The Blois and Bourges campuses

INSA Centre Val de Loire is made up of two campuses: the Blois campus in the Loir-et-Cher department and the Bourges campus in the Cher department, both located in the Centre-Val de Loire region.

Blois campus

The Blois campus offers engineering courses with the Industrial Systems Engineering (GSI) department, and landscape architect courses with the School for Nature and Landscape (ENP).

Engineering courses

Industrial systems engineering (GSI) department

The aim of this cross-training in the engineering sciences is to train engineers who are capable of taking on the industrial production activity in its entirety – including R&D, manufacturing and the “support” professions (QHSE, maintenance, purchasing, etc.).

The course is based on 4 main scientific fields :

  • Industrial data processing and Electrical engineering
    (automatic control, electronics, electrotechnology, signal processing, IT, etc.)
  • Mechanical engineering
    (CAD, fluid, structural and continuum mechanics, etc.)
  • Mechatronics
    (Mechanics, electronics, automatic control and IT for the design and manufacture of new products)
  • Industrial systems management
    (maintenance, methods, automated production, quality, environment, dependability, etc.).
     

5 options:

  • Industrial Purchases Engineering (IAI)
  • Acquisition Analysis Decision (ACAD)
  • Mechanical Engineering and Design (IMC)
  • Performance Maintenance and Reliability of Industrial Systems (PMFSI)
  • Renewable energies (ENR)

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Landscape architecture course

Students learn how to tackle projects through modules looking at all the technical, scientific and visual aspects involved. Throughout the five-year course this approach is built on by setting increasingly complex challenges for students covering the analytical and preparatory stages of a landscape project, as well as those concerning the students' personal and increasingly independent development.

The course is organised around theoretical and practical knowledge concerning the multifaceted question of landscapes and the skills specific to the landscape architect's profession of assessing, programming and designing.

There are five core groups of modules making up the course syllabus over its 5 years:

  • Modules in the landscape project through a workshop from the 1st to the 4th  year and an end-of-course assignment in Year 5
  • Scientific and technical modules
  • Engineering science modules in the landscape project
  • Human and social science modules
  • Visual art and representation modules

The five-year course encompasses some 3,700 hours of teaching, in addition to five placements (one per year) and the end-of-course assignment. Graduates will be awarded the State Landscape Architect Degree (DEP), which is a Master's qualification.

Bourges campus

On the Bourges campus, two engineering courses are available : the Industrial Risk Control (MRI) and Information Technology and Cybersecurity (STI) departments, and one apprenticeship-training course, Energy Risks and the Environment (ERE), is taught together with the Cher Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) Ecole Curien (Apprentice Training Centre) in Bourges.
 

Engineering courses available to students

Industrial risk control (MRI) department

General course tailored to a systemic industrial risk approach. Industrial Risk Control Engineers are trained in the various aspects associated with managing the risks inherent in a company and its business:

  • preventive action,
  • corrective action,
  • safety of people and property,
  • environmental impacts,
  • corporate responsibilities,
  • major and external risks.

The course comprises:

  • a 3rd  year following the core syllabus
  • a 4th year following the core syllabus plus advanced modules (30%) including:
    - Mechanical and Energy Engineering
    - Process engineering
    - Advanced systems
    A four-month placement in a company is undertaken in the second semester
  • a 5th year following the core syllabus plus elective modules (56%) including:
    - Industrial Accidents and Risks
    - Nuclear Energy
    - Environmental Risks
    - Industrial Systems and Risks
    - Transport, Production, Robotics
    A six-month end-of-course placement in a company is undertaken in the second semester

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Information technology and cybersecurity (STI) department

Specialist course in information technology, with a strong focus on security.

Information Technology and Cybersecurity engineers at the INSA Centre Val de Loire specialise in information technology and are in charge of the development and particularly the security of new information systems.

The course comprises:

  • a 3rd year following the core syllabus
  • a 4th year following the core syllabus plus advanced modules (around 15%) including:
    - e-commerce
    - Big Data
    - Mobility
    A four-month placement in a company is undertaken in the second semester
  • a 5th year following the core syllabus plus elective modules (around 60%) including:
    - Arquitecture Administration Audit and Security Analisis
    - Software Security and Architecture
    - Ubiquitous Computing Security
    A six-month end-of-course placement in a company is undertaken in the second semester

Apprenticeship engineering courses

Energy, risks and the environment (ERE) department

Depending on the options they choose, engineering graduates work in the following areas:

  • Prevention engineering associated with technological risks, protection of people, infrastructure and property in a company and damage compensation;
  • Quality engineering, which encompasses sustainable development approaches;
  • Energy efficiency in the field of building renovation.

The professions this course prepares apprentices for involve three types of activity:

  • Developing corporate strategy in terms of energy efficiency, quality and risk governance;
  • Engineering of energy, quality and risk management systems;
  • Change management in risk, quality and energy efficiency approaches

These three types of activity:

  • Developing corporate strategy in terms of risk governance, quality and energetic efficiency ;
  • Engineering of systèmes management in risk, quality and energy ;
  • Steering change management approaches in risk, quality and energetic efficiency.

These three activity groups:

  • Structure the skill set listed in the course's competency framework;
  • Are economically and socially approved;
  • Factor in the concerns for protection of people and the environment.

This is a work-linked training course lasting 3 years, with 1/3 of the time given over to teaching and 2/3 to work in a company.
The modules (accounting for about 1800 hours of classes in total) are made up each year of the core syllabus plus elective modules, including:

  • Risk Governance and Engineering
  • Quality Engineering
  • Energy Efficiency Management

More information on: www.hubertcurien.fr