Organization

Training organization

The Master's degree is organized into 4 semesters (S1 to S4), structured into TU (compulsory or elective teaching units). Each TU has a value in credits (ECTS). Each semester is worth 30 ECTS. The Master's degree is awarded on completion of 120 ECTS.

Prolegomena

Due to the highly heterogeneous nature of the populations recruited, the first year starts a fortnight earlier than the_M2. These two weeks are then used to introduce students to the basic skills that will be considered as acquired in the specialization's teaching units. Although they are not associated with any ECTS credits, theMaths, Electronics, Biology and Health prolegomena are nevertheless compulsory, enabling students to self-assess the requirements they will be asked to meet later on. By way of example, the Mathematics prolegomena are structured around three main themes: complex numbers, linear algebra and analysis (differentiation, integration and differential equations), which will find their respective applications in specific courses on Sensors or Robotics.

M1: First year of Master

• S1: First semester
  Given the heterogeneity of the curricula followed by students recruited to the first year of the TecSan specialization, two specific courses are offered. The first enables students with a basic knowledge of electronics to supplement their knowledge through certain teaching units taken jointly with the Master EEA(https://www.eea.univ-montp2.fr). These include, in particular, "Analog Electronics" and "Signal Acquisition and Processing". Similar courses are offered to students from the Biology and Health streams, but with an adapted pedagogical approach. Reinforced by a module entitled "Mathematics / Statistics / Data Analysis", these courses form the first scientific part of the curriculum. At the same time, the program is complemented by specific health-related courses given to the entire graduating class at the Montpellier Faculty of Medicine. These are: "Health structures and issues" and "Scope of application of ICT in HEALTH". The latter takes the form of lectures/debates given every Tuesday evening by national healthcare professionals. Videos of these evenings can be viewed on the course website(https://www.telecom-montpellier.fr).
• S2: Second semester
  The second semester is also the last one, during which the class is divided into specific courses, offering a differentiated approach to Image, Sensors and Robotics.

Medical RoboticsPhilippe Poignet

Epimysial electrode (copyrights SUAWproject), D. Guiraud

Radiation from an ultrasonicsensor, E. Le Clézio

Students are then offered a degree of specialization through a choice of two teaching units on "Medical Robotics", "Neuro-Prosthetics" or "Sensors for the Medical Sector". A 3 to 4 month internship in a research laboratory, healthcare facility or company completes the first year.

M2: Second year of Master

After a first year of specialized courses, students follow the same curriculum in the second year of the Master's program.

• S3: First semester
  The UEs of the first semester of the second year are devoted to reinforcing the specialty modules covered in M1. These are "Sensors and Instrumentation", "Modeling/Regulation" and "Microfabrication/Microfluidics".
  To enable students to pursue the specialization of some of their skills begun in the first year, two UEs are also available to choose from: "Medical Robotics 2", "Neuroprosthesis 2" and "IR Thermography & Optical Detectors".
• S4: Second semester
  The final semester of the Master's program is devoted to professionalization, with courses in industry (TU "Business knowledge/Legal and ethical issues") and research (TU "Bibliographic analysis/Scientific watch"). The program ends with a 4-6 month internship in a company, hospital or laboratory.

Professional teaching units

The "Health Devices Engineering" specialization of the "Sciences and Digital Health" Master's degree is structured around professionalizing teaching units designed to provide students with a sound knowledge of the industrial or academic environment, depending on their career objectives.

Over the two years of the Master's program, four professional training units are offered in the form of projects (or discontinuous internships) corresponding to three half-days per week from the beginning of October to the end of March, which can be continued by means of three- to six-month internships offered at the end of each year. Depending on their choices and the opportunities available, students can have access to four different institutions, thus gaining diversified experience or, on the contrary, specializing over the two years in a particular field.

The following list presents a sample of the projects and/or internships carried out by IDS students:

• Methods for characterizing the properties of blood: Study of the coagulation phenomenon,
• Feasibility study of characterizing the viscoelastic properties of blood before and during the coagulation cascade using ultrasound methods,
• Study of intra- and postoperative cardiac distress,
• Instrumentation for studying the effect of mechanical stress on stem cell differentiation,
• Production of micro-fluidic circuits for cell culture,
• Yeast cell culture in micro-fluidic circuits ,
• Creation of nanofluidic circuits for DNA combing,
• Functional electrical stimulation,
• Curcumin, an insulin-stimulating plant substance of interest,
• Search for markers of functional asymmetries in the case of lateralized fatigue,
• Programming in C language of the interface of an endoscope holder dedicated to endoscopic sinus and skull base surgery.

The majority of these professional stays take place in research laboratories at the University of Montpellier or in industry.

Description of teaching units

The teaching units (TU) presented below correspond to the LMD5 model valid from September 2021.