BUT Physics Engineering

Technological education is divided as follows:

- A minimum of 40% of the time is devoted to practical and vocational teaching (practical work, learning and work experience).

- A minimum of 40% of the hourly volume is devoted to practical teaching and professional situations (practical work, Learning and Evaluation Situations (LES), tutorial projects, internships in companies or research laboratories, etc.),

- Approximately 60% of the hourly volume is devoted to a professional training course.

- Approximately 60% of the hourly volume is devoted to theoretical teaching in the form of lectures and tutorials. The course also includes instruction in English speaking and writing techniques (with preparation for the TOEIC test). The MP department in Marseille offers an initial training course and a sandwich course from the second year onwards.

For students in initial training, the internships, with a total duration of 26 weeks, are carried out over the last two years. These internships can be carried out in France or abroad in a company or research laboratory.

• The apprenticeship students alternate between 4-5 week periods of teaching at the IUT and 4-5 week periods in the company.

For students in initial training, the internships, with a total duration of 26 weeks, are carried out over the last two years;The total duration of the training courses is 26 weeks and they are spread over the last two years (11 weeks of training in the second year (beginning of February) and 15 weeks for the end-of-study training in the third year).
These internships can be carried out in France or abroad,
-in a company
Non-exhaustive list Dassaut Aviation, Airbus Helicopters, Gemalto, ST Microelectronics, Socié des Eaux de Marseille, Ascometal, Lafarge, CILAS, Bertin et Cie, SESO, Arcelor Mittal, Naval Group, CEA, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sureté Nuclé aire (IRSN),
- or in a research laboratory
Non-exhaustive list : Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (CNRS), Instituto de Energia Solar (Madrid), University of Sydney, National Institute for Lasers, Plasma and Radiation Physics (Romania), IFSC Sao Paulo (Brériaux Microélectronique Nanosciences de Provence IM2NP (CNRS), Centre Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), Centre de Recherche et d'Enseignement de Géosciences de l'Environnement CEREGE (CNRS), Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille-Luminy IBDML (INSERM), Institut national de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'alimentation et l'Environnement (INRAE),...

The apprentice students alternate between 4-5 week periods of teaching at the IUT and 4-5 week periods in the company. The content of the teaching programme is identical to that of the initial training (IT course). Some courses are taken at the same time by apprentices and students in initial training.

Throughout the 3 years, students work in teams on both theoretical and applied projects that are supervised by teachers, research teachers and technical staff of the department. The students organise their work by setting milestones, write a report and, depending on the semester, make an oral presentation at the end of the project. These projects allow students to stimulate their autonomy, their personal work, their teamwork, their organisational skills, and to put their scientific knowledge into practice.

p class="MsoNormal"Students have the possibility to do their internships abroad, in companies or in research laboratories. In the last few years, students have done internships (non-exhaustive list) in Brazil, Canada, Romania, Australia, Sweden, United Kingdom, Spain, etc. Students can do 1 or 2 semesters abroad in the 3rd year.

The MP department offers coaching for preparation for the TOEIC English language certification.