory. The latter study led us to send the head of

our R&D office to do the Insa Strasbourg masters in innovative design. The school can support us in our R&D work, but equally importantly, it can introduce us to little known methods that have often proved to be of considerable interest. As a partner of Insa, we also benefit from its networks and the useful contacts they offer.“

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Christian Muller in the workshops of his company, Cooltech Applications, in Holtzheim, near Strasbourg.

“ Strasbourg is a european and a cosmopolitan city ”

german elera is a Peruvian studying for a degree in civil engineering

I came to France in July. I graduated two years before in civil engineering from the University of Piura, in Peru. I saw a poster for the n+1 programme for young engineers to get a French degree. I was already taking French lessons at the Alliance française and French civil engineers have an excellent reputation in Peru, so it was something that interested me. The n+1 network offers a 6-month refresher course, followed by French lessons. I therefore joined the 4th year at

Insa Strasbourg for the second semester. Taking notes was a bit difficult at first, but I’d got much better by the 5th year. It was great to get back into student life.

In Paris, I worked in a restaurant to be really exposed to the language and I was able to make friends quickly when I arrived in Strasbourg. it’s a european city, really cosmopolitan and you meet people of every nationality. What I like here is the quality of life, the food and the regional differences, just like you find in Peru.

I’m currently doing my end-of-year assignment in Besançon, a couple of hundred kilometres south of Strasbourg, in the civil engineering department of a subsidiary of Bouygues Construction, called Norpac. I have to compare propping

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German in front of Strasbourg train station.

German on the site of LGV Rhin-Rhone.

“ Strasbourg is a european and a cosmopolitan city ” it’s normal to have

a stay abroad

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All students on degree courses, whatever their speciality, have a stay abroad of between three and twelve months as part of their curriculum. There are three double degree programmes with Ger-many and Spain. Insa Strasbourg also offers partnerships lea-ding to foreign Masters degrees (Cranfield, IIT Chicago, Chalmers in Gothenburg, etc.).

Although we have partnerships worldwide, Insa Strasbourg is just 2 kilometres away from the border with Germany. This is why transborder relations are important for the school and why we have started a French-German class. The first three semesters of the TSH cycle are in French or in German. Focus includes relations and cultural differences between the two countries, designed to help future engineers to fit seamlessly into Franco-German com-panies and the wider context of international corporations.

100 % of students have a stay abroad between three and twelve months as part of their curricu-lum, for studies, research or in an internship

4 double degree programmes with Germany and Spain. The school’s aim is to offer all 7 engineering specialities in each programme

12.5 % of our students are from abroad, with over 30 nationalities represented

1 French-german programmesince September 2008, to help bilingual undergraduates continue their engineering or architectural studies

+ 60 Brazilian students and over 30 Insa Strasbourg students have taken part in the Brafitec exchange programme between Brazil and Insa Strasbourg, since its inception in 2004

www.insa-strasbourg.fr/en/, section: international relationships

techniques and come up with alternatives for structures on the Mulhouse –Dijon high-speed train link.

My short-term objective is to find a job in a company in France so I can perfect my French and then work in Spain or in a country in Central America, such as Panama. After that, I might go back to Peru and work for a French company, who knows? ”

thomas gaberan, treasurer of the robotics club, 3rd-year student in electrical engineering

The robotics club is a great chance to practice what we see in the courses, and take things further. We enjoy the work, and we see what the lessons are trying to achieve and it also means we expand our scientific knowledge. The curriculum can’t be all-embracing: if we need to go deeper into a subject, we look at the literature, we ask the teachers and we play around and try

things out! it’s also a good opportunity to get together with students from other specialities, including architects! "

The robotics club, of which Thomas is treasurer, takes part in the annual French robotics cup. "There are about 15 of us, from all the different specialities. We are free to design any system we want. The competition represents a challenge that’s really motivating. We go off for four days every year to compete with about 200 other teams. I like the way knowledge is

exchanged between students from different years, with the older students passing on their stuff to the younger ones, during the science fair, for example.

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“ It’s great to be able to manage your project from A to Z ”

Thomas Gaberan in front of a mural done by students architects.

student life

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Students at Insa Strasbourg have a large choice of extra- curricular activities: The Eco-Shell marathon, the French robo-tics cup, the Edhec race, the sailing tour of France, the 4L Tro-phy, Architects without Borders, Engineers without Borders, the sports association, clubs and bands, a gala evening, a freshers weekend, Meet’INSA (meeting of the 5 Insa schools), theatre, photography, comic books, f i lm, etc.

Every student is free to choose an activity. There are a huge number of opportunities to get involved, to broaden your mind and to chill out and f ind the r ight balance between studies and cultural and sports societies, associations, etc. There’s something for everyone and for every taste. And if there’s nothing for the activity you’re looking for, you can set up your own club or association. Student life means tr ying things out, for engineers and architects l ive through their projects!

337 members of the sports associationwhich offers around ten sports

1 student bureauwhich organizes student life and helps student club

eventswhich are part and parcel of student life: freshers weekend, parties, gala night, etc

1 full-time nurseto help students and drive on-campus health-promotion

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It’s also a way of learning how to communicate, handling our participation in events and working on our image! it’s great to be able to manage your project from a to Z, dealing with all the technical, financial and logistics aspects. And we have fun doing it!

www.insa-strasbourg.fr/en/, section: student life

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