École nationale supérieure des télécommunications de Bretagne
48°21′33″N 4°34′12″W / 48.35917°N 4.57000°W
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| Motto | A prestigious graduate engineering school and international research centre in the field of information technologies |
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| Type | French Grande Ecole |
| Established | 1977 |
| President | Paul Friedel |
| Students | 1,219 (2009) |
| Undergraduates | 998 (2009) |
| Postgraduates | 430 (2009) |
| 221 (2009) | |
| Location | , France |
| Campus | Brest, Rennes |
| Website | official |
Telecom Bretagne (formerly known as ENST Bretagne) is one of the top French grande école and a high standard research centre providing high level training in Information Technologies and telecommunications. This grande école of engineering is located near Brest in Brittany.
As a member of the Institut Telecom, it has three campuses:
- Plouzané, in the Technopôle Brest-Iroise, near Brest (France);
- Campus de Beaulieu, in Rennes (France);
- Supaero campus, in Toulouse (France).
Telecom Bretagne has been the source of breakthroughs[citation needed] in the world of telecommunications, notably[citation needed] the turbo codes (first published in Proc. IEEE ICC'93) used extensively in 3G mobile telephony standards.
History
- 1974: Pierre Lelong – Secretary of State for the PTT (literally Postal Telegraph and Telephone) – decides to establish a second school of telecommunications that will be located in the Brest area.
- 1977: Creation of ENST Bretagne in Brest. Admission of the first student body which counted 31 students.
- 1986: Creation of the Rennes site.
- 1997: Creation of the Groupe des Écoles des Télécommunications (GET).
- 2008: Renamed Telecom Bretagne.
Master of engineering
For students admitted in formation initiale (FI, literally initial formation), the curriculum takes 3 years and deals with six main domains in 1st and 2nd year:
- Mathematics and signal processing
- Electronics and physics
- Computer science
- Networks
- Economy and social sciences
- Languages and intercultural dimensions
and 4 options in 3rd year :
- Engineering and system integration
- Software systems and networks
- Services and business engineering
- Information processing systems.
Master of Sciences
Telecom Bretagne delivers Master of Science degrees, which are fully compliant with the Bologna system. MSc are two-year training courses leading to a high level of expertise in Information Technologies (IT):
- MSc in Telecommunication Systems Engineering
- MSc in Design and Engineering of Convergent Networks
- MSc in Biomedical Information Engineering
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Notable faculty
- Adrienne Jablanczy, President of the Institut supérieur européen de gestion group