ENSICA
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The École nationale supérieure d'ingénieurs de constructions aéronautiques (ENSICA), meaning National Higher School of aeronautical constructions, is a French
engineering school founded in 1945. It is located in Toulouse
.
In 2007, Ensica merged with Supaéro to form the ISAE
(Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace). The new university becoming the top level school of aeronautics in France.
Ensica recruits its students from the French "Concours des Grandes Écoles". A competitive examination which requires studies at the "classes préparatoires". Classes préparatoires last two years where students are to work intensively on mathematics and physics.
Studies at Ensica last 3 years where students eventually get a Master in Aeronautics.
Area of studies cover all the fundamentals of aeronautics, including: aerodynamics, structures, fluid dynamics, thermal power, electronics, control theory, airframe systems, IT...
Students are also trained to management, manufacturing, certification, and foreign languages.
This great diversity allows engineers from Ensica to work in all areas of the aeronautical industry, but also in the car industry or computer industry for instance.
Main employers are Airbus, Thales, Dassault, Safran (Sagem, Snecma), Rolls Royce, Astrium, Eurocopter.
In 1957, the school changed its name to the "Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs des Constructions Aéronautiques" (ENICA).The course was extended to three years and the school embarked on its new civil vocation welcoming a higher proportion of civil students.
In 1961, ENICA was transferred to Toulouse, the director at that time being Emile Blouin. It then took on a new dimension and established its identity. In 1969, the school joined the competitive entrance examination system organised by the Ecoles Nationales Supérieures d'Ingénieurs (ENSI). It thus increased its recruitment standards to become one of the leading French schools. This excellence was rewarded in 1979 when it received the Médaille de l'Aéronautique
from Général Georges Bousquet: ENICA then became ENSICA, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Constructions Aéronautiques.
The eighties were marked by a profound diversification in the training courses offered: opening of a "Mastère" degree and an Advanced Studies degree (DEA) in automatic control and mechanics, specialisations in aircraft maintenance and helicopter techniques. ENSICA became the top-listed school for students with pass marks in ENSI competitive entrance examinations and continuously increased the part set aside for research. It also internationalised its training by implementing exchange programmes with English, American and German institutes and universities. In 1994, ENSICA became a public establishment and can now sign, in its own name, agreements and conventions with other organisations and receive research contracts.
Today, ENSICA has a staff of 150 people including 25 scientific directors and almost 700 part-time lecturers. The school can accommodate more than 400 students on the initial training courses and the same number of persons doing further training. The 50th class recently graduated. It included a total of 98 graduates 11 students of which did their third year of studies in a foreign university (USA, Great Britain, Germany and Sweden) and a high number of students who carried out their end of study projects abroad.
The engineer's course lasts three years. On the cutting edge of aerospace knowledge, it provides future engineers with a high capability for adaptation to the different forms that their professions can take in most of the advanced scientific and technical sectors of activity.
ENSICA's target is to train advanced multidisciplinary engineers capable, at outcome, of controlling complex projects within an international context.
The engineers, trained over a period of three years after the preparatory classes or two years upon submission on academic records (for students with a master's degree and military students), are in particular well suited for working in the aerospace sectors.
The ENSICA engineer is capable of specifying a problem, analysing it, modelling it and implementing a method to solve it. They reason by induction and have mastered disciplines such as mechanics, electronics or data processing tools.
Their qualities also include an open mind and a sense of responsibility, a faculty for adaptation and communication, qualities enabling them to rapidly integrate work teams.
A general policy note about research settles its goals and the principles on which it is built.
On this basis, each department defines its policy by harmonising the targets and the components of the “teaching” and “research” activities.
All the departments are composed with a high level scientific staff (the current staff, around 20, is planned be doubled before 2004). The staff is composed by lecturers-researchers with Ph.D's, lecturers and senior lecturers from universities and full professors. They are responsible for the research work and pedagogical engineering, as well as the coordination of the lecturers' teams. By this way, they actively participate in international actions and in industrial relations.
The lecturers come, for one third, from the university and research world, for one fourth from industry and one fourth from the DGA.
Human, economics, social, linguistics and multi-cultural training is under the responsibility of three departments: human and social sciences, sports and languages.
Main departments are Avionics, Mechanical Engineering, Fluid Dynamics and Mathematics
- In the first year a basic training in: Signal processing, Automatic System and Electrical Engineering.
- In avionics the basic training in the area of invariable linear systems and of electrical Engineering, completed by some notions in analysis and probabilities, makes it possible to approach the aspects relative to control, guidance and navigation during the second year.
- In the third year, two advanced itineraries are proposed into the field :
The Department trains at these multidisciplinary itineraries :
Preparation for the post-graduate diplomas DEA (Advanced Studies Diploma) :
These two itineraries allow, respectively, the preparation for the postgraduate diplomas signals-images-acoutics and automatic systems.
The objective is therefore to provide the students with solid foundations and to develop their capacities to analyse mechanisms and structures. The target is also to train them in current scientific methodologies and in mechanism and structure computer design tools.
The Mechanical Engineering courses lasts three years and includes :
- basic training including fundamental knowledge mainly concerning calculation of structures and technological knowledge of mechanisms, manufacturing and materials, - training applied to aeronautics and space; this part increasing progressively throughout the three years.
This common core is complemented, within the scope the third-year optional modules, by courses given at ENSICA for the Mechanical Engineering advanced studies degree and more specialised courses related to aeronautics and space.
The Mechanical Engineering Department also coordinates the school's space activities: this specific space training corresponds to around 250 hours and development is oriented both towards ultralight systems and manned flight engineering.
From these theoretical bases, aeronautical applications are introduced in the second year. They mainly concern:
external aerodynamics plus flight mechanics and handling qualities.
aeronautical turbine engines.
(1) to study the methods for developing programs (specification methods, object-oriented design, structured programming algorithms, testing);
(2) to learn the basics of algorithmics
(3) in-depth study of object programming, and learning an object-oriented methodology that uses UML as modeling notation;
(4) to study the specific features of "Real-Time" applications and systems and of new-generation network architectures in close association with the research work carried out in the department. Practical implementations of theoretical concepts are based on Java language;
ENSICA is co-accredited for issuing the Toulouse Systems Postgraduate School's Computer-based Systems DEAs (Advanced Studies Degrees) in cooperation with UPS science university, INSA and SUPAERO engineering schools, and the Toulouse CS and Telecommunications Postgraduate School's Networks and Telecommunications DEAs in cooperation with INPT engineering school, UPS science university, SUPAERO, INSA, ENST and ENAC
engineering schools.
Foreign partnerships include:
University of Technology Sydney
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Catholic University of Louvain
Université de Sherbrooke
Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal
Nanjing University
Technische Universität München
Universität Stuttgart
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule AACHEN
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Politecnico di Torino
Politecnico di Milano
Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Technology University of Delft
Warsaw University of Technology
Lublin Technical University
Polytechnical University of Bucharest
Military Technical Academy
Samara State Aerospace University
Perm State Technical University
St Petersburg State University
National University of Singapour
Nanyang Technological University
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid CETSEI
Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya ETSEIB - ETSEIAT
Universidad de Sevilla
Kungl Tekniska Högskolan
Cranfield University
Imperial College
University of Bristol
University of Southampton
University of Glasgow
State University of New York at Buffalo
Louisiana State University
University of Wisconsin Madison
University of Maryland at College Park
Syracuse University
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
engineering school founded in 1945. It is located in Toulouse
Toulouse
Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...
.
In 2007, Ensica merged with Supaéro to form the ISAE
ISAE
The Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace or ISAE is the name for the French aerospace engineering school in Toulouse part of University of Toulouse and Aerospace Valley, resulting from the so called "rapprochement" between SUPAERO and ENSICA...
(Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace). The new university becoming the top level school of aeronautics in France.
Ensica recruits its students from the French "Concours des Grandes Écoles". A competitive examination which requires studies at the "classes préparatoires". Classes préparatoires last two years where students are to work intensively on mathematics and physics.
Studies at Ensica last 3 years where students eventually get a Master in Aeronautics.
Area of studies cover all the fundamentals of aeronautics, including: aerodynamics, structures, fluid dynamics, thermal power, electronics, control theory, airframe systems, IT...
Students are also trained to management, manufacturing, certification, and foreign languages.
This great diversity allows engineers from Ensica to work in all areas of the aeronautical industry, but also in the car industry or computer industry for instance.
Main employers are Airbus, Thales, Dassault, Safran (Sagem, Snecma), Rolls Royce, Astrium, Eurocopter.
History
The decree giving birth to the "Ecole Nationale des Travaux Aéronautiques" (ENTA) was signed in 1945. The text was then ratified by Charles de Gaulle, president of the temporary government, and by René Pleven, Finance Minister. There were 25 students in the first class and 24 of them joined the "Ingénieurs Militaires des Travaux de l'Air" (IMTA).In 1957, the school changed its name to the "Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs des Constructions Aéronautiques" (ENICA).The course was extended to three years and the school embarked on its new civil vocation welcoming a higher proportion of civil students.
In 1961, ENICA was transferred to Toulouse, the director at that time being Emile Blouin. It then took on a new dimension and established its identity. In 1969, the school joined the competitive entrance examination system organised by the Ecoles Nationales Supérieures d'Ingénieurs (ENSI). It thus increased its recruitment standards to become one of the leading French schools. This excellence was rewarded in 1979 when it received the Médaille de l'Aéronautique
Médaille de l'Aéronautique
The Médaille de l'Aéronautique is an order of merit created on 14 February 1945.-History:Before the Second World War, it was envisioned to create an award similar to the Order of Maritime Merit, an Order of Merit, Air, intended for personal civil and military aeronautics. But the war put an end to...
from Général Georges Bousquet: ENICA then became ENSICA, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Constructions Aéronautiques.
The eighties were marked by a profound diversification in the training courses offered: opening of a "Mastère" degree and an Advanced Studies degree (DEA) in automatic control and mechanics, specialisations in aircraft maintenance and helicopter techniques. ENSICA became the top-listed school for students with pass marks in ENSI competitive entrance examinations and continuously increased the part set aside for research. It also internationalised its training by implementing exchange programmes with English, American and German institutes and universities. In 1994, ENSICA became a public establishment and can now sign, in its own name, agreements and conventions with other organisations and receive research contracts.
Today, ENSICA has a staff of 150 people including 25 scientific directors and almost 700 part-time lecturers. The school can accommodate more than 400 students on the initial training courses and the same number of persons doing further training. The 50th class recently graduated. It included a total of 98 graduates 11 students of which did their third year of studies in a foreign university (USA, Great Britain, Germany and Sweden) and a high number of students who carried out their end of study projects abroad.
Missions
A public establishment under the auspices of the Ministry of Defence, ENSICA gives very high-level technological teaching courses for civil and military engineering students and offers a very complete range of training:- "Diplôme d'Ingenieur" (engineer's diploma) course;
- training for and through scientific research;
- a set of "Mastère SpécialiséMastère SpécialiséThe Mastère Spécialisé, also called the Specialized Master or Advanced Master is a French post-graduate program created in 1986 by the French Conférence des Grandes Écoles....
" courses; - further education courses;
- research.
The engineer's course lasts three years. On the cutting edge of aerospace knowledge, it provides future engineers with a high capability for adaptation to the different forms that their professions can take in most of the advanced scientific and technical sectors of activity.
- Profiles and missions of ENSICA's engineers:
ENSICA's target is to train advanced multidisciplinary engineers capable, at outcome, of controlling complex projects within an international context.
The engineers, trained over a period of three years after the preparatory classes or two years upon submission on academic records (for students with a master's degree and military students), are in particular well suited for working in the aerospace sectors.
The ENSICA engineer is capable of specifying a problem, analysing it, modelling it and implementing a method to solve it. They reason by induction and have mastered disciplines such as mechanics, electronics or data processing tools.
Their qualities also include an open mind and a sense of responsibility, a faculty for adaptation and communication, qualities enabling them to rapidly integrate work teams.
Departments of Ensica
At ENSICA, research and training are well and truly integrated into the four training and research departments: avionics and systems, mechanical engineering, fluid mechanics, applied mathematics and computer science.A general policy note about research settles its goals and the principles on which it is built.
On this basis, each department defines its policy by harmonising the targets and the components of the “teaching” and “research” activities.
All the departments are composed with a high level scientific staff (the current staff, around 20, is planned be doubled before 2004). The staff is composed by lecturers-researchers with Ph.D's, lecturers and senior lecturers from universities and full professors. They are responsible for the research work and pedagogical engineering, as well as the coordination of the lecturers' teams. By this way, they actively participate in international actions and in industrial relations.
The lecturers come, for one third, from the university and research world, for one fourth from industry and one fourth from the DGA.
Human, economics, social, linguistics and multi-cultural training is under the responsibility of three departments: human and social sciences, sports and languages.
Main departments are Avionics, Mechanical Engineering, Fluid Dynamics and Mathematics
Avionics
The Avionics & Systems Department develop :- In the first year a basic training in: Signal processing, Automatic System and Electrical Engineering.
- In avionics the basic training in the area of invariable linear systems and of electrical Engineering, completed by some notions in analysis and probabilities, makes it possible to approach the aspects relative to control, guidance and navigation during the second year.
- In the third year, two advanced itineraries are proposed into the field :
- Signals - Communications
- Control - Avionics
The Department trains at these multidisciplinary itineraries :
- Aircraft system
- Space systems
- Control - Guidance
- Radar - Telecommunications
Preparation for the post-graduate diplomas DEA (Advanced Studies Diploma) :
- Signals - images - acoustics
- automatics systems.
These two itineraries allow, respectively, the preparation for the postgraduate diplomas signals-images-acoutics and automatic systems.
Taught subjects
- Functional approach of electronics and electric engineering
- Strong theorical bases of signal processing allowing a use in image processing, radar and telecommunications.
- Optics and optronics bases.
- Antennas and radars theories and applications in the aeronautical and spatial domains.
- Approach of real-time systems based on a concrete system built on a micro controller.
- Finally, control : from modelisation and control of simple processes to applied advanced methods in the aeronautical domain.
Mechanical engineering
The aim of the Mechanical Engineering Department's curriculum is to provide the students with basic knowledge in mechanics indispensable for their future jobs as engineers and this within a multidisciplinary aerospace training framework.The objective is therefore to provide the students with solid foundations and to develop their capacities to analyse mechanisms and structures. The target is also to train them in current scientific methodologies and in mechanism and structure computer design tools.
The Mechanical Engineering courses lasts three years and includes :
- basic training including fundamental knowledge mainly concerning calculation of structures and technological knowledge of mechanisms, manufacturing and materials, - training applied to aeronautics and space; this part increasing progressively throughout the three years.
This common core is complemented, within the scope the third-year optional modules, by courses given at ENSICA for the Mechanical Engineering advanced studies degree and more specialised courses related to aeronautics and space.
The Mechanical Engineering Department also coordinates the school's space activities: this specific space training corresponds to around 250 hours and development is oriented both towards ultralight systems and manned flight engineering.
Fluid Dynamics
The courses given by the Fluid Mechanics Department concern the thermodynamics of irreversible processes and continuum mechanics. The courses in these two disciplines are given in the first year and are completed by a basic fluid mechanics course (general equations of the movement of a Newtonian fluid and inviscid fluid movements). In the second year, the studies concern the flow of incompressible viscous fluids and compressible inviscid fluids dealing with the boundary layer, shock wave and turbulence phenomena with complements in unsteady fluid hypersonic and mechanical phenomena.From these theoretical bases, aeronautical applications are introduced in the second year. They mainly concern:
external aerodynamics plus flight mechanics and handling qualities.
aeronautical turbine engines.
Mathematics
The goal of the applied mathematics courses is to bring the students to acquire the skills that will enable them to master the methods that are useful for resolving concrete problems. Given a particular problem, it is a question of developing the capacities for constructing an appropriate model, mastering the numerical aspects of its solution and appreciating its limits. Computer-based implementation is an integral part of this training. The CS teaching highlights the general, high-level concepts that will enable the future engineers to adapt to change in CS techniques and methods. The goals of CS training are:(1) to study the methods for developing programs (specification methods, object-oriented design, structured programming algorithms, testing);
(2) to learn the basics of algorithmics
(3) in-depth study of object programming, and learning an object-oriented methodology that uses UML as modeling notation;
(4) to study the specific features of "Real-Time" applications and systems and of new-generation network architectures in close association with the research work carried out in the department. Practical implementations of theoretical concepts are based on Java language;
ENSICA is co-accredited for issuing the Toulouse Systems Postgraduate School's Computer-based Systems DEAs (Advanced Studies Degrees) in cooperation with UPS science university, INSA and SUPAERO engineering schools, and the Toulouse CS and Telecommunications Postgraduate School's Networks and Telecommunications DEAs in cooperation with INPT engineering school, UPS science university, SUPAERO, INSA, ENST and ENAC
ENAC
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engineering schools.
Training periods and international perspectives
During the 3 years, students of Ensica have the opportunity of studying one year abroad or make a one-year additional training period in a company.Foreign partnerships include:
- Australia
University of Technology Sydney
- Belgium
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
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Catholic University of Louvain
- Canada
Université de Sherbrooke
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Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal
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- China
Nanjing University
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- Germany
Technische Universität München
Universität Stuttgart
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule AACHEN
Technische Universität Braunschweig
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- Italy
Politecnico di Torino
Politecnico di Milano
- Mexico
Instituto Politécnico Nacional
- Nederlands
Technology University of Delft
- Poland
Warsaw University of Technology
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Lublin Technical University
- Romania
Polytechnical University of Bucharest
Military Technical Academy
- Russia
Samara State Aerospace University
Perm State Technical University
St Petersburg State University
- Singapore
National University of Singapour
Nanyang Technological University
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- Spain
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid CETSEI
Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya ETSEIB - ETSEIAT
Universidad de Sevilla
- Sweden
Kungl Tekniska Högskolan
- United Kingdom
Cranfield University
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Louisiana State University
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