FEI Industrial/Electrical/Mechanical Engineering / Icam’s Master in General Engineering

Program at a glance

Students following the dual degree program between Icam and the Centro Universitário da FEI – Fundação Educacional Inaciana (FEI) will have the generalist engineering foundations while having thorough knowledge either in Industrial/Electrical/Mechanical Engineering (depending on your specialization).

Icam’s 2-year Master’s in General Engineering will ensure a holistic formation: you will acquire management and humanities exposure, while expanding your training to the multidisciplinary engineering domains. These skills will then be applied when you carry out research work for your Master’s Thesis, followed by hands-on experience as an intern with one of our French partner companies (although you can choose to do your internship in India or any other country).

The General Engineering Master’s degree creates engineers ideal for either becoming self-proclaimed entrepreneurs or valuable leaders or players within a company.

Candidates with a dual degree in general engineering have increased operational skills. The generalist engineering training develops open-mindedness, adaptability, and critical thinking. These profiles are able to piece different elements of a puzzle together while having a bird’s eye-view of real-life situations. Used to complexity and different industries, general engineers can easily work in different industries and are able to reorient themselves and their careers to various environments.

Why choose this program?

This program further builds upon Icam and FEI’s shared culture and vision:

• FEI and Icam share common values and desire to holistically train engineers who are in the service of the common good;
• The engineering internship at Icam serves as your springboard to an international career.

Program highlights

• The first year of exchange offers a choice of options and an approach in connection with the industrial world: 
  • First Icam semester with
    • additional scientific knowledge and skills in the multidisciplinary engineering domains
    • a business creation project
  • Second semester with concentration areas based on your specialization: logistics & information systems, transportation, energy, piloting and business management, etc. These modules are led by professionals from Icam partner companies.

• The second year of exchange serves as a springboard to your active engineering life: 
  • Third semester devoted to the Master Thesis
  • Fourth semester immersed in a company via an internship either in Brazil or France

• Note that the semestral content order may be inverted depending on your starting time “Fevereiro” or “Agosto”.

Location

• At one of the 4 Icam campuses: Lille, Paris-Sénart, Nantes, Toulouse.
• The Master Thesis may also be carried out in Vendée and Bretagne.

Language

You can start your Dual Degree program with a semester in English on the Icam campus of Toulouse, or in French in all of Icam’s French campuses. You can continue your studies in French and move to another campus based on the concentration areas or research topic that you choose to work on, after the first semester.

The principle is as follows:

• You will be acquiring and validating fundamental skills in industrial, mechanical or electrical engineering during your first years at FEI. 
• You will then open up to other competency areas during your first year in Icam. This is then followed by focusing on professionalization during a 5-month scientific or engineering Master thesis, culminating in a 5-month immersion in a company. 
• Finally, you will complete the remaining semesters of your dual degree program at the FEI.

The program structure depends on 3 parameters:

• Your specialization “Industrial”, “Mechanical”, “Electrical”
• Your mode “Diurno” or “Noite”
• Your starting time “Fevereiro” or “Agosto”

The tables below show an overview of how your Industrial/Electrical/Mechanical Engineering training merges with Icam’s 2-year Master’s in General Engineering. 

“DIURNO” mode

 Semesters Icam M1.1 and Icam M1.2 may be inverted according to your starting time “Fevereiro” or “Agosto”. The same applies for Icam M2.1 and Icam M2.2.

The detailed breakdown of Icam Master in General Engineering – Master 1 is as follows:

• M1.1 – Fall Semester – Multidisciplinary Core Courses
  • Multidisciplinary Scientific and Technical Competencies (Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Mathematics, IT, Automation, Mechanical Engineering) – 10 ECTS
  • Management & Entrepreneurship Courses (Project Management, Industrial Management, Business Management & Law, Business Creation Project) – 11 ECTS
  • Humanities & Decision-Making – 9 ECTS

• M1.2 – Spring Semester – Concentration Courses
  • Technical and Scientific Courses based on Concentration Areas* – 24 ECTS
  • Management & Entrepreneurship Courses (Leadership, Industrial Strategy) – 2 ECTS
  • Humanities & Decision-Making – 8 ECTS

“NOITE” mode

* Semesters Icam M1.1 and Icam M1.2 may be inverted according to your starting time “Fevereiro” or “Agosto”. The same applies for Icam M2.1 and Icam M2.2.

The detailed breakdown of Icam Master in General Engineering – Master 2 is as follows:

• M2.1 – Scientific/Technical Research or Industrial R&D
  • Master’s Thesis – 26 ECTS
  • Decision-Making  – 1 ECTS

• M2.2 – Engineering Internship

This 5-month full-time internship culminates your engineering training as you carry out an engineering internship in the heart of one of Icam’s partner French companies or at a Spanish or another global company. 

• Engineering Internship – 30 ECTS
• Humanities & Decision-Making – 4 ECTS

• Application schedule:  April 1 – May 30
• Important dates: Consult the important dates in the Academic Section of this page.
• Admission criteria: FEI reserves the right to pre-select applicants based on the following criteria which may be subject to change:

• • DIURNO students : to have achieved a minimum of 7 semesters  (or exceptionally 6 semesters)
  • NOITE students : to have achieved a minimum of 9 semesters (or exceptionally 8 semesters)
  • Personal motivation
• Language requirement
  • A B1 level in English and French is recommended, but not required. However, FEI students wishing to apply for the BRAFITEC scholarship must have a B1 level certification from the Alliance Française.
  • Beginners are welcome at Icam. Your level of French can be checked by Icam’s international office. You will be able to follow French courses on-site (FLE – Français Langue Etrangère). There is an option to take the first semester in English at Icam Toulouse where a B1 level in English is recommended.
• Tuition fees

Students are expected to cover the cost of their travel to and from the host university and their living expenses. To calculate the cost of living in France, please refer to our sample budget. You may benefit from scholarships and grants, details of which are shown in this link.

Tips: 

• • Inquire with the FEI international department to have knowledge of the possible aids to mobility (BRAFITEC…).
  • Salary earned during your 5-month internship may help offset part of your expenses. Internships located in France, are remunerated in accordance with French law. As of December 2020, the minimum amount is 546€/month. However, the average stipend garnered by our Icam students is 1000€/month.

Please refer to the procedure proposed by the FEI international department.