The Sound and Vibra­tion Engi­nee­ring (AVI) pro­gram trains engi­neers to meet the socie­tal and envi­ron­men­tal chal­lenges posed by sound and vibra­tion in a wide range of sec­tors: trans­port, construc­tion, ener­gy, the envi­ron­ment and mul­ti­me­dia. AVI engi­neers mas­ter all the ele­ments nee­ded in mecha­ni­cal desi­gn to improve vibra­tion com­fort and the sound envi­ron­ment: dyna­mic vibra­tion beha­viour of mecha­ni­cal sys­tems, vibro-acous­tic cou­pling, acous­tic pro­pa­ga­tion in dif­ferent envi­ron­ments. Their skills enable them to model, desi­gn and dimen­sion a mecha­ni­cal sys­tem to meet spe­ci­fi­ca­tions concer­ning its vibra­tion and sound qua­li­ties. It draws on both a foun­da­tion of fun­da­men­tal know­ledge and expe­ri­men­tal and nume­ri­cal skills, with an empha­sis on the per­cep­tion of the sound environment.

Pedagogy

Basic trai­ning in mecha­ni­cal engi­nee­ring includes courses in acous­tics and vibra­tion, inclu­ding an intro­duc­tion to vibra­tion, signal pro­ces­sing, acous­tic engi­nee­ring and sound desi­gn. For stu­dents who wish to go even fur­ther, the AVI pro­gram offers spe­ci­fic courses to dee­pen their unders­tan­ding of these themes and sup­port them in their future cor­po­rate mis­sions, nota­bly in struc­tu­ral dyna­mics, nume­ri­cal simu­la­tion in vibro-acous­tics, the basics of phy­si­cal acous­tics, room acous­tics, porous mate­rials, and expe­ri­men­tal prac­tice in acous­tics and vibration.

The aim of the AVI course is to deve­lop the skills nee­ded to :

• model the vibra­to­ry beha­viour and acous­tic radia­tion of a struc­ture in its environment;
• solve struc­tu­ral dyna­mics pro­blems using nume­ri­cal com­pu­ta­tion (finite elements);
• use mea­su­re­ment and signal pro­ces­sing tools dedi­ca­ted to the expe­ri­men­tal vibra­to­ry and acous­tic stu­dy of mecha­ni­cal systems;
• mas­ter the for­mu­la­tion of a com­plex nume­ri­cal model­ling pro­blem in struc­tu­ral dyna­mics and acoustics;
• unders­tand room acous­tics and acous­tic treat­ment mate­rials to achieve the desi­red audio per­for­mance in terms of rever­be­ra­tion or intelligibility.

In short, the AVI pro­gramme offers courses in acous­tics and vibra­tion, com­bi­ning theo­re­ti­cal, expe­ri­men­tal and nume­ri­cal approaches. In addi­tion to these courses, pro­jects are pro­po­sed to pre­pare stu­dents for the pro­fes­sio­nal context and team­work.

Pedagogical team, industrial relations and research

The program's spe­ci­fic courses are taught by a peda­go­gi­cal team that car­ries out research in acous­tics and vibra­tion at UTC’s Rober­val labo­ra­to­ry. Team mem­bers are invol­ved in nume­rous pro­jects with indus­trial part­ners in the rail­way sec­tor (RATP), auto­mo­tive sec­tor (Renault, PSA Peu­geot Citroën, E‑motors), aero­nau­tics (Air­bus), space (Arian­group), public works and construc­tion (Saint Gobain, CSTB) and mecha­ni­cal engi­nee­ring (CETIM) sectors.

The team is enri­ched by players from the busi­ness world, who take part in trai­ning through confe­rences and pro­jects car­ried out with students.

Facilities and infrastructures

AVI stu­dents are trai­ned on com­pu­ter soft­ware com­mon­ly used in the indus­trial world, in par­ti­cu­lar Actran soft­ware for vibro-acous­tics and Catt-Acous­tic soft­ware for room acoustics.

As part of the AVI trai­ning pro­gram, UTC-Com­piegne also makes avai­lable the main tes­ting resources used in the company:

• vibra­tion test plat­form (laser vibro­me­ter, modal ana­ly­sis, rota­ting machine) ;
• rever­be­ra­tion and semi-ane­choic cham­bers for acous­tic measurements;
• sound desi­gn labo­ra­to­ry: recor­ding, pro­duc­tion, ana­ly­sis and playback;
• a dedi­ca­ted vehicle for vibra­tion, acous­tic and acous­tic desi­gn tests.

Internships

In addi­tion to a 6‑month inter­n­ship as an engineer's assis­tant in a com­pa­ny, the AVI stu­dents com­plete a 6‑month end-of-stu­dies pro­ject as an engi­neer-in-trai­ning in com­pa­nies or ins­ti­tutes pro­po­sing a topic in the field of acous­tics or vibra­tion. The pro­gram receives more than 3 offers per student.

International outreach

AVI stu­dents have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to stu­dy abroad for a semes­ter at a uni­ver­si­ty or for their final year pro­ject. Semes­ters are spent at one of our many part­ner uni­ver­si­ties, inclu­ding Chal­mers Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­no­lo­gy in Swe­den, Poli­tec­ni­co di Mila­no in Ita­ly, Poli­tec­ni­co di Tori­no in Ita­ly, Uni­ver­si­dade de Coim­bra in Por­tu­gal, Cran­field Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­no­lo­gy in the UK, Uni­ver­si­té de Sher­brooke in Cana­da, Tech­nische uni­ver­sität Ber­lin (TUB) in Ger­ma­ny, Poly­tech­nique Mont­réal in Cana­da, Vir­gi­nia Tech in the USA…

Various end-of-stu­dies pro­jects are also offe­red by indus­trial com­pa­nies or research ins­ti­tutes in Aus­tra­lia (Mar­shall Day), Cana­da (Uni­ver­si­té de Sher­brooke), the Uni­ted States (Los Ala­mos Natio­nal Labo­ra­to­ry), Ger­ma­ny (Daim­ler), Bel­gium (Sie­mens, Gib­son Inno­va­tions), Swit­zer­land (Gebe­rit, EMPA), etc.

Professional openings

The AVI pro­gram pro­vides gene­ral mecha­ni­cal engi­neers with exper­tise they can apply in large cor­po­ra­tions, ser­vice com­pa­nies, desi­gn offices (research, deve­lop­ment, desi­gn) or start-ups see­king reco­gni­zed exper­tise. Their solid groun­ding in mecha­nics, acous­tics and vibra­tion enables them to deve­lop their careers as experts or team or pro­ject mana­gers.

Job oppor­tu­ni­ties are main­ly in the trans­por­ta­tion sec­tor (auto­mo­tive, aero­nau­tics, naval, rail), but also in rene­wable ener­gies (wind power, elec­tri­ci­ty), hou­sing, the envi­ron­ment and research.

60% of job offers come from end-of-stu­dy pro­jects car­ried out by stu­dents at com­pa­nies such as: Air­bus, Alstom, CSTB, Daim­ler, Naval group, Ariane Group, Dys­on, PSA, Renault, Sie­mens, Saint Gobain, Valeo…

53% of stu­dents found a job before graduation.

The gross sala­ry with bonuses and bene­fits on com­ple­tion of the AVI pro­gram is €41,000/year.

Examples of jobs: research and deve­lop­ment engi­neers, desi­gn office engi­neer, consul­ting engi­neer, test engi­neer, cal­cu­la­tion engi­neer, etc.

Médias

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Contact and documentation

Res­pon­sable de filière

Jean-Daniel Cha­zot

 +33 (0)3 44 23 45 38

jean-daniel.chazot@utc.fr

Assis­tante 

Valé­rie Duquenne

 +33 (0)3 44 23 45 36

valerie.duquenne@utc.fr

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