- Proficiency in basic tools for describing the behavior of materials and structures: energy-based approaches in continuum mechanics, vibration and propagation phenomena, ...
- Proficiency in the numerical tools used in engineering design offices: the finite element method, algorithms for solving nonlinear problems, etc.
- Introduction to advanced structural models: heterogeneous beams, plates, composite materials,
- Introduction to complex behavioral models: limit analysis, material nonlinearities, structural effects, ...
- Practical use of engineering design tools: simulation software, computer-aided design tools, optimization, etc.