Engineering Programme - Year 1

The common-core curriculum in year 1 provides students with broad-based multi-disciplinary engineering training with a strong focus on environmental challenges:
 

• Technical and scientific courses make up 70% of the curriculum with the remaining 30% of the programme devoted to soft skills, culture, modern languages and sport.
• Students benefit from first-hand professional experience during year 1 with a project in the second semester and a 4-week summer internship to discover the business world.
• All first-year courses (15 scientific courses of 32 hours each) address sustainable development issues. In addition, two other specific and compulsory courses will ensure that all our student engineers are able to carry out a carbon assessment and a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
• As part of an international outlook, French and international students will follow part of their first-year courses in English.
• From the start of the 2024 academic year, students are able to follow new specific courses focusing on research, entrepreneurship and community involvement.
• Students also commit to 100 hours of civic engagement in their first and second year, whereby they make a contribution to society through volunteer work.

Overview of the common-core curriculum in year 1 - 2024/25

Autumn Semester

Successful completion of the semester leads to the award of 30 ECTS
English version of course titles coming soon
 

	Lecture hours	Tutorial hours	Lab hours	Project work	Exams	Total	ECTS
Scientific and technical courses - compulsory courses
Mécanique des milieux continus élastiques	8	16	6	0	2	32	5
Matériaux, ingénierie et enjeux sociétaux	10	10	10	0	2	32
Analyse numérique	10	14	6	0	2	32	5
Algorithmique et programmation	6	12	12	0	2	32
Enjeux énergétiques, environnementaux et climatiques	12	18	0	0	2	32	5
Physique et dynamique des fluides	12	12	6	0	2	32
Signaux, systèmes, commande linéaire	12	10	8	0	2	32	5
Ingénierie de projet	12	18	0	0	2	32
Projet interdisciplinaire	0	0	0	32	0	32	3
Softskills and general culture
Connaissance de soi	0	15	0	0	1	16	3
Gouvernance d'organisation, éthique et stratégie	8	7	0	0	1	16
Leadership*	0	0	16	0	0	16
Fondamentaux du management*	0	15	0	0	1	16
Languages and Sport
Langue vivante obligatoire	0	26	0	0	0	26	4
Langue vivante choisie	0	26**	0	0	0	26**
Éducation sportive	0	26	0	0	0	26

* In the autumn semester, half of the students takes the course entitled 'Leadership' and the other half the 'Fondamentaux du management' course. The position is reversed in the spring semester.
** 52 hours for Chinese and Japanese

Spring Semester

Successful completion of the semester leads to the award of 30 ECTS
English version of course titles coming soon

	Lecture hours	Tutorial hours	Lab hours	Project work	Exams	Total	ECTS
Scientific and technical courses - compulsory courses
Cycle de vie et analyse d'impact	10	10	10	0	2	32	8
Thermodynamique et systèmes énergétiques	6	18	6	0	2	32
Instrumentation, capteurs, et automatisme	8	10	12	0	2	32
Probabilités et statistiques	10	14	6	0	2	32	5
Systèmes d'information	10	10	10	0	2	32
Electives - choose 1 of 3:
Systèmes embarqués électroniques de puissance	12	10	8	0	2	32	6
Maquettage et conception assistés par ordinateur	6	14	12	0	0	32
Optimisation	8	16	6	0	2	32
Electives - choose 1 of 3:
Produire - INOMM (Introduction to operation management and manufacturing)	6	12	12	0	2	32
Biologie	12	10	8	0	2	32
Dynamique des structures	8	16	6	0	2	32
Softskills and general culture electives - choose 1 of 5:
Creative writing	0	15	0	0	1	16
Qualité de vie au travail et parties prenantes	4	11	0	0	1	16
Management de l'innovation	0	15	0	0	1	16
World economics and civilization	15	0	0	0	1	16
Économie circulaire et low-tech	0	15	0	0	1	16
Softskills and general culture electives - compulsory courses
Introduction à l'intelligence artificielle	6	9	0	0	1	16	2
Leadership*	0	0	16	0	0	16
Fondamentaux du management*	0	15	0	0	1	16
Projet entreprise	0	0	0	48	0	48	3
Competences
Languages and Sport
Langue vivante obligatoire	0	26	0	0	0	26	4
Langue vivante choisie	0	26**	0	0	0	26**
Éducation sportive	0	26	0	0	0	26
Stage - Connaissance du monde de l'Entreprise	0	0	0	0	0	0	2

* In the autumn semester, half of the students takes the course entitled 'Leadership' and the other half the 'Fondamentaux du management' course. The position is reversed in the spring semester.
** 52 hours for Chinese and Japanese

 

In addition to the acquisition of technical and scientific expertise, Centrale Nantes places a strong emphasis on personal development and the fostering of soft skills.
In addition to soft skills, two modern languages (English and a choice of second language) and sport are taught throughout the three years of the engineering programme.