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École Centrale Paris

January 01, 1970

École Centrale Paris (ECP; also known as École Centrale or Centrale) was a French grande école in engineering and science. It was also known by its official name École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures. In 2015, École Centrale Paris merged with Supélec to form CentraleSupélec, a constituent college of the University of Paris-Saclay.[2]

Ecole Centrale Paris
(Central School of Paris)
MottoLeader, Entrepreneur, Innovateur
TypePublic, Grand établissement
Active1829–2015
PresidentHervé Biausser
Postgraduates2,505
(1,789 engineer candidates)[1]
223
Location
Châtenay-Malabry
,
France
AffiliationsUniversity of Paris-Saclay, Centrale Graduate School, TIME, CESAER, UniverSud Paris
Websitewww.ecp.fr

Founded in 1829, it was among the most prestigious and selective grandes écoles. Rooted in rich entrepreneurial tradition since the industrial revolution era, it served as the cradle for top-level engineers and executives who continue to constitute a major part of the industry leadership in France. Since the 19th century, its model of education for training generalist engineers inspired the establishment of several engineering institutes around the world, such as the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, Faculté polytechnique de Mons in Belgium, as well as other member schools of the Ecole Centrales Group alliance in France, Morocco, China, and India.[3]

History edit

"Between 1832 and 1870, the Central School of Arts and Manufactures produced 3,000 engineers, and served as a model for most of the industrialized countries."

— Mathias, Peter; Postan, Michael (1978). The Cambridge Economic History of Europe. Cambridge university press. p. 313. ISBN 9780521215909.

École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures was founded in 1829 as a private institute by Alphonse Lavallée, a lawyer and a prominent businessman from Nantes, who put forward most of his personal capital into founding the school, together with three top scientists who became its founding associates: Eugène Peclet, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, and Théodore Olivier. Notably, Lavallée was a shareholder of Le Globe, which became in 1831 the official organ of the Saint-Simonian movement.

The founding vision of École Centrale was to train multidisciplinary engineers who will become the first "doctors of factories and mills" of the then-emerging industrial sector in France, at a time when most of the other engineering schools trained students for public service.[4] As the scientific discoveries in this era were beginning to have a major impact on industrial development in Europe, a new breed of engineers with a broad and rigorous knowledge of sciences and mathematics were needed in order for France to develop its industry and consequently compete amongst the world's superpowers.

The school was initially located in various premises in Paris, including Hotel Salé (which now hosts the Picasso Museum) and buildings which now belong to Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers. Lavallée served as the first president of École Centrale.

In 1857, Lavallée transferred the ownership of the school to the French state in order to ensure its sustainability. Under Napoleon's initiative for an imperial university, the school was then temporarily renamed as École Impériale des Arts et Manufactures.

In 1862, graduates of the school were awarded accredited graduate diplomas in engineering, with the official academic title of 'ingénieur des arts et manufactures', which was the first of its kind in France.

The school was transferred in 1969 to a new campus located in Châtenay-Malabry. The Châtenay-Malabry campus was designed by architect Jean Fayeton [fr], and was inaugurated by President Georges Pompidou, who was accompanied on this occasion by Robert Galley. The school was renamed as École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures.

In 2015, the school formed a strategic alliance with Supélec to create CentraleSupélec, which is part of the University of Paris-Saclay. The new campus is located in Gif-sur-Yvette, approximately 20 km from the center of Paris.

Partnerships edit

École Centrale Paris was one of the Centrale Graduate Schools associated as the Groupe Centrale network with its sister institutes (Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Beijing, Hyderabad (with Mahindra Group) and Casablanca).

Since 1837, the school had established several international partnerships (double degrees, exchanges, research collaboration) with the world's leading universities, such as California Institute of Technology, University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, Georgia Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Indian Institutes of Technology, KAIST, Princeton University, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Politecnico di Milano, National University of Singapore, Stanford University, University of Toronto, Tsinghua University, TU Delft and Technische Universität München. It was a founding member of the TIME (Top Industrial Managers for Europe) network among top engineering schools in Europe, and also a member of the UniverSud Paris and the CESAER association of European engineering schools.[5]

Campus edit

Initially located in the Hôtel de Juigné (now Hôtel Salé and home to the Musée Picasso), the main campus of the school was transferred to rue Montgolfier in 1884, where it stayed until 1969. Its current location neighbours the Parc de Sceaux.

Former location of the École Centrale, rue Montgolfier in Paris (3rd arrondissement):

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The school is now located at Châtenay-Malabry, Hauts-de-Seine, a southern suburb of Paris (in the Île-de-France region), next to the Parc de Sceaux and its Château de Sceaux. Within the main campus at Châtenay Malabry, ECP hosts eight laboratories:

  1. Molecular and Macroscopic Energy, Combustion[6]
  2. System Analysis and Macroeconomics Modeling[7]
  3. Industrial Engineering[8]
  4. Chemical Engineering and Materials Processing Laboratory[9]
  5. Applied Mathematics[10]
  6. Soil and Structure Mechanics[11]
  7. Technology and Strategy[12]
  8. Solids Structure and Properties[13]

Most of the 2000 students at École Centrale Paris stay in dedicated on-campus student residences, which is located near the research labs and easily accessible via public transport.

Following the merger of the school with Supelec, now forming CentraleSupelec, the progressive move of the campus has started from Chatenay-Malabry to Gif-sur-Yvette.

Admission edit

Most French students who were admitted to École Centrale Paris had completed 2 to 3 years of post high school education in sciences through the classes préparatoires or prépas, which corresponds to freshman and sophomore years at US universities. The classes préparatoires is itself a selective and academically intensive program that admits less than top 10% of high school graduates in France each year.[14] The entrance examination to the grandes écoles including École Centrale Paris is taken by students only at the end of their second year in prépas (Mathématiques spéciales).

For its flagship degree program leading to the French engineer's degree (Diplôme d'ingénieur), in 2016 for instance, École Centrale Paris recruited among the top 4% candidates from prépas for a quota of about 400 students, in addition to some 50 international students from top foreign universities after an equivalently selective process.[15]

International students are first selected internally by their respective home universities on the basis of academic performance (within top 10% GPA) and receive additional training in various subjects including mathematics, sciences, computing, and French language for at least 1–2 years on top of their undergraduate degree program requirements. International students then apply and compete for admission to each grande école via written and oral examinations, and the application must include 2 referrals by professors, a record of extracurricular achievements, internship or research/project experiences, and a motivation letter.

Lastly, a small number of places for the engineer degree program is reserved for French university graduates who have excelled in a relevant 3-year bachelor's degree program.

Curriculum edit

The general engineering program at Centrale was multidisciplinary and typically lasted between 3 and 4 years. The curriculum was similar to those offered at other general engineering schools (écoles d'ingénieurs généralistes). All courses were taught in either French or English.

During the first year (Tronc Commun, or Common Core), students were required to study several subjects in science (mathematics, quantum physics, biology...), engineering (continuum mechanics, heat transfer, algorithms, programming...), as well as social sciences (economics, management, foreign languages...). In the second year, students were given the option to choose elective courses but with heavy emphasis in science nevertheless. The first two years were also used to train students in various research, startup and industry projects. In the third year, students could choose to major (specialize) in a particular field depending on their academic and professional interests. Upon graduation, students received the degree of Diplôme d'Ingénieur (equivalent to Master of Science) along with the title of Ingénieur diplômé, which was more commonly called Ingénieur centralien.

The Graduate School edit

The school offered a broad range of specialized master's programmes in science and engineering (one-year or two-year programs).[16]

It also offered various PhD programmes for holders of a master's degree. More than 200 doctoral candidates currently work in one of the eight laboratories of the school.

Alumni edit

 
Gustave Eiffel, designed the Eiffel Tower and internal structure of the Statue of Liberty in New York

The following is a non-exhaustive list of notable alumni of Ecole Centrale Paris, also commonly known as Centraliens or Pistons, which is a reference to the piston engine as one of the key innovations that powered the French industrial revolution.

See also: Category:École Centrale Paris alumni

Name (Year of graduation):

Notable faculty edit

See also edit

Notes and references edit

  1. ^ Ecole Centrale Paris key figures (2016)
  2. ^ Bourdieu, Pierre (1998). The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power. Stanford UP. pp. 133–35. ISBN 9780804733465.
  3. ^ Online article on EPFL history
  4. ^ Biography of Théodore Olivier
  5. ^ "List of centrale paris partners february 2014". Issuu. Retrieved 2016-06-02.
  6. ^ em2c.ecp.fr
  7. ^ erasme.ecp.fr
  8. ^ lgi.ecp.fr
  9. ^ lgpm.ecp.fr
  10. ^ mas.ecp.fr
  11. ^ mssmat.ecp.fr
  12. ^ st.ecp.fr
  13. ^ spms.ecp.fr
  14. ^ Note on classes préparatoires
  15. ^ http://www.scei-concours.fr/cadre_statistique.htm scei-concours.fr
  16. ^ MS programs at ECP
  17. ^ "Norbert Rillieux". American Chemical Society. Retrieved 2016-03-18.
  18. ^ (in French) french ministry for research
  19. ^ (in French) profile on AXA Talents website
  20. ^ Article on interview with Bruno Iksil, the 'London Whale'
  21. ^ "Valerie Masson-Delmotte". Le Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement. Retrieved 2016-06-24.

External links edit

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to École Centrale Paris.
  • English official website
  • TIME association Network
  • Alumni Association Website (in French)
  • "Understanding the Grandes écoles"
  • A detailed explanation on the admission process for the centralien curriculum on Stanford University's website

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January 01, 1970
École, centrale, paris, also, known, École, centrale, centrale, french, grande, école, engineering, science, also, known, official, name, École, centrale, arts, manufactures, 2015, merged, with, supélec, form, centralesupélec, constituent, college, university,. Ecole Centrale Paris ECP also known as Ecole Centrale or Centrale was a French grande ecole in engineering and science It was also known by its official name Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures In 2015 Ecole Centrale Paris merged with Supelec to form CentraleSupelec a constituent college of the University of Paris Saclay 2 Ecole Centrale Paris Central School of Paris MottoLeader Entrepreneur InnovateurTypePublic Grand etablissementActive1829 2015PresidentHerve BiausserPostgraduates2 505 1 789 engineer candidates 1 Doctoral students223LocationChatenay Malabry FranceAffiliationsUniversity of Paris Saclay Centrale Graduate School TIME CESAER UniverSud ParisWebsitewww wbr ecp wbr fr Founded in 1829 it was among the most prestigious and selective grandes ecoles Rooted in rich entrepreneurial tradition since the industrial revolution era it served as the cradle for top level engineers and executives who continue to constitute a major part of the industry leadership in France Since the 19th century its model of education for training generalist engineers inspired the establishment of several engineering institutes around the world such as the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland Faculte polytechnique de Mons in Belgium as well as other member schools of the Ecole Centrales Group alliance in France Morocco China and India 3 Contents 1 History 2 Partnerships 3 Campus 4 Admission 5 Curriculum 6 The Graduate School 7 Alumni 8 Notable faculty 9 See also 10 Notes and references 11 External linksHistory edit Between 1832 and 1870 the Central School of Arts and Manufactures produced 3 000 engineers and served as a model for most of the industrialized countries Mathias Peter Postan Michael 1978 The Cambridge Economic History of Europe Cambridge university press p 313 ISBN 9780521215909 Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures was founded in 1829 as a private institute by Alphonse Lavallee a lawyer and a prominent businessman from Nantes who put forward most of his personal capital into founding the school together with three top scientists who became its founding associates Eugene Peclet Jean Baptiste Dumas and Theodore Olivier Notably Lavallee was a shareholder of Le Globe which became in 1831 the official organ of the Saint Simonian movement The founding vision of Ecole Centrale was to train multidisciplinary engineers who will become the first doctors of factories and mills of the then emerging industrial sector in France at a time when most of the other engineering schools trained students for public service 4 As the scientific discoveries in this era were beginning to have a major impact on industrial development in Europe a new breed of engineers with a broad and rigorous knowledge of sciences and mathematics were needed in order for France to develop its industry and consequently compete amongst the world s superpowers The school was initially located in various premises in Paris including Hotel Sale which now hosts the Picasso Museum and buildings which now belong to Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers Lavallee served as the first president of Ecole Centrale In 1857 Lavallee transferred the ownership of the school to the French state in order to ensure its sustainability Under Napoleon s initiative for an imperial university the school was then temporarily renamed as Ecole Imperiale des Arts et Manufactures In 1862 graduates of the school were awarded accredited graduate diplomas in engineering with the official academic title of ingenieur des arts et manufactures which was the first of its kind in France The school was transferred in 1969 to a new campus located in Chatenay Malabry The Chatenay Malabry campus was designed by architect Jean Fayeton fr and was inaugurated by President Georges Pompidou who was accompanied on this occasion by Robert Galley The school was renamed as Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures In 2015 the school formed a strategic alliance with Supelec to create CentraleSupelec which is part of the University of Paris Saclay The new campus is located in Gif sur Yvette approximately 20 km from the center of Paris Partnerships editEcole Centrale Paris was one of the Centrale Graduate Schools associated as the Groupe Centrale network with its sister institutes Lille Lyon Marseille Nantes Beijing Hyderabad with Mahindra Group and Casablanca Since 1837 the school had established several international partnerships double degrees exchanges research collaboration with the world s leading universities such as California Institute of Technology University of Cambridge ETH Zurich Georgia Institute of Technology Harvard University Indian Institutes of Technology KAIST Princeton University Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Massachusetts Institute of Technology Politecnico di Milano National University of Singapore Stanford University University of Toronto Tsinghua University TU Delft and Technische Universitat Munchen It was a founding member of the TIME Top Industrial Managers for Europe network among top engineering schools in Europe and also a member of the UniverSud Paris and the CESAER association of European engineering schools 5 Campus editInitially located in the Hotel de Juigne now Hotel Sale and home to the Musee Picasso the main campus of the school was transferred to rue Montgolfier in 1884 where it stayed until 1969 Its current location neighbours the Parc de Sceaux Former location of the Ecole Centrale rue Montgolfier in Paris 3rd arrondissement nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp The school is now located at Chatenay Malabry Hauts de Seine a southern suburb of Paris in the Ile de France region next to the Parc de Sceaux and its Chateau de Sceaux Within the main campus at Chatenay Malabry ECP hosts eight laboratories Molecular and Macroscopic Energy Combustion 6 System Analysis and Macroeconomics Modeling 7 Industrial Engineering 8 Chemical Engineering and Materials Processing Laboratory 9 Applied Mathematics 10 Soil and Structure Mechanics 11 Technology and Strategy 12 Solids Structure and Properties 13 Most of the 2000 students at Ecole Centrale Paris stay in dedicated on campus student residences which is located near the research labs and easily accessible via public transport Following the merger of the school with Supelec now forming CentraleSupelec the progressive move of the campus has started from Chatenay Malabry to Gif sur Yvette Admission editMost French students who were admitted to Ecole Centrale Paris had completed 2 to 3 years of post high school education in sciences through the classes preparatoires or prepas which corresponds to freshman and sophomore years at US universities The classes preparatoires is itself a selective and academically intensive program that admits less than top 10 of high school graduates in France each year 14 The entrance examination to the grandes ecoles including Ecole Centrale Paris is taken by students only at the end of their second year in prepas Mathematiques speciales For its flagship degree program leading to the French engineer s degree Diplome d ingenieur in 2016 for instance Ecole Centrale Paris recruited among the top 4 candidates from prepas for a quota of about 400 students in addition to some 50 international students from top foreign universities after an equivalently selective process 15 International students are first selected internally by their respective home universities on the basis of academic performance within top 10 GPA and receive additional training in various subjects including mathematics sciences computing and French language for at least 1 2 years on top of their undergraduate degree program requirements International students then apply and compete for admission to each grande ecole via written and oral examinations and the application must include 2 referrals by professors a record of extracurricular achievements internship or research project experiences and a motivation letter Lastly a small number of places for the engineer degree program is reserved for French university graduates who have excelled in a relevant 3 year bachelor s degree program Curriculum editThe general engineering program at Centrale was multidisciplinary and typically lasted between 3 and 4 years The curriculum was similar to those offered at other general engineering schools ecoles d ingenieurs generalistes All courses were taught in either French or English During the first year Tronc Commun or Common Core students were required to study several subjects in science mathematics quantum physics biology engineering continuum mechanics heat transfer algorithms programming as well as social sciences economics management foreign languages In the second year students were given the option to choose elective courses but with heavy emphasis in science nevertheless The first two years were also used to train students in various research startup and industry projects In the third year students could choose to major specialize in a particular field depending on their academic and professional interests Upon graduation students received the degree of Diplome d Ingenieur equivalent to Master of Science along with the title of Ingenieur diplome which was more commonly called Ingenieur centralien The Graduate School editThe school offered a broad range of specialized master s programmes in science and engineering one year or two year programs 16 It also offered various PhD programmes for holders of a master s degree More than 200 doctoral candidates currently work in one of the eight laboratories of the school Alumni edit nbsp Gustave Eiffel designed the Eiffel Tower and internal structure of the Statue of Liberty in New YorkThe following is a non exhaustive list of notable alumni of Ecole Centrale Paris also commonly known as Centraliens or Pistons which is a reference to the piston engine as one of the key innovations that powered the French industrial revolution See also Category Ecole Centrale Paris alumni Name Year of graduation Norbert Rillieux 1830 inventor of the multiple effect evaporator 17 Gustave Eiffel 1855 designer of the Eiffel Tower and the internal structure of the Statue of Liberty Edouard von Jaunez 1834 1916 businessman engineer and politician William Le Baron Jenney 1856 architect of the first steel framed building in Chicago Georges Leclanche 1860 inventor of Leclanche cell Emile Levassor and Rene Panhard 1864 founders of the first car manufacturing company Panhard et Levassor Andre Michelin 1877 founder of Michelin Edmond Coignet 1879 a pioneer of reinforced concrete Georges Vesier 1882 president of the Compagnie francaise des metaux Louis Bleriot 1895 aviation pioneer first pilot to cross the Channel Georges Darrieus French aeronautical engineer inventor of the Darrieus wind turbine Armand Peugeot 1895 founder of automobile maker Peugeot Peugeot PSA Rene Lorin 1901 French aeronautical engineer patented the first ramjet engine Solomon Lefschetz 1905 American mathematician Pierre Georges Latecoere 1906 aeronautics pioneer founder of Latecoere and Aeropostale later Air France Marcel Schlumberger 1907 co founder of Schlumberger Limited Etienne Oehmichen 1908 pioneer of helicopters Boris Vian 1942 writer Mehdi Bazargan former Iranian Prime Minister Francis Bouygues 1947 founder of Bouygues Jacques Maisonrouge 1948 Corporate Executive at IBM Gerard Pelisson 1955 founder of the Accor group Novotel Sofitel Mercure All Seasons hotels Robert Peugeot Peugeot holding president as of 2005 update Antoine 1966 singer songwriter navigator Henri Gouraud 1967 computer scientist Sebastien Candel 1968 physicist Vice President of the French Academy of Sciences Justin Ndioro 1972 former Cameroonian Minister of Finances 1993 1996 Etienne Klein physicist and professor Research Director of the CEA Francois Goulard 1976 French delegate minister for research 2005 2007 18 Benoit Potier 1979 CEO of Air Liquide Pierre Chappaz 1982 founder of Kelkoo Jean Loic Galle 1982 President and CEO of Thales Alenia Space Charbel Farhat 1983 Vivian Church Hoff Professor of Aircraft Structures in the School of Engineering and inaugural James and Anna Marie Spilker Chair of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University Member of the National Academy of Engineering US Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering UK and Member of the Lebanese Academy of Sciences Bernard Liautaud 1984 founder of Business Objects Edouard Michelin born 1963 1987 former CEO of Michelin Driss Ben Brahim 1987 investor and highest paid trader in London Charles Beigbeder 1988 CEO of Poweo 19 Gilbert Daniel Nessim 1991 professor of chemistry at Bar Ilan University Bruno Iksil 1991 JPMorgan Chief Investments Trader a k a the London Whale 20 Valerie Masson Delmotte 1993 1996 climate scientist 21 Jean Sebastien Jacques 1994 Rio Tinto CEO Fabrice Tourre 2000 the Fabulous Fab Stephane Bancel 1995 CEO of Moderna Olivier Pomel 1999 Founder and CEO of Datadog Alexis Le Quoc 1999 Founder and CTO of Datadog Bernard Liataud 1984 Founder and CEO of BusinessObjects and Balderton Capital Jean Baptiste Kempf 2006 Creator of VLC media player and VideoLAN Soulaymane Kachani Columbia University s Senior Vice ProvostNotable faculty editPaul Appell mathematician Raymond Barre economist vice president of the European Commission French prime minister Sebastien Candel physicist president of the French Academy of Sciences Jean Daniel Colladon engineer and physicist Gustave Gaspard Coriolis physicist known for the Coriolis effect Jean Baptiste Dumas chemist known for atomic weights Jacques Hadamard mathematician Etienne Klein physicist and philosopher of science Joseph Liouville mathematician Anselme Payen chemist discovered the first enzyme Eugene Peclet physicist known for the Peclet number Emile Picard mathematicianSee also edit nbsp France portal nbsp Engineering portal Centrale Supelec Career Fair Education in FranceNotes and references edit Ecole Centrale Paris key figures 2016 Bourdieu Pierre 1998 The State Nobility Elite Schools in the Field of Power Stanford UP pp 133 35 ISBN 9780804733465 Online article on EPFL history Biography of Theodore Olivier List of centrale paris partners february 2014 Issuu Retrieved 2016 06 02 em2c ecp fr erasme ecp fr lgi ecp fr lgpm ecp fr mas ecp fr mssmat ecp fr st ecp fr spms ecp fr Note on classes preparatoires http www scei concours fr cadre statistique htm scei concours fr MS programs at ECP Norbert Rillieux American Chemical Society Retrieved 2016 03 18 in French french ministry for research in French profile on AXA Talents website Article on interview with Bruno Iksil the London Whale Valerie Masson Delmotte Le Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l Environnement Retrieved 2016 06 24 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ecole Centrale Paris English official website TIME association Network Alumni Association Website in French Understanding the Grandes ecoles A detailed 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