École supérieure d'électricité

École supérieure d'électricité
founding	1894
Sponsorship	state
place	Gif-sur-Yvette , Metz , Rennes - France
Directeur	Hervé Biausser
Students	2220
Networks	CESAER , TIME
Website	www.supelec.fr

The École supérieure d'électricité (unofficially abbreviated to Supélec ) is a French engineering college ( Grande école ). It trains electrical engineering graduate engineers within three years . The state school was founded in 1894 and trains around 475 engineers annually.

The school is a member of the Top Industrial Managers for Europe association .

history

Supélec was founded in 1894 in the 15th arrondissement of Paris by the Société Internationale des Électriciens (now Société des électriciens et des électroniciens ). The first location was on rue de Staël, later the move was made to the Paris suburb of Malakoff . Since 1975, Supélec has been located in Gif-sur-Yvette , 20 km south of Paris . The Gif-sur-Yvette campus is located on the Saclay plateau . A branch was opened in Rennes in 1972, and Metz followed in 1985.

Supélec has been in talks with the École Centrale Paris since 2009 . It is planned to establish an international location in Saclay under the name Project Campus du plateau de Saclay .

Undergraduate studies

Supélec is a “généraliste” school, which means that the students do not specialize in the first two years. The main subjects taught at Supélec are:

• energy
• electronics
• telecommunications
• Computer science
• automation
• Signal processing

Students also attend lectures in math, economics, law, and languages.

Third year

In the third and final year, students have several options. On the one hand, students can stay at Supélec and choose a specialization subject to study from September to April. This is followed by an internship lasting 4 to 6 months. On the other hand, there is the possibility of participating in an exchange program with French or foreign universities. Possible French partner schools are:

• École Centrale Paris
• École nationale supérieure d'arts et métiers (ENSAM) (mechanical engineering)
• École nationale supérieure du pétrole et des moteurs (ENSPM) (engine and oil)
• Institut national des sciences et techniques nucléaires (INSTN) (nuclear energy)
• École supérieure de commerce de Paris (ESCP Europe) (Economy)

Around 40% of students choose a foreign partner school.

Ranking

Supélec is one of the most prestigious engineering schools in France, especially in the field of information technology. In the rankings customary in France, she consistently achieved one of the top places:

newspaper	2010	2009	2008
L'étudiant	4th	5.	4th
Le Nouvel Economiste		6th	4th
L'expansion		5.	5.

Student life

Logo of the J2S

Since most of the students live on campus, there are many student activities there, such as:

• The Forum Supélec , which organizes the annual Job and Career Fair,
• The Bureau des Elèves , which organizes most of the extracurricular events at the school, including the annual gala event,
• J2S , Supelec's junior company, which acts as a contractor for industrial companies, allowing students to gain experience and make money. J2S is the second largest junior company in France.
• The Bureau des Sports : This sports club organizes all the sports activities and tournaments of the Supélec, especially the TOSS (Tournoi omnisport de Supélec), which brings together more than 3200 athletes every year.

Web links

• Official website (French / English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2010 ranking l'étudiant. l'étudiant, accessed January 10, 2010 (French). 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Classements des écoles d'ingénieurs. l'étudiant, archived from the original on January 6, 2010 ; Retrieved January 10, 2010 (French). 
3. ^ Classement des écoles d'ingénieurs. le parisien, accessed January 10, 2010 (French). 
4. ↑ Junior Entreprise Supélec. J2S, archived from the original on January 1, 2010 ; Retrieved January 10, 2010 (French). 
5. ↑ Le TOSS ( Memento from June 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 48 ° 42 ′ 31.2 "  N , 2 ° 9 ′ 50.4"  E