This Advanced Master Degree is carried out in partnership with the companies ORTEC, THALES, VEONEER, VALEO, SAFRAN, ARIANEGROUP.
The Advanced Master Degree - Mastère Spécialisé in Operational Safety from the Conférence des Grandes Écoles addresses the challenges facing businesses in the areas of operational safety, failure science, and breakdowns. It is delivered by ENSEA, a general engineering school renowned for its expertise in electronics.
The objective of the Advanced Master Degree in Operational Safety is to meet the demand of companies for expert engineers who know how to understand the operational safety of an electronic engineering project according to the four axes: reliability, maintainability, availability and security, whatever the field of application: satellite, radar, on-board electronics, automotive, railway.
Delivered by ENSEA teachers and lecturers, this training also aims to strengthen the skills of graduate engineers to enable them to better understand and act on these issues, and become accomplished experts.
At the end of the Advanced Master Degree in Operational Safety, engineering students will have acquired:
Technical skills
- Mastery of the 4 axes of operational safety: reliability, maintainability, availability, security
- Analysis of failures and breakdowns of electronic systems
- Use of AMDEC tools, fault trees, reliability block diagrams
- Conducting accelerated testing and availability studies
- Mastery of specialized IT tools
System skills
- Complex Systems Engineering
- Global vision and systemic approach
- Functional safety analyses
- Construction of safety files
Sector-specific skills
- Expertise in the automotive, rail, aeronautics and space sectors
- Knowledge of regulatory specificities by sector
- Industrial risk management
Transversal skills
- Multidisciplinary approach
- Mediation between different professions (mechanics, hardware, software, marketing)
- High-level strategic vision
- Team management and project management
Areas of activity concerned:
- spatial
- Aeronautics
- Railway
- Automotive
- Defense
- Energy
Positions held after training:
- Expert in the operational safety of complex systems.
- Manager of operational safety/risk control team or department.
- Project manager for the development of complex systems
Partnerships
Application requirements
- BAC +5 (Engineer or M2) in Electronics, Automation, IT or Telecommunications.
- BAC +4 (M1) with 3 years of professional experience.
- Equivalent foreign diploma.
Admission and schedule
- Start of classes: First semester 2026 (details to follow)
Registration fees: €15
Filing and processing fees: €50
Contact and submission of applications: mspe.info@ensea.fr - 01 30 73 62 17
ENSEA, 6 avenue du Ponceau, 95000 Cergy-Pontoise
Program of the training
Academic training at ENSEA: Courses / Tutorials / Practical work / Projects / Conferences
6-month internship period in a company (30 ECTS)
teachings
Scientific and systems engineering prerequisites:
- Systems engineering
- Complex systems
- Applied statistics
Safety of Operation of Electronic Systems:
- Homeless Initiation
- Electronic SdF analyses
- System availability studies
- Maintainability and testability
Operational Safety Tools:
- Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMEA)
- Fault Trees (ADD)
- Reliability Block Diagram (BDF)
- Accelerated testing
- IT tools
Safety systems analyses:
- Functional safety
- Security Analytics
- Sector specificities
- Construction of safety files
Related studies:
- Human factor in security analyses
- Industrial risks: fire, digital modeling, BLEVE, lightning, ICPE-INB, radio