The third and fourth semesters are pursued in the second host institution. They are organised into minors, consisting of a set of modules emphasising, or bearing particular relevance to, a specific area in computational mechanics. The student must choose a partner institution for the second academic year, different from that where he/she conducted the first academic year. In agreement with the local requirements of the second institution, the student must select a set of modules adding up to 25 ECTS. Additionally, the student will enrol on 5 ECTS in transversal skills (i.e. "strategic project management", "communication skills for engineers").

The Masters Thesis (30 ECTS) can be research or industry oriented. The student carries out the thesis on a topic related to one of his/her areas of specialisation. The Master thesis includes a seminar series in computational mechanics developed in each Institution during the 2nd academic year (see for instance http://www.swan.ac.uk/engineering/seminarseries/c2ec/ ). These seminars will be compulsory for senior students. The thesis should be submitted by the end of the second academic session. Once completed, the Masters thesis will be defended in front of a local committee, with the external assessment of at least one faculty member of another institution of the consortium. The final mark of the thesis will be awarded by the Board of Studies of the Masters programme during its summer meeting.


3th & 4th semester modules at Swansea University

Structural Engineering Elective Modules	ECTS (Term1)	ECTS (Term2)
Dynamics of Structures	5	-
Computer modelling	5	-
Computational Plasticity	-	5
Advanced Structural Analysis	5	-
Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics	-	5
Fluid Mechanics Elective Modules	ECTS (Term1)	ECTS (Term2)
Computational Fluid Dynamics	-	5
Reservoir Modelling and Simulation	-	5
Computational Electromagnetics	-	5
Fluid Structure Interaction	-	5
Other (subject to timetable constraints and availability)	ECTS (Term1)	ECTS (Term2)
Optimisation	-	5
Engineering Design Optimisation	-	5
Computational Intelligence in Engineering	5	-
Transversal modules (5 compulsory ECTS)	ECTS (Term1)	ECTS (Term2)
Strategic project management	-	5
Communication skills for research engineers	5	-
Master Thesis (compulsory)	ECTS (Term1)	ECTS (Term2)
Supervised MSc thesis(*)	15	15

3th Semester at UPC/CIMNE (30 ECTS)

Modules	ECTS
Programming for Engineers and Scientists	5
Computational Mechanics Tools	5
Computational Wave Propagation	5
Advanced Discretization Methods	5
Multiscale Computational Mechanics	5
Elective Modules	ECTS
Computational contact Mechanics	5
Modelling and Analysis in Biomechanics	5
Optimization	5
Fluid Structure Interaction	5

4th Semester at UPC/CIMNE (30 ECTS)

Master Thesis (compulsory)	ECTS (Term2)
Supervised MSc thesis(*)	30

3th semester at Ecole Centrale Nantes (23 ECTS compulsory modules)

	Total ECTS	Structural Eng. ECTS	Eng. Hydro-dynamics ECTS
Computational methods for incompressible flows	4	-	4
Extended finite element method and level set techniques	3	3	-
French	5	-	-
Materials modeling for numerical simulations	4	4	-
Numerical methods for simulation of coupled problems	4	4	4
Physical modeling of fluids	3	-	3

(7 ECTS elective modules)

	Total ECTS	Structural Eng. ECTS	Eng. Hydro-dynamics ECTS
Computational damage and fracture mechanics for polymers and composites	3	3	-
Domain decomposition and iterative solvers	4	4	4
Fluid-structure interaction and advanced CFD	3	3	3
Model reduction	4	4	4
Multi-scale numerical methods	3	3	-
Numerical methods for uncertainty quantification	4	4	4

4th semester at Ecole Centrale Nantes

Master Thesis

30 ECTS

3th Semester at Universität Stuttgart

Electives	ECTS
Computational Mechanics of Materials	6
Engineering Materials I- Metals, Concrete, Soils	3
Computational Methods of Shell Analysis	3
Elements of Nonlinear Continuum Thermodynamics	6
Multiscale Computational Mechanics	5
Continuum Biomechanics	6
Geometrical Methods for Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics	6
Computational Material Science	3
Environmental Fluid Mechanics	6

4th Semester at Universität Stuttgart	ECTS
Foundation of Single and Multiphasic Materials	6
Micromechanics and Homogenization Methods	6
Advanced Computational Mechanics	6
Boundary Element Methods in Statics and Dynamics	6
Engineering Materials II- Metals	3
Numerical Modelling of Concrete Structures	3
Engineering Materials II- Soils	3
Implementation and Algorithms for Finite Elements	3
Introduction to Continuum Mechanics of Multiphase Materials	6
Smart Structures and Control	6
Modeling of Hydrosystems	6
Parameter Identification	6
Selected Topics in Plasticity and Viscoelasticity	6
Theoretical and Computer Oriented Materials Theory	6
Environmental Fluid Mechanics II	6