Innovative Materials and Manufacturing Processes

The material content is the essence of a product; it confers colour, shape and sets the conditions for high-quality parts. All industrial products depend largely on the original materials assembled together.

"A polymer “opal” which changes colour when stretched, a material lighter than an aerogel, a contractile gel which stores light energy, an “invisible” man’s cape, or a self-welding polymer… a full mosaic of revolutionary materials soon available to support reliability constraints and all ecologically compliances, to better serve the need of the Industry of the Future."

Research activities

Research units involved

• Laboratory of Mechanical & Material Engineering (LASMIS)
• A Corresponding Research Laboratory, viz., NICCI: the Nogent international centre for CVD innovation
  The French national Agency for Atomic and Alternative Energy Sources – CEA signed an agreement recognizing the UTT Nogent spinoff site as a Corresponding Laboratory, enabling access to special equipment and co-financing of PhD theses. The scientific fields explored are as numerous as they are varied: extreme milieus, new energy-related technologies, health-care, environment, energy efficiency.

Plateforms

3D digitisation and virtual engineering (“Num3D”)

Num3D is a regional, multi-site platform operated and managed by UTT-LASMIS. It is equipped with instruments, devices and associate software to ensure in-house development of virtual engineering: reverse engineering design, immersive visualization, digital mock-ups, virtual shaping for mechanical engineering components, advanced PLM (product lifecycle management). 
 

ADHERE

This platform is equipped to provide ways and means to make and test deposits and surface-added functionalities. ADHERE contributes to strengthening the partnership between UTT-LASMIS and the CEA concerning surface sciences and engineering.
 

Nano’mat

A dual site plateform (Troyes and Reims) specialized in nanofabrication and nano-characterization for numerous applications. Its purpose and main aims are to accompany research work, alongside academic and industrial development.

Collaboration with enterprises 

• Material life expectancy assessments, analysis of residual stress, modelling of surface pre-stress shot-blasting processes with IRT M2P
• Measurements of residual stresses in aluminium alloy parts, with PSA
  (car manufacturer)
• Modelling of behaviours and catastrophic material failures, with the CEA.
• Assessment of the impact of residual stress due to shot-blasting in designing industrial assembly parts (an IRT M2P project) CONDOR, in a collaboration with ONERA, ENSAM Paris-Tech, SAFRAN Group, AREVA and PSA.

Training packages

Enginnering diploma in

Mechanical Engineering

This training package ensures the Mechanical engineering graduates can design, assemble and manufacture tomorrow’s mechanical products, applying cutting edge technology, virtual prototyping tools, new materials whilst complying with increasingly stringent environmental constraints. They will have acquired pluridisciplinary skills (in mechanical engineering, in automation & control, in computer sciences and their applications) all of which combined are needed to correctly build and implement complex mechatronic devices. There are 3 professional elective specializations in mechanical engineering to (running from the virtual to the real):

• Design and industrialization of mechanical systems, in connection with environmental issues
• Specific computer science applications and EDP for mechanical engineering purposes
• Digital modelling in mechanical engineering

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Enginnering diploma in

Technologies and economics of materials

Student engineers enrolled on this course are trained in a multidisciplinary manner in a range of scientific and technological, economic and environmental fields. They are capable of sizing and scaling, choosing and shaping materials, in a global approach in compliance with industrial and societal constraints 3 professional elective specialisations are offered, covering material treatments, from purchasing to transformation and recycling:

• The economics of materials and the environment
• Material and component technologies and associated trades
• Transformation and quality factors in materials

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Enginnering diploma in

Materials and Mechanical engineering

Engineers from this course are trained in a range of scientific and technological, economic and environmental fields. They are capable of sizing and scaling, choosing and shaping materials, in a global approach compliant with industrial and societal constraints. Their polyvalent training enables them to offer solutions to meet the complex needs of industry and use the appropriate materials. They work closely with teams of colleagues “in the field” and are capable of coming up with innovative solutions to comply with various entrepreneurial constraints.

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Vocational Degree Course

Material design and shaping processes

The objective of this course is to gain new skills in materials and in mechanical engineering, together with initiation to/improvement in use of industrial tools needed for the design and fabrication of various mechanical parts. The improved control in this two areas is reinforced by new knowledge acquired in terms of materials, mainly metallic but also polymers and composites.

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Master's Degree in

Mechanical engineering, materials sciences and advanced processes

The MMPA specialty is designed to train students in experimental modelling and mechanical engineering characterization, with a strong emphasis placed on uses of so-called “advanced materials”.

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University Diploma (DU)

Oral implantology and biomechanical engineering

In a partnership between UTT-Troyes, its research teams in LASMIS and L2n and the French learned society for Biomaterials ad Implantable Materials (SFBSI), this course is on offer to dentist-surgeons, maxillo-facial surgeons, stomatologists, lecturers and research scientists and all other professions who may find themselves involved in implantable systems and biomaterials at large. The course will build on their previously acquired knowledge, with clinical and basic training in dental implantology and use of lasers.

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PHD

Material sciences, mechanical engineering, optics and nanotechnologies

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