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The new Faculty of Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier University is now created, to promote multi-disciplinary and professional integration.
By merging its UFR Mathematics Computer Management, Automatic Chemistry Physics, Life and Earth Sciences, Department of Engineering, UFR of Living Languages and Inter-UFR Department of L1 under one entity - the Faculty of Science and Engineering - Toulouse III University - Paul Sabatier (UPS) provides an innovative training response to the 9000 students and 2000 staff concerned, in line with the needs and expectations of research , both business and higher education. A complex restructuring project, with its Director, Jean-Marc Broto, who was elected on 8 December by the Councils of this new UFR.
Started in 2009, this ambitious project to bring all scientific and technological disciplines closer together in the same UFR (Training and Research Unit) - the Faculty of Science and Engineering, which integrates a UPSSITECH engineering school and a language and business management department - has now been completed. This desire to bring science and engineering closer together is at the heart of the projects of the Conference of Deans and Directors of UFR Scientists of France, which wants to create a single field "Science and Engineering".
Goals: to develop multi-disciplinary skills, pool resources and increase contacts between actors and disciplines in order to respond accurately to the challenges of cross-cutting training. This new training offer is already being evaluated positively by the Research and Higher Education Evaluation Agency (AERES), with very satisfactory results on the bulk of the licensing courses, assessed A and A, as well as on the masters. A real turning point for the University of Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, which will strengthen its training-research links, one of its historical specificities, and thus make more visible the involvement of scientific research in studies at the university.
Bringing Science and Engineering Together: A Strategic Choice
Today, integration into the company increasingly requires this dual competence. It was therefore imperative to bring this dual culture to master's graduates as well as engineers, in order to respond as effectively as possible to the new expectations of the economic world on a European and international scale. From now on, basic sciences will no longer remain without applications and engineers will be able to do more theses. The dual optimized simultaneous curriculum will enable students to integrate research, business and higher education operationally.
A 2011 training offer harmonized across all disciplines
Since September, the first year has now been divided into two main entry-line sectors: natural sciences and basic and applied sciences. A progressive orientation from the first year, which trains students in a generalist way, accompanied by measures that will, on the one hand, fight against failure and on the other hand encourage their influence. This will allow awareness to specialize from the bachelor's degree and will open the doors for the choice of a specialization of excellence among 90 different master's specialties, covering all fields of science and engineering and allowing them to meet the entry requirements of research laboratories as well as companies.
A major Director for this new Faculty
Jean-Marc Broto, professor-researcher in solid physics, collaborated with Albert Fert on the work that led to the Nobel Prize in Physics and the development of current computer hard drives, President of the Conference of Deans and Directors of UFR Scientists of France (CDUS), he locally directed the ex. UFR of physics, chemistry and automatics of our university.
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