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Pierre Latteur is a Professor at the Louvain School of Engineering at Université catholique de Louvain since 2013, where he leads the Civil Engineering Group. With over 15 years of experience as a structural engineer, he previously worked as a project manager at SETESCO and as the director of a structural engineering group at Technum-Tractebel Engineering in Brussels. His dual career in industry and academia has allowed him to gain extensive practical experience across a wide variety of projects, including high-rise buildings, architectural structures, footbridges, and industrial nuclear structures. His research interests focus on timber structures, tensegrity structures, reciprocal structures, and the optimization of photovoltaic structures. He is also involved in innovative construction processes, notably as a drone pilot in the field of high-payload drones, contributing to projects involving the automated assembly of structures with drones. He teaches courses on mechanics of structures, timber structures, and construction process design challenges. Pierre has supervised over 90 master’s theses and authored a book titled 'Calculer une structure, de la théorie à l’exemple.' He has more than 3500 hours of teaching experience and has engaged students in various projects throughout their bachelor's and master's studies.
Programs in the Louvain School of Engineering (EPL) are primarily taught in English. This requirement profile applies to the majority of Master [120] engineering tracks including Mechanical, Civil, and Computer Science.