École nationale supérieure des Mines de Nancy
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The école nationale supérieure des mines de Nancy (ENSMN; also referred to as les Mines or Mines de Nancy) is one of the prestigious French
generalist engineering Grandes Ecoles
. The ENSMN is an establishment of teaching and research in engineering with 1000 students, 60 permanent professors, 400 people in research and R&D including a hundred doctorants.
It is located in the city of Nancy, in the east of France
, which gather 48 000 students. Despite its small size (around 140 students in a year, with approximately 20% female and 20% foreign), it is well represented in French industry.
It was created in 1919 on the request of the University of Nancy in order to contribute to the reconstruction of the mining and steel industry in the east of France after World War I
. At the end of the 1950s, under the impulse of its then-director Bertrand Schwartz (younger brother of Laurent Schwartz
), the school reorganized its curriculum to include a balanced blend of engineering, management and social sciences. At the time, it was an innovative educational model for engineers, that was later extended to other Grandes Ecoles
.
Its students for the most part hold management positions in industry and large corporations, but some of them prefer scientific research in any of the French research institutes (such as CNRS or INRIA), or abroad.
Students have to make a report and an oral presentation of these internships.
The FORUM EST-HORIZON is currently the biggest meeting between the professional world and the students in the East of France. With 60 exhibitors covering a large variety of economic and industrial fields, the forum gathered last year more than 2 000 students, looking for advices, information and internships.
In 2011, the Forum Est-horizon amalgamated with the forum of ICN business school, which should rise the number of companies to a hundred or so. A lot of new students are expected too.
Conseil d'administration [modifier]
Le Conseil d'Administration est un organe important de l'École.
France
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generalist engineering Grandes Ecoles
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...
. The ENSMN is an establishment of teaching and research in engineering with 1000 students, 60 permanent professors, 400 people in research and R&D including a hundred doctorants.
It is located in the city of Nancy, in the east of France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, which gather 48 000 students. Despite its small size (around 140 students in a year, with approximately 20% female and 20% foreign), it is well represented in French industry.
It was created in 1919 on the request of the University of Nancy in order to contribute to the reconstruction of the mining and steel industry in the east of France after World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
. At the end of the 1950s, under the impulse of its then-director Bertrand Schwartz (younger brother of Laurent Schwartz
Laurent Schwartz
Laurent-Moïse Schwartz was a French mathematician. He pioneered the theory of distributions, which gives a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function. He was awarded the Fields medal in 1950 for his work...
), the school reorganized its curriculum to include a balanced blend of engineering, management and social sciences. At the time, it was an innovative educational model for engineers, that was later extended to other Grandes Ecoles
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...
.
Its students for the most part hold management positions in industry and large corporations, but some of them prefer scientific research in any of the French research institutes (such as CNRS or INRIA), or abroad.
The Civil Engineer of Mines diploma
The former vocation to train mining engineers evolved in the course of time, because of technological progress and transformations of society. ENSMN has turn into a "generalist" school and proposes to its students the following specialisations for their second year :- "Département Matériaux" (materials and mechanics)
- "Département Energie : Production, Transformation" (energetics)
- "Département Procédés, Energie, Environnement" (energetics and environment)
- "Département Génie industriel" (applied mathematics and industrial engineering)
- "Département Information et Systèmes" (computer science)
- "Département Géoingénierie" (geological and civil engineering).
Internships
Every student have to do some internship in order to get degrees. It is a way to get foreign expirements.- Operator internship (6 weeks), whose aim is to discover social reality of work
- Optional summer internship (free)
- Assistant-engineer internship (8 to 12 weeks)
- Engineer internship (25 weeks at least)
Students have to make a report and an oral presentation of these internships.
Admission
Admission to Civil Engineer of Mines is decided through competitive examination at the end of preparatory classes, a highly selective system.Research
- LSG2M : science and engineering of materials and metallurgy
- LSGS : science and engineering of surfaces
- LPM : physics of materials
- LAEGO : environment, geomecanics, buildings
- CRPG : petrography and geochemistry
- LORIA : computer science and its applications
- ERPI : innovative Processes
Forum Est-Horizon
The students of the ENSMN organize their own meeting with professionals, who present their companies and their activities.The FORUM EST-HORIZON is currently the biggest meeting between the professional world and the students in the East of France. With 60 exhibitors covering a large variety of economic and industrial fields, the forum gathered last year more than 2 000 students, looking for advices, information and internships.
In 2011, the Forum Est-horizon amalgamated with the forum of ICN business school, which should rise the number of companies to a hundred or so. A lot of new students are expected too.
Famous alumni
- Jean-Claude TrichetJean-Claude TrichetJean-Claude Trichet is a French civil servant who was the president of the European Central Bank, a position he held from 2003 to 2011. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements...
, president of the European Central Bank - Jacques Bouriez, chief executive officer of Louis Delhaize GroupLouis Delhaize GroupLouis Delhaize Group is a retail group based in Belgium. The principal activity of Louis Delhaize Group is the operation of food supermarkets and hypermarkets in Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Romania and Hungary...
- Patrick CousotPatrick CousotPatrick Cousot is a French computer scientist.Together with his wife Radhia, Cousot is the originator of abstract interpretation, an influential technique in formal methods. In the 2000s, he has worked on practical methods of static analysis for critical embedded software, such as found in avionics...
, professor at New York University - Jean-Yves Koch, managing director of Capgemini
- Louis Doucet, chief executive officer of GE Money Bank
- Bertrand Méheut, chief executive officer of Canal+ group
- Amina Benkhadra, current Moroccan minister of energy, mines, water and environment since 2007.
- Kofi YamgnaneKofi YamgnaneKofi Yamgnane is a French-Togolese politician, born on October 11, 1945 in Bassar, Togo. Former engineer in the French Bridges and Roads administration, he was Secretary of State in the French gouvernment in 1991-1993 and representative of Finistère in the French Parlement in 1997-2002...
, mayor of Saint-Coulitz (Brittany), mayor of Saint-Briac (Brittany), French junior minister of social integration in 1991-1993 and deputy of Finistère in the French Parlement in 1997-2002. He ran for the 2010 Togolese presidential election. - Philippe Guillemot, chief executive officer of AREVA T&D
Conseil d'administration [modifier]
Le Conseil d'Administration est un organe important de l'École.
The board of directors
among its members :- Anne LauvergeonAnne LauvergeonAnne Lauvergeon , is a French businesswoman, and CEO of Areva 2001 – 2011 .-Biography:In 1978 she attended the École Normale Supérieure to pass the Agrégation in physics. Then she entered the Corps des Mines. In 1983 she enrolled in her first vocational course with the Corps de Mines, in the iron...
, chief executive officer of AREVAArevaAREVA is a French public multinational industrial conglomerate headquartered in the Tour Areva in Courbevoie, Paris. AREVA is mainly known for nuclear power; it also has interests in other energy projects. It was created on 3 September 2001, by the merger of Framatome , Cogema and... - Claude Imauven, chief executive officer of Saint-Gobain PAM, chief executive officer of Saint-GobainSaint-GobainSaint-Gobain S.A. is a French multinational corporation, founded in 1665 in Paris and headquartered on the outskirts of Paris at La Défense and in Courbevoie. Originally a mirror manufacturer, it now also produces a variety of construction and high-performance materials.The company has its head...
- Jean-Yves Koch, managing director of CapgeminiCapgeminiCapgemini is a French global IT services company, one of the world's largest management consulting, outsourcing and professional services companies with a staff of 114,274 operating in 40 countries. It is headquartered in Paris and was founded in 1967 by Serge Kampf, the current chairman, in...
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