EMN Ecole des Mines de Nantes

Decision making processes in business are becoming increasingly complex. There is so much data involved and the human and financial issues are so important that information technology has become a strategic tool. Decision support systems that manage and report data are already common in business. Today powerful new analytical and optimization methods automatically extract knowledge from data. The GIPAD option trains engineers who can design and implement intelligent decision support systems, from data collection to the optimization of decisions.

Set up in 1998 at the time of the internet boom, the GSI option trains engineers able to build computing systems.To stay robust and agile, information systems, which are now an essential component of business strategy, must evolve and adapt. And to stay competitive, new products must embed high added value computing components. GSI engineers have expert skills in the concepts and technologies making it possible to meet these two challenges, offering global solutions that are safe, reliable, robust, innovative, easy to integrate and upgradable.

IThe integration of information and communication technology (ICT) into busuiness has become an obvious necessity. But to truly take advantage of these new technologies, the changes they bring must be carefully managed. OMTI engineers have expertise in both organizations and managing IT-related projects. They understand business environments and operations, as well as the strategic and organizational challenges of ICT management Round Base Year 1

In this option, students learn the skills needed to develop and monitor automated systems. These skills include modeling and simulation to understand how the systems work; instrumentation and industrial information technology to collect, process and transmit information in real time; and lastly control engineering to design the systems. AII engineers have a global vision of systems and play a key role in all phases of project management, including design, development, implementation, installation and maintenance. Their work also involves taking into account all factors, including human factors.

This option has existed since the School was founded, and was originally focused on the optimization of production systems. The curriculum has evolved and now covers the entire supply chain, including sourcing, production and distribution. In all cases, the goal is to optimize complex flows of materials and information to achieve maximum quality of service at minimum cost and lead times. But some factors related to human and environmental issues are difficult to model and measure. Hence the main difficulty is often to find a trade-off between the mathematically optimized solutions and the ones that can be really applied.

The quality of a product or service is measured by its ability to satisfy a stated need. To achieve quality, businesses have to make sure that the solutions provided are appropriate and that the entire organization is working to improve quality. While quality used to simply consist of a final verification that a product met specifications, it is now a cross-functional issue involving all partners through to the end user. Since 1995, the QSF option has been training engineers capable of assisting businesses and consulting firms implement and improve quality systems, This includes designing management systems in an integrated context involving all types of risks (occupational, industrial, economic and environmental), setting up tools and methods for defining and designing products and quality assurance, and ensuring customer satisfaction.

In this option, students train to become engineers in a dynamic sector: the treatment of pollution (water, air, waste, noise) and environmental management (eco-assessment, eco-design). The GE option looks both at process engineering, involving the processes themselves, which help limit emissions by industry, and treatment processes, once pollution has occurred. It also involves environmental management, integrated systems (quality, safety, environment), sustainable development policies, environmental assessments and impact reports, as well as regulatory monitoring.

Created in 1997, the GSE option offers exciting challenges and career opportunities due to increasingly strict environmental requirements (greenhouse gas reduction, etc.) and decreasing availability and rising costs of fossil fuels. Driven by the need for sustainable development there has been real scientific and technological progress even though it may seem too slow. Improvements are constantly being made, both as regards machine energy efficiency and the design and management of energy systems. The option trains engineers who can meet these challenges thanks to their ability to manage complex technical and financial projects, with a sustainable development approach.

The principal mission of the NTSE option naturally consists in training engineers to work in the major corporations and institutions in the nuclear field. France, where electricity is largely produced in nuclear power stations, is active in all the phases of the fuel cycle and has a full range of facilities presenting various risks. The safety systems at these facilities must be designed according to the nature and magnitude of the hazards. But the option is not limited to the field of power production. It also covers other nuclear applications, including industrial and medical applications.

The principal objective of the STAR option Systems and Technologies Applied to nuclear Reactors consists of training engineers to work in the nuclear industry in France and on the international stage (firms, safety authorities, independent experts). The option is focused on the nuclear reactors and covers: operation and maintenance of the current reactors, developing and installing third-generation reactors (EPR and other competitors), and design of the fourth-generation reactors.

he option offers a full range of highly skilled jobs, in the nuclear engineering industrial sector:

• plant operating engineer ;
• safety engineer ;
• control systems engineer ;
• R&D engineer ;
• reactor core performance engineer ;
• neutronics engineer ;
• design engineer ;
• modelling engineer (core neutronics, thermohydraulics systems).

This requires the joint teaching of a variety of disciplines with content that is both scientific and technological in the following fields:

• nuclear physics ;
• nuclear materials ;
• safety, control systems ;
• neutronics ;
• thermohydraulics ;
• human factors ;
• organizationnal reliability.

Master of science à VIRGINIA TECH, Option GOPL and QSF only

• Master of science à Goergia TECH, Options AII, GSI and GIPAD

• Canadian maîtrise at l'école polytechnique de Montréal , all options except NTSE

Master of science, Tech de Monterrey, course in Spanish, option GOPL

Diplôme d'ingénieur at Los Andes de Bogota university, course in Spanish, all the option except OMTI and NTSE

• Master of science at Jiao Tong University,
  • Chinese course, except for GOPL in English and Chinese,
  • for all the options

• Master of science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, English cours, option GSE
  • The followed courses are those of the master of science in Sustainable Energy Engineering (SSE)

• Diplôme d'ingénieur à l'Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales de la Universidad Politécnica Madrid
  • Course in Spanish
  • Option GSE and GE

• Pharmaceutical Engineering
• Bio-Industries
• Eco-industries
• Energy Engineering
• Materials Engineering
• Industrial Engineering
• Information Systems Engineering
• Materials for aeronautics and space

• Risk management
• Environment, processes, sustainable development
• Civil engineering, resource management
• Computer science
• Materials
• Mechanical engineering
• Automation and Manufacturing Systems

• Environment and Civil Engineering
• Energy Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Quality Engineering
• Information and Communication Systems Engineering
• Production
• Polymers and Composites

• Energy-Gas
• Energy engineering
• Geo-engineering
• Materials Engineering Materials Science
• Engineering mathematics
• Production and decision systems engineering
• Systems Engineering
• Information systems management
• Management of industrial projects (Strasbourg)

• Process Engineering
• Information management and information systems
• Biotechnology
• Vision and morphology
• Soil and subsoil
• Materials

• Process and energy engineering
• Environment
• Management and industrial organization
• Strategic management of industrial organizations
• Materials and mechanical engineering
• Computers
• Microelectronics (Gardanne)

• Head of Master program: Xavier Gandibleux
• EMNantes coordinator: Sophie Demassey
• Website: http://oro.univ-nantes.fr
• Co-accredited withUniversity of Nantes

ALMA Professional and research Master in "software architecture"

• Head of Master program: Gerson Sunye
• EMNantes coordinator: Jean Marc Menaud
• Website: http://alma.univ-nantes.fr
• Co-accredited with University of Nantes, ENITIAA

Chemistry and Microbiology of Water

Master Coordinator: Yves Andres

• Specialty : Process Engineering - Environment – Agrofood engineering
• Head of Master program :Jérémy Pruvost (A)
• EMNantes coordinator: Laurence Le Coq
• Website: http://www.sciences-techniques.univ-nantes.fr/SI00209/0/

• Specialty 1: Atmospheres and urban forms
• Specialty 2: City and Energy
• Specialty 3: Atmosphere, water and urban environment
• Master coordinator: Bernard Bourges
• Email: bernard.bourges @ emn.fr
• Website: http://www.ec-nantes.fr/560/0/

• Specialty: Subatomic Applications and Research
• Head of Master program: Vincent Metivier
• Websites:
  • http://www.subatech.in2p3.fr/enseignement
  • http://www.sciences-techniques.univ-nantes.fr/MPPHYRIA/0/fiche___formation/&RH=1183048374095

• Specialty 1: Automation, robotics and signal processing
• Specialty 2: Production Systems and Embedded Computer Systems
• Master coordinator : Rabah Rabah
• Website: http://masterasp.irccyn.ec-nantes.fr/

The training combines acquisition of scientific and technological knowledge in the fields of process engineering, environmental and energy engineering, management and sociology, and project management in an international context . This balanced combination is designed to train engineers and project managers able to provide realistic solutions to environmental and energy problems, and manage projects using an integrated approach, taking into account technological innovations and developments in relation to economic, social and political.
constraints, PM3E is one of the Masters programs of the Erasmus Mundus European Masters Program ME3: Joint European Masters in Management and Engineering of Environment and Energy

This program aims to train students in the field of logistics, supply chain management and production systems. The areas of expertise are:

• Industrial Engineering,
• Supply chain management,
• Optimization
• Operations management,
• Social sciences for the management,
• Finance and Accounting,
• Quantitative Methods,
• Product design,
• Maintenanc,
• Planning,
• Integrated Projects

As global competition becomes stronger and the demands of all sectors of the market continue to grow in terms of technology as well as price and service, companies need engineers and managers who can operate effectively across the Management-Technology interface.

The Industrial Engineer must therefore be competent in all the technical, economic and human aspects of a complex process. In particular, he must be responsible for the design and optimization of a product or a complex system throughout its lifecycle.
The concepts of Industrial Engineering are essential for the design and development of production and logistic systems for both goods and services. Whatever their initial training or first professional experience, engineers or managers can gain the theoretical knowledge and practical know-how that will enable them to become true Industrial Engineers.

Logistics has to do with the management of product and information flows throughout the production system and supply chain. The planning and optimization of logistics and production systems has become a key factor of success for a company's productivity and performance of service in the increasingly competitive global economy.

ME3 --Joint Master in Management and Engineering of Environnement and Energy

PM3E -- Master in Project Management for Environmental and Energy Engineering

ORO- Master informatique professionnel et de recherche spécialité “Optimisation en recherche Opérationnelle”

• Head of Master program: Xavier Gandibleux
• EMNantes coordinator: Sophie Demassey
• Website: http://oro.univ-nantes.fr
• Co-accredited withUniversity of Nantes

ALMA Professional and research Master in "software architecture"

• Head of Master program: Gerson Sunye
• EMNantes coordinator: Jean Marc Menaud
• Website: http://alma.univ-nantes.fr
• Co-accredited with University of Nantes, ENITIAA

Master Coordinator :Yves Andres

• Specialty : Process Engineering - Environment – Agrofood engineering
• Head of Master program :Jérémy Pruvost (A)
• EMNantes coordinator: Laurence Le Coq
• Website: http://www.sciences-techniques.univ-nantes.fr/SI00209/0/

• Specialty 1: Atmospheres and urban forms
• Specialty 2: City and Energy
• Specialty 3: Atmosphere, water and urban environment
• Master coordinator: Bernard Bourges
• Email: bernard.bourges @ emn.fr
• Website: http://www.ec-nantes.fr/560/0/

• Specialty: Subatomic Applications and Research
• Head of Master program: Vincent Metivier

• Websites:

  • http://www.subatech.in2p3.fr/enseignement
  • http://www.sciences-techniques.univ-nantes.fr/MPPHYRIA/0/fiche___formation/&RH=1183048374095

• Specialty 1: Automation, robotics and signal processing
• Specialty 2: Production Systems and Embedded Computer Systems
• Master coordinator : Rabah Rabah
• Website: http://masterasp.irccyn.ec-nantes.fr/

As part of its policy of international development, Ecole des Mines de Nantes (EMN) signed a cooperation agreement in June , 2005, with the University M'Hamed Bougara Boumerdes (MLBU).

The CEDAFE Project (The Franco-Algerian Center for Doctoral Studies in Energy), co-administered by the EMN and the UMBB, is a first application of this cooperation agreement.
It is in this context that the first doctoral program of CEDAFE, EDEDD (Graduate School in Energy and Sustainable Development) was set up. It is a postgraduate program in industrial engineering. Students in this course are enrolled at EMN and UMBB. On successful completion of the course students will be awarded two degrees: a Magister degree from EDEDD UMBB, and a « Diplôme Spacialisée from EMN.

The quality of a product or service is measured by its ability to satisfy a stated need. To achieve quality, businesses have to make sure that the solutions provided are appropriate and that the entire organization is working to improve quality. While quality used to simply consist of a final verification that a product met specifications, it is now a cross-functional issue involving all partners through to the end user. Since 1995, the QSF option has been training engineers capable of assisting businesses and consulting firms implement and improve quality systems, This includes designing management systems in an integrated context involving all types of risks (occupational, industrial, economic and environmental), setting up tools and methods for defining and designing products and quality assurance, and ensuring customer satisfaction.

Mastering its operational software is becoming a recognized strategic advantage for most enterprises, especially in a context of increased business

competition and reorganization.

Unfortunately software systems are expensive to develop and maintain. They are not always adapted to the exact needs of the various stakeholders. Software engineering has been studied in the last 40 years, but many progresses are still possible. The main current trend is to reduce the gap between the technological platforms and the direct expression of the user needs and application goals. This may be achieved with domain modeling, by using domain specific languages.

(MDE) is the generic name for a set of innovative software technologies that may be applied to various application domains going from aerospace, automotive, rail, consumer electronics, healthcare, energy to insurance, banking, product management and many more. Decision-makers and all other players in the software engineering field are exposed to a rapidly evolving context where technical expertise is omnipresent, but where the understanding of the stakes is hard to acquire and effective strategies based on advanced technical evolutions difficult to define. Mastering of the latest software productivity practices and especially MDE practices is becoming a critical advantage in conducting many businesses where the strategic decisions are often based on deep and up to date technical knowledge.Model Driven Engineering

Building on its internationally recognized research and project experience and on its well-proven pedagogy, the Ecole des Mines de Nantes, offers practicing engineers the opportunity to acquire a high-level specialization in this MDE domain. The AmmA platform developed by the AtlanMod team for the Eclipse foundation will be used through the various modules as well as other advanced modelers and most recent advanced tooling. Experts coming from all over the world will provide top-level insight. The program is taught in English and is aimed at a wide public from the corporate world and government agencies as well as young engineering or Master's graduates wishing to pursue their career in this fascinating professional field and to gain a complete exposure and practical hands-on expertise on the most advanced software modeling practices.

Description

Key words :

• Nuclear
• Hadronic
• Quark and gluon plasma
• Astronuclear

Recruitment procedure and thesis supervision

Description

experimental studies and characterizations :

• Alice experiment with CERN - Suisse
• STAR experiment in Rhic - USA

Context

Laboratories partners :

• In2p3, CNRS I3-HP-2
• The CERN
• RICH Collaboration with partners worldwide

To consult t thesis topics

Recruitment procedure and thesis supervision

Description

Detection of ultra high energy cosmic rays (CODALEMA – AUGER experiments in Argentina)

Context

Subatech, CNRS/In2P3/CNRS/INSU international collaboration.

To consult thesis topics.

Recruitment procedure and thesis supervision

Description

Characterization, simulation, (experiment DOUBLE SHOOZexperiment)
Scenario simulation, (MYRRHA project – hybrid engines)

Context

CNRS, In2P3/CEA, international collaborations (Agence Internationale pour l’Energie Atomique à Vienne) . Collaborative transmutation In2P3 SCK-CEN (Belgium).

To consult thesis topics

Recruitment procedure and thesis supervision

Description

Design and development of new detectors (Medical imagery, liquid xenon, black matter)

Context

To consult thesis topics..

Recruitment procedure and thesis supervision

Description

Storage of nuclear waste, simulation (migration, radiolyis, ARRONAX)

Context

Nuclear waste: CNRS collaboration (GDP GEDEPEON, PACEN)
European program partners : Actinet, RECOSY, CARBOWASTE

To consult thesis topics.

Recruitment procedure and thesis supervision

Description

Production of radioelements for medical purposes (Imagery and therapy, ARRONAX)

Context

European program I3-HP-2, ARRONAX, INSERM and various pharmaceutical partners
ATLANTIQUE BIO THERAPIE Competitivity cluster.

To consult thesis topics.

Recruitment procedure and thesis supervision

Description

Radioactivity measurements and follow-up (SMART, SDADE, Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers).

Context

Academics partners : CNRS,OSU de Nantes (SDADE)
Industrial partner : COGEMA,ANDRA,EDF ()SMART

Recruitment procedure and thesis supervision

Description

SSG : Interdisciplinary Research team in management sciences - Organization, Market

It focuses on the social dynamics of change using methodologies from different theoretical and disciplinary fields
3 areas of expertise :

• Analysis of organizations
• Economic sociology of markets and commercial interactions
• SI Management

Context

The research team is part of the LEMMA (Laboratoire d’Economie et de Management de Nantes Atlantique)

The SSG research team also works in collaboration with the CENS (Centre nantais de sociologie)

Recruitment procedure and thesis supervision

Description

The non destructive testing team focusses on the development and use of ultrasonic techniques, thermography, radiation….

Contexte

Partners EMC2 pôle de compétitivité technocampus, AIRBUS,EADS.

To consult thesis topics.

Recruitment procedure and thesis supervision

Description

The energy systems engineering research team integrates several aspects of the production and the management of :

• the optimization of the output and the quality of combustion according to the nature and the composition of fuels,
• the limitation of the output of greenhouse gas emissions by using 2nd generation biological fuels,
• the effective management of the various forms of energy produced by an internal combustion engine ,
• modeling and management of energy systems and monitoring of regional energy demand .

Context

The research teams form part of the GEPEA laboratory, a joint research unit with the CNRS 6144(génie des procédés Environnement Agroalimentaire).

IRSTV (Institut de Recherche sur les Sciences et Techniques de la Ville)
Competitivity cluster EMC2,
Industrial partners : Véolia, GDF,
Academics partners in Romania

Recruitment procedure and thesis supervision

Description

The Environmental engineering team bases its work on the concepts and methodologies of process engineering. Research in this field focusses on the study, development, sizing and modeling of processes that bring about solid - fluid interaction in complex media (multiphase, multi-compounds, toxic or weak concentrations).

Separation processes with transfer - reaction are studied, either through an integrated approach for the improvement of existing processes or through the development of innovative processes. This work is based on the study of the mechanisms concerned at the various stages of the process and calls on competences in the fields of materials, flow in porous media, gas-liquid transfers - solid as well as chemical or biological reactions.

Research applications: water treatment, the treatment of the air and gases, recycling of waste.

Context

GEPEA UMR (génie des procédés Environnement Agroalimentaire)
IRSTV (Institut de Recherche sur les Sciences et Techniques de la Ville)
EMC2 competitivity cluster, Véhicule Haute gamme

Groupe des Ecoles des Mines (GEM) research topics:

• Gem’ Air on the pollutants of the air
• Nanomines on nano-structured materials

Industrial partners :

• Véolia,
• Renault,
• Total

International academic partners (Co-supervision of PhD)

• I.T.T Delhi,
• Université de Caggliari,
• Université de Montréal

Recruitment procedure and thesis supervision

Description

The robotics team develops scientific activities in two distinct fields:

• Biomimetic robotics. In this field, work focusses on an autonomous robot eel, able to move in opaque fluid environments, position itself, communicate, be divided into sections with a common goal,
• Man Machine Interfaces and virtual reality.

Context

Irccyn Joint research unit UMR 6597 (Institut de Recherche en Communications et Cybernétique de Nantes,
To consult thesis topics.
Industrial partners :

• France Telecom
• CEE-FET, ANR,…

Recruitment procedure and thesis supervision

Description

The control team aims to analyze and solve problems of control for dynamic systems described by models of different kinds (linear, non-linear, of finite size or not, with or without delay, continuous or discrete, stationary or not, etc)

Our research activities focus on the following aspects:

• Speculative: topics grouped under the heading” structure of systems and problems of control”.
• Methodological: ” Methodology of robust control”.
• Technological (in response to requests from the socio-economic sector): electric machine test platform, complex mechanical systems, intelligent cars, stabilization of ships at high speed, dynamic control modeling of the HIV virus …

Context

Irccyn Joint research unit UMR 6597 (Institut de Recherche en Communications et Cybernétique de Nantes,
To consult thesis topics.
Industrial partners :

• PSA,
• LUMENEO.

Recruitment procedure and thesis supervision

Description

The SLP team attempts to model and solve problems of optimization and decision support in the fields of logistics, production, as well as in the fields of services. The models and tools thus developed make it possible to address problems at all levels: strategic, tactical and operational. In parallel, the team develops mathematical tools specific to the treatment of problems of predictive maintenance and reliability.

Context

Irccyn Joint Research Unit UMR 6597 (Institut de Recherche en Communications et Cybernétique de Nantes,
To consult thesis topics .

Partners

• Pôle EMC2,
• AIRBUS,
• DGA,
• AEROFORM,
• VEOLIA,
• Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal.

Recruitment procedure and thesis supervision

Description

The ASCOLA team endeavours to allow non-specialist users to easily adapt new data-processing languages. It develops computer programming languages and modeling so as to to be able to identify, extract and adapt software components for easy and relatively cheap re-use in new applications. The principle becomes more and more sophisticated, and is known under the new name « ASCOLA ».

Context

LINA Joint Research Unit UMR 6241 (Laboratoire Informatique de Nantes Atlantique).

Partners :

• Atlanstic
• INRIA
• Conseil Régional
• Pôle de compétitivité image et Réseaux

Description

The Atlanmod team focus their research on model driven engineering, which represents the various facets of a software system in the course of construction, execution or maintenance. Its objective is to develop numerical models containing dedicated languages (Domain Specific Languages, or DSL) which will direct the complete cycle of development.

Context

LINA Joint Research Unit UMR 6241 (Laboratoire Informatique de Nantes Atlantique).

Partenaires :

• Atlanstic
• INRIA
• Conseil Régional
•  Image and Network competitivity cluster « Pôle de compétitivité image et Réseaux »

Description

The constraint programming team addresses problems of optimization and rationalization: timetables, logistics, organization of production, mission planning, improvement of engine performance. The constraint team is focusing on an approach that integrates, in a transparent way, the languages and the different techniques underlying constraint programming. The idea is mainly to develop generic techniques enabling both the integration and unification of the different aspects and new extensions of constraint programming.

Context

LINA Joint Research Unit UMR 6241 (Laboratoire Informatique de Nantes Atlantique).

Partners :

• Atlanstic
• INRIA
• Conseil Régional
• Image and Network competitivity cluster « Pôle de compétitivité image et Réseaux »