École des ponts ParisTech

The École nationale des ponts et chaussées ( ENPC to German about National School of Bridges and Roads, often simply called École des Ponts ), is one of the French Grandes Écoles for the construction industry. Since 2008, she appears under the name École des Ponts ParisTech on in order to document their belonging to the merger ParisTech, whose founding members it belongs.

It is located since 2008 at the Cité Descartes, Marne- la- Vallée, a suburb of Paris, some 22 kilometers east of the center. Only the associations belonging to it remained in the 6th arrondissement of Paris.

Training

The traditional core competencies of the college are Civil Engineering, Environment, Transportation, Urban and Regional Planning, Mechanical, Industrial Management and Logistics. ENPC offers a challenging education in many fields, ranging from applied mathematics to economics and management.

Three main types of courses are offered:

• Engineering education: it leads to the engineer diploma from the ENPC or to a state Master's degree
• Promotions to Docteur des Ponts
• Professional training of post-graduate: Mastères spécialisés (MS) and MBA.

ENPC is also an application-oriented school of École Polytechnique and forms for the Corps des Ingénieurs des ponts et chaussées from.

You are on the 1831 founded the Commission des Annales Annales des ponts et out the chaussées.

History

Jean -Baptiste Colbert held the position of state Commissaire des ponts et chaussées under King Louis XIV in 1669: created in 1716 and was under Louis XV (about Commissioner for bridge and road ). the Corps des Ingénieurs des ponts et chaussées (eg: civil service of the bridges and road construction engineers ) was established. On February 14, 1747 École royale des ponts et chaussées was established by a decision of the king as the world's first engineering school and assured the Corps des Ingénieurs des ponts et chaussées the training of young people. 1775 changed its name to École nationale des ponts et chaussées they officially carries today. Their first leader was Jean -Rodolphe Perronet (up to 1794). Initially, the school had indeed around 50 students, but not a single teacher. The students taught themselves to each other and made ​​their long construction site Visit practical experience. Only in the course of the following decades, the teaching was formalized through curriculum and the appointment of professors.

Among the graduates are:

• Henri Becquerel
• Nikolaos Balanos
• Albert Caquot
• Augustin Louis Cauchy
• Auguste Choisy
• Gaspard Gustave de Coriolis
• Augustin -Jean Fresnel
• Eugène Freyssinet
• Claude Louis Marie Henri Navier
• Charbel Nahas (Lebanon)
• Ralph Modjeski
• Marie François Sadi Carnot
• Eustache de Saint -Far
• Paul Séjourné
• Prince Souphanouvong (Laos )
• Louis -Joseph Vicat

The teaching staff included, among others:

• Étienne -Louis Boullée
• Auguste Choisy

The École nationale des ponts et chaussées was taken in 1988 by the American Society of Civil Engineers in the list of historical milestones in civil engineering.