CISE

CISE - Embedded Systems Integration Campus

The CISE is born !

The CISE, our Embedded Systems Integration Campus, has gone from being a project to a reality following five years of collaborative efforts. Since 2012, its technological platforms and its innovation/transfer area have been promoted in collaboration with all our academic and institutional partners and enterprises in the context of projects by IRSEEM and SRT (Technological Resources Service).

The origins of the CISE project were the outcome of industrial needs expressed via the Normandie AéroEspace network (including Aircelle, SNECMA, SAGEM, Thales, etc.), the automotive sector (Renault, Valeo, etc.), the Mov’eo competitiveness hub, and enterprises in the digital sector. Based on these needs, in 2006 the ESIGELEC/IRSEEM Group determined working orientations that would bring the various parties together and enable medium and long-term planning. The idea was to design a project providing structure for multiple actors, that would bring together industrials, research structures, and actors in the higher education sector.

The CISE, which is a research, innovation and transfer tool, had its first stone laid in September 2010. Now dedicated to energy and sustainable mobility, it is complementary to other existing or future platforms in the French research sector, in the field of onboard systems involving integration in the service of energy efficiency and sustainable development.

3 types of activities

A global approach that articulates Research, Transfer & Innovation, and Industrial Co-ordination covers all needs: the campus offers a space where industrials, researchers, engineers and engineering students can embark on partnership-based research.

3 fields of application

The CISE affirms strong consistency in research themes based on four major scientific areas in the integration of onboard systems (diagnostics, EMC, mechatronics and fully electronic systems). These four areas are active in three fields of application: navigation systems, economical clean vehicles, and nacelles of the future. Involvement in these four fields and the three applications fields mentioned are done via 4 platforms.
4 platforms:

A platform dedicated to navigation: software solutions or electronic devices developed for the aerospace and automotive sectors has been integrated there.
A platform dedicated to EMC, mechatronics, and micro-electronics: IRSEEM’s current resources are supplemented by a micro-electronics laboratory equipped with a white room for implementing test devices and receiving a close electromagnetic field measuring bench suitable for electronic components. Machining equipment and a simulation unit are also featured in this laboratory.
A platform dedicated to electric vehicles oriented towards the integration of electrical and electronic engine block, gearbox and braking system components. Innovative control strategies are developed there.
A platform for nacelles (a device for housing jet engines) – equipment made available by Aircelle – enable new generations of fully-electric nacelles to be developed which will equip the aircraft of the future.

2 innovation, transfer and co-ordination spaces

These areas enable companies and sponsors of innovative projects to benefit from suitable support:
transfer initiatives, monitoring, pre-incubation, meetings with researchers and engineers, R&D, etc.

A partner-based project

Funding for the CISE, amounting to a sum of €14 M, including €8 M for the real estate, came from the following:
The European Union, the French State, the Haute-Normandie Region, the Seine-Maritime Département, the CREA, the CCIR, ESIGELEC and support from Aircelle.
The project leader is the CCIR (Rouen Chamber of Commerce and Industry).
CISE received a quality label as a structural project by the Mov’eo hub and by the Normandie AéroEspace network.

The CISE is already a prize-winner!

The Seine-Maritime Prize was awarded to the CISE, which was designed by the architectural firm CBA (Christophe Bidaud Architecte), at the Ceremony for the Haute-Normandie Architecture and Town Planning Grand Prize, held on 4 February by the CAUE (Council of Architecture, Town Planning and the Environment). The Maison de l’Architecture is going to include it in its discovery tour of remarkable sites during the “Contemporary Architecture Month” in March.

And let’s not forget that the central building at ESIGELEC, designed by the firm Arene & Edeikins, was awarded the Auguste Perret Architectural Grand Prize in 2006.

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