Master Aerospace Engineering - Applied Sciences, Ecole Centrale Paris

Applied Sciences M1 Processes, Environment and Biotechnologies M2 M2 Nano-sciences M2 Dynamics, Structures, Materials & Coupled Systems M2 Aerospace Engineering M2 Civil Engineering and Environment

M2 Aerospace Engineering

The Aerospace Engineering specialization of the Applied Sciences field prepares its graduates for research-oriented activities. It targets scientific and technical R&D positions in the aeronautics and space industries. This training is thus designed for careers in academic and industrial research centers, engineering departments and consulting, and higher education.

Pedagogy
This Master's program is organized around a common core of 4 blocks of 4 ECTS each-covering fluid dynamics and turbulence, propulsion and aerodynamics, numerical simulation and applied mathematics, and reactive media-as well as a dedicated training in English of 4 ECTS, designed in conjunction with the Language Department. The Master includes 12 ECTS of methodological courses distributed over both M2 semesters as well as a project, which confronts students directly to research questions in the first semester.
Students take a combination of 4 elective courses, chosen from among 11, over both semesters so as to diversify the curriculum and allow for the multidisciplinary approach necessary to the development of research in the field of aerospace engineering. Three emphases are possible- Control and Systems, Mechanics of Structures, and In-Depth Mechanics-but these depend more on the student choices than on preset curricula.

Career Opportunities
This specialization prepares students for either immediate professional placement or further doctoral study, in any of the technological domains of the aerospace industry: from the design and optimization of aerospace launchers to the control of satellite trajectories, the aerodynamic design of drones, and the modeling and simulation of turbulent combustion in turbo-reactor combustion chambers.
Job opportunities are enhanced by the program's close contacts with major companies in the related industries: SNECMA Moteurs, Grosse propulsion (SAFRAN Group), Dassault, EADS Group: Astrium, Airbus, Eurocopter, MDBA, and ST.
Graduates pursue careers in engineering and research at innovative small and medium size enterprises, large companies, research institutions, and in higher education.
- Aeronautics industry
- Automobile, rail, and maritime industries
- Energy
Partner Laboratories
- Molecular & Macroscopic Energetics and Combustion Laboratory (UPR 288), Centrale Paris,
- Mechanics, Structures and Materials Laboratory Laboratory (UMR 8579), Centrale Paris,
- Control Engineering Department and Control Engineering Hosting Team (EA 1399), Supélec,
- ONERA-DEFA / DSNA / DAFE / DAAP Departments, Châtillon and Palaiseau,
- Aerothermochemistry Interprofessional Research Complex, CORIA - UMR 6614, INSA Rouen and the University of Rouen.
This specialization includes courses offered in common with the 3rd-year Aerospace Engineering and Energy options at Centrale Paris, as well as with the DSMSC Specialization.

Program

The M2 is divided into two semesters of 30 ECTS each. The common core of 4 required courses is taken in the first semester:

Common Core
- Fluid Dynamics and Turbulence
- Propulsion or Aerodynamics
- Reactive Media
- Applied Mathematics and Numerical Simulation
Elective Courses

Students select 4 elective courses from the list below. Other elective courses may be selected from other specializations at École Centrale Paris.
- Digital Control Laboratory
- Materials for Aeronautic and Energetic Applications
- Structure Mechanics (3 modules: Vibrations and Structures, Numerical Mechanics of Solids, and one case study)
- Flight Mechanics
- Satellite Dynamics
- Systems Control
- Advanced Aerodynamics
- Compressible and Supersonic Flows
- Acoustics
- Algorithmics and Programming
- Aeroacoustics
- Introduction to Instabilities and Bifurcations in Fluid Mechanics
- Diphasic Flows
Language
- English
Methodological Activities
- Multidisciplinary Synthesis Project
  Students select two modules from among the following three:
  - Acquisition and Numerical Signal Processing
  - Numerical Signal Processing
  - Optical Diagnoses and Experimental Techniques
Internship
- Internship at a research unit
Students also have the option of following a systems curriculum (control and control engineering) at the Control Engineering Department at Supélec.

Career Opportunities

This specialization prepares students for either immediate professional placement or further doctoral study, in any of the technological domains of the aerospace industry: from the design and optimization of aerospace launchers to the control of satellite trajectories, the aerodynamic design of drones, and the modeling and simulation of turbulent combustion in turbo-reactor combustion chambers.
Job opportunities are enhanced by the program's close contacts with major companies in the related industries: SNECMA Moteurs, Grosse propulsion (SAFRAN Group), Dassault, EADS Group: Astrium, Airbus, Eurocopter, MDBA, and ST.
Graduates pursue careers in engineering and research at innovative small and medium size enterprises, large companies, research institutions, and in higher education.

Aeronautics industry
Automobile, rail, and maritime industries
Energy

Partner Laboratories

Molecular & Macroscopic Energetics and Combustion Laboratory (UPR 288), Centrale Paris,
Mechanics, Structures and Materials Laboratory Laboratory (UMR 8579), Centrale Paris,
Control Engineering Department and Control Engineering Hosting Team (EA 1399), Supélec,
ONERA-DEFA / DSNA / DAFE / DAAP Departments, Châtillon and Palaiseau,
Aerothermochemistry Interprofessional Research Complex, CORIA - UMR 6614, INSA Rouen and the University of Rouen.

This specialization includes courses offered in common with the 3rd-year Aerospace Engineering and Energy options at Centrale Paris, as well as with the DSMSC Specialization.