The strength of the laboratory in terms of accelerators is also supported by the high-tech human potential grouped together within the Engineering Pole. The development of accelerators would not be possible without massive support from engineering professions such as, for example, design offices, electronics and control/command technicians.
Very often involved from the outset in research projects or accelerator construction projects, the engineers and technicians in the Engineering Pole play an essential role and have developed in each field (mechanics, manufacturing, electronics, acquisition, instrumentation) essential specificities for the development or implementation of accelerators.
The Pole is organized into four departments: mechanics, electronics, IT and computing, detectors and instrumentation. Each of these departments is itself subdivided into expert services in a structure adapted to the size of the Pole, which comprises approximately 175 people. While ensuring the continuity of projects, the Pole is constantly fed by the new challenges of fundamental research, with strong proximity between the technical teams and research groups. It brings together a wide variety of job profiles and has the capacity to combine and make co-exist versatility and specialization, from large projects on very large research infrastructures to R&D on small projects.