Advanced Master in Railway and Urban Transport System Engineering
Background
The rapid growth in the railway sector has prompted constructors and operators to turn to the grandes Ecoles to create a high-level educational programme aimed at engineers, project managers or executives likely to work in the railway or urban transport sector.
With a highly international content and recruitment base, the programme of this Advanced Masters is equally divided between academic classes and courses taught by top-level professionals. It delivers an Advanced Masters degree accredited by the Conférence des Grandes Écoles.
More information and how to apply
This Executive Masters - Mastère Spécialisé®in STFU is entirely taught in French.
Objectives
Are you an engineer or manager in the rail sector? The Advanced Masters programme will give you an overview of rail and guided transport systems, incorporating the technical, economic, institutional and regulatory aspects from France and Europe.
The course covers the whole field of urban and interurban passenger transport, as well as freight transport.
Programme / Topics covered
- Rail sector actors and institutions
- Transportation project design and systems engineering
- Operations, crisis management
- Transportation economics and demand analysis
- Civil engineering, Infrastructure and maintenance
- Signalling, command-control, safety
- Rolling stock
- Urban and regional transportation
- Freight and logistics
Course structure
The course is a 15-month study/work program (Executive Sandwich Format).
- Core curriculum - 300 hoursminimum
- Mini-Dissertation: design of an international transport project
- Trip abroad and site visits
- Professional internship*/assignment (*minimum 16 weeks for non-working students without professional experience).
- Professional thesis and defence
- Optional advanced modules - 150 hours
September to July: on average 1 to 2 weeks of courses per month (average 1 to 2 weeks a month, alternating with work).
From July: full-time professional assignment until December.
Professional thesis
Some examples of professional theses
- Project to integrate and validate the autonomous ground-based charging solution for the Nice tramline - Gweltas Guibe (Alstom)
- Metro modernisation RATP style: lessons from lines 3, 5 and 13 - Laure Girard (RATP)
- Optimization of TVM slowing sequences and introduction of LTV on HSR - Antoine Grassien (SNCF)
Success criteria
- Modules.
- Mini-dissertation.
- Professional thesis.
- 75 ECTS* (30 for the professional thesis).
Course venues
Most of the program takes place in Île-de-France at:
École nationale des ponts et chaussées
Cité Descartes-Champs-sur-Marne
6 et 8 avenue Blaise-Pascal
77 455 Marne-la-Vallée
As well as at INSA HdF in Valenciennes and at UTC in Compiègne.
