French Engineering Pathway
La Rochelle, France
DURATION
10 Months
LANGUAGES
French, English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
20 Aug 2025
EARLIEST START DATE
02 Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
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STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
Introduction
French engineering schools are renowned for their premium training programs. By enrolling at CESI, students prepare for engineering in many rapidly evolving sectors:
- industrial engineering and construction (additive manufacturing, Building Information Modelling, eco-design, innovation, lean manufacturing...)
- digital sciences (systems, networks, cybersecurity, embedded systems, data science, artificial intelligence...).
As a result, they can envisage a wide variety of engineering functions: research and development, design, production, maintenance, quality, safety, technical and sales support, project management, etc. All these functions incorporate the digital tools included in the training program, to ensure total control of the data managed in corporate information systems. In the context of climate disturbances, the environmental aspect is very present in all course subjects, in order to adopt an eco-responsible conduct in any professional activity.
With the French Engineering Pathway, foreign students dedicate one year to adapting to the French culture, fully grasping the school’s teaching methods, and further developing their essential knowledge in order to continue their studies with the Master’s Degree in Engineering or the Master’s Degree in Computer Science.
What will students be able to do in a Company?
At the end of this training, students will be able to apply their knowledge to missions typically entrusted to a beginner technician: simple technical studies, typical applications of no complexity, tests, and controls...
The Assessment System
The assessment system is based on continuous monitoring.
Subjects are divided into different Learning Units; Each unit corresponds to a given number of ECTS credits.
The training covers a full academic year and corresponds to 60 credits. Students must have passed all their learning units and obtained their ECTS credits for successfully completing this training.
Admissions
Curriculum
Mathematics (4 h/week)
- Uncertainty calculations, study of functions, trigonometry, integrals, differential equations, plane geometry, complex numbers, polynomials, vectors, matrices, relational algebra and set theory, statistics and probability
Physical Sciences (4 h/week)
- Applying the fundamental principles of electricity: Ohm’s law, Kirchhoff’s laws, Norton’s theorem, voltage divider bridges, direct and alternating currents, designing a circuit using the basic electronic components
- Understanding and implementing the basic principles of algorithmics: discovering and practicing the basics of procedural programming
- Applying the fundamental principles of mechanics: statics, rectilinear and circular motion, forces, mechanical and kinetic energy, moments
- Discovering and implementing signal processing techniques: signal theory, filters, waves, coding, basics of network communications
- Knowing the first principle of thermodynamics, the basics of Heat Science, the theory of beams, dimensioning and resistance calculation
Electives (4 h/week)
- Students choose the area in which they wish to deepen their knowledge:
- Computer Science: object-oriented design and programming, networks and systems, web development
- Construction: buildings, civil works
- Industry: solid mechanics; fluid mechanics, mechanical design
- Embedded Systems: radio electricity, electronics, microcontroller programming
- Computer Science: object-oriented design and programming, networks and systems, web development
- Construction: buildings, civil works
- Industry: solid mechanics; fluid mechanics, mechanical design
- Embedded Systems: radio electricity, electronics, microcontroller programming
- These modules are carried out under an inverted teaching method: students work in groups and must solve a given problem using resources that are available to them or that they find for themselves.
Languages (4 h/week)
- Developing the ability to express oneself clearly and flawlessly (in English or in French) orally and in writing
Preparation for the engineering program (2 h/week)
- Introduction to engineering skills: analysis and problem-solving methods, communication, professional ethics
- Companies and their role in society: sustainable development, ecological and digital transitions, CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility)
- Project for further studies: building one’s project, looking for suitable training, drafting the project, taking action Integration at CESI: the requirements of an engineering school, active teaching methods, individualized training path, financial aspects
- Company search techniques: professional project, job search tools, professional posture
Program Admission Requirements
Demonstrate your commitment and readiness to succeed in business school by taking the GMAT exam – the most widely used exam for admissions that measures your critical thinking and reasoning skills.
Download the GMAT mini quiz to get a flavour of the questions you’ll find in the exam.