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École Spéciale des Travaux Publics, du bâtiment et de l'industrie (ESTP) is a French engineering school and
grande école A (; ) is a specialized top-level educational institution in France and some other countries such as Morocco and Tunisia. are part of an alternative educational system that operates alongside the mainstream List of public universities in Franc ...
located in
Cachan Cachan () is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris. The prestigious École Spéciale des Travaux Publics is located there. Name During the Middle Ages, Cachan was referred to in Medieval ...
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History

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 the most prestigious Civil Engineering school in France. It has trained a total of 24,000
engineers Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, build, maintain and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials. They aim to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while consider ...
and 7,000
construction site Construction are processes involved in delivering buildings, infrastructure, industrial facilities, and associated activities through to the end of their life. It typically starts with planning, financing, and design that continues until the a ...
managers. The school has also educated since 1891 site managers in building and public works in an undergraduate program. In 1999 the school formed a partnership with
Arts et Métiers ParisTech Arts et Métiers ParisTech () is a French engineering and research institute of higher education. It is a ''grande école'', recognized for leading in the fields of mechanics and industrialization. Founded in 1780, it is among the oldest French i ...
to offer a double-degree program. It offers a multitude of doube-degree programs with various universities around the world


Courses

The institution offers courses in Architectural engineering, building engineering,
civil engineering Civil engineering is a regulation and licensure in engineering, professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads ...
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topography Topography is the study of the forms and features of land surfaces. The topography of an area may refer to the landforms and features themselves, or a description or depiction in maps. Topography is a field of geoscience and planetary sci ...
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surveying Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the land, terrestrial Plane (mathematics), two-dimensional or Three-dimensional space#In Euclidean geometry, three-dimensional positions of Point (geom ...
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electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that 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 The Boulevard Saint-Germain () is a major street in Paris on the Rive Gauche of the Seine. It curves in a 3.5-kilometre (2.1 miles) arc from the Pont de Sully in the east (the bridge at the edge of ÃŽle Saint-Louis) to the Pont de la Concord ...
, in what has since become New York University's Paris campus, but entirely moved to
Cachan Cachan () is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris. The prestigious École Spéciale des Travaux Publics is located there. Name During the Middle Ages, Cachan was referred to in Medieval ...
, 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 Patrick Bernasconi (born 16 July 1955 in Domjean) is a French business executive. He is responsible for four public works companies. He was elected president of the French Economic, Social and Environmental Council on 1 December 2015. A gradua ...
(born 1955), French business executive * Dominique Cerutti (born 1961), French businessman *
Marcel Deviq Armand-Marcel Deviq (10 April 1907 – 17 June 1972) was a French Algerian engineer, businessman, and politician who served in the National Assembly of France from 1958 until 1962. A member of the party, he represented a large portion of southeas ...
(1907–1972), French engineer, businessman, and politician * Léon Eyrolles (1861–1945), French politician and entrepreneur, founder of the first ESTP *
Menachem Mendel Schneerson Menachem Mendel Schneerson ( – June 12, 1994; Anno Mundi, AM 11 Nissan 5662 – 3 Tammuz 5754), known to adherents of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement as the Lubavitcher Rebbe or simply the Rebbe, was an American Orthodox rabbi and the most rec ...
(1902–1994), last rebbe of the
Lubavitch Chabad, also known as Lubavitch, Habad and Chabad-Lubavitch (; ; ), is a dynasty in Hasidic Judaism. Belonging to the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) branch of Orthodox Judaism, it is one of the world's best-known Hasidic movements, as well as one of ...
Hasidic dynasty, philosopher, theologian, engineer, educator and writer *
Moshé Feldenkrais Moshé Pinchas Feldenkrais (; May 6, 1904 – July 1, 1984) was a Ukrainian-Israeli engineer and physicist, known as the founder of the Feldenkrais Method. Feldenkrais' theory is that "thought, feeling, perception and movement are closely inte ...
(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 c ...
(1913–69), second president of Togo *
Roger Guérillot Roger Léon Charles Guérillot (12th of November 1904 â€“ 31st of October 1971) was a French colonist of Ubangi-Shari who was involved in the process of independence by which it became the Central African Republic. Guérillot is known mai ...
(1904–71), French colonist of Ubangi-Shari * Ginette Hamelin (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 (born 1957), Monegasque engineer, diplomat and politician


External links


ESTP Website

ESTP Website

Former site manager students website
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