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Message from the Director

ISTASE is an important engineering school within University Jean Monnet, whose specialisms are clearly set in the field of STIC (Sciences and Technologies of Information and Communication), more precisely in Optics, Electronics, Imagery, Vision, and Telecommunications. Thus it is thanks to its competitive and dynamic knowledge that ISTASE answers economic needs.

Advanced Technologies being its specialism, the school has to offer constantly evolving high-level training. Students are offered optimum working conditions as well as tailor-made courses of studies that can come up to their various expectations: project engineer, entrepreneur engineer, or field engineer.

Each ISTASE student can find an appropriate answer to his or her previous training, to his motivations and to his career project.

  • Training or internships abroad will meet the wish to have an international experience.
  • It is possible to obtain a double qualification in entrepreneuriat or research.
  • If a student wishes to be even more autonomous, he can follow an original tele-training course via the internet during his last year.

ISTASE has a close partnership with the industrial world in its sectors of activity, and benefits from a particularly favourable environment. The school is a major component of the Rhône-Alpes Optic Partnership, which gathers the research competence of its laboratories, actors of innovation (start-ups), and the material means of technological platforms on a single site close to ISTASE. ISTASE is thus well-equipped to fulfil its several missions: training engineers, research and development, and the transfer of skills and technologies.

ISTASE engineers are known for their skills and reactivity in a context of international competition. No one comes to ISTASE by chance. It is the decision of those who wish to make a career project based on advanced technologies come true.


Gérard Noyel        

Director of ISTASE