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The primary objective of  the " polytechnic " minors organized by the Faculté des Sciences Appliquées is to allow students taking a baccalaureate in engineering science, if they so wish, to acquire, through a polytechnic major/minor, basic training in two specialist areas of engineering science, and thus to broaden their technical range of skills, or prepare for a master's in engineering science in a domain which spans the various basic courses offered at baccalaureate level. 

The disciplinary objectives of the minor in mechanics are to allow the student to acquire the basic concepts of theoretical and applied mechanics. For precisely, s/he will need to:

• Master this discipline via project and laboratory-based learning.
• Develop a deeper grasp of continuum mechanics (solids and fluid mechanics), in order to master the techniques of scale model studies and mathematical modeling required by these disciplines. 
• Develop a deeper understanding of thermodynamics, both from a theoretical point of view (a deep understanding of thermodynamics, both from a theoretical point of view (understanding macroscopic concepts starting with kinetic theory of gases) as well as an applied point of view  (technical and energetic thermodynamics).
• Acquire specialized training in machine design.

This polytechnic minor is mainly intended for students enrolled on baccalaureates in engineering science (civil engineer and civil engineer architect).

The minor is also accessible to students enrolled on baccalaureates in mathematical or physical science.

Minor activities must be followed in an order which respects the following requirements: 

- MECA1901 must come before MECA1321 and MECA1100
- When students must enroll on the course MECA1510 as a replacement for a course that they are following in their major, as is required by some programs, they must also take it after MECA1901. This rule also applies to non-FSA students who find themselves in the same situation.

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Mandatory Optional Courses not taught this academic year Periodic courses not taught this academic year Periodic courses taught this academic year Two year courses
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Cours obligatoires de la mineure en mécanique (12credits)
MECA1200	Mechanical construction project I  (in French)	Benoît Raucent	20h + 15h	2credits	2q	x
MECA1821	Machine design.  (in French)	Benoît Raucent, Bruno de Meester de Betzenbroec	30h + 30h	5credits	2q	x
MECA1855	Thermodynamics and energetics.  (in French)	Hervé Jeanmart, Miltiadis Papalexandris	30h + 30h	5credits	1q		x
Variante générale de la mineure en mécanique (18credits) Les étudiants autres que ceux inscrits en majeure en chimie et physique appliquées, construction ou mathématiques appliquées complètent leur mineure avec les cours suivants
MAPR1310A	Thermodynamique - équilibres entre phases A  (in French)	Francis Delannay (coord.), Pascal Jacques	22.5h + 7.5h	3credits	2q	x
MECA1901	Continuum mechanics.  (in French)	François Dupret	30h + 30h	5credits	1q		x
MECA1100	Deformable solid mechanics.  (in French)	Laurent Delannay (supplée Issam Doghri), Issam Doghri, Thomas Pardoen (supplée Issam Doghri), Jean-François Remacle (supplée Issam Doghri)	30h + 30h	5credits	2q		x
MECA1321	Fluid mechanics and transfer phenomena.  (in French)	Vincent Legat, Grégoire Winckelmans	30h + 30h	5credits	2q		x
Variante pour les étudiants inscrits en majeure en chimie et physique appliquées. (16credits) Les étudiants en majeure en chimie et physique appliquées ont 45 crédits dans leur programme de majeure et 28 dans celui de mineure. Ils complètent leur programme comme suit
MECA1201	Projet en modélisation et simulation (nouveau cours)  (in French)	Paul Fisette, Jean-Claude Samin	20h + 10h	2credits	1q		x
MECA1100	Deformable solid mechanics.  (in French)	Laurent Delannay (supplée Issam Doghri), Issam Doghri, Thomas Pardoen (supplée Issam Doghri), Jean-François Remacle (supplée Issam Doghri)	30h + 30h	5credits	2q		x
MECA1510	Dynamics of elastic systems.  (in French)	Jean-Pierre Coyette, Laurent Delannay	30h + 30h	5credits	2q		x
MECA1451	Mechanical manufacturing.  (in French)	Jean-François Debongnie, Bruno de Meester de Betzenbroec	30h + 30h	4credits	2q		x
Variante pour les étudiants inscrits en majeure en construction. (18credits)
MECA1201	Projet en modélisation et simulation (nouveau cours)  (in French)	Paul Fisette, Jean-Claude Samin	20h + 10h	2credits	1q		x
MAPR1805A	Introduction à la science des matériaux A  (in French)	Jean-Christophe Charlier, Roger Legras (coord.), Thomas Pardoen	22.5h	2credits	2q		x
MECA1321	Fluid mechanics and transfer phenomena.  (in French)	Vincent Legat, Grégoire Winckelmans	30h + 30h	5credits	2q		x
MECA1451	Mechanical manufacturing.  (in French)	Jean-François Debongnie, Bruno de Meester de Betzenbroec	30h + 30h	4credits	2q		x
MECA1510	Dynamics of elastic systems.  (in French)	Jean-Pierre Coyette, Laurent Delannay	30h + 30h	5credits	2q		x
Variante pour les étudiants inscrits en majeure en mathématiques appliquées (18credits)
MAPR1310A	Thermodynamique - équilibres entre phases A  (in French)	Francis Delannay (coord.), Pascal Jacques	22.5h + 7.5h	3credits	2q	x
MECA1100	Deformable solid mechanics.  (in French)	Laurent Delannay (supplée Issam Doghri), Issam Doghri, Thomas Pardoen (supplée Issam Doghri), Jean-François Remacle (supplée Issam Doghri)	30h + 30h	5credits	2q		x
MECA1321	Fluid mechanics and transfer phenomena.  (in French)	Vincent Legat, Grégoire Winckelmans	30h + 30h	5credits	2q		x
MECA1510	Dynamics of elastic systems.  (in French)	Jean-Pierre Coyette, Laurent Delannay	30h + 30h	5credits	2q		x

Majors-minors leading directly to a master's course(s) :

For students who have performed well and obtained a bachelor's qualification in engineering science - civil engineering, the polytechnic minors guarantee them, as part of a program which includes one of these minors, unconditional access, without additional training, to the civil engineering master's which corresponds to this minor.

• For the minor in applied chemistry and physics: the civil engineering master's in chemistry and material science and the civil engineering master's physicist  
• For the minor in construction : the civil engineering master's in construction
• For the minor in electricity: the civil engineering master's electrician  
• For the minor in IT: the civil engineering master's in IT 
• For the minor in mechanics: the civil engineering master's mechanic 
• For the minor in applied mathematics: the civil engineering master's in applied mathematics 
• For a program which combines the major in electricity/minor in mechanics, or major in mechanics/minor in electricity: the civil engineering master's electromechanic. 

How the minor is run and how to enroll

Academic in charge : Professeur F. Dupret - email : fd@mema.ucl.ac.be
Contact person : Françoise Vranckx, secretary of the MECA department - vranckx@meca.ucl.ac.be - tel. : 010/47 22 40

Enrollment details: no particular details

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Organizational details

There are no particular organizational details for this minor.