École Centrale Paris
| École Centrale Paris | |
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| founding | 1829 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Châtenay-Malabry , France |
| president | Hervé Biausser |
| Students | 1,394 |
| Website | www.ecp.fr |
The École Centrale Paris (ECP, Centrale or Piston , founded as École centrale des arts et manufactures ) is a French engineering school ( grande école ) in Châtenay-Malabry near Paris . She is a member of the Conférence des Grandes Écoles (CGE) and the so-called Intergroupe des Écoles Centrales . It trains general engineers within three years .
history
The École Centrale was founded in 1829 on a private initiative with the aim of training generalist engineers for the then emerging industry. Its name was originally École centrale des arts et manufactures ; Among other things, it still awards the title of Ingénieur des Arts et Manufactures today .
Her first seat was in the Hôtel de Juigné (now Musée Picasso ) in Paris , from where she moved to Rue Montgolfier near the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers ; In 1969 she moved to the specially created campus in Châtenay-Malabry , which combines teaching and research buildings, student dormitories, cafeteria and sports hall. The campus was inaugurated by Georges Pompidou and Robert Galley : ministers at the time and Centralien himself .
It quickly established an excellent reputation and produced many well-known names in French industry ( Gustave Eiffel , Louis Blériot , Henri Gouraud , Francis Bouygues , Armand Peugeot , Édouard Michelin , Georges Leclanché ...) - but also unexpected personalities such as the singer Antoine or the writer Boris Vian .
In 1988, on her initiative, the TIME network (Top industrial managers for Europe) was founded, which includes bilateral double diploma agreements between European universities.
The development of the VLC Media Player was started in 1996 at the École Centrale Paris as part of a student project.
In 2007 it was decided that the École Centrale Paris would participate in the "Campus on the Plateau of Saclay ", France's largest future research location.
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Admission and training
The future engineers are selected as part of a selection test, the so-called concours , which take place after two years of preparation in the classes préparatoires . The majority of the students complete the concours Centrale-Supélec , a jointly organized selection process for all écoles centrales and the Supélec . In general, only the best of this concours have the chance to be accepted at the ECP. However, it is also possible to apply with a scientific license (university degree).
The generalist course usually lasts 3.5 years:
- 2 years of common compulsory subjects (mathematics, physics, computer science, mechanics, biology, economics, corporate management, ...)
- 1.5 years of specialization or 2 years of double degree study abroad leading to a Master of Science degree.
- At the end of the year, everyone has a stage de fin d'étude for six months .
International openness
As a founding member of the TIME network, the École Centrale is characterized by its international openness: a quarter of the students come from abroad. She has completed many prestigious universities double degree agreement: MIT , University of California, Berkeley , Harvard University , Stanford University , Oxford University , Cambridge University , Polytechnic University of Milan , Queen's University Belfast , Technical University of Munich , Technical University of Berlin , Dresden University of Technology , Technical University of Darmstadt , TU Vienna , University of Stuttgart , RWTH Aachen , Tsinghua University in Beijing , Jiaotong University Shanghai etc.
Part of this internationality is that all students in the cursus d'ingénieur must spend at least one semester abroad. You have three options: double degree , césure (between the second and third year; a full year abroad in a university or company) or a semester abroad (in the fourth semester).
With the establishment of the École Centrale Beijing , the Intergroup of the École Centrales in China has created a francophone training center.
Former students
Some of the former students of the École Centrale Paris (and final year):
- Gustave Eiffel (1855), engineer and architect, builder of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
- William Le Baron Jenney (1856), architect of Chicago's first high-rise buildings
- Georges Leclanché (1860), inventor of the zinc-manganese dioxide cell
- Édouard Vaillant (1862), socialist politician
- Émile Levassor and René Panhard (1864), founders of Panhard & Levassor , one of the first car companies
- André Michelin (1877), founder of Michelin
- Edmond Coignet and Napoléon de Tédesco (1879), developers of the theory for reinforced concrete beams .
- Léon Gandillot (? 1885), librettist
- Louis Seguin (1891), founder of Gnôme et Rhône , later nationalized as Snecma , today run under the name SAFRAN .
- Louis Blériot (1895), aviation pioneer; first pilot to fly over the English Channel.
- Armand Peugeot (1895), founder of Peugeot
- Solomon Lefschetz (1905), mathematician
- Pierre-Georges Latécoère (1906), aviation pioneer, founder of Latécoère
- Marcel Schlumberger (1907), founder of Schlumberger Limited
- Étienne Œhmichen , (1908) one of the inventors of the helicopter
- Mehdi Bāzargān (1933), head of the government of Iran after the Islamic Revolution of 1979
- Boris Vian (1942), writer
- Francis Bouygues (1947), founder of the Bouygues company
- Antoine (1966), singer
- Henri Gouraud (1967), computer scientist; Developer of Gouraud Shading
- Robert Peugeot (1971), Chairman of the Supervisory Board of PSA Peugeot Citroën Holding
- François Goulard (1976), French Minister for Research and Science
- Benoît Potier (1979), Chairman of the Board of Air Liquide
- Édouard Michelin (1987), Chairman of the Board of Directors of Michelin
Professors
- Eugène Péclet , physicist, gave the name for the Péclet number
- Jean Baptiste Dumas , chemist
- Gustave-Gaspard Coriolis , gave the name for the Coriolis force
- Jean-Daniel Colladon , Swiss engineer and physicist
- Anselme Payen , chemist, discoverer of the first enzyme
- Emile Picard , Paul Appell and Jacques Hadamard , mathematicians
- Raymond Barre , French Prime Minister in the 1970s, was an economics professor in the 1960s
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Politique de réseaux ( fr ) In: ecp.fr . Retrieved May 24, 2011.
Coordinates: 48 ° 45 ′ 56.8 " N , 2 ° 17 ′ 18.3" E