Doctorat Sciences pour l'ingénieur - Métrologie at Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (Cnam)

Programme overview

National doctorate (level 8, Cnam code DOC6800A) at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers in metrology, within the engineering sciences, entered at level 7 (Bac+5). The programme is a research thesis of generally three years, carried out full time in a public or company research and development laboratory, on an original and innovative subject with an experimental component. It is prepared within the Ecole doctorale Sciences des métiers de l'ingénieur (ED SMI).

Department: Ecole doctorale Sciences des métiers de l'ingénieur (ED SMI) | Duration: 3 years | Study mode: part-time (language of instruction: French) | Location: Paris, Île-de-France, France

What you will study

Doctoral training units (ECTS-free) including doctoral days, welcome seminar, introduction to qualitative and quantitative methods, epistemology, research ethics and scientific integrity, information retrieval, a skills portfolio, optional units such as scientific publishing and English for research, and the thesis defence. Doctoral students follow more than 100 hours of training over the three years of the thesis, at least 50 hours of scientific courses and 50 hours of professional-opening courses.

Career pathways

Skills in autonomous scientific and technical project management and international scientific communication.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Holder of a national master's degree or a diploma conferring the master's grade, after a training path establishing aptitude for research (exceptions possible for equivalent foreign studies or validation of prior learning). The candidate sends a research project and CV to the habilitated academic they wish as thesis supervisor, then registers through Adum after agreement of the supervisor and laboratory director.

Duration: 3 years

Engineering