IPSA is an engineering college offering a five-year graduate syllabus specializing in aeronautical and space systems. Students acquire broad knowledge in various scientific fields and a practical engineering approach.
It positions the holder as able to address any issue related to air and space. Graduates will have developed broad general engineering knowledge as well as highly specialized skills in the fields of aeronautics and space. The IPSA training also allows graduates to work in other technically advanced fields similar to aerospace, such as automotive and maritime transport, where the techniques and technologies used are close to those in aeronautics.
The training's objective is to ensure the acquisition of knowledge essential to high-level expertise and validate the knowledge necessary to exercise diverse responsibilities as they emerge in a career. Based on a balance between teaching and project work (related to typical industrial issues), the IPSA curriculum includes a strong aerospace dimension from the start of training, evolving over the years. The student shapes the training by choosing specific 'technological majors' during the engineering cycle, allowing them to individualize courses and obtain expertise in a chosen field.
Corporate conferences and international awareness are there to give additional skills that build critical thinking and the student's ability to make decisions.
The campus allows students of IPSA and ESME Sudria to share student association events. The campus is located near fast-food restaurants and cafés and numerous university halls of residence.
In over 50 years of existence, IPSA has forged relationships and lasting partnerships with significant aerospace sector players. These partners voluntarily meet students and discuss various aspects (scientific, technical, cultural, and economic) of the engineering profession. This proximity to the industry allows IPSA, through its Development Council, to align training with the industry's needs. Alumni working in major companies in the sector readily return to their school to share their experiences with future engineers at IPSA.
Implanted in a highly internationalized industrial sector, it is quite natural that IPSA focuses from the beginning of learning English and the need to gain international experience. Indeed, teaching in the 4th and fifth years is only in English.
Moreover, the college has created an ambitious foreign educational program that corresponds to the real world and its students' ambitions. Therefore, IPSA has 40 partner universities worldwide, hosting students for a semester or an academic year. IPSA has also been developing double degree agreements with several universities.
If there is a school where passion is present, it's IPSA. The associations' projects, due to their complexity, reveal the passionate side of Ipsaliens. IPSA also organizes various events to enable its students to live their passion otherwise, such as a week dedicated to flying, presence at various air shows and gatherings including the famous meeting at 'La Ferté Alais.'
Created 50 years ago, IPSA is an aeronautical and space systems engineering school located in Paris and Toulouse. IPSA propose to the students a five years graduate education program. Today IPSA claims more than ever its vocation as a specialist school in the sector. To assert its place and develop its knowledge of the area, it has built over the years reliable and long-lasting partnerships with companies in the air & space industry, both at civil and military levels. In line with the sector's prominent decision-makers, the school proposes training in touch with the market's expectations, allowing students to enter into a high level of active life while fulfilling their passion for air and space.
Situated between the industrial and academic worlds, research is one of the cornerstones of IPSA pedagogy. An Aerospace Engineering college, with its research laboratories dedicated to Aerospace, IPSA places innovation at the heart of it's training in engineering. Thanks to its researchers and their works, IPSA can contract new fundamental partnerships with industrial and external laboratories. Research in the college develops in synergy with the world of fundamental and applied research.
The Mechatronics, Signal and Systems Laboratory at IPSA develops robust automated systems that control complex systems.
It has with CNES, universities, and some aerospace companies (industrial, SMEs, institutions) and develops innovative projects for aeronautics and space through partnerships. Thus, it is committed to the ARES program, where the goal is to develop small modular experimental rockets.
Other research themes coexist in this laboratory. One of them is to study the architecture of an RF receiver (Radio Frequency) for software-defined radio and cognitive radio. Another focuses on theoretical and technological challenges imposed by the development of autonomous miniature vehicles.
These collaborations bring additional resources and expertise to IPSA's partners. Simultaneously, IPSA benefits from its partners' framework and resources to be more productive, both in terms of pure research and ultimately in the transfer in education to students. The growth of research also helps to establish closer links with industry, mainly via the ASTech pole.
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