Program Structure and Regulations

In this page you will find a description of the program structure and regulations:

• IP Paris Master Regulations
• Program Requirements
• Study Plan
• Internships

IP Paris Master Regulations

You can find the regulation of the master programs from IP Paris here.
The program specific program requirements and regulations for the CPS master are here

Program Requirements

The program is structured over 2 years, M1 and M2. During the first year (M1) the students acquire the basic competencies and concepts to work in the area of CPS, while in the second year (M2) the students should specialize their knowledge and interest to a specific research area (e.g., formal methods, real-time systems, robotics). The program imposes the following requirements:

• For the M1, a student must acquire a total of 60 ECTS during the first year, where the student:
• takes all the compulsory courses;
• complete the M1 internship;
• takes enough M1 optional course to reach a total of 60 ECTS.
• For the M2, a student must acquire 60 ECTS where the student:
• takes all the compulsory courses;
• complete the M2 internship;
• takes enough M2 optional course to reach a total of 60 ECTS.

Study Plan

Each student must prepare a study plan and send it to the program responsible and academic coordinator to be validated (the procedure will be communicated privately to each student). The program responsible will provide feedback or approve the study plan. For example, a study plan will not be approved if it does not respect the program requirement or it does not respect the prerequisites for each course.

To create your study plan, consult the page of the courses and their schedule and prepare the list of courses you want to follow, according to the program requirements. Before sending the plan, check both that your plan satisfies the pre-requisites and that you do not have a conflict in the schedule.

You can request to change the study plan later in the year, getting in contact with the responsible of the master track and motivating the change in the plan. The change to the plan must be validated before becoming definitive.

Internships

Goal: The internship allows a student to work in depth on a project related to the CPS master track thematic, either in in the context of a research (e.g., in a research lab or an university) or industrial (e.g., in a company). The internship will help the student to gain further experience and expand his network, to either find a job or a Ph.D. position after the completion of the master program.

Timings: M1 and M2 internships should last at least 5 months long. In any case, internships must be carried out between March to August .The internship must finish (and defended) before the end of the academic year.

Where: The student can have an internship either in a research lab (e.g., the IP Paris research labs) or in a company, in France or abroad.

M1 internship

You will share a list of internship proposals and procedure to validate the internship with other M1 programs (you will be enrolled in a specific course, CSC_52991_EP, which will provide you enough information for choosing an internship and signing an internship proposal. For the M1 internship you will need to:

• Do a research internship (i.e., in a research institution or a research lab of a company) that must last at least 5 months. Be careful, the rules stated for the course CSC_52991_EP may allow you to do a shorter internship, but for the CPS program you need at least 5 months.
• Write an internship report (at most 30 pages, in English) and defend your internship by the end of August (a presentation of 25 minutes, followed by 35 minutes of questions).

M2 internship

• As student, you are responsible for finding a suitable research internship. Start soon and try to get in touch with faculty at IP Paris (e.g., the professor teaching M2 courses are a good option).
• The internship has to be formalized with an internship agreement between the school (École Polytechnique) and the hosting organization (company or research lab). We will share the formal procedure each student has to follow to formalize an internship.
• To acquire the internships credits, the student will have to prepare an internship report describing the internship in detail the work (motivation, contributions, comparison with related work, and results) of at most 30 pages. The student will defend his internship during an oral defense (to be scheduled before the end of the academic year) in front of a jury (usually formed by 2 professors). The presentation last 25 minutes, and is followed by 10 minutes questions. The student will receive the credits for the internship if the grade is at least 10/20. Both the defense and the report should be in English, and the report must be sent at least one weak before the oral defense.