École nationale des ponts et chaussées

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École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées Image:ENPC-small.png
Established: 1747
Type: French Grande Ecole, member of ParisTech (Paris Institute of Technology)
Director: Philippe Courtier
Students: 1200
Undergraduates: No undergraduate student
Postgraduates: 1,000
Doctoral students: 150
Location: Paris, Champs-sur-Marne, France
Nickname: Les Ponts
Affiliations: ParisTech (Paris Institute of Technology), Conférence des Grandes Ecoles
Website: www.enpc.fr

The École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC) ("National school of Bridges and Roads"), often referred to as les Ponts, is the world's oldest civil engineering school and remains to this day one of the most prestigious French Grandes Écoles of engineering.

It is headquartered in Marne-la-Vallée (suburb of Paris), and has historical buildings in Paris. It the oldest and among the most prestigious institutes members of ParisTech (Paris Institute of Technology).

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[edit] Academics

With traditional core competences in civil engineering, environment, transport, town and regional planning, mechanics, industrial management and logistics, ENPC offers high-level programmes in an extensive range of fields, from applied mathematics to economics and management.

ENPC is among the schools called "généralistes", which means that students receive a broad, management-oriented and non-specialised education, and often quickly become top industrial managers.

Three major types of programmes are on offer :

  • Engineering programmes: leading to a 5-year postgraduate engineering degree (accessible, after competitive examinations, by both undergraduate-graduate curriculum and the 2-year master course) or to masters of science
  • Doctoral programmes: Ph.D.s
  • Professional programmes for postgraduates: Mastères spécialisés (M.S.), MBA.
  • In conjunction with Temple University-Philadelphia, USA, ENPC is the first leg of the Fox School of Business International MBA, with study in Paris, Philadelphia, and Tokyo.

ENPC is also an application school of École Polytechnique, and provides education for the Corps of Bridges and Roads.

[edit] Departments

Education for the Master of Engineering is organised in the six following departments:

  • Civil Engineering and Construction
  • Transport, Planning, Environment
  • Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
  • Applied Mathematics and Computer Sciences
  • Economics, Management, Finance
  • Industrial Engineering and Management

[edit] Alumni

Alumni include:

Past and present faculty include:

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