- Diploma prepared: Polytech Marseille engineer, materials science and engineering
- Average number of students in a class: 40
- Student profiles on entry: Physics, chemistry, materials
- Areas of training concerned (among the 12 areas of the Polytech network): Materials.
- Possible courses: Initial training (FI), Continuing training (FC), Professionalization contract in final year (CP)
- Campus : Luminy
Objectives
This program trains engineers with knowledge and skills in :
- classes of materials and their uses in different industrial sectors
- technologies and nanotechnologies for the production of materials in solid form, thin films, etc.
- materials characterization and assessment techniques.
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3rd year
Scientific and technical training
Physics: solid state physics, materials physics, heat transfer, electronics.
Chemistry: atomistic crystallography, thermodynamics, radioactivity, electrochemistry of solids, organic chemistry and molecular reactivity.
Physical chemistry of materials: classes of materials, organic materials, plastics processing, elastomers, metals and alloys, polymers, composites, semiconductor materials, ceramics and glass minerals, use of advanced materials, characterization of materials. Mathematics and Computer Science for Engineers.Business environment
English, organization and operation of companies, corporate financial management, oral and written expression, industrial news, life cycle of materials.
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4th year
Scientific and technical training
- Materials: mechanics and strength of materials, rheology, pre-sizing, finite elements, acoustics and materials, optics of materials.
- Surfaces and thin films: crystal growth, structure and properties, absorption growth, vacuum technology, adhesion-bonding, tribology and mechanics of thin films, reactivity, electrochemistry, corrosion and aging of materials.
- Engineering sciences and techniques: sensors and signal processing, CAD, numerical calculation and modeling.
Business environment
English, quality management, sales and marketing management, project management, human relations management, personal professional project, sustainable development, risk management, industrial waste.
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5th year
Scientific and technical training
- Surface treatments and coatings, chemistry/electrochemistry, thermics, laser/plasma, ion implantation, vacuum deposition, nanomaterials.
- Materials characterization and control, aerospace materials and processes, energy materials, nuclear materials, irradiated materials, construction materials, microelectronics materials and technologies, micro-nano-fabrication, nanotechnology, lithography, etching, packaging.
Business environment
English, professional integration, business law, innovation and entrepreneurship, MS projects, project management, experimental design, industrial property.
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Double curriculum
Dual Master's degree in management
With a view to training dual-skilled engineers in high demand on the job market, all Polytech Marseille courses offer a dual degree program: engineering diploma + master's degree in management, in collaboration with Kedge, the Marseille business school.
Teaching environment
The teaching team is made up of teacher-researchers from research laboratories and training establishments on the Marseille-Luminy campus (CINaM) or in the Marseilles area, working in the fields of physics and chemistry (materials, interface surfaces), nanosciences, electronics, life sciences, and more.
It also calls on professionals from the nuclear, aerospace, aeronautics, microelectronics, biomaterials and other industries.
To make it easier for students to enter the workforce and develop their entrepreneurial spirit while providing theoretical training, Polytech Marseille offers students project-based teaching, internships and the possibility of a professionalization contract as part of their engineering curriculum.
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Professional integration
Materials Science engineers may intend to work in a very wide range of industrial sectors: aeronautics and space, automobile manufacturing, nuclear/oil energy, plastics, chemistry, metallurgy, glass and ceramics, construction and public works, microelectronics, etc.
Careers: Aeronautics, aerospace and transport, defense, construction and public works, nuclear power and energy, microelectronics, biomedical, plastics and composites, chemicals and petrochemicals, metallurgy, luxury goods, as well as engineering and consulting firms.
Employer sectors Materials- 40% Other activities (R&D, biomedical, luxury goods, microelectronics, etc.)
- 18% Transportation: aeronautics, aerospace, shipbuilding and automotive industries
- 16% Consulting and engineering companies
- 10% CONSTRUCTION
- 8% Processing industries: metallurgy, chemicals, petrochemicals, plastics, composites, food processing
- 6% Nuclear and energy
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Examples of graduate employers
AIRBUS I AKKA TECHNOLOGIES I ALCATEL I ALSTOM I ALTEN I ALTRAN I ARCELORMITTAL I ARKEMA I ASCOMETAL I ASSYSTEM I ATLANTIC I BABCOCK I BOUYGUES I CAP GEMINI I CEA I CEGELEC I CERIB I CILAS I CMR I CNIM I COLAS I COMEX I CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE I CREUZET AERONAUTIQUE I CRUDELI I DAHER I DASSAULT AVIATION I DIRECTION GENERALE DE L'ARMEMENT I DUMEZ MEDITERRANEE I EDF I EIFFAGE I ENEDIS I ENGIE I ENOGIA I EUROVIA I EXPIRIS I EXPLEO I FAURECIA I FAYAT I FIGEAC-AERO I FRAMATOME I GROUPE ATLANTIC I GROUPE ORTEC I HUTCHINSON I LAFARGEHOLCIM I LEGRAND I MBDA I L'OREAL I MCA I MECAERO I MERCK I MI-GSO I MICHELIN I NAVAL GROUP I ONET I PELLENC I PLASTIC OMNIUM I ORTEC I PETROINEOS I POMA I PSA PEUGEOT CITROËN I RATIER FIGEAC I ROCKWOOD WAFER RECLAIM I SAFRAN I SCALIAN I SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC I SEGULA TECHNOLOGIE I SNECMA I SOGETI I SOPRA STERIA I ST GOBAIN I ST MICROELECTRONICS I TECHNICATOME I THALES ALENIA SPACE I TOTAL I TRAVAUX DU MIDI I UNIBETON I VALEO I VICAT I VINCI I VOLVO I ZODIA
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Project-based teaching
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Internship
Students in the program take part in three compulsory internships, and the skills acquired are assessed by the internship supervisor and the school's teaching staff.
- 3rd year: "worker" internship of at least one month, from June to August
- 4th year: "technician/assistant engineer" internship of at least 3 months, from April to August
- 5th year: 6-month engineering internship, February to August.
Examples of internship topics :
- Study of a reliability test method on FLASH memory
- Evaluation of the tribological performance of new lubricants
- Recycling of polymers for 3D printer
- Study of the chemical environment by EELS spectroscopy in micro chips.
- Part Mapping of H160 Helicopter Dynamic Systems parts
- Development of deep black colored concretes
- Synthesis of nano-materials for transparent conductive layers
- Life cycle analyzis of industrial systems with carbon capture
- Development of NDT characterization techniques for bearing steel
- Study of pool wall made of Glass/PMMA
- Methods of technical and economic optimization for PWR plants
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Professionalization contract
The « contrat de professionalisation » is a work-study contract. It makes possible to combine teaching in an academic environment with periods of practice within one company.
The « Materials science and engineering » curriculum offers the possibility of a work-study contract in the final year of the engineering cycle (5A).
The contract lasts 12 months and involves 3 partners:
- The student
- The training organization
- The company (e.g. EDF, Sartorius, Naval Group, Thales Alenia Space, etc.)
International mobility is a requirement for the Polytech Marseille engineering diploma. It must be 12 weeks "cumulative post-baccalaureate", with a minimum of 4 consecutive weeks. The mobility options provided for in Polytech Marseille's study regulations are as follows:
- Study semester abroad
- Internships
- Employment
- Woofing
- Foreign students who have completed part of their studies in their home country
- Gap year
Study semesters abroad
Semesters abroad, mainly in 4th and 5th year (Semesters 7, 8 and mainly 9 and/or 10), are encouraged by all the bilateral agreements (ERASMUS, Hors Europe, CIVIS, BRAFITEC...) linking the University, the School and the program with other foreign universities (Japan, Canada, Taiwan, South Korea, USA, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Germany, Spain...).
Universities that have welcomed Polytech Marseille students include
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)
- University of Sherbrooke (Canada)
- Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) (Canada)
- University of Toronto (Canada)
- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (Canada)
- Kobe University (Japan)
- Instituto Tecnologico de Queretaro (ITQ) (Mexico)
- Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (USM) (Chile)
- Università di Bologna (Italy)
- Sapienza Università di Roma (Italy)
- Universidad de Oviedo (Spain)
- Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)
- University College Dublin (Ireland)
Internships abroad
Internships, particularly in 3A and 4A, are also carried out in foreign companies or research laboratories. (Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Great Britain, China, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Taiwan, Australia, Ecuador, USA, Belgium, Turkey, Ivory Coast, Andorra, Togo, Switzerland, Lebanon).
