The ENSTA Paris, officially École nationale supérieure de techniques avancées ( en, Superior National School of Advanced Techniques) is a prestigious French graduate school of

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("''école d'ingénieurs''"). Founded in 1741, it is the oldest "'' grande école''" in

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. It is located in Palaiseau in the south of Paris, on the Paris-Saclay campus, and is a constituent faculty of the Polytechnic Institute of Paris. In 2021, 180 engineers graduated from the school. ENSTA Paris affords its students a general training course in engineering. To this end, the school provides high-level scientific and technological training. The teaching is given by research professors with the participation of numerous auxiliary teachers from the economic and industrial world familiar with the latest technical developments in a wide variety of fields. The general nature of the training on offer enables ENSTA graduates to find a career in various sectors such as the automotive or naval industry, networks and telecommunications, space propulsion, robotics, oceanology and the environment. Research, one of the school's primary missions, makes a significant contribution to both fundamental and applied fields, meeting the needs of businesses and also contributing to the school's scholarly outlook. Roughly half of the research at the school is the responsibility of the school's research professors, and the other half is carried out by researchers from the

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working at ENSTA premises.

History

Originally, the school was the brainchild of Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, inspector general of the Navy. He had identified the need to give the Navy's master carpenters a theoretical education, particularly in mathematics and physics, which were making quick progress, so that they would have a clearer understanding of their trade. Duhamel du Monceau founded the first school in his home in Paris on the Isle Saint Louis in 1741. This date is recognised as the origin of the institution. In 1748 it was moved to the royal library on rue Richelieu, and in 1753 to the

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Palace, immediately adjacent to the Académie des Sciences. It was closed in 1759 during the

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. In 1765, he managed to persuade the duc de Choiseul to reopen it as part of a sweeping overhaul of the navy. Duhamel du Monceau continued to run the school for the rest of his life. The School of Student Engineer Constructors, as it was known, was closed in 1793 during the

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. It reopened in 1795 as an application school for the Ecole Polytechnique. Later on, it became known as ''Ecole nationale supérieure du Génie maritime'' (National Higher College of Maritime Engineering). In 1970, the Délégation générale pour l'Armement (Arms administration of the Ministry of Defence) merged the school with three of its other establishments: - the École nationale supérieure des Poudres (Powders and explosives institute) - the École nationale supérieure de l'Armement (Arms engineering institute) - the École des Ingénieurs hydrographes de la Marine (Hydrographic institute). This formed the École nationale supérieure de Techniques avancées (ENSTA), the role of which is to train engineers in the naval, mechanical, nuclear, chemical, electronic and related fields. The scientific skills of each of the founding institutes survives in the broad range of research disciplines covered at ENSTA, as well as in the more general nature of its teaching and the variety of specialities offered to the students. Today, ENSTA's legal status is that of a "public administrative establishment", placed under the supervision of the Ministry of Defence. It is headed by a general officer of the Corps of Ordnance Ingineers ( DGA). Some former graduates of ''

'' attend ENSTA before joining the military Corps of Ordnance Engineers, which staffs the DGA.

Rankings

National ranking (ranked as ENSTA Paris for its Master of Sciences in Engineering) International ranking (ranked as Institut Polytechnique de Paris)

Academics

''ENSTA Paris'' is a ''Grande École'', 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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(french: Le Ministère de L'éducation Nationale). Alums go on to occupy elite positions within government, administration, and corporate firms in France.

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Degrees

*Diplôme d'Ingénieur de l'ENSTA Paris (equivalent to a Master of Sciences in Engineering) *Master's degree in Nuclear Plant Design *Master's degree in Acoustical engineering *Master's degree in Maritime engineering : transport systems and offshore energies *Master's degree in Operational research *Master's degree in Analysis, modeling, simulation *Master's degree in Consulting in Organization, Strategy *Master's degree in Cyber-physical systems design *Master's degree in Processes, energy, environment *

Mastère Spécialisé The Mastère Spécialisé, also called the Specialized Master or Advanced Master is a French post-graduate specialization degree created in 1986 by the French Conférence des Grandes Écoles. It is a full-time, one-year program (75 ECTS) which incl ...

Maritime Engineering: transport, energy, sustainable development *

Architecture and security of information systems *

Design and Exploitation of Autonomous Maritime System *

Project Manager in charging infrastructure and electric vehicles *

Engineering of Localization Systems and Multi-Sensors

Notable alumni by field of contribution

Military and politics

* Alain Bouquin, General Commander of the

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Engineering and industry

* Louis-Émile Bertin * Valérie Cornetet *

Henri Dupuy de Lôme Stanislas Charles Henri Dupuy de Lôme (; 15 October 18161 February 1885) was a French naval architect. He was the son of a naval officer and was born in Ploemeur near Lorient, Brittany, in western France. He was educated at the École Polytechn ...

Jacques-Noël Sané Jacques-Noël Sané (18 February 1740, Brest – 22 August 1831, Paris) was a French naval engineer. He was the conceptor of standardised designs for ships of the line and frigates fielded by the French Navy in the 1780s, which served during the ...

* Léonce Verny *

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, former President of

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, President of Automotive at

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* Fatim-Zahra Ammor Moroccan Minister

Chemistry

* Paul Marie Eugène Vieille

Physics

* Gérard Albert Mourou, Physics Nobel Prize 2018

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* François Forget, Astrophysicist and Member of the French Academy of Sciences

Mathematics

* Charles Dupin

References

External links

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