The Bachelor's of Engineering Sciences : Architect - Engineer, consists of foundation studies in the basic disciplines in which the architect engineer needs to acquire theoretical and practical skills. It provides an initiation and initial instruction in subjects which will be studied in depth and consolidated during the master's programme in Engineering Sciences : Architect - Engineer.

The function of the architect - engineer is clearly defined from the outset of the bachelor's programme. It is characterised by three key features :

• the architect - engineer is a "generalist" architect (capable of intervening on every level of inhabited environments : territories, landscapes, towns and buildings), whose engineering skills are particularly developed (construction technologies and building physics)
• the architectural design studio is important in the programme both on a quantitative and a qualitative level, (ongoing practical work for which the student is responsible; active pedagogical tools ; the place where different kinds of working experience come together )
• the courses relating to the "physical conditions" and the "cultural conditions" which govern the milieux where architectural practices are carried out guarantee the overall balance of the programme and call upon both the Human Sciences and the Exact Sciences.

In the design studio and for some course-related activities, students are closely accompanied in their studies throughout the whole process so as to situate themselves appropriately in individual and group work and make any necessary adjustments.

In addition, they are evaluated during the course of the quadrimester and yet again at the end of the quadrimester in each of the given subjects to ascertain whether they are meeting the demands of the programme and have successfully completed the modules concerned.

The conditions and usual admission requirements are specified on the web-page "Access to studies" : http://www.ucl.ac.be/etudes/libres/en/acces.html

Admission to the bachelor's of Applied Sciences, throughout the French-speaking Community of Belgium (CFWB), is subject to passing a special entrance exam. This is a legally required condition.

This exam is organised in each of the 4 faculties of Applied Sciences within the French-speaking Community and entitles access to any of these 4 faculties, irrespective of where the exam was taken.

It consists of a section on mathematics and a general section. The mathematics section comprises analysis, algebra, trigonometry and numerical calculations, geometry and analytical geometry. The general section comprises written and oral tasks in French, physics, chemistry, biology, geography, history and a second language chosen by the student from among Dutch, English, German or Latin. The students who fulfil the general entrance requirements for the first cycle of studies are granted dispensation from subjects other than mathematics. Details on programme content as well as on the conditions of dispensation from being orally tested on "non-mathematical" subjects can be obtained on demand, at the reception of the Faculty. The mathematics section helps to assess the assimilation of the 6 hour a week programme covered during the previous two years of secondary school. To be able to pass this exam, reinforcement in maths during the last year of secondary school is a usual necessity.

Apart from its legal aspect, the entrance exam enables the students to evaluate the knowledge acquired from their studies at secondary school. Preparation thereof is often the starting point for reflection on study choices and on the amount of effort needed to undertake the studies envisaged. Complementary information on this exam may be obtained under the heading "Admission" on the UCL Faculty of Applied Sciences web-site (http://www.fsa.ucl.ac.be) or via the email address: admission@fsa.ucl.ac.be.

Enrolments for the entrance exam are accepted beginning on Information Day for final- year secondary school students in March, up until 1st June.

Access to the master's in Engineering Sciences : Architect - Engineer

Within the FSA : the Architect - Engineer orientation is specific right from the first quadrimester. The possibility of progressive orientation or of re-orientation is, therefore, quite limited. The only automatic access possible is to the Architect - Engineer Master's. However, completion of a relevant minor subject could guarantee the student unconditional access to the Master's in Civil Engineering (subject to the required approval of the Diploma Committee for this programme). Access to a different master's organised by the FSA would require a complementary year of studies for the student (60 credits). Reciprocally, access to the Architect - Engineer Master's would require a complementary year (60 credits) for somebody with the degree" Bachelor of Engineering Sciences : Engineering".

International mobility

Mobility within the Faculty of Applied Sciences is a major asset in the context of this study programme. This usually takes place during the 4th or 5th year, i.e. during the master's - level studies. The students are, therefore, strongly encouraged to broaden their communication skills and knowledge of languages. In fact, on obtaining the title "Bachelor of Engineering Sciences" degree from UCL, the student will also be able access the corresponding master's (i.e. in the 4th and 5th years) which exist within the university network called CLUSTER - Consortium Linking Universities of Science and Technology for Education and Research - of which the Faculty is a member. The student will benefit from the same conditions as the other bachelor students from those institutions. This European network covers : UPC - Barcelona / TU-Darmstadt / TU-Eindhoven / INPG-Grenoble / Uni-Karlsruhe / EPFL-Lausanne / Imperial College London / KTH-Stockholm / Politecnico di Torino / UCL-FSA-Louvain-la-Neuve. All member institutions are highly placed in the Times ranking of the world's top engineering institutions. In the context of the master's programme in Engineering at UCL, the student also has access to the ensemble of the Erasmus/Socrates exchange programmes in which UCL has participates together with universities from numerous European or extra-European countries, as well as the Catholic University of Leuven (KUL).

Academic Supervisor : Jean Stillemans

Contact person : Jean Stillemans

Jules Simon, tel: 010 47 23 46

jsimon@arch.ucl.ac.be

President of the jury (per year): Piotr Sobieski

Secretaries of the juries (per year): David Vanderburgh, Jeans Stillemans, Jules Simon

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