École Centrale Paris
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The École Centrale Paris (ECP, Centrale or Piston ) is a French engineering school ( grande école ) in Chatenay -Malabry, in the Paris region. She is a member of the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles (CGE ) and the so-called Inter Groupe des Écoles centrals. It forms within three years of generalist engineers high levels who work mainly in business.
History
The Central School was founded in 1829 as a private initiative with the aim to train generalist engineers for the then emerging industry. Her name was originally École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures; it awards among other things today the title of Ingénieur des Arts et Manufactures.
My first seat was at the Hôtel de Juigné (now Musée Picasso) in Paris, from where she moved to the Rue Montgolfier near the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers; In 1969 she moved to the specially created in Chatenay -Malabry campus, teaching and research building, dormitory, canteen and sports hall united. The campus was inaugurated by Georges Pompidou and Robert Galley: a minister and even Centralien.
Quickly she was able to establish an excellent reputation and brought forth (Gustave Eiffel, Louis Blériot, Henri Gouraud, Francis Bouygues, Armand Peugeot, Édouard Michelin, Georges Leclanche ... ) many well-known names of French industry - but also unexpected personalities such as singer Antoine or the writer Boris Vian.
In 1988, based on their own initiative, the TIME network (Top industrial manager for Europe), which includes bilateral double diploma agreements between European universities.
2007 it was decided that the École Centrale Paris would be the " campus on the Saclay ", France's largest, future research site to participate.
Recruitment and training of
The future engineers are part of a competitive examination, known as the concours selected that take place after two years of preparation in the classes préparatoires. The majority of the students passed the concours Centrale - Supélec, organized jointly selection of all écoles centrales and Supélec. In general, only the best of this Concours have the chance to be accepted on the ECP. It is also possible to apply a scientific license ( university degree ).
The generalist degree usually takes 3.5 years:
- 2 years common compulsory subjects (mathematics, physics, computer science, mechanics, biology, economics, business management, ...)
- 1.5 years or 2 years specialization double degree study abroad, which concluded with a Master of Science degree.
- At the end of every six months Stage de fin d' étude.
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 diploma agreements: 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, Vienna University of Technology, University of Stuttgart, RWTH Aachen University, Tsinghua University in Beijing, Jiaotong University, Shanghai etc.
Part of this internationalism is that all students must complete cursus d' Ingénieur a stay abroad of at least one semester. You are open to three options: double degree, césure ( between the second and third year, a year abroad in a university or a company ) or semester abroad ( during the fourth semester ).
With the founding of the École Centrale Beijing intergroup École centrals has created a francophone education facility in China.
Former Students
Some of the former students of the Ecole Centrale Paris ( and year round):
- Gustave Eiffel (1855 ), engineer and architect, builder of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
- William Le Baron Jenney (1856 ), architect of the first skyscrapers of Chicago
- Georges Leclanche (1860 ), inventor of the zinc - manganese dioxide cell
- Édouard Vaillant (1862 ), socialist politician
- Emile Levassor and Rene Panhard (1864 ), founder of Panhard & Levassor, one of the first car companies
- André Michelin (1877 ), founder of Michelin
- Edmond Coignet and Napoléon de Tedesco (1879 ), developer of the theory for reinforced concrete beams.
- Louis Seguin (1891 ), founder of Gnôme et Rhône, later than Snecma nationalized under the name SAFRAN today.
- Louis Blériot (1895 ), aviation pioneer; first pilot who flew 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 Öhmichen, (1908), one of the inventors of the helicopter
- Mehdi Bazargan (1933 ), head of the government of Iran after the Islamic Revolution of 1979
- Boris Vian (1942 ), writer
- Francis Bouygues (1947 ), founder of the company Bouygues
- Antoine ( 1966), singer
- Henri Gouraud (1967 ), computer scientist; Developer of the Gouraud shading
- Robert Peugeot (1971 ), chairman of the holding company PSA Peugeot Citroën
- François Goulard (1976 ), French Minister for Research and Science
- Benoît Potier (1979 ), Chairman of Air Liquide
- Édouard Michelin (1987 ), chairman of Michelin
Professors
- Eugène Péclet, physicist, gave the name to the Péclet number
- Jean Baptiste Dumas, chemists
- Gustave - Gaspard Coriolis, gave the name of the Coriolis force
- Jean -Daniel Colladon, Swiss engineer and physicist
- Anselme Payen, chemist, discoverer of the first enzyme
- Emile Picard, Paul and Jacques Hadamard appeal, mathematicians
- Raymond Barre, French prime minister in the 1970s, was an economics professor in the 1960s