CentraleSupélec
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| Type | Grand établissement Grande École |
|---|---|
| Established | 1 January 2015 |
| Budget | € 100 million |
| President | Hervé Biausser |
Academic staff | 852 |
| Postgraduates |
5,350 (1,000 Engineers/year) |
| Location | Châtenay-Malabry, Gif-sur-Yvette, Metz, Rennes, France |
| Affiliations | Université Paris-Saclay, TIME, CESAER |
| Website | www.centralesupelec.fr |
CentraleSupélec is a French institute of research and higher education in engineering sciences. It was established on 1 January 2015 as a result of a strategic merger between two leading grandes écoles in France, Ecole Centrale Paris and Supélec.
It is a key founding member of the University of Paris-Saclay (consortium of research universities in France), the TIME (Top Industrial Managers for Europe) network and also the CESAER association of European engineering schools.
History
École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures
École Centrale Paris was founded in 1829 on a private initiative by Alphonse Lavallée, who financed its creation and became its first president, and three distinguished scientists: Eugène Peclet, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, and Théodore Olivier. The founding vision was to promote the development of 'industrial science', or practical applications of recent major scientific discoveries, and to educate multidisciplinary engineers to lead the emerging industrial sector. The institution was offered to the French state in 1857.
Initially located in the Hôtel de Juigné (now Hôtel Salé and home to the Musée Picasso), it was transferred to rue Montgolfier in 1884, where it stayed until 1969. Its current location neighbours the Parc de Sceaux.
École Supérieure d'Electricité
Supélec was founded in 1894 by Eleuthère Mascart, a prominent academic who was elected as a Perpetual Member and Secretary of the prestigious Académie des Sciences and Foreign Member of the British Royal Society. He was also a Professor at the Collège de France, and recipient of the Bordin Prize in 1866 as well as the Grand prix de l'Académie des sciences in 1874. Supélec was created in order to educate engineers for the then booming electrical industry.
Supélec was originally based in Rue de Staël, 15th district of Paris. It was then relocated to Malakoff close to Porte de Vanves and Gif-sur-Yvette in 1975, the latter in which the main campus is currently located. A second campus was established at Rennes in 1972 and a third at Metz in 1985.
CentraleSupélec Alliance
Since December 2008, a strategic alliance was announced between the two schools, known today through the common brand of CentraleSupélec. Hervé Biausser became the director in 2013, 1 September, while keeping the directorship of Centrale Paris. He realized the merger between these two schools. CentraleSupélec now has four campuses in France: Châtenay-Malabry, Gif-sur-Yvette, Metz and Rennes.
CentraleSupélec, a founding member of the Université Paris-Saclay
Since 2008, École Centrale Paris and Supélec participated in the creation of the campus of the Paris-Saclay research cluster. The University of Paris-Saclay is a French mega university under development, which aims to become the top university in continental Europe.
Rankings
École Centrale Paris is widely considered to be among the top 3 engineering schools of France.[1] Supélec is a reference in the field of electric energy and information sciences and ranks among the world's top institutes in electrical and computer engineering. According to several salary surveys, graduates from both schools are among the highest-paid graduates in France.[2]
Partnerships
CentraleSupélec has several joint research and education programs with other universities, including Caltech, University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, Harvard University, MIT, National University of Singapore, RWTH Aachen and Tsinghua University.[3]
Coordinates: 48°42′36″N 2°09′48″E / 48.7100841°N 2.163283299999989°E
References
- ↑ (French)Le classement 2014 des écoles d'ingénieurs
- ↑ Anne-Sophie Bellaiche (13 March 2015). "Salaires : les écoles d'ingénieurs les plus payantes". usinenouvelle.com. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
- ↑ Cooperative Projects in China