Presentation MMS
Background
The Masters in “Mechanics of Materials and Structures” is a research-based programme on the mechanical modelling of heterogeneous composite materials based on the properties of their constituents, with applications in the fields of civil engineering, mechanical engineering and industry in general.
It prepares students for careers in major research institutions, research centres and university research departments, for careers in R&D in businesses and service providers, and in engineering and consultancy.It is associated with the following technological fields:mechanical industry in general, civil engineering structures, transport systems, the development of industrial products through materials processing, energy production and processing.
Objectives
The main objective of this research Masters on the “Mechanics of Materials and Structures” is to provide a full research programme on Mechanics of Materials and Mechanics of Structures for students in the Marne-la-Vallée Polytechnicum, whose associated higher education establishments are Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (UPEMLV) and École nationale des ponts et chaussées.
The Masters in “Mechanics of Materials and Structures” gives students a high-level theoretical and practical grounding in modelling and numerical simulation in the following fields of mechanics:
- mechanics of solids and structural mechanics,
- mechanics and physics of heterogeneous materials,
reflecting the current concerns of industry, the short-term and medium-term challenges raised by technological research and the sector’s long-term research issues.
Benefits
The main focus of the “Materials” programme is to train students in the mechanical modelling, from the properties of their constituents, of materials and structural elements that are an assembly of several constituents, and are small in size relative to the macroscopic scale.This applies to Civil Engineering materials and structures, materials and structural elements in industrial mechanical structures, mechanical engineering, etc. Examples of such materials are cements, saturated soils, multilayer composite structures (resin-fibre, glue-laminated wood, steel-elastomer).
Openings
This Masters programme prepares students for
- Research careers in major research institutions, research centres, University research departments;
- for Research and Development careers in companies and service firms.
It can also lead to immediate entry into employment and to PhD research.The sectors particularly concerned are:
- the cement industry,
- Civil Engineering buildings and structures,
- the development of new materials,
- tools for the physical investigation of materials.