Core training
This speciality’s objective is to provide student engineers with a wide range of abilities in electronics. The training is solidly based on analog and digital techniques and leads in the third year to the study of complex applications. It is made up of:

• Electronic engineering: components and electronic functions, logic and programmable logic, microprocessors, integrated circuits, master/slave systems, interfaces;
• Computer engineering: microprocessor architecture, methodologies for the design of industrial and real-time systems;
• Transmission and data processing: sound and pictures, analog and digital communications on fixed and mobile networks, transmission protocols;
• Software engineering: algorithms and programming (imperative, object and functional), database structures, distributed algorithms, object-oriented design;
• Information systems and networks: centralised and distributed operating systems, communication protocols;
• Advanced applications: embedded systems, design of complex systems on a chip (SOC), radio-communications, pattern recognition.

Third Year Options

• Embedded systems
• Computer systems
• Master of Science: Signals and Telecoms & Radar

Core training
This speciality aims to train computer engineers to master the technology of systems and networks, methods and tools of software engineering and computer systems.

• Software engineering;
• Computer architecture and operating systems;
• Internet networks and the technologies.
• Within this framework, the spectrum of training ranges from the high level hardware layers (the component level) to software applications.
• The hardware aspects of information technology: foundations of electronics, components, logic, microprocessors, architecture, design of ASICs, VHDL, interfacing;
• Networks and communications: signal processing, digital communications, networks and protocols, security;
• Operating systems: Unix, centralised, distributed and real-time operating systems, security;
• Algorithms and programming techniques: programming (imperative, functional, logic and object), data structures, distributed algorithms, compilers, internet programming;
• Modelling: entity-relationship approach, UML, real time, XML representation, formal derivation using B, specification of reactive systems;
• Application software: artificial intelligence, data mining and machine learning, databases, multimedia, man/machine dialogue.

Third Year Options

• Engineering of communication systems
• Engineering of information and systems
• Master of Computer Science

This speciality aims to train engineers to become highly skilled in science and technology in order to design and create optronic systems, the two main areas of application being optical telecommunications and optical systems for industry. This means that the students are given training in modern optronics using the most up to date constituents such as lasers, optoelectronic components, optical fibres, optical sensors and various elements. Complementary skills in industrial computing, signal processing and computer science allow the students to master the design of complex systems.

Core training

• Physics of components and systems: optical engineering, atomic physics, laser physics, optical communications, opto-electronic components and image processing
• Electronics of optronic systems: analog electronics, signals and systems, servo-controls, laser dynamics, imaging and processing, commands of lasers, electromagnetic compatibility

Third Year Options

• Industrial optical systems: instrumentation optics, tests and measurement optics, laser diagnostics
• Optical communication systems: modulation and transmission techniques, networks
• Master of Science in Photonics and information processing