Engineering Masters – Diplôme d’Ingénieur

The engineering master cycle lasts 2 years and follows on from the bachelor cycle. Two years to become an IT Engineer based on a philosophy which is specific to EPITA:

• Adding the managerial dimension to engineering.
• Validating the operational command of technologies linked to information systems.
• Shaping a professional profile by gaining job-specific skills and strong expertise in an industrial or research-related field
• Developing an international outlook by gaining true academic or business experience.

1st year : diversification and customisation

• 1st semester : IT project internship.
• 2nd semester : outlooks and prospects, choice of a major and a minor class.

2nd year : high-level expertise in a field and a sector

• Professional skills
• Sector-spectif expertise

Dual skills/double degree

EPITA students regularly validate dual skills in management by studying for an MBA at the end of their curriculum at EPITA with very prestigious business schools such as HEC and ESSEC. EPITA has decided to make it easier to acquire the dual skills by offering a double-degree partnership with the specialized MBAs of the ISG (Institut Supérieur de Gestion).

Students take part in a joint core curriculum for 2 months, attend specialization classes for 3 months then carry out a 7-month internship. The program may be studied for in English.
Students choose an MBA in one of the 7 areas:

• Customer Relationship Management
• Strategy Consulting
• Business Creation
• Change Management and Technology
• Logistics/Supply Chain Management
• Sustainable Development Management
• Finance and International Markets

  Double international degree

  Students wishing to gain an American information system management degree can study for the MSIS (Master of Science in Information Systems) at the Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken), which is one of the top-5 management degrees in the USA. The partnership signed with EPITA enables students to validate in Paris (via an equivalence procedure) at least 5 of the 12 classes required and therefore do the MSIS in one year instead of two.

  Students start Stevens in January of the final year. The double degree agreement means that it only takes an extra 6 months to validate both degrees. As the MSIS is an executive degree, students meet many professionals working in banking, finance and insurance, which helps them get their first job in the USA.

  Similarly, students may gain a British Master of Science (MSc). The MSc has a good reputation, is very muck acknowledged by businesses and is a very good springboard for an international career. For instance, Staffordshire University, one of our partners, gives students the opportunity to gain an MSc in Computer science, Computer Networks and Security and Embedded Systems

1st year of the engineering master cycle: diversification and customization

The 1st year of the engineering master cycle is characterized by diversification and customization, based on a professional internship in France or abroad and the selection of major and minor subjects and elective courses.

1st semester, IT project internship

It starts with a 5-month technological internship in a company. Students either realize that they chose the right options or they can open up onto new possibilities. The quality of the projects carried out during the internships is unanimously acknowledged by the companies and students are generally very well paid. The internship also enables students to validate a set of skills which helps them understand their strengths and weaknesses and build their career plans. Every year, over 25% of EPITA students do their internship abroad.

2nd semester: outlooks and prospects

Building a curriculum

Major subjects, minor subjects and elective courses are chosen according to personal preferences, career plans and feedback (internships and OOT in ING1).

Compulsory cross-disciplinary classes

Business knowledge, engineering science, methods, foreign languages...

One “MAJOR” class

• MIT (Multimedia and Information Technology)
• CSAC (Cognitive Science and Advanced Computing)
• SCI research - (Scientific computing and image)
• SNS (Systems, Networks and Security)
• CERES (Computing Engineering for Real-time and Embedded Systems)
• TCOM (Telecommunications)
• ISSE (Information Systems and Software Engineering)
• DSTM (Dual skills in technology and management)

One “MINOR” class

Several elective classes

2nd year of the engineering master cycle: professional skills and sector-specific expertise

The final year is all about developing applicable professional skills: students choose a job-specific specialization which builds on the major class in 1st year of the Engineering master, they can choose to study towards a double degree (research, international or dual skills) and finally, they carry out a professional internship designed to validate all the skills required to be a young engineer.

The job-specific approach consists in developing the students’ expertise in one of the fields of the major courses whilst providing them with real-life professional situations.
Telecom experts will find out about various aspects of consultant, telecom architecture or operating engineer jobs. Real-time system experts will find out more about jobs in aeronautics, production management and energy regulation, etc. FYPC (final-year projects for companies) are also an opportunity to find out more about careers as they consist in carrying out an innovative project under the guidance of both the person in charge of the major class and a supervisor from the company.

Job-specific expertise

They are chosen by the students and build on the technological major courses in 1st year:

• CERES engineer (Computing Engineering for Real-time and Embedded Systems)
• MIT engineer (Multimedia and Information Technology)
• CSAC engineer (Cognitive Science and Advanced Computing)
• ISSE engineer (Information Systems and Software Engineering
• SNS engineer (Systems, Networks and Security)
• TCOM engineer (Telecommunications)

  MIT (Multimedia and Information Technology)

  The MIT major aims at training students to become Digital Leaders! They need to be able to innovate, give suggestions for new contents, new uses, new services, based on open technologies or those of major publishers (IBM, Microsoft, Adobe, etc.). In a global context where digital issues are becoming strategic, MIT engineers work across all economic sectors as new service architects or leaders of innovative projects. They demonstrate technological thoroughness and strong listening skills and are able to manage the human factor linked to new uses.

  CSAC (Cognitive Science and Advanced Computing)

  The CSAC major aims at industrializing recent results obtained from research in cognitive science, in particular in the field of shape recognition and decision aid systems. Applications are found in all fields, from the nuclear sector to ambient intelligence. CSAC engineers have in-depth training in symbolic and numerical approaches and are particularly well trained for industrial activities in fields such as:

• Computer vision and robotics
• Knowledge extraction and management
• Machine learning
• Interactive video games

  SCI research (Scientific computing and image)

  The SCI major is designed to train students for academic research and gives them a chance to work in a laboratory alongside lecturers/scholars. Research topics include image processing, robot manipulation, speech processing, model checking and decision aids. SCI engineers will first work on a PhD in France or abroad and then will join a community of researchers in an academic environment or in a research unit in a large company or an innovative start-up.

  SNS (Systems, Networks and Security)

  The SNS major teaches students about:

• Systems (from design to administration)
• Networks (existing and new generation)
• Security (functional and technical)
• Related organization (governance, management system...)

• SNS engineers will work as information security officers (ISO), drawing on their knowledge of businesses and fundamental control mechanisms, their ability to understand the risks and governance of a business, to identify areas of improvement linked to infrastructure technologies and the new services made possible by new information system architectures.

  CERES (Computing Engineering for Real-time and Embedded Systems)

  Taught in parallel to robotics classes, the CERES major strengthens students’ knowledge of systems and helps them develop excellent skills in embedded environments (open software, major publishers or proprietary software). The market is dynamic (40% of companies created after 1995) and 70% of people working in it are qualified engineers.

  CERES experts work on embedded systems and software (avionics, aerospace, automobile, medicine...), in robotics, heavy industry or electronic consumer goods (interactive console, mobile phones, leisure robots...).

  TCOM (Telecommunications)

  The TCOM major aims at giving future managers strong technical skills in the following fields:

• telephony (landline or wireless)
• networks and related security
• technical architecture and infrastructure

• ISSE (Information Systems and Software Engineering)

  The ISSE major is structured around 4 topics:

• Processes: analyzing, integrating, developing, validating and making sure products/projects are successful and of good quality
• Techniques: acquiring know-how skills in software engineering and IS
• Technology: mastering the latest innovations
• Management: hierarchical relations, clients and partners...

  ISSE engineers works in large companies or consulting firms and are in charge of:

• Understanding technological challenges and jobs
• Suggesting and developing competitive and realistic solutions
• Working on complex issues
• Steering projects and changes resulting from them

• GITM (Global IT Management)

  The GITM major is taught in English and prepares students to become international project managers in the field of ICT. They carry out the following tasks:

• Project management from the perspective of the client and users,
• Project management from a technical point of view. Graduates will work as IT project management supervisors (contractors or in-house): auditor, technology monitoring officer, project officer, consultant, business engineer, sales engineer, etc.

• Jobs centre around new uses (mobility, collaborative working, unified communications, teleworking...), respecting the constraints and economic challenges of companies (increasing ROI and productivity) and their telecommunication partners.

  Minor subjects

  Minor subjects are scheduled according to student interest, and therefore depend on the number of people registered.

  Bio-IT

  Designing tools for medical practitioners and chemists in the field of research pertaining to new molecules or genomics.

  Entrepreneurship

  From business plans to equity raising, legal procedures and intellectual property.

  Ergonomics

  From engineering roles as part of a multi-skill human factor-oriented team to steering change management.

  Finance

  From mathematical modeling to financial markets and financial tool instantiation.

  Geostrategy

  Impact of ICTs on geostrategy and role of the Internet as a tool of power for States.

  Green IT

  Sustainable development management and impact of information technology.

  Home automation

  From new piloting tools to ambient intelligence applications.

  Innovation and technology transfer

  How to identify an innovative idea and develop it until it is placed on the market.

  Logistics

  From optimization to supply change management to electronic data interchange (EDI).

  Medical computing

  From electronic management of medical files to image processing, telemedicine and medical robotics.

  Nanotechnology

  From the development of nanomaterials to the latest applications (medicine, IT, space...).

  Robotics

  From industrial applications to the future of consumer robotics to artificial intelligence projects.

  Transport

  From flow management to geolocation.

  Projects are first of all teamwork. Then they build on reflection, analysis and management. Finally, projects need to be implemented and programmed.

  Programming is a language and EPITA is the country where it is spoken. Our students, future IT engineers, have to master the techniques they will be in charge of implementing. That is the EPITA hallmark. The many core curriculum projects contribute to the objective.

  The mythical coding pool

  Whether you are powerful or unfortunate, this is about spending two or four weeks immerged in the depths of IT. The aim of the game is to work at a certain rhythm, acquire basic skills and reflexes in programming, learn to be thorough, find out about the constraints of the real world. Senior students supervise, encourage and give advice to newer students.

  During the two weeks, the young students reach, and even go beyond, their current potential. These two weeks are almost an initiation. In any case, students learn to make efforts, be perfectionist and professional, and this is what makes them stand out. After all the hard work... the integration seminar, parties and the beginning of a year already characterized by mutual aid.

  The bistromatic calculator

  The idea is to create a calculator which can work in extreme conditions with numbers of a size which is astronomical and even higher. The project is carried out in pairs and teaches students about the joys of teamwork.
  Mistakes are not allowed and strong performance is compulsory. Students discover that you can learn from failing. They also discover that a project is never over and that the best team wins.

  The corewar

  The aim is simply to write a virtual machine and an assembler by teams of 4. This machine is designed to be the arena where combating programs will compete against each other. The showdown takes place during the notorious corewar night, where the champions come face to face with each other. And, as always at EPITA, efforts are rewarded by a party.

  The 42SH

  This time, groups are made up of 6 students, who embark on an adventure which lasts several weeks. They will plan, organize and model. The aim is to develop an interpreter (i.e. a command-line interface) between the Unix system and the user. The best performing teams will have demonstrated a solid command of all the Unix system principles. Everyone will gain exceptional experience in C language and insight into the wealth of the Unix system.

  Tiger

  The aim is to write a complete compiler. One of the main aims of the project is to put students in a real-life working situation over a long period. They will have to constantly correct their mistakes, sometimes returning to the source of the project. The other aim is to learn to analyze, to carry out object-oriented programming with C++ and to implement design patterns (typical solutions to commonly occurring problems).

  And also...

  SQL (databases), C++ workshop (similar to the swimming pool but in object-oriented language), Java (a game to be coded in Java in one month), a Zelda-like game (similar to the famous game), Mac (programming for OSX), Open Ludo (open source project), mini-projects based on system functions...

   

Admissions requirements

Eligibility

Our Engineering Master Cycle (Diplôme d’Ingénieur) in Computer Science is open to candidates holding EPITA’s International Bachelor with honors, or a bachelor's of engineering degree (or equivalent) or a first year of a master’s degree in Computer Science or related fields.
Candidates must also have strong analytical and problem solving abilities.

English Proficiency

Internationally recognized standardized tests of English are compulsory for all candidates who are neither native English speakers nor holders of an undergraduate degree obtained from an English language institution.
EPITA accepts the following standardized tests of English: TOEFL or TOEIC or IELTS; Cambridge ESOL Examinations BULATS (B2).

French Proficiency

EPITA's Engineering Master Cycle (Diplôme d’Ingénieur) of Computer Science is taught exclusively in French (except the Global IT Management major); hence students are required to demonstrate B2-Level French proficiency upon program start.