École Supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Électronique et Électrotechnique
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ESIEE, are two French Graduate Schools of Engineering
Engineering
Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...

 located in Marne-la-Vallée
Marne-la-Vallée
Marne-la-Vallée is a new town located near Paris, France.Disneyland Paris, Val d'Europe,Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée,and École des Ponts ParisTech are located in Marne-la-Vallée.-Status:...

 (ESIEE Paris) and Amiens
Amiens
Amiens is a city and commune in northern France, north of Paris and south-west of Lille. It is the capital of the Somme department in Picardy...

 (ESIEE Amiens) delivering the equivalent of a Master's Degree.

General information

It was founded in 1904 and was known until the 1960s as the Breguet
Louis Charles Breguet
Louis Charles Breguet was a French aircraft designer and builder, one of the early aviation pioneers.- Biography :...

 school. It is operated by the Paris Chamber of Commerce
Paris Chamber of Commerce
The Paris Chamber of Commerce is a Chamber of Commerce of the Paris region. It defends the interests of 310,000 corporations of the Paris, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, and Val-de-Marne départements that create 20% of France's GDP.The CCIP was created on February 25, 1803 by Napoléon...

. In 1992, another branch, operated by the Amiens Chamber of Commerce was opened. Some of the students come directly from High School
Secondary education in France
In France, secondary education is in two stages:* collèges cater for the first four years of secondary education from the ages of 11 to 14...

 and graduate after 5 years while others, who follow the traditional path to the Grandes écoles
Grandes écoles
The grandes écoles of France are higher education establishments outside the main framework of the French university system. The grandes écoles select students for admission based chiefly on national ranking in competitive written and oral exams...

, come from a preparatory classes and graduate in 3 years.

ESIEE Amiens

Approximately 80 of the 450 students in Amiens graduate every year. During the last 2 years, students in Amiens choose a specialization among the following subjects:
  • Electrical engineering
    Electrical engineering
    Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...

  • Manufacturing systems
  • Computer network
    Computer network
    A computer network, often simply referred to as a network, is a collection of hardware components and computers interconnected by communication channels that allow sharing of resources and information....

    s and telecommunications

ESIEE Paris

Approximately 400 of the 1200 students in Paris graduate every year and 60% of them spent at least 3 months studying or working outside of France. Depending on their specialization, they can attend classes in its 300 m² (3200 square feet) clean room. It is known as the first Engineering school to have students design and launch an artificial satellite, named SARA, in 1991, as part of extracurricular work in ESIEESpace, a student club. During the last 2 years, students in Paris choose a specialization among the following subjects:
  • Electronics
    Electronics
    Electronics is the branch of science, engineering and technology that deals with electrical circuits involving active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive interconnection technologies...

     and microelectronics
    Microelectronics
    Microelectronics is a subfield of electronics. As the name suggests, microelectronics relates to the study and manufacture of very small electronic components. Usually, but not always, this means micrometre-scale or smaller,. These devices are made from semiconductors...

  • Computer science
    Computer science
    Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

  • Signal processing
    Signal processing
    Signal processing is an area of systems engineering, electrical engineering and applied mathematics that deals with operations on or analysis of signals, in either discrete or continuous time...

     and telecommunications
  • Embedded systems
  • Starting in September 2006, first-year students will be offered the possibility to follow a dual education
    Dual education system
    A dual education system combines apprenticeships in a company and vocational education at a vocational school in one course. This system is practiced in several countries, notably Germany, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Switzerland, but also...

     in network engineering http://www.esiee.fr/esiee/apprentissage.html.


ESIEE launched Master of Science programs in nano-science MEMS, Electronic Engineering and System on Chip, programs to which international students and 4rth and 5th year ESIEE students may participate.
http://www.studyrama.com/liste_formations.php3?id_rubrique=3097&diplome=Master+of+Science+System-on-Chip+Design%2C+en+collaboration+avec+l%92ESIEE+Paris
http://forum.hardware.fr/hfr/EmploiEtudes/Etudes-Orientation/unique-groupe-amiens-sujet_9760_1.htm

The Paris school shares its building with two other schools;
  • ESIEE Management
    Institut supérieur de technologie et management
    ISTM is a business school and grande école in France created in 1995. ISTM is operated by the Paris Chamber of Commerce...

  • Institut Supérieur des BioSciences de Paris (ISBS)

Exchange Programs

In addition of the European Erasmus Programme
Erasmus Programme
The Erasmus Programme , a.k.a. Erasmus Project is a European Union student exchange programme established in 1987...

, two main exchange programs are offered to the students:

The Tripartite Programme
Tripartite Programme
The Tripartite programme was created in 1980. It allows French, German, English and Spanish outstanding students to spend two years of their university studies in two partner universities and thus obtain a tricultural scientific, technical and linguistic profile.-Programme Description:After a high...

, offered to outstanding candidates, operates with the University of Karlsruhe, the University of Southampton
University of Southampton
The University of Southampton is a British public university located in the city of Southampton, England, a member of the Russell Group. The origins of the university can be dated back to the founding of the Hartley Institution in 1862 by Henry Robertson Hartley. In 1902, the Institution developed...

, and the ICAI in the Pontifical Comillas University of Madrid
Pontifical Comillas University of Madrid
Comillas Pontifical University is a private university located in Madrid, Spain. It is a Catholic university run by the Society of Jesus.The university ranks 5th in Spain's best schools of law ranking by El Mundo, 4th in best industrial engineering schools and 3rd in best social work schools.It...

. Under this program, students spend their last two years in two universities of their choice.

The Entree Programme
European Network for Training and Research in Electrical Engineering
Exchange programs for Electrical Engineering students between 18 universities in Europe. It is also known as Entree. Their members are:* Chalmers Lindholmen University College * University of Aalborg * Heriot-Watt University...

http://www.esiee-amiens.fr/site_esiee/EN/studies/foreign_studies/entree_network.php, allows students to transfer to 17 other European universities. Under this program, students spend the first semesters of the last 2 years in two universities of their choices.

Rankings

ESIEE Amiens and Paris are generally ranked on the top 5 French engineering schools (with admittance directly after high school/secondary school).

External links

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