At the interface between science, technology and society

Disciplinary fields which are continually evolving

The disciplinary foundations of engineering sciences and systems are made up of several fields:

• mechanics of materials and structures, acoustics, bio-engineering;
• fluids, processes, plasmas, transfers, combustion, thermal science;
• micro- and nanoelectronics, micro- and nanotechnologies, micro- and nanosystems, photonics, electromagnetism, electrical energy.

In all these fields, multi-scale and multi-physical simulation and modelling are taking on an increasingly interdisciplinary role and are generally linked to experimental developments.

Interdisciplinarity is at the core of INSIS research

Interdisciplinarity is intrinsic to the Institute and is essential to study the many subjects of interest to the INSIS. Within the Institute, disciplines complement and interact with each other.

Multiple interfaces exist between the INSIS and the other CNRS institutes because of the integrative and multidisciplinary nature of engineering and systems sciences. Half of the INSIS units thus have a secondary link to another institute as their authority and 143 CNRS structures have a secondary institutional link with the INSIS as their authority.

Five INSIS laboratories are under dual authority:

The INSIS actively takes part in the projects run by the Mission for Transversal and Interdisciplinary Initiatives (MITI), formerly known as the Mission for Interdisciplinarity (MI): Défisens, Mechanobiology, Instrumentation aux limites (Instrumentation at the limits).

The MITI website