École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
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| Established | 1747 |
|---|---|
| Type | French Grande Ecole |
| 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, 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 engineering school and remains to this day one of the most prestigious French Grandes Écoles of engineering.
It is located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris and in Marne-la-Vallée (suburb of Paris).
[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.
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: DEAs and 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] Alumni
Alumni include:
- Augustin Louis Cauchy
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel
- Marie François Sadi Carnot
- Henri Becquerel
- Fulgence Bienvenue
- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
- Antoine de Chézy
- Prince Souphanouvong
Past and present faculty include:
[edit] External links
- Official site (in English)
- Alumni website (in French)
