Information Science and Technology (IST) are present in our every day lif. It concerns a large field of knowledge and know-how:

• Multimedia processing
• Communication through voice, sound and images
• Huge data base access
• Distributed services and uses
• Network for information transmission
• Internet, Web services
• Wireless mobile telecommunications
• Broadcasting information - radio and TV
• ...

In August 2010, the Telecommunication Department (TC) and the Computer Sciences and Engineering Department (IF) in collaboration with the research laboratories (CITI, CREATIS, LIRIS) open a new program named "Information Science & Technology Semester". This program targets foreign students in their last year of Bachelor.

All the courses of this semester will be given in English and the semester is composed of five advanced scientific courses, a research project and it is completed by French courses:

• AWR: Advanced Wireless Network (3 ECTS)
• MID: Middleware Architectures from Ambient to Cloud Computing (3 ECTS)
• MMP: Multimedia Processing Applications(3 ECTS)
• INF: Formal Aspects in Information Systems (3 ECTS)
• DDM: Data Base Management and Data Mining (3 ECTS)
• Research Project (13 ECTS)
• French Summer School (4 ECTS)
• French as a foreign langage (2 ECTS)

Each scientific course is generally organised as follows:

• 10 hours of theoritical lecture
• 2 to 4 hours of smeinar given by an expert from a company
• Small student project with 4 hours of assistance
• 2 hours of project presentation by the students

The research project will be conducted within one of the three research laboratories (CITI, CREATIS, LIRIS). Partners of the IST semester, these laboratories develop high level research in the fields covered by the IST semester. The students will work within a research team alone or by two. They will have to make a bibliographic study, to develop their own contributions that will be presented in a final report and during an oral presentation. 

The semester runs from mid-august (beginning of the French Summer School) to end of December.

All the students are welcome as exchange students under the agreement between their Universities and INSA Lyon. They will administratively registered in the Telecommunication Department. They will be offered accomodation on campus.

Contacts

• IST pedagogic coordinator: atilla [dot] baskurtinsa-lyon [dot] fr (Pr. Atilla BASKURT)
• International Office contact for application and accomodation: marie [dot] arapoglu-arabianinsa-lyon [dot] fr (Marie ARAPOGLU-ARABIAN)
• Telecom Department, International relation coordinator: isabelle [dot] auge-bluminsa-lyon [dot] fr (Ass. Pr. Isabelle AUGE-BLUM)
• Telecom Department, secretary of international exchange: stephanie [dot] zeoliinsa-lyon [dot] fr (Stéphanie ZEOLI)