Ecole nationale des ponts et chausses

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Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées

• http//www.enpc.fr

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Main features of a Grande Ecole

• graduate school
• small scale (about 1000 students per year)
• highly selective admission process
• mobility and professional involvement of the
  teaching staff
• integrated and flexible education methods
• close ties with industry
• european and international focus

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Studying engineering at a  Grande Ecole 

• means that you have been selected as part of an
  elite student body
• means that you are trained to face not only
  technical but also economic and social dimensions
  of the action
• opens the doors to leading positions in public
  and private sectors.

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ENPC

• is the oldest engineering Grande Ecole (founded
  in 1747)
• is one the the five most famous engineering
  Grandes Ecoles with Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole
  Centrale, Ecole des mines and Ecole des
  telécommunications
• is a research and educational institution for
  doctoral studies

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ENPC Networks

• Polytechnicum 15 research and education
  institutions situated on Cité Descartes ESIEE,
  UMLV...
• DRAST research and Scientific network of
  Ministère de lEquipement LCPC, INRETS..
• ParisTech 10 graduate engineering Institutes of
  Paris ENSAM, ENSCP, ENGREF, ENSMP, ENPC, ESCPI,
  ENSTA, ENST, INA P-G, Polytechnique

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Engineering students at ENPC

• Engineering students 735
• exchange students 43
•  mastères spécialisés  169
• MBA 64
• civil architects and town planners (AUE) 18
• Doctoral students 250
• total 1279

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ENPC Post graduate studies
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Integrated undergraduate programme 1rst year
Graduate programme 2nd 3rd year
ENPC Engineers Degree European Master of
Science
Classes préparatoires
Master programmes 2nd 3rd year

• Ecole polytechnique
• universities
• (France and abroad), double
• degree, Bachelor

Pre-doctoral programme (DEA)
Doctoral programme
thesis PhD
Research and post doctoral programmes
Professional programmes  Mastères
spécialisés  ENPC MBA DESS
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Specialisations

• six dominants
• civil engineering and construction
• transport, planning, environment
• industrial engineering
• economics and finance
• mechanical engineering and materials science
• applied mathematics and computer science

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Current cursus characterized by

• practical training periods
• double focus
• exact and engineering applied sciences,
• economics, management and social sciences
• international dimension.

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The curriculum

• Common core of scientific and management courses
• (1st, 2nd and 3rd years)
• courses in the dominant
• (2nd and 3rd years)
• a final project (3rd year).

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Out-of-school training

• students work alternately in the Ecole and
  outside
• at the beginning of the 1st year training
  period in a company
• at the end of the 1st year scientific
  internship in a research centre
• between the 2nd and 3rd years one-year
  internship or two- month internship in a company
• at the end of the 3rd year final project.

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Research at ENPC

• 11 research centres
• 190 researchers (130 located at ENPC)
• 144 PhD students
• 2 M of contracts with industry.

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Disciplines and research fields

• a wide range of disciplines
• mathematics and computer sciences,
• mechanics and physics of materials and
  structures,
• geology and geo-technical engineering,
• environmental sciences,
• economics,
• social sciences.

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ENPC Laboratories

• CEREAD environment, air and pollution
• CEREVE water, urban and environment studies
• CERAS socio-economics analysis
• CERMICS mathematics, computer science and
  scientific computing
• CGI engineering geology
• CIRED environment and development
• LATTS technical, regional and business
• Institut Navier (CERMES, LAMI, LMSGC) mechanics
• LMS solid mechanics
• LVMT town, mobility, transport

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Doctoral studies

• 187 students (40 from abroad)
• 30/40 thesis completed every year
• research done in ENPCs research centres (2/3)
  or in partners institutions (1/3)
• ENPC is involved in five doctoral programmes.

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Professional programmes

• MBA programme
• Post-graduate professional courses (one year
  mastères spécialisés)
• Continuing Education (short programmes)

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Continuing education

• 230 sessions (2 to 5 days)
• 50 sessions dedicated to one company
• 7000 students per year
• services in educational engineering.

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E-learning

• Lectures available on-line (www.enpc.fr)
• A team dedicated to e-learning
• The goal to manage the cultural change from
  lectures to e-learning
• European (Portal, EQO, SIG-DLAE, etc.) projects.

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Grande Ecole Virtuelle des Ponts

• E-learning for initial education
• E-learning for life-long-learning
• Validation of professional experience

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Quality accreditation

• A general concern (all lectures are evaluated,
  ISO 9000 for services)
• ISO 9000-2000 for life-long-learning
• Accreditation (MBA and SIG-DLAE)
• EQO a database of quality approaches
• http//www.eqo.info/