Objectives

The main issue for ISAE scientific policy is broken down into four major objectives:

To consolidate the excellence of the two ISAE Graduate Programs

The prime objective is related to the Institution’s fundamental role, which is the training of engineers and working for excellence in this. This goal is articulated both for the students and professors. Firstly this involves offering Graduate Programs that open out to the field of research and innovation. This provides the prime motivation for teaching by projects, that is one of the basic features of the two Graduate Programs. This then involves ensuring training evolves to follow changes in advanced research and technology. To this purpose, it is therefore essential for the faculty staff to be in direct or close contact with progress made in research and technology so as to constantly bring this in and adapt the course content accordingly. Finally, the aim is also to offer an attractive environment for the best students and best professors to work in. Most of these professors are major players in research who would only be willing to settle in an environment where first rate international research is conducted. 

To constitute a training center with a high European and international reputation for students taking masters degrees and doctorates

The second objective is related to PhD. This firstly involves offering teams to provide doctoral education in the various disciplines relating to the aeronautical and space sector and secondly bringing together the conditions for the Institution to be authorised to award the title of doctor in these disciplines. Having seen these conditions change with the French decree of 7 August 2006, they provide major guidelines for the Institute’s organisation from the point of view of research and doctoral education.

To ensure ISAE’s scientific reputation by generating knowledge and the dynamism of its scientific exchange policy

ISAE’s scientific reputation requires that its research generate new knowledge recognised internationally through the influence and the spinoff from its publications in first order scientific reviews. It is also conveyed through scientific exchanges, whether with the students, especially at doctorate level, or professors with universities and research centres recognised in the Institute’s fields of excellence.

To develop partnerships with institutional, industrial and economic environments, especially in the aerospace sector

ISAE research must also be developed within the framework of cooperation with institutional, industrial and economic partners. It is of capital importance that this research be developed in close connection with the problems and questions society and industry has to solve to make progress. It is the Institute’s role to analyse such questions so as to clearly state the related problems that research must address down to the most basic level so as to contribute to constructing answers to the questions posed. Given the Institute’s vocation, this role must be exerted in the aerospace sector, as also in sectors encountering related problems.