News of Grenoble INP Graduate schools of Engineering and Management, Université Grenoble Alpes

Grenoble INP - UGA is making good progress in the “Engineering and Technology” subject area, ranking at the 93rd position worldwide by gaining 74 places and at the 5th position in France, i.e. the 1st institution outside the Paris region. The institute appears 8 times in these rankings.

Financial boost for innovative ideas from the teachers, researchers and students across the Unite! alliance.

In the face of ever-stricter operational security certification requirements, manufacturers are seeking new tools to evaluate the robustness of complex on-board digital systems. The Safe-Air project, forming part of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alps region’s PAC Ambition 2017-2022 programme has helped develop methods making it possible to intervene at an earlier stage in circuit architecture design in order to guarantee its robustness at minimum cost.

At 61, Yves Bréchet, scientific director of Saint-Gobain, has been awarded the Robert Cahn prize in recognition of his whole career dedicated to materials.

Julien Bras was appointed a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF, Academic Institute of France) at an official ceremony in October 2022 in the presence of Sylvie Retailleau, Minister for Higher Education and Research. This honour, given to only 2% of academic staff, was awarded in recognition of his work in the field of cellulose.

The recent changes in the legislation on collective self-consumption has made it possible to carry out a full-scale experiment, previously reserved for community groups and local authorities, on the university campus in Grenoble. Although this is a first for a university, there are about a hundred similar projects underway in France.

A graduate of Grenoble INP – Ense3 and following a 6-month work placement with LEGI*, Matthias Renaud began his thesis in early October 2022 as part of the Oxalia Industrial Excellence Chair, led by the Grenoble INP Foundation thanks to the patronage of Artelia. He is developing a model aimed at simulating hydro-sedimentary flows around hydraulic facilities down to the smallest scales.

From 28th February to 2nd March, more than 300 academic and administrative staff and students gathered in Grenoble university domain to initiate the first Dialogue of the second phase of Unite!

A new Fondation Grenoble INP industrial chair is being established with SPRETEC, a subsidiary of ARTELIA. Led jointly by Julien Baroth, a researcher at 3SR*, and Rafael Estevez, a researcher at SIMaP**, it aims to help refine ageing models for civil engineering structures.

As part of the 2021-2027 CPER*, Grenoble INP - UGA is leading a project to acquire some exceptional equipment: a tomographic atom probe. This recent model will be the first new-generation instrument in France and the second in Europe, and features new functionalities. It will be installed in the SIMAP laboratory and managed by the CMTC**.