École Spéciale des Travaux Publics, du bâtiment et de l'industrie (ESTP Paris) is a French engineering school and

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located in

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History

The ESTP was founded in 1891 by Léon Eyrolles and was officially recognized by the State in 1921. It is a general engineering school recognized for leading French higher education in the fields of construction and project management. ESTP Paris is one of the most prestigious civil engineering schools in France. It has trained a total of 24,000

engineers Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limit ...

and 7,000

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managers. The school has also educated since 1891

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s in building and public works in an undergraduate program. In 1999 the school formed a partnership with

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to offer a double-degree program.

Courses

The institution offers courses in

building engineering Architectural engineers apply and theoretical knowledge to the engineering design of buildings and building systems. The goal is to engineer high performance buildings that are sustainable, economically viable and ensure the safety health. Archi ...

civil engineering Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewage ...

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surveying Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them. A land surveying professional is ca ...

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

granting diplomas and degrees for two- and three-year courses. The college was partly located on Boulevard Saint-Germain, in what has since become New York University's Paris campus, but entirely moved to Cachan, in the southern suburbs of Paris. The college is open to English-speakers who want to study engineering in conjunction with French.

Alumni

Notable alumni include: * Patrick Bernasconi (born 1955), French business executive * Dominique Cerutti (born 1961), French businessman * Léon Eyrolles (1861–1945), French politician and entrepreneur, founder of the first ESTP *

Menachem Mendel Schneerson Menachem Mendel Schneerson (Modern Hebrew: מנחם מענדל שניאורסון; old-fashioned spelling: מנחם מענדל שניאורסאהן; April 5, 1902 OS – June 12, 1994; AM 11 Nissan 5662 – 3 Tammuz 5754), known to man ...

(1902–1994), last rebbe of the Lubavitch Hasidic dynasty, philosopher, theologian, engineer, educator and writer *

Moshé Feldenkrais Moshé Pinchas Feldenkrais ( he, משה פנחס פלדנקרייז, May 6, 1904 – July 1, 1984) was a Ukrainian-Israeli engineer and physicist, known as the founder of the Feldenkrais Method, a system of physical exercise that aims to improve ...

(1904–84), Israeli engineer * Marc de Garidel, French businessman *

Nicolas Grunitzky Nicolas Grunitzky (; 5 April 1913 – 27 September 1969) was the second president of Togo and its third head of state. He was President from 1963 to 1967. Grunitzky was Prime Minister of Togo from 1956 to 1958 under the French Colonial ''loi ...

(1913–69), second president of Togo * Roger Guérillot (1904–71), French colonist of Ubangi-Shari *

Ginette Hamelin Ginette Hamelin (4 March 1913 – 14 October 1944) was a French engineer and architect who became a member of the French Resistance and an intelligence officer in WWII. She was murdered in a concentration camp in 1944. Biography Hamelin was born ...

(4 March 1913 – 14 October 1944), French engineer and architect; member of the French resistance; killed in a concentration camp * Saad Hassar (born 1953), Moroccan politician * Bruno Itoua (born 1956), Congolese politician * Harold Martin (born 1954), New Caledonian politician * Guillaume Sarkozy, French entrepreneur * Jeanne Scelles-Millie (1900–93), French architectural engineer and author *

Gilles Tonelli Gilles Tonelli (born 27 November 1957) is a Monegasque engineer, diplomat and politician. Tonelli served as the Minister of Public Works, the Environment and Urban Development from 2005 to 2006, the Minister of Finance and Economy from 2006 to ...

(born 1957), Monegasque engineer, diplomat and politician

External links

ESTP Website

ESTP Website

Former site manager students website
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