The École des Mines d'Albi (officially ''École Nationale Supérieure des Mines d'Albi-Carmaux'', also known as ''EMAC'' or ''Mines Albi'', ex-''ENSTIMAC'') was created in 1993. It is a French

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school (i.e.

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and joined the

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the first of March 2012. The school is located in the city of

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on a 22 hectares campus.

Overview

IMT Mines Albi is one of several engineering schools within the

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(french: Ministre de l'Économie et des Finances. All Institut Mines-Telecom (IMT) engineering schools are ''Grandes Écoles'', a French institution of

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that is separate from, but parallel and connected to the main framework of the French public university system. Similar to the

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Education

The school put innovation and sustainable development at the core of its curriculum. Since 2011, the curriculum last 3 years (instead of 4 years before). The school is a generalist engineering school. Students are trained in diverse technical disciplines as well as in economics and social sciences. Students can choose between four main fields which are deeply explored during the last 2 year : * Eco-activities and Energy * Bio-Health-Engineering * Advanced materials and structure engineering * Industrial engineering, Processes and Information Systems The school developed partnerships with engineering schools and universities from the

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region to enable students to follow a research curriculum as a preparation for

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studies. Since October 2008, the school offers a three-year part-time training. This training is mixing courses on the campus (14 weeks per year) with distance learning (160 hours per year) and a work position (38 weeks per year). In 2011, the

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(CTI) renewed for six years the school's accreditation to deliver the

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Research

The school hosts the laboratories for three research centers : * Th
RAPSODEE
Center carries out research into product-oriented process engineering. Its name stands for Research Centre in Particulate Solid Process Engineering, Energy and Environment. * Th
Clément Ader Institut
specialised in the study of structures, systems and mechanical processes. This laboratory is mainly focused on the fields of aeronautics, space, transportation and energy. * Th
Industrial Engineering Center
interested in the kinetics of organizations for the development of decision support methods and tools in heterogeneous, collaborative and uncertain contexts.

Other schools of Mines in France

École des Mines d'Ales École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Savoi ...

École des Mines de Douai IMT Nord Europe or ''École nationale supérieure Mines-Télécom Lille Douai'' is a French graduate school of engineering ( grande école d'ingénieurs). It is located in the Hauts-de-France region, shared between 2 campuses: the science campus (' ...

* École des Mines de Nancy * École des Mines de Nantes *

Ecole des Mines de Paris Mines Paris - PSL, officially École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris (until May 2022 Mines ParisTech, also known as École des mines de Paris, ENSMP, Mines de Paris, les Mines, or Paris School of Mines), is a French grande école and a c ...

* École des Mines de Saint-Étienne *

École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Rabat The :fr:École nationale supérieure des mines de Rabat, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Rabat (abbreviated aENSMR, and called also Mines Rabat in French or Rabat School of Mines in English is a Grande école that is considered to be ...

References

External links

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