Mines ParisTech

Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 42 "  N , 2 ° 20 ′ 21"  E

Mines ParisTech
motto	Théorie et pratique
founding	March 19, 1783
place	Paris
President	Jacques André Aschenbroich
Employee	1027
Website	www.mines-paristech.eu

The École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris (also École des mines de Paris , Mines Paris or since April 22, 2008 Mines ParisTech ) is a grande école for engineers in the 6th arrondissement of Paris . It was in 1783 by order of Louis XVI. founded. The École des mines is one of the founding members of the Institut des sciences et technologies de Paris ( ParisTech ), an association of eleven different technical universities . She is also one of the founding members of the Université PSL .

history

Studies in the 19th century

The first École de Mines was founded on March 19, 1783 by decree of the royal council ; their quarters were in the Hôtel des Monnaies in Paris. Balthazar Georges Sage was the founder and director until 1790 . After the turmoil of the French Revolution , in which the college was dissolved again, the Welfare Committee issued the order to re-establish the school on the 13th  Messidor of the year II (July 2nd, 1794). The location was determined on the 23rd  Pluviôse of the year X (January 24, 1802) Peisey-Nancroix in Savoy , which at that time belonged to France.

After the events of the Wars of Liberation , on December 6, 1816, Paris was finally determined as the location of the university by decree. The École de Mines was housed in the Hôtel de Vendôme on Boulevard Saint-Michel , which passes the Jardin du Luxembourg , the place where its headquarters still occupy today.

In 1967 parts of the school were relocated to Fontainebleau and Évry , and in 1976 another part to the Sophia Antipolis Technology Park .

degrees

L'Hôtel de Vendôme, headquarters of the École des Mines

Civil engineer (bac + 5)

The École nationale trains qualified engineers with broad knowledge in a wide variety of areas of activity, such as research and development, production and corporate management.

The engineering course, known in English as "Master of Science and Executive Engineering", has around 400 students, equivalent to 130 degrees per year.

Admission to this course takes place via an entrance examination ( concours ) after completing a special school year that prepares students for attending one of the country's Grandes Écoles. The most important entrance exam is the so-called Concours commun Mines-Ponts . In the second year of the study cycle, the number of participants is increased by the addition of students from other universities and a not inconsiderable number of foreign students.

Ingénieurs du corps des mines (bac + 8)

Admission to the Ingénieur du corps des mines , one of the major state corps, depends on the results achieved in the École polytechnique . Additional study places can be obtained through special entrance exams at the end of the École normal supérieure and at the École des mines de Paris. The number of students is around 50, and around 16 students take the diploma examination every year.

Master (bac + 5)

Participation in the Master’s program (DNM: Diplôme National de Master ), which enables both applied engineering professions as well as scientific directions, is determined by previous academic performance and an interview. The number of students in 2008 was around 70.

Masters with specialization (Postmaster)

Participation in the program is based on previous academic performance and a job interview. In 2008 the school offered twelve full-time courses and four part-time courses.

The number of students was around 220 at the end of 2007. Since 1987 around 2000 diplomas have been awarded.

Doctorate (bac + 8)

At the École des mines, doctoral degrees are awarded in seven main disciplines with a total of 19 sub-subjects. The main disciplines are:

• Economy, Organizations, Société (EOS)
• Géosciences et Ressources Naturelles Paris (GRN)
• Information, Communication, Modélisation et Simulation (ICMS)
• Matériaux, Ouvrages, Durabilité, Environnement et Structures (MODES)
• Sciences Fondamentales et Appliquées (SFA)
• Sciences des Métiers de l'Ingénieur (SMI)
• Sciences et technologies de l'information et de la communication (STIC)

The number of doctoral students is around 500.

International cooperation

The engineering course has a strong international component:

• Students can spend one semester of their studies at foreign universities (including the Technical University of Munich , RWTH Aachen University , the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the University of Hong Kong , the National University of Singapore ( NUS), Tokyo Tech , Seoul National University ).
• The engineering internship is mandatory abroad. 52.3% of internships take place outside Europe.
• About fifteen foreign students come from partner institutions (Chinese, Brazilian, and Russian universities, MIT and others); With the doctorate they acquire an additional degree (Double Diplôme) in the second year.
• Another fifteen guest students are studying on an exchange program such as the Erasmus program .
• As a member of the ParisTech network , the École offers short stays at other universities in Europe through the Athens program for student exchange.

A larger number of foreign students also take part in the other courses listed above.

research

Research at the École has a strong application focus and good relationships with industry. They are mainly managed by the Armines company, which is organized into 16 research centers spread across five main scientific fields.

• Energy industry and process science ( Énergétique et génie des procédés )
• Materials science and raw materials ( Sciences et Génie des Matériaux )
• Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Automation ( Mathématiques Appliquées, Informatique, Automatique )
• Earth and Environmental Sciences ( Sciences de la Terre et de l'environnement )
• Economics and Social Sciences ( Sciences Économiques et Sociales )

The École is a co-operator of the Carnot MINES Institute

Library

The library was founded in 1783 to provide students with application-oriented literature as a working aid. During the French Revolution, the collection was completed by a selection of works that were strictly selected according to whether they were of use to students and professors. These works document the development of mineralogy or geology . Many of them are not in French; German works in particular take up a large part of the old collections.

The holdings increased in the 19th century, among other things through acquisitions, donations and inheritances, as well as through the exchange with the scientific societies emerging at the time and the contemporary research directions. Due to its orientation, the library holdings were pedagogically oriented, and essentially reflect the economic (and social, with a clear turn towards Saint-Simonism ) rather than the technical aspect of mining.

In 1926, when the Croix de guerre returned to school, a new reading room was inaugurated by Marshal Foch . Today the library has two locations, one in Paris and one in Fontainebleau (geoscientific collection).

Presses des Mines

In 1995 the École des Mines de Paris founded a publishing house, the Presses de l'école des Mines . The publisher can publish work that other publishers cannot offer because of their low sales potential. Much of the work is written by members of the École (researchers, professors, students).

Since February 2009 the publisher is a subsidiary of Armines due to a change in its legal status. The publisher now called Les Presses des Mines is looking for international cooperation partners.

The world ranking of universities of Mines ParisTech

In 2007 and 2008, MINES ParisTech published an international ranking of universities, the Classement International Professionnel des Etablissements d'Enseignement Supérieur , based on the proportion of university graduates in the executive staff of the 500 most important companies worldwide ( Fortune Global 500 ). Harvard takes first place in this ranking , followed by ParisTech, Tokyo and Stanford .

Well-known graduates

Ingénieurs civils des mines

• Henri Babinski (1855–1931), restaurateur
• Pierre Berloquin (1939–), game developer and set designer
• Jean-Louis Bianco (1943–), politician
• Claude Bonnier (1897–1944), engineer and resistance fighter
• Louis Paul Cailletet (1832–1913), industrialist, inventor and physicist, he was the first to succeed in liquefying oxygen
• Georges Charpak (1924–2010), Nobel Prize in Physics 1992
• Ignacy Domeyko (1802-1889), mineralogist and geologist
• Carlos Ghosn (1954–), industrialist, CEO of Nissan and later Renault-Nissan
• Étienne Hirsch (1901–1994), mining engineer and politician
• Émile Javal (1839–1907), physician and politician
• Auguste Laurent (1807–1853), chemist and forerunner of modern organic chemistry
• Jacques de Morgan (1857–1924), exploration geologist and Egyptologist
• René Nicklès (1859–1917), geologist and founder of the École nationale supérieure de géologie
• Alain Poher (1909–1996), politician, Senate President and Interim President of the French Republic
• Yves Quéré (1931–), materials physicist
• Léon Walras (1834–1910), economist

Polytechniciens des Corps des mines

The Ingénieurs des mines are civil servants who, in the form of the Corps des mines, form one of the Grand Corps de l'État in the technical field , which make up the civil service in France. Most of the members of the Corps des Mines are graduates of the École polytechnique with further qualifications at Mines ParisTech.

• Maurice Allais (1911–2010), Nobel Prize in Economics 1988
• Roger Balian (* 1933), physicist
• Léonce Élie de Beaumont (1798–1874), one of the founding fathers of geology, Wollaston Medal 1843
• Émile Clapeyron (1799–1864), physicist
• Louis Cordier (1777–1861), mineralogist and geologist
• Robert Dautray (* 1928), High Commissioner for Atomic Energy
• Jacques Friedel (1921–2014), physicist
• Edmond Fuchs (1837–1889), geologist and mining engineer
• Pierre Laffitte (1823–1903), geologist, director of the École des mines de Paris , founder of Sophia Antipolis, politician
• Gabriel Lamé (1795–1870), mathematician, with SD Poisson and AL Cauchy, founder of the mathematical theory of elasticity
• Albert Lebrun (1871–1950), President of the French Republic
• Henry Le Chatelier (1850–1936), chemist and industrialist, Davy Medal 1916
• Paul Lévy (1886–1971), mathematician
• Alfred-Marie Liénard (1869–1958), physicist
• Henri Poincaré (1854–1912), mathematician and physicist, gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society 1900
• Henri Victor Regnault (1810–1878), chemist and physicist, Rumford Medal (1848) and Copley Medal 1869
• Anne Rigail (* 1969), manager
• Conrad Schlumberger (1878–1936), inventor and industrialist

Web links

• University website (French, English, Spanish)
• Portal of the students of Mines ParisTech
• Sports department of Mines ParisTech
• The Association of Alumni of Mines ParisTech

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.mines-paristech.eu/About-us/Heritage/225-years-of-history/
2. ↑ http://www.mines-paristech.fr/Ecole/Conseil-d-administration/
3. ↑ https://www.valeo.com/en/jacques-aschenbroich/
4. ↑ http://www.mines-paristech.eu/About-us/Key-facts-figures/
5. ↑ Louis Aguillon: Notice Historique de l'École des Mines de Paris. Chapter III
6. ↑ Louis Aguillon: Notice Historique de l'École des Mines de Paris. Chapter V
7. ↑ Louis Aguillon: Notice Historique de l'École des Mines de Paris . Chapitre VI
8. ↑ Information on exchange programs on the website of Mines ParisTech (French) accessed on June 1, 2012