School of Engineering in Physics, Applied Physics, Electronics & Materials Science

Phelma is part of the Grenoble Institute of Engineering and Management (Grenoble INP) at Univ. Grenoble Alpes. The Phelma school was established in 2008 after the merge of three departments of Grenoble, the National School of Physics (ENSPG), the National School of Electronics and Radioelectricity (ENSERG) and the National School of Electrochemistry and of Electrometallurgy (ENSEEG). Today, Phelma receives 1400 students every year with the goal to strengthen their skills in fundamental and applied physics, materials science-oriented chemistry, instrumentation, biotechnologies, electronics and information processing.

The school of Phelma targets the Reliability and Security implications of Connected Embedded Systems in all abstraction levels. The following courses already exist: Network and System Security, Validation of Embedded Systems, Hardware Safety and Security. These courses are supported by extensive laboratory activities, providing the students hands-on experience on security on both the Network side (thanks to activities on ENSIMAG’s private machines) and Hardware side (thanks to special equipment installed in dedicated platform room OCAE). This infrastructure is shared with the Cybersecurity Master of UGA, where the Physical Security course deals with implementation aspects of security. These labs require constant care and evolution to include new pedagogic approaches. For instance, the Side-Channel Attack platform was recently switched to Chipwhisperer Tools, while a new Fault-Injection Reliability Estimation station is under development.

Contact: Michele Portolan, Associate Professor ( michele [dot] portolan [at] grenoble-inp.fr )