Master level education by and through research: the first-year feedback-story of the international master on Wave Physics & Acoustics at Le Mans University
Résumé
We started in September 2019 a new master curriculum at Le Mans University, as part of a plan of actions in the frame of the Institut d?Acoustique - Graduate School. This Institute is related to a project funded by the French state, launched in 2018 in the frame of the national call ?Ecole Universitaire de Recherche? and which intends to offer ?Universities the possibility to reinforce the international impact and attractiveness of their research and training activities in one or several scientific domains, by integrating master and doctoral trainings with high level laboratories? and to introduce in France the model of Graduate Schools. One proposed action to implement all this, was to launch a new master curriculum focused on training by and through research, rethinking usual ways of organizing the training at master level in France, and inspired from several US and European universities. In this presentation, we will describe this new master curriculum on Wave Physics & Acoustics and in particular how we implemented a plan to favor education by and through research. We will highlight the necessary adjustments we had to make and the expected outputs for the students and the laboratory.