Competencies and Knowledge

The specific skills targeted by the MSROE Masters programme are modern methods of analysis and modelling in the following fields:

• site reconnaissance and geological and geotechnical models
• mechanical and hydraulic behaviour of soils and rocks
• static modelling of structures (foundations, retaining structures, tunnels and earth structures)
• environmental geotechnics and natural risks
• seismic behaviour and soil dynamics

Programme

Academic courses take place on two different sites:

• On Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays, courses are at the Ecole centrale Paris in Châtenay-Malabry.
• On Wednesdays and Thursdays, courses are at École des Ponts ParisTech in Champs sur Marne.

Completion of the Masters programme requires four criteria to be met:

• Completion of the four compulsory courses 
• Completion of at least a six optional courses (chosen from the 15 available)
• Completion of the research initiation project (PIR)
• Completion of the research internship

The four compulsory courses are: 

• Experimental Methods by Prof Arezou MODARESSI
• RMCS Rheology and modelling of materials behaviour by Prof Arezou MODARESSI
• EFG Finite geotechnical elements by Prof Philippe MESTAT
• GRN Management of natural risks by Prof Hormoz MODARESSI

The optional courses are (a minimum of six to be chosen from the fifteen available):

Optional courses offered by École des Ponts ParisTech

• GEOL Geology and hydrogeology by Profs Martine AUDIGUIER / Michel DEVEUGHELE
• ISS Static soil-structure interaction by Prof Philippe MESTAT
• RGG Geological and geotechnical reconnaissance by Prof Jean-Pierre MAGNAN
• FSO Modelling of foundations and retaining structures by Profs Alain CORFDIR / Roger FRANK / Frédéric ROCHER-LACOSTE
• MDG Discontinuous and granular materials by Prof Jean-Noël ROUX
• MDTun Tunnel modelling by Profs Ahmad POUYA / Jean SULEM
• MR Rock mechanics by Profs Ahmad POUYA / Jean SULEM

Optional courses offered by École Centrale Paris

• MIFO Modelling structural uncertainty liability by Prof Didier CLOUTEAU
• SNS Mechanics of non-saturated soils by Prof CUI Yu Jun / Jean-Marie FLEUREAU
• GPS Paraseismic engineering by Prof Hormoz MODARESSI
• DPN Waste and groundwater protection by Prof Arezou MODARESSI
• TE Effluent treatment by by Prof Arsène ISAMBERT

Optional courses offered by Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6 University

• GEOPH Geophysics by Prof Alain TABBAGH
• PCAM Physical chemistry of clays and industrial applications by Prof Jean-François NAUROY
• RCS Mechanics of rocks and underground cavities by Prof Pierre BEREST