France Engineering - Solid Mechanics Summer Faculty-led

Overview

The solid mechanics program in France provides Texas A&M University students with an in-depth experience in French language, culture, history, government, and economics, in addition to their technical fields and in-class experiences. The program includes visits to local industries and laboratories at the host university. MEEN 305 teaches the applications of stress and deformation relationships for deformable bodies and mechanical elements relevant to mechanical engineers, including the core principle of structural design, such as the response of structural members under different locating conditions. Students will have direct interaction with French students not only in the classroom but in a social setting as well, enhancing the cultural experience and giving a distinctive perception of what life in France is really like, contributing to the students’ global competency development and preparation to join the global engineering industry. This connection with the community makes the program unique. The primary location and host university is the campus of Arts et Métiers located in Aix-en-Provence, France. Aix-en-Provence is a vibrant, modest-size, charming, and engaging city in the southern coastal region of France. Housing is provided in local student dorms. The program includes a long weekend in Paris, visiting the city and the Paris campus of Arts et Métiers. Engineering and French language and culture classes are taught at the Aix-en-Provence campus of Arts et Métiers. The location provides ready access to the nearby city of Marseille, the French Riviera Mediterranean coast, the southern Alps, and additional European destinations. The program schedule includes two to three long weekends to explore other destinations as students may desire. The high-speed train station and Marseille airport are easily reached by bus for leisure travel on the free weekends. Popular places students have visited in recent years include Nice, Cannes and Chamonix (France), Barcelona (Spain), London (England), Edinburg (Scotland), Rome, Venice, and Florence (Italy), Munich and Berlin (Germany), and Geneva and Interlaken (Switzerland).

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Contact Information

Faculty Leader

Dr. Harry Hogan
Mechanical Engineering 
hhogan@tamu.edu

Program Coordinators

Halliburton Engineering Global Programs  
Zachry Engineering Education Complex
Suite 410
engineeringglobalprograms@tamu.edu