MSc Electrical Energy Systems
Toulouse, France
MSc
DURATION
2 years
LANGUAGES
French
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
EUR 9,018 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* fees reduced to €5,389/year for academic partners, european students, students from some developing countries, and selected students on a merit basis
Key Summary
This program is provided by Toulouse INP
This education program is dedicated to Electrical Energy Systems with special focus on industrial applications.
The lectures and projects are dispatched in 3 separated paths: Power Electronics and Grids, Electrodynamic and Mechatronics, New Technologies of Energy.
Major themes
Mechatronics, power electronics, electrical grids, renewable energy, sustainable design.
Aims of the program
This program enables students to acquire new skills related to the production, storage, transmission, conversion (including electromechanical conversion) and use of electrical energy.
The high-level teaching team, whose members belong to the LAPLACE, LAAS and LGC research laboratories, teaches students the design of power systems (dimensioning and control): static converters, electromechanical converters, mixed energy configurations, including renewable energies, transport and autonomous networks (smartgrids). This design approach is based on analytical system modeling, numerical optimization and simulation, considering couplings and interactions between system parts. Aspects of sustainability and efficiency are also taken into account.
The courses are supported by numerous group projects designed to help students apply theoretical knowledge.
Research Institutions and Industrial Partners
All lecturers are researchers of the laboratories affiliated with the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS): Plasma and Energy Conversion Laboratory (LAPLACE), Chemical Engineering Laboratory (LGC) and Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems (LAAS).
A significant number of lectures and projects are carried out with the participation of Industrial R&D partners such as Airbus, Safran, Schneider Electric, Thales ALENIA SPACE, Actia, Continental, EDF, GDF, SUEZ, CEA, ADEME, Liebherr Aerospace, Airbus Defense Space, SNCF, automotive & railways industry. Relationships with industry are strengthened by industrial projects and six-month long internships.
Focus
- Masters of Science are national degrees fully accredited by the French ministry of higher education.
- Further studies: PhD program (3 years).
- All MSc Degree holders are allowable to take a step forward in the academic track to get the PhD degree.
- Pre-requisite: Bachelor’s degree.
- Holders of a Master’s degree can directly enter the second year under conditions.
- Toulouse INP and INSA Toulouse welcome many international students each year and are more than happy to help them for practical and administrative formalities.
- Tool’Box pack will take care of you from A to Z : You can get the « essentiel » pack with all options (except for guided tour) or « cité internationale » pack.
Toulouse INP offers scholarships through a reduction of fees.
Students can apply to different scholarship programs (governmental scholarships, European student mobility programs, French Eiffel and French embassies’ scholarship programs, and training support programs from private foundations and companies).
Semester 1 (M1 – 30 ECTS credits): Adaptation Semester
Reinforced French Language for nonnative speakers and learning in main fields:
- Electrical Machines
- Design and Synthesis of Power Converters
- Electrical Grids
- Control of Linear Systems
- Soft and Human Skills
Semester 2 (M1 – 30 ECTS credits): First Orientations
Common program:
- Nonlinear Control of the Systems
- Architecture and Control of Electrical Systems
- Real Time Control
- Soft and Human Skills
A choice of two programs:
- First program: Mechatronic Systems
- Materials for Actuation
- Analytical Tools and Physics of Mechatronics
- Materials for Actuation
- Analytical Tools and Physics of Mechatronics
- Second program: Electrical Systems of the Future
- Design of Static Converters
- Renewable Energies and FACTS
- Design of Static Converters
- Renewable Energies and FACTS
Summer M1-M2 (mid-June - mid-September)
- Optional internship in Academic Research Laboratories or in Research & Development Industrial Centers (2-3 months), Research or Technical Project.
Semester 3 (M2 – 30 ECTS credits): a choice of three Programs
First program: Advanced Power Electronics
- Systems and Power Grids
- Design of Static Converters
- Advanced Systems and Static Converters
- Actuators and Generators
- Smart Grids and Micro Grids
- Soft & Human Skills
Second Program: Electrodynamics and Mechatronics
- Physics for Mechatronics
- Numerical Methods and Optimization
- Design of Electromechanical Systems
- Architecture of Mechatronic Systems
- Applied Mechatronics
- Soft & Human Skills
Third Program: New Energy Technologies
- Systemic Design
- Storage and Hydrogen Vector
- Renewable Energies
- General Formation
Semester 4 (M2 – 30 ECTS credits): Practical semester
- Long Project of 6 weeks in the areas of academic or industrial researches,
- Diploma Internship, i.e. “End-of-study Project ”: 6 months in Academic Research Laboratories or in Industry Research & Development Centers – legally paid internship.
- Academic Researches: 30% of graduate students continue with a PhD.
- Industrial Researches & Development in:
- Companies of Energy Production and Transfer and also Transport Companies (EDF, SCLE, RTE, SNCF, …);
- Manufacturers of Power Equipment: power generators, storage elements, power converters, propulsion actuators; (NIDEC, SCHNEIDER ELECTRICS, SOCOMEC, ALSTOM, GENERAL ELECTRICS, INGETEAM, CAPSIM, …);
- Industry related to transport: aeronautic, space, vehicular, railway, ships, automotive (AIRBUS, SAFRAN, THALES, LIEBHERR, ACTIA, RENAULT, VITESCO, ALSTOM, CONTINENTAL, NAVAL GROUP, …).
- Companies of Energy Production and Transfer and also Transport Companies (EDF, SCLE, RTE, SNCF, …);
- Manufacturers of Power Equipment: power generators, storage elements, power converters, propulsion actuators; (NIDEC, SCHNEIDER ELECTRICS, SOCOMEC, ALSTOM, GENERAL ELECTRICS, INGETEAM, CAPSIM, …);
- Industry related to transport: aeronautic, space, vehicular, railway, ships, automotive (AIRBUS, SAFRAN, THALES, LIEBHERR, ACTIA, RENAULT, VITESCO, ALSTOM, CONTINENTAL, NAVAL GROUP, …).
Language: Lectures taught in French - support documents usually provided in English