Pursue a PhD - Graduate School Engineering

Key figures

  • 4 doctoral schools: SMEMAG, EOBE, INTERFACES, and STIC
  • 600 doctoral graduates per year
  • 67 research laboratories
  • 25% of Master's students in Engineering go on to pursue a PhD

Pursuing a PhD in engineering

Striving to build a better future for the world, the Graduate School Engineering and Systems Sciences strives to find a balance between the ecological and economic development of our societies while spearheading internationally-recognized research.

Cross-functional projects that accelerate progress

The unique structure of our research teams facilitates useful collaborations around common themes. These high-level scientific research programs disseminate knowledge on an impressive scale through the support and supervision of the Graduate School. The research programs engage with subjects involved with engineering and systems sciences (LaSISPS), artificial intelligence (Dataia Institute), digital transformation (IRT SystemX), and the energy transition (VEDECOM).

Structured support for development

Innovation and the valorization of research in all dimensions (fundamental research, partnerships, maturation, entrepreneurship) are essential parts of the Graduate School dynamic. To these ends, the Graduate School relies on the various structures of the Université Paris-Saclay to coordinate the missions of the different stakeholders in our ecosystem (for example, FabLabs is used for design and prototyping, technology transfer assistance, and student entrepreneurship support).

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The 4 Doctoral Schools of the Graduate School scope

Mechanical and energy sciences, materials, and geoscience
SMEMAG Doctoral School

The research teams in the SMEMaG Doctoral School work together on diverse subjects, which include modeling, numerical simulation, experimentation, design, and optimization of systems. The research teams deal with these subjects in industrial, environmental, and societal contexts; many challenges are treated with fundamental and practical methods.

Electrical, Optical, Biophysics and Engineering
EOBE Doctoral School

The EOBE Doctoral School is structured around a main objective: to develop a doctoral training at the best level, based on a continuum between fundamental research and applications in the fields of "Electrical, Optical, Bio: PHYSICS-AND-ENGINEERING," in connection with the teaching and research structures of the Université Paris-Saclay and the socio-economic world. The Université Paris-Saclay has a very rich environment of academic laboratories (CNRS, universities, schools, CEA) and industrial companies (THALES, DANONE, EDF, HORIBA) that develop fundamental and applied research activities directly related to the ED EOBE themes (LGEP, SATIE, L2S).

Materials, Systems, Uses
INTERFACES Doctoral School

The Doctoral School INTERFACES (ED 573) gathers research teams working at the crossing between several scientific disciplines: physics, chemistry, biology, and applied mathematics or computer sciences. Three axes structure its organization:

- Innovative materials and applications
- Complex systems engineering
- Life sciences

Information and communication science and technology: Systems and Control, Robotics, Signals, Images, Communications
STIC Doctoral School

The STIC Doctoral School covers a unique thematic continuum in France in digital technology and science: control, signal processing, image processing, robotics, networks, telecommunications, data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence, human-machine interactions, programming, algorithmics, languages, and architecture. The Doctoral School STIC is attached to two Graduate Schools of the Université Paris-Saclay: the Graduate School Computer Science and the Graduate School Engineering and Systems Sciences.

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Contact

If you have any questions you can contact us at: contacts.gs-sis@universite-paris-saclay.fr