Issues
- Bringing together engineers and architects right from initial training
- Combining a sense of creativity, architectural design and technical solutions
- Providing a broad professional outlook with two diplomas recognized at national and European level
Diplomas awarded
- General Engineering Diploma - Centrale Lyon
- Diploma in Architecture and Engineering Studies (DEAI) - ENSAL
A dual 3-year course
Students admitted to the dual engineer-architect curriculum follow a set of courses taught by ENSAL, in parallel with their three years of study at Centrale Lyon.
These courses, with an hourly volume of 450 hours, are divided into three main themes:
- initiation to architectural design and the architectural project
- culture, history, architectural theories and doctrines
- modeling and representation of forms: architectural drawing and observation drawing
Selection
This course is open only to student-engineers in the generalist curriculum. Students interested in this double degree must express their interestas soon as they are admitted by completing a registration form.
They then enter a pre-selection phase which begins as soon as they arrive and runs until October. Its aim is to help students discover the teaching at a school of architecture and gauge their ability to manage two curricula in parallel. It also enables ENSAL teachers to appreciate the motivation of candidates.
Pre-selection phase in detail
- a personal reflection paper due mid-September
- 5 training sessions at ENSAL in architectural project design and 5 training sessions at ENSAL in observation drawing
- an individual interview
At the end of the month of preselection, a jury meets to make the final selection of students admitted to the double engineering/architecture curriculum their application file during their second year (in January) and must provide their TAGE-MAGE and TOEFL test results. A motivational interview completes the application process.
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Jobs
- Architect in agency
- works manager
- works engineer
- real estate program manager
- design office engineer
Further study studies
Graduates also have the option of applying to ENSAL for the first year of the Master's cycle by validation of prior learning as soon as they hold their engineering diploma and DEAI, in order to obtain their diplôme d'État d'architecte - DEA. This scheme enables these students to obtain an engineering diploma and an architecture diploma in seven years.
