ADVANCED MASTER'S

Duration

16 months

Admission

Engineer (civil, construction, mechanical)

Internship

4 months minimum

Status

Full-time or continuous education

Course offered in collaboration with the CHEC (Centre for Higher Studies in Construction). Classes are held mainly in Paris on the CHEC premises

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THE COURSE

This CHEC/ENSTIB course brings students the in-depth knowledge and know-how to fulfill construction companies’ needs for top-level engineers. The teaching methods are corporate-oriented and the faculty is comprised of professionally active engineers and senior executives.

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AIMS

To train high-level specialists to be immediately operational in the design and dimensioning of major works built for a large part in wood (blocks of flats, engineering structures, commercial buildings, sports halls, etc.).

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PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

Graduates are operational immediately and can take charge of highly technical work in companies and engineering offices when straight out of the School. There are more job offers than graduates for each class and permanent demand in high responsibility positions at all stages of construction, both nationally and internationally.

ENSTIB and CHEC alumni associations publish a directory and provide a career path service.

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HOW THE COURSE IS ORGANISED

The programme is organized in two phases. The first phase, starting on the first Monday of September and ending in June of the following year, entails nearly 900 teaching hours. Between May and the end of June, students carry out a realistic ‘project’ (from design to calculation). This is a major piece of personal work lasting about a month, interspersed with a few supervised sessions, and culminating in a defence at the CHEC premises. The second phase is spent on personal work prepared as part of an in-company assignment, culminating in the defence of a professional dissertation (or professional thesis). This phase lasts at least four months, and the presentation takes place in Épinal in mid-December.

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PROGRAMME

13 ECTS
234h

THEORY TRAINING
Materials solidity / Finished parts modelling / Structural dynamics / Structural instability / Project tools / Fissure rupture

10 ECTS
183h

STRUCTURE DIMENSIONING
Calculating actions on structures / Metal structure instability / Plasticity calculation / Steel components design and assembly / Post bases / Eurocode 3 / Seismic engineering / Multi-material structures

7 ECTS
138h

HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Construction history and architecture / Eco construction / Construction law / Technical English / Regulations and norms

15 ECTS
339h

WOOD STRUCTURE DESIGN
High-rise buildings / Enclosing and covering / Mechanical and physical properties of wood / Design and behaviour of structures / Wooden building systems / Wood dimensioning regulations

15 ECTS
300h

PROJECTS
Design and dimensioning of a building

30 ECTS
4 months minimum

INTERNSHIP
Engineering offices : Design studies, Implementation studies, Specific development

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THE CENTRE FOR HIGHER STUDIES IN CONSTRUCTION

The CHEC was founded in 1957 by the Building and Civil Engineering federations with a view to enabling young graduates to gain the skills required to carry out a construction project and to be prepared for actual real-life work, including the design of highly technical structures.

It is a private, state-accredited, higher technological education institute and has trained approximately 5,000 engineers including some 1,000 foreign students from over 60 countries.

Find out more on www.chec.fr

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TESTIMONIALS

After my engineering course at ENSTIB between 2011 and 2014, I did an Advanced Master’s year in 2015. I was offered a contract immediately upon leave the School.
Now I work for Khepren Engineering, an engineering and design office that promotes mixed materials (the right material for the right place). I’m their wood design specialist.
The training I received, first at ENSTIB and then on the Advanced Master’s course, was just perfect. ENSTIB gave me a thorough overview of wood as a material and the Advanced Master’s course gave me in-depth knowledge of materials solidity as well as an insight into other building materials.
I have really good memories of the clubs and societies, particularly Avenir Bois, which let me carry on working with wood with my hands and to get into project and business management with a great team.

Romain Munsch
Advanced master class of 2015

I took the course between 2014 and 2015 and I didn’t really have to look for a job afterwards, because I already had several offers and ideas to follow up even before the end of the school year.
Now I’m doing a PhD at the LERMAB Laboratory at the University of Lorraine. There’s no direct link between my former training course and my PhD, but having worked for a year between the start of my thesis and the end of my studies, I can confirm that the Advanced Master’s course is perfectly in line with structural engineer positions in design offices.
I did my engineer course via an apprenticeship with the Mines Higher National School of Technology and Engineering in Alès and the course undeniably offers young engineers an incredible opportunity to work on major projects, such as the MIRAMAS stadium and high-rise wooden buildings.
I fondly remember my end-of-year project with four colleagues, where we had to calculate the dimensions of a large building!

Thibault Benistand
Advanced master class of 2015