ESTACA Course Catalogue Exchange students Curriculum at ESTACA Bachel level / Undergraduate Master level / Graduate Advanced Master 1 st year 2 nd year 3 rd year 4 th year 5 th year Advanced Master ELS AAD Program (2 nd semester) AAD Program (2 nd semester) AAD Program (2 nd semester) Advanced Master AOM Few facts about ESTACA: Curriculum in Engineering in 5 years Specialization school in four sects: aeronauticsn automotive, space, and rail and urban transpts Two campuses: ESTACA Paris-Saclay and ESTACA Campus Ouest A personalized and innovating teaching which answer companies needs Researchers involved in the curriculum Possible paths f exchange students at ESTACA*: SQY Laval 3 rd year (Bachel level) : 1 st semester 2 nd semester both semesters 4 th year (Master level) : 1 st semester 2 nd semester both semesters 5 th year (Master level) : 1 st semester AAD program in English (Bachel and Master level) : 2 nd semester - Possibility to do one year : 1 st semester of the 3 rd year 5 th year and 2 nd semester AAD program - Advanced Master (Fall semester program only): Embedded Lighting Systems (ELS) * see details in the following pages / subject to change ESTACA welcomes exchange students during one two semesters from the 3 rd year to the 5 th year in our programs taught in French in English. Students have the possibility to take French language courses f feigners (FLE). Our two campuses offer exchange: Paris-Saclay Laval with different specializations: Paris-Saclay: Specialization in automotive, aeronautics, Space, and rail and urban transpts + Programs in English: AAD program, 5 th year in Operation and Maintenance and Advanced Master ELS Laval: Specialization in automotive and aeronautics Exchange students have access to our internship and alumni data base. The internships with ESTACA are not allowed within the exchange program. International students can do a research project in our research labs.
Courses offer f exchange students in 3 rd year Program in French: Campus Paris-Saclay and Laval 1 st semester [30 32 ECTS] from September until December Transptation Engineering Unit (6 ECTS) Automotive (courses on both campuses) Automotive Architecture (12 hours) Introduction to Vehicle Dynamics (15 hours) Longitudinal Dynamics (6 hours) Combustion Engines (36 hours) Energy Management (9 hours) Aeronautics and Space (courses on both campuses) Aeronautic Architecture (24 hours) Aerodynamics (16 hours) Rail and Urban Transpts (courses only at SQY campus) Rail Architecture and Dimensioning (24 hours) Rail and Urban Transpt Architecture (16 hours) Sciences Unit (17 ECTS) Dimensioning of Mechanical Couplings (26 hours) Heat Transfer (26 hours) Systems Command and Modeling (18 hours) Systems Command by PID Controllers (18 hours) Signal Processing (26 hours) CAD (20 hours) Humanities and Engineering Culture Unit (7 ECTS) English(18 hours) Sustainable Development (12 hours) Applied Engineering Project (18 hours) Operating Reliability (12 hours) Options: Spanish, German Chinese (18 hours) optional: International Unit (2 ECTS) French as a Feign Language (FLE) From the 3 rd year, students need to head towards a specific sect: Automotive Aeronautics and Space Rail and Urban Transpts 2 nd semester [30 32 ECTS] Transptation Engineering Unit (7 ECTS) from January to May Automotive (courses on both campuses) Vehicle Dynamic Modeling 23 hours) Smart and Communicating Vehicle (VICom) (20 hours) Automotive Architecture Project (5 hours) Aeronautics and Space (courses on both campuses) Aeronautical Perfmances (25 hours) Aerodynamics 2 (11,5 hours) Methods Space Propulsion (20 hours) Aeronautical Architecture and Perfmances Project (5 hours) Rail and Urban Transpts (courses only at SQY campus) Rail Propulsion Methods (36 hours) Passenger Comft (16 hours) Rail Architecture Project (5 hours) Sciences Unit (17 ECTS) Systems Mechanics (30 hours) Fluid Mecanics (26 hours) Electric Engines (28 hours) Digital Electronics (30 hours) Digital Tools f Modeling (24 hours) OD Modeling (16 hours) Software Engineering and ULM Object Modeling (24 hours) Experimental Pratical Wk (12 hours) Humanities and Engineering Culture Unit (6 ECTS) Professional and Personal Project (15 hours) English (18 hours) School Life Involvement Options: Spanish, German Chinese (18 hours) optional: International Unit (2 ECTS) French as a Feign Language (FLE)
Courses offer f exchange students in 4 th year Program in French: Campus Paris-Saclay and Laval 1 st semester [30 32 ECTS] from September to December Transptation Engineering Unit (14 ECTS) Automotive (courses on both campuses) Automotive Engines Technology (10 hours) Car Race Engine (2 hours) New Motization (9 hours) Transmission and gearbox Technologies (9 hours) Engine Control (petrol and diesel) (15 hours) Powertrain services (perfmances, emissions, consumption and acoustics) (28 hours) Road holding (axles, suspension) (40 hours) Transptation project in automotive (5 hours) Aeronautics (courses on both campuses) Air rules introduction(9 hours) Aircraft Structure (21 hours) Advanced Aerodynamics (36 hours) Helicopters (24 hours) Transptation Project in Aeronautics (5 hours) Rail and Urban Transpts (courses only at SQY campus) Systems (33 hours) Railway Track and Rolling Stock Interfaces (64 hours) Railway Infrastructure (15 hours) Transptation Project in Rail and Urban Transpts (5 hours) Space (courses only at SQY campus) Space Mechanics (15 hours) Launcher Structure and Architecture (35 hours) Solid Propulsion and Propellant Aspects (26 hours) Liquid Propulsion (30 hours) Advanced Aerodynamics (36 hours) Transptation Project in Space (5 hours) Sciences Unit (11 ECTS) Finite Elements Methods (30 hours) 1 st semester at Laval, 2 nd semester at SQY Stuctural Dynamics (24 hours) 1 st semester at SQY, 2 nd semester at Laval Energy Conversion and transfer (22 hours) Multiphysics Modeling(21 hours) Continuum Mechanics (24 hours) Humanities and Engineering Culture Unit (5 ECTS) Quality (12 hours) Applied Statistics (18 hours) 1 st semester at SQY, 2 nd semester at Laval Production Management (36 hours) 1 st semester at Laval, 2 nd semester at SQY Industrial Communication (18 hours) Project Management (6 hours) Professional and Personal Project (3 hours) Options: Spanish, German Chinese (18 hours) optional: International Unit (2 ECTS) French as a Feign Language (FLE) 2 nd semester [30 32 ECTS] Transptation Engineering Unit (14 ECTS) Automotive(courses on both campuses) Braking systems (12 hours) Road holding (axles, suspension) (8 hours) Automotive life cycle (32 hours) Automotive business model (18 hours) Smart and Communicating Vehicle (VICom) (15,5 hours) Transptation project in automotive (5 hours) Aeronautics (courses on both campuses) Jet Engine integration and dimensioning (47.5 hours) Suppt systems (14 hours) Flight Mechanics (26 hours) Avionics (44 hours) Mobility inside ISAE group (one week exchange) Transptation Project in Aeronautics (5 hours) Rail and Urban Transpts (courses only at SQY campus) Regulations (28 hours) Railway Infrastructure (47 hours) Railway Track and Rolling (46 hours) Transptation Project in Rail and Urban Transpts (5 hours) Space (courses only at SQY campus) Guidance Navigation and Control (41.5 hours) Launcher Program(20,5 hours) Operating (31 hours) Mobility inside ISAE group (one week exchange) Transptation Project in Space (5 hours) Sciences Unit (17 ECTS) Communication Architecture (18,5 hours) Real-time command (20 hours) Energy Conversion and Transfert (18 hours) Hydraulic Systems (20 hours) Stuctural Dynamics (24 hours) 1 st semester at SQY, 2 nd semester at Laval Finite Elements Methods (30 hours) 1 st semester at Laval, 2 nd semester at SQY Experimental Pratical Wk (16 hours) Humanities and Engineering Culture Unit (8 ECTS) Applied Statistics (18 hours) 1 st semester at SQY, 2 nd semester at Laval Production Management (36 hours) 1 st semester at Laval, 2 nd semester at SQY Technical English (18 hours) Management, Economics and Cpate Strategy (28 hours) Professional and Personal Project (4hours) School Life Involvement Options: Spanish, German Chinese (18 hours) optional: International Unit (2 ECTS) from January to April French as a Feign Language (FLE)
Courses offer f exchange students in 5 th year from October to February Exchange students can choose from the following 12 specializations. Most of the courses are taught in French (some are in taught in English). New Energies and Environment Transptation Engineering Unit (16 ECTS) Alternative Fuels f Automobiles? (6 hours) Introduction to Combustion (28.5 hours) Engine Control (3 hours) Fuel-Air Mixture Preparation (24 hours) Impact of Technological Options on CO² Emissions(22 hours) Internal combustion engines remediation (20 hours) Powertrain testing: pratical wk (39 hours) Powertrain Electrification (31 hours) Visits (8 hours) Transptation Project in Automotive (100 hours) Program in French: Campus Paris-Saclay Engineering Sciences Unit (5 ECTS) 0D/1D Modeling of energy systems (15 hours) Metrology Powertrain (9 hours) Digital and Experimental Pratical Wk (60 hours) 3D Computational Fluid Dynamics (15 hours) Humanities and Engineering Culture Unit (1 ECTS) Automotive and impact on society (3 hours) Carbon footprint assessment (3 hours) Light Weight Vehicle Transptation Engineering Unit (4 ECTS) Composites Materials (35 hours) Metallic Material: Material, Product, Process Approch (28 hours) Engineering Sciences Unit (16 ECTS) Highspeed Dynamics (high defmations) (31 hours) Thin Structure Modelisation (14 hours) Study of non linearities (materials, contact, instabilities) (27 hours) Structures Optimization (36 hours) Failure, Fatigue, Damage (23 hours) Materials used in Automotive Industry (6 hours) Transptation Project in Automotive (100 hours) Humanities and Engineering Culture Unit (2 ECTS) Project Management (12 hours) Communication (3 hours) Industrial Protection (6 hours) Lean Management (17 hours) Sustainable-Mobility Transptation Engineering Unit (17 ECTS) Software ACV-Simapro (16 hours) Sustainable Development (17 hours) Introduction to Materials in the automobile sect (6 hours) Composite Materials (25 hours) Structures Optimization (15 hours) Transversal Aspects (29 hours) Electromobility (20 hours) Driveless Mobility (20 hours) SHS-Design of services and lean startup (20 hours) ITS Seminar(15 hours) Value-Creation (6 hours) Transptation Project in Automotive (100 hours) Humanities and Engineering Culture Unit (5 ECTS) Lean Management (24 hours) Communication (3 hours) Project Management (6 hours) Engineering System (6 hours) Industrial Protection (6 hours)
Automotive Embedded Systems Transptation Engineering Unit (19 ECTS) Automotive embedded bus and netwks (14 hours) Industrial IT (24 hours) Vision systems f transptation (12 hours) Mechatronic case study(16 hours) Embedded systems technological environment (12 hours) Multiphysics Modeling(25 hours) AUTOSAR (27 hours) Optimized code generation (24 hours) Embedded Systems f carmaker (8 hours) Model-based testing (19 hours) Modeling and code generation (12 hours) Osek (12 hours) Transptation Project in Automotive (100 hours) Humanities and Engineering Culture Unit (3 ECTS) Project Management (7 hours) Communication (7 hours) Courses offer f exchange students in 5th year from October to February Aeronautic Architecture and Structures Transptation Engineering Unit (7 ECTS) Cockpit development (18 hours) Dimensioning loads (12 hours) Structure Design selection (Drones, Military Aviation) (27 hours) Sustainable design (6 hours) Engineering Cell Systems / PLM Cell (19 hours) Engineering Sciences Unit (10 ECTS) Composites Materials (31 hours) Rupture, fatigue, damage mechanics (23 hours) Study of non linearities (materials, contact, instabilities) (15 hours) Thin Structure Modelisation (15 hours) Quality / Nondestructive Control (3 hours) Transptation Project in Aeronautics (100 hours) Humanities and Engineering Culture Unit (5 ECTS) Cost Management (8 hours) Project Management (12 hours) Technical English(15 hours) Communication (3 hours) Propulsion systems Integration and on-board Energies Transptation Engineering Unit (12 ECTS) Energy Management (40 hours) Systems Modeling (20 hours) Functional interface engine / plane (15 hours) Nacelle (30 hours) Certification (16 hours) Integration (24 hours) Engineering Sciences Unit (7 ECTS) Acoustics (20 hours) Pollution Emissions (20 hours) Aero-thermodynamics I (10 hours) Aero-thermodynamics II (8 hours) Project Unit (10 ECTS) Transptation Project in Aeronautics (100 hours) Challenge (20 hours) Humanities and Engineering Culture Unit (1 ECTS) Communication (3 hours) Project Management (8.50 hours) Futur Propulsion Systems (3 hours) Visits (14 hours)
Avionics and Flight Controls Transptation Engineering Unit (12 ECTS) On-board Communication Netwk (19 hours) On-Board Energy Management Systems (16 hours) Navigation Systems, Avionics and Cockpit (15 hours) System Maintenance, Integrated Observation System (12 hours) Integrated Modular Avionics, Cabin Systems (12 hours) Aircraft Flight Control System (36 hours) Specification, Design and Validation of Avionics and Flight Control Systems (31.5 hours) Transptation Project in Aeronautics (100 hours) Program in French: Campus Paris-Saclay Engineering Sciences Unit (5 ECTS) Robust and Optimal Control (28 hours) Multivariable Control Systems (16 hours) Nonlinear Control Systems (8 hours) Experimental Pratical Wk (12 hours) Humanities and Engineering Culture Unit (5 ECTS) Project Management (40 hours) Technical English (15 hours) Air Transpt Economy (6 hours) Visits(8 hours) Aeronautics Embedded Systems Transptation Engineering Unit (19 ECTS) Communication netwks (14 hours) Industrial IT (24 hours) Vision systems f transptation (12 hours) Mechatronic Case Study (16 hours) Embedded systems technological environment (12 hours) Multiphysics Modeling(25 hours) Optimized code generation (24 hours) Model-based Testing (8 hours) Scade (12 hours) Modeling and code generation (12 hours) Specification, Design and Validation of Avionics (31.5 hours) Transptation Project in Aeronautics (100 hours) Humanities and Engineering Culture Unit (3 ECTS) Project Management (7 hours) Communication (7 hours) Operation and Maintenance Transptation Engineering Unit (16 ECTS) Air regulation and certification (49 hours) Operations (54 hours) Maintenance (69 hours) Quality Certification - Nondestructive Control (3 hours) Transptation Project in Aeronautics (100 hours) Program in French: Campus Paris-Saclay Humanities and Engineering Culture Unit (6 ECTS) Technical English (15 hours) Economics (15 hours) Project Management (40 hours) Visits (8 hours) Operation and Maintenance Transptation Engineering Unit (16 ECTS) Air regulation and certification (49 hours) Operations (52 hours) Maintenance (69 hours) Quality Certification - Nondestructive Control (3 hours) Transptation Project in Aeronautics (100 hours) Program in English: Campus Paris-Saclay Humanities and Engineering Culture Unit (6 ECTS) The REACH regulation (3 hours) Dependability Management + Asset Management (4 hours) Technical English (15 hours) Economics (15 hours) Project Management (40 hours) Visits (8 hours)
Courses offer f exchange students in 5 th year from October to February Satellite / ATV / Re-entry Vehicles Transptation Engineering Unit (20 ECTS) ATV / Space Vehicles (33 hours) Debris / Risk Environment (11 hours) Satellites (104 hours) Re-entry Vehicles (54 hours) Program in French: Campus Paris-Saclay Humanities and Engineering Culture Unit (2 ECTS) Engineering System (3 hours) Visits: CNES, Airbus DS (16 hours) Transptation Project in Space (12 hours) Courses offer f exchange students in 5 th year From October to Febuary Conception of a Guided Transpt System and Maintenance f Rail and Urban Transpts Program in French: Campus Paris-Saclay Transptation Engineering Unit (17 ECTS) Project Management (34 hours) Transversal Vision (15 hours) Netwk Management (45 hours) Option System Design Rolling Stock design (44 hours) Transversal specific techniques f design (52 hours) Option Operations and Maintenance Operation ( 72 hours) Maintenance (20 hours) Transptation Project in (100 hours) Humanities and Engineering Culture Department(5 ECTS) Humain Management (15 hours) Transpts Economy (14 hours) Introduction Internationaux Railway System (8 hours) International Railway Industry Standard (IRIS) (8 hours) Social Relations (6 hours)
Automotive and Aeronautics Design Program Program in English: Campus Paris-Saclay This program is available f Bachel Master students (3 rd to 5 th year). 2 nd semester [32 ECTS] from January to May Computer Aided Engineering (2 ECTS) Catia Design and Simulation (18 hours) Signal Processing (4 ECTS) Signal Processing (Lecture) (11 hours) Matlab Labs (labwk) (12 hours) Exp Signal Processing (labwk) (4 hours) Learn and operate CAE tools to design and fit aeronautical and automotive systems and subsystems. Computational Fluid Dynamics (5 ECTS) Computational Fluid Dynamics (Lecture) (17 hours) Matlab CFD (Labwk) (3 hours) CFD with STAR-CCM+ (Labwk) (24 hours) Heat Transfer (Lecture) (20 hours) Hydraulic Systems (2 ECTS) Hydraulic systems simulation (Labwk) (15 hours) Structural Design (5 ECTS) Finite Element Method (Lecture) ADVANCED (23 hours) FEM Simulation with CATIA (Labwk) (9 hours) Crash simulation (Labwk) ADVANCED (8 hours) Dynamic Structure Analysis (exp. Labwk) (4 hours) Technical Project (8 ECTS) Project (150 hours) Project Management (2 ECTS) Project Management (10 hours) French Language and Culture (4 ECTS) French Language and Culture (45 hours)
Embedded Lighting Systems Advanced Master Program in English: Campus Paris-Saclay This program is available to Master students (5 th year). Limited places. 1 st semester [45 ECTS] from September to February Embedded Lighting in the industry (2 ECTS - 48 hours) The automotive lighting industry introduction, Research & Development. The automotive lighting industry: products development & production; internships and employment. Fundamentals of Embedded Lighting (12 ECTS - 117 hours) Fundamentals of optics f lighting. Fundamentals of photometry f lighting. Systems Engineering: models and functional Security Fundamentals of mechatronic Modeling of lighting systems. Creative Design of optical systems f the car industry. The ELS training program has been engineered and is delivered by academic and industrial faculty members selected f their know-how and expertise in the various domains identified by the industrial founders of the ELS Chair. It is ganised as an academic semester followed by a 5 months internship and the writing of an industrial thesis in a company. An innovative program with the best of Academic and industrial partners: PSA, Renault, Automotive Lighting, Valeo. Advanced optical design of lighting systems (6 ECTS - 48 hours) Light sources: properties & perfmances, integration, reliability. Computer aided photometric design of illumination systems. Advanced engineering and integration of lighting systems (9 ECTS - 76 hours) Integration of the physical system environment and production constraints. Mechatronic Modeling and simulation of an embedded lighting systems. Embedded infmation systems. Visual aspects and cognitive vision with advanced Simulations (6 ECTS - 48 hours) Characterisation of surfaces and of their aspect, advanced photometric simulation of surfaces. Physically realistic and real time rendering of appearance, visual and cognitive aspects in relation with design. Transversal Project (10 ECTS - 80 hours)
Air and Operation Maintenance Advanced Master Program in English: Campus Paris-Saclay This program is available to Master students (5 th year). Limited places. 1 st semester [45 ECTS] from October to February Air Rules (3 ECTS - 28 hours) ICAO, FAA and EAA regulations presentations Introduction to REACH Introduction to NDI Air Safety and Security (3 ECTS - 16 hours) Risk Management Current regulations and possible evolutions The lessons learned process Airline security and safety Certification and Airwthiness (4 ECTS - 30 hours) Initial Certification process (4EASA 1 FAA) Modifications Management Airwthiness Management The Air Transpt Market (2 ECTS - 19 hours) The Air Transpt Business Air Manufacturing Business Airline services The Airline / Manufacturer relationship Airline Operations (4 ECTS - 24 hours) Reminder of the main legal texts Introduction to a FCOM (public transpt) Ground operations Airline general ganization Flights management Airpt Operations (1 ECTS - 12 hours) ATM / Airpt operation links Airpt operations Slots regulation Maintenance Program Description (4 ECTS - 27 hours) Applicable regulations The MRBB process Maintenance documentation Maintenance program design Cost Management Introduction to ILS CAMO (3 ECTS - 18 hours) Introduction to CAMO Applicable rules Team wk (application of aircraft maintenance and systems maintenance noption to a real CAMO) Maintenance Processes (4 ECTS - 27 hours) Maintenance processes and regulation evolutions Project Management (5 ECTS - 40 hours) Project managmenet tools Functional analysiks Serious game Dependability Management Supply Chain (2 ECTS - 18 hours) Technical English (2 ECTS - 20 hours) Vocabulary Syntax Architecture of different technical texts (SB, OMM, TMM, JAR, FAR, etc.) Visits and Fum (40 hours) Fum ESTACA Company visits Project (8 ECTS - 120 hours) Wk on a technical managerial issue given by our industrial partners The teams will be monited by an industry tut A written and al rept required The modern air transpt industry needs engineers who have me than the traditional technical skills. The airlines need to ensure global security at an affdable cost. Their engineers need a global view of the legal and economic environment as well as an in-dept understanding of operations and maintenance processes in der to cope with a growing international competition and a complex regulaty framewk. The program is ganised as an academic semester followed by a 6 months internship and the writing of an industrial thesis in a company. An innovative program with the best of Academic and industrial partners: Air France (Airline & MRO), Airbus Group, ADP (Aéropts de Paris), Zodiac Aerospace.