Civil Engineering

Building | Public Works | Eco-responsible design | Sustainable construction – Rehabilitation

Élise, Ingénieure Structures Métalliques - Eiffage Métal

The department of civil engineering offers an extremely broad program in the areas of geotechnics and civil engineering. This double competence opens up a large range of employment prospects for graduates in all areas of civil engineering, from the design of works to their realisation. Engineers from this program are capable of successfully carrying through the different construction phases, specifically the design, analysis, calculation and realisation of different civil engineering works. The program is constantly being adapted to the needs of companies by taking into account the evolution of techniques and methods.

During semesters 5 and 6, the program focuses mainly on the fundamentals of civil engineering, earth sciences (geology, soil mechanics, underground hydraulics) and technical courses (site organisation, concrete, excavations…).

In semesters 7 and 8, the student broadens his/her knowledge of geotechnics and structural calculations, while also taking a course in site calculations (concrete structures, pre-stressed concrete, metallic constructions…).

In semesters 9 and 10, the student specializes in one of the following areas:

– Urban engineering : regulations, renovation, roads and utilities and urban site works.

– Design in civil engineering : planning, conception, urbanism and the environment.

– The lifecycle of works : new materials in civil engineering, resistance and ageing of materials, detecting and repairing sites

Special works : underground works, seismic structures, supporting works and reinforcement.

These classes, which take the form of workshops, are given by professionals.

Classes are taught in French.

Activity sectors

  • Construction and public works companies
  • Engineering, design offices
  • Soil mechanics and geophysics offices
  • Control offices
  • Para-public sector
  • Local communities, administrations
  • Research and Development

Program

Unit 5.1 Design & calculus 1

164h
ECTS
Hours
211100
Unit 5.1 Design & calculus 1
13
164 h
211110
Applied mathematics
2
20 h
  • Reading list :









1 h DS
211120
Continuum mechanics
3
32 h
  • Prerequisites :
    211110
  • Reading list :

    •Mécanique des milieux continus – Cours et exercices corrigés, Luc Dormieux, Éric Lemarchand et Djimédo Kondo – éditions Ellipses, aout 2017
    •Mécanique des milieux continus, Jean Coirier et Carol Nadot-Martin, Dunod, septembre 2020
2 h DS
211130
Computer science and numerical methods
3
36 h
  • Reading list :



26 h Project
211140
Structural design
5
76 h
  • Goals to be achieved :
    The objectives of this course are to lay the foundations for structural analysis in civil engineering. To achieve this, the resolution of isostatic problems with bars serves as the guiding principle: after analyzing the various hypotheses necessary for modeling real structures, we will state the basic principles that allow us to solve these structures: the fundamental principle, beam theory, and energy methods.
  • Course details :
    I) Introduction to Structural Mechanics
    II) Statics of Beams
    2.1 Fundamental Principles of Statics
    2.2 Beam Theory
    2.3 Classical Theorems
    III) Elementary Stresses
    3.1 Simple Stresses
    3.2 Combined Stresses
    3.3 Dimensioning
    IV) Energy Methods
    4.1 Principles
    4.2 General Theorems
    4.3 Applications
  • Reading list :



14 h Tutorial
10 h Practical
3 h DS

Unit 5.2 Managing, designing & building 1

116h

Unit 5.3 Changemaking engineers

72h

Unit 5.4 Languages

48h

Unit 6.1 Design & calculus 2

120h
ECTS
Hours
212100
Unit 6.1 Design & calculus 2
10
120 h
212110
Advanced structural design
5
66 h
  • Prerequisites :
    212220|211210|211220
  • Reading list :

    Partie 3 : Traités de Génie civil de l'École Polytechnique de Lausanne Volume 2 : Analyse des structures et milieux continus - Mécanique des structures ; F.Frey
    Traités de Génie Civil de l'École Polytechnique de Lausanne volume 10 : Construction métallique - Notions fondamentales et méthodes de dimensionnement ; M. A.Hirt & R. Bez.
24 h Lecture
34 h Tutorial
8 h Practical
3 h DS
212120
Elasto-plastic design of structures
3
36 h
  • Prerequisites :
    211220|211110|211140|212110|211120|212130
  • Reading list :
    Traités de Génie civil de l'École Polytechnique de Lausanne Volume 2 : Analyse des structures et milieux continus - Mécanique des structures ; F.Frey
    Traités de Génie Civil de l'École Polytechnique de Lausanne volume 10 : Construction métallique - Notions fondamentales et méthodes de dimensionnement ; M. A.Hirt & R. Bez.
16 h Lecture
20 h Tutorial
3 h DS
212130
Adavanced continuum mechanics
2
18 h
  • Prerequisites :
    211220|211110
  • Goals to be achieved :
    provide the students a good mastery of principal methods to solve quasi-static elastic and thermoelastic problems
  • Course details :
    Constitutive laws of elastic materials and identification methods, general methods of resolution, thermoelastic laws and solution methods, energy-based methods
  • Reading list :

1 h DS

Unit 6.2 Managing, designing & building 2

110h

Unit 6.3 Understanding and using the material

88h

Unit 6.4 Soft skills

34h

Internship during the summer

Unit 6.5 Languages

48h

[Track A]Unit 7.1 Structural design 1

204h
ECTS
Hours
213100
[Track A]Unit 7.1 Structural design 1
16
204 h
213110
Wood structure design
2.5
30 h
  • Prerequisites :
    212230|211240|211140|212110|211220|213130
  • Reading list :
    Cours de construction bois de monsieur Tastet enseignant au lycée Haroun Tazieff de Saint Paul les Dax.
    Documentation du CNDB

1 h DS
213120
Fundamentals and technology of concrete structures
4
58 h
  • Prerequisites :
    211220|211110|211120|211140|212110|212120|212130
  • Reading list :

    Traités de Génie Civil de l'École polytechnique de Lausanne volume 7 : Dimensionnement des structures en béton - bases et technologies ; R. Walther & M. Miehlbradt.
    Conception et calcul des structures de bâtiment. L'Eurocode 2 pratique ; H. Thonier ; Presses de l'ENPC.
    Euroccode 2 - Calcul des structures en béton - guide d'application ; J.M. Paillé ; ed. Eyrolles.
    Traité de béton armé- ders règles BAEL à l'eurocode 2; Jean Perchat ; ed. le moniteur
3 h DS
213130
Introduction to Eurocodes
1
12 h
  • Prerequisites :
    211140|212110
1 h DS
213140
Design of steel structures
2
24 h
  • Prerequisites :
    211140|211220|212110|212120|213130
  • Reading list :
    Les fascicules de cours de Jean Pierre MUZEAU
1 h DS
213150
Geotechnical works
2
24 h
  • Prerequisites :
    211110|211210|212210|212230|212310|212320|212330
  • Goals to be achieved :
    This course is designed to give the opportunity to design both shallow and deep foundations using Eurocodes.
  • Course details :
    Chapter 1 - Introduction : Recall on the soils, water in soil , Stresses, Evolution of the standards/ Eurocodes, Approaches of Design (STR/GEO) ;
    Chapter 2 - In-situ tests : Short – long term concept, Shear resistance, in situ-tests, geotechnical missions
    Chapter 3 - Shallow foundations : Design of shallow foundations, punching , reference stress, bearing capacity according to NF P 94-261, settlement ;
    Chapter 4 – Deep foundations : Types of piles, axial behaviour according to NF P 94-262, lateral behaviour.
  • Reading list :
    Eurocode 7 – Calcul géotechnique
    NF P94-261 : Justification des ouvrages géotechniques — Normes d'application nationale de l'Eurocode 7 — Fondations superficielles
    NF P94-262 : Justification des ouvrages géotechniques Normes d'application nationale de l'Eurocode 7 - Fondations profondes
    Calcul des ouvrages géotechniques selon l'Eurocode 7, S. Burlon et al. , Dunod, 2017.
    Géotechnique - Exercices et problèmes corrigés de mécanique des sols, avec rappels de cours, C. Desodt et P. Reiffsteck, Dunod, 2015.
1 h DS
213160
Structural dynamics
2
24 h
  • Prerequisites :
    211120|211140|212110|212130|211220|211110|212120|213130
1 h DS
213170
Structural behaviour of concrete
0.5
12 h
  • Prerequisites :
    211140|212110|211120|212130|211220|213170|213120
12 h Practical
213180
Building acoustics and thermal comfort
2
20 h
  • Goals to be achieved :
    Characterize regulatory issues and objectives
    Recognize typical solutions to be implemented
    Determine basic performance results(s)
  • Course details :
    Acoustic and thermical insulation of elements in a buiding : regulatory phenomenas and performances
    Thermal resistances of opaque and glazed walls
    Calculation of annual unit energy losses
    Acoustic transmission coefficients
    Acoustic insulation indicators
10 h Lecture
10 h Tutorial
1 h DS

[Track B] Unit 7.1 Project steering

90h

[Track A] Unit 7.2 Digital modeling

120h

[Track B] Unit 7.2 Sustainable city management

226h

Unit 7.3 Soft skills

28h

Unit 7.4 Languages

48h

[Track A] Unit 8.1 Structural design 2

102h
ECTS
Hours
214100
[Track A] Unit 8.1 Structural design 2
7
102 h
214110
Structural elements and verification of concrete structures
3
54 h
  • Prerequisites :
    211110|211120|211140|213120|213130|212110|212120|212130
  • Reading list :
    Traités de Génie Civil de l'École polytechnique de Lausanne volume 7 et 8
    Conception et calcul des structures de bâtiment. L'Eurocode 2 pratique ; H. Thonier ; Presses de l'ENPC.
    Euroccode 2 - Calcul des structures en béton - guide d'application ; J.M. Paillé ; ed. Eyrolles.
    Traité de béton armé- ders règles BAEL à l'eurocode 2; Jean Perchat ; ed. le moniteur
3 h DS
214120
Geotechnical and hydraulic structures
2
24 h
  • Prerequisites :
    211210|212310|212330|212320|213150
4 h Practical
1 h DS
214130
Dimensioning mixed structures
2
24 h
  • Reading list :
    Cours de l'ESDEP et de l'APK
1 h DS

[Track B] Unit 8.1 Monitoring and managing a construction site

100h

[Track A] Unit 8.2 Designing and sizing under societal and environmental issues

104h

[Track B] Unit 8.2 Managing and steering an environmentally friendly project

104h

Unit 8.3 Soft Skills

26h

Unit 8.4 Languages

48h

Unit 8.5 Technical internship

120h

Unit 9.1 Advanced Courses

160h
ECTS
Hours
215100
Unit 9.1 Advanced Courses
11
160 h
215110
Hydrogeology
2
24 h
  • Prerequisites :
    211210|212310|212320|212330
  • Reading list :


8 h Project
1 h DS
215120
Soil-structures interacation
1.5
20 h
  • Goals to be achieved :
    - Understand the concept of soil-structure interaction
    - Introduce advanced calculation methods to take account of SSI
    - Apply the SSI method to the calculation of underground structures (tunnels)
  • Course details :
    This course aims to introduce to the concept of soil-structure interaction problems. It should allow students to broaden the skills acquired in calculation of geotechnical structures, taking into account the mutual interaction between the geostructures to be designed and their surrounding. The course covers the following aspects:
    - Introduction to the concept of soil-structure interaction
    - Calculation of retaining geostructures by Hyperstatic Reaction Methods
    - Concept of contact: Adhesion, sliding, opening
    - Modeling of the soil mass by Wincker method (spring elements)
    - Calculation of underground structures
  • Reading list :

215130
Geophysics - NDT
1.75
24 h
  • Reading list :

8 h Practical
1 h DS
215140
Prestressed Concrete
1.75
24 h
  • Prerequisites :
    211220|213120|211110|212120|212110|212130|211120|211140
  • Reading list :

    Le béton précontraint aux états limites; H. Thonier ; Presses de l'ENPC
    Le béton précontraint ; cours de J. Mac Farlane EUDIL
1 h DS
215150
Materials durability
1
14 h
  • Prerequisites :
    212220|213120|211310
  • Goals to be achieved :
    The aims of this course is to understand the basic principles that lead to the consideration of durability criteria of materials in the design and construction of civil engineering structures.
    At the end of this course, the student will be able to:
    * ask the relevant questions regarding the consideration of ageing of materials
    * identify the phenomena leading to lost of durability
    * to carry out a bibliographical analysis of the observed phenomenon, and to analyze the main evolutions, points of interest and key parameters
    * to propose an approach of prevention against the identified pathologies
  • Course details :
    I) Introduction
    II) Case of concrete durability

    Individual project: study of a particular situation or a particular physical phenomenon leading to durability problems. Examination of the phenomena, curative and preventive strategies and notions of cost affected to durability
    2 oral restitutions - 1 report

    External speakers: particular cases treated by specialists of the field.
  • Reading list :



215160
Sustainable construction
1
10 h
  • Prerequisites :
    211310
  • Goals to be achieved :
    Manage a production of demolition waste via information type FDES
  • Course details :
    Type of waste and management options
    End of life information in the FDES
    Calculations of ratios related to demolition waste
  • Reading list :
    INIES, FFB, ADEME
1 h DS
215170
Pathologies, diagnostics and maintenance of structures
2
24 h
  • Prerequisites :
    211310|212220|213110|213120
  • Reading list :


1 h DS
215180
Symposium and visits
20 h
  • Reading list :

20 h Lecture

Unit 9.2 Soft skills

69h

Unit 9.3 Cross-disciplinary modules

24h

Unit 9.4 Languages

40h

Unit 9.5 Engineering project

100h

Formative assessment

20h

Unit 10.1 Engineering internship

400h
ECTS
Hours
926100
Unit 10.1 Engineering internship
30
400 h
926110
Engineer Placement
30
400 h
400 h Project

Formative assessment

51h

Enterprising Challenge

35h