The BTS (Brevet de Technicien Supérieur) Foundry is a diploma allowing the learning of the manufacture and industrialization of metal parts by molding. The student acquires various molding methods: by hand, metallic, mechanized, art or metallic molding, and all the skills to intervene throughout the production chain.

Opportunities

The holder of the BTS Foundry works in a foundry company or a design office in the sector.

He can access different professions:

• Agent-control
• Founder
• Moulder
• Responsible for a production sector
• Injection workshop technician
• Methods technician in workshop
• Metallurgy laboratory technician
• Technical expert
• Technical director.

The BTS Foundry prepares you for working life, however it is possible to continue your studies by preparing for a professional license, an engineering school or a higher school of foundry and forge (ESFF).

The possible pro licenses are: Law, economics, management management of organizations, specialty management and piloting of projects; Sciences, technologies, health metal processing specialty foundry, metal molds; Sciences, technologies, health metal transformation specializing in alloy processing, or Sciences and techniques industrial production management specializing in production logistics.

The trials

The BTS Foundry is accessible to holders of a professional baccalaureate or a STI2D baccalaureate (Science and Technology of Industry and Sustainable Development).

General tests

• General culture and expression
• English
• Mathematics
• Chemical Physics

Professional tests

• Preliminary conception
• Industrial process design and initiation project
• Response to a case – Completion management
  • Collaborative project to optimize a product and a process
  • Molding Study
  • Management and follow-up of realization in company

 The optional test

• Modern language 2

Schools preparing for the BTS

To pass the BTS Foundry, it is important to prepare it well. This training is offered on a work-study basis by many establishments, including:

• Gustave Eiffel high school
• The general and technological high school Jean Dupuy,
• Jean Dupuy vocational school
• The versatile François Bazin high school.

Training program

General education

• General culture and expression
• English
• Mathematics
• Applied physical sciences
• Modern language 2 (optional)

Vocational education

• Product study
• Production preparation
• Implementation study of foundry alloys and related materials
• Technical and economic management