École centrale de Lyon
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| Motto: | A Grande école without boundaries |
| Established: | 1857 |
| Type: | Public, Grand établissement |
| President: | Patrick Bourguin |
| Students: | 1400 |
| Location: | Ecully, France |
| Affiliations: | Centrale Graduate School |
| Website: | http://www.ec-lyon.fr |
École centrale de Lyon is one of top notch French Grandes écoles of engineering referred-to as Centrale Graduate Schools. It is also called ECL or EC-Lyon.
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[edit] Situation
It is located in Écully, a western suburb of Lyon, France (in a region called Rhônes Alpes).
[edit] History
It was founded in 1857 on a private initiative by Désiré Girardon, who was its first President. The founding vision was to educate multidisciplinary engineers for the emerging industry (“doctors for fabs and plants”). The institution was given to the French State Ministry of Education in 1857 by its creator. Initially located in Lyon city downtown, it was transferred to Écully, its current emplacement.
[edit] The Centralien programme
The centralien programme is the original and main programme offered by the École, as a Centrale Graduate School. It is quite different from typical university or college studies; and specific to the French system of Grandes écoles. The engineering degree of école centrale de Lyon (Ingénieur centralien or “centralien engineer”) is a Master of Science degree.
The defining characteristic of the curriculum is that it is multidisciplinary. Students are taught all the main fields of engineering, such as: mechanics, aeronautics, electrical engineering, physics, chemistry, materials, biotechnologies, fluid mechanics, mathematics, civil engineering, telecommunications and computer science. The curriculum is quite similar to those offered in other Centrale Graduate Schools.
École centrale de Lyon is not a specialised school, contrary to many other Grandes écoles such as “École supérieure d'électricité” (specialised in electrical Engineering), or “École nationale supérieure des télécommunications" (specialised in telecommunications).
[edit] Admission
Most of the students are admitted after two to three years of classes préparatoires, which correspond to two/three years undergraduate cursus of post high-school education with heavy emphasis on Maths and Physics. Undergraduate students can take a nation-wide competitive entrance examination (Concours Centrale-Supélec) to enter a Centrale Graduate School, including Ecole Centrale de Lyon. Ecole Centrale de Lyon recruits among the top 6% of the students in classes preparatoires, which makes it a selective and prestigious institution. A few students come from French universities after completing three or four years of post high-school education. A significant contingent of students also comes from leading international universities which belong to the TIME network (Top Industrial Managers for Europe).
[edit] Curriculum
Education at the ECL is multidisciplinary and typically lasts three to four years. During the first two years (Tronc commun, or “Common Trunk”), students are required to take classes in science (Mathematics, Physics, Biology); in engineering (Continuum Mechanics, Heat transfer, Digital image processing, Computer programming,…) and in social sciences (Economics, Management, foreign languages,…). After completing these 3 years of education, they receive the degree of “ingénieur de l'École centrale de Lyon”, more commonly called “ingénieur centralien”.
[edit] National and international ties
The École centrale de Lyon belongs to the French intergroupe des écoles centrales, together with École centrale Paris, École centrale de Lille, École centrale de Nantes, École centrale de Marseille and École centrale de Pékin .
Since 1857, the school has built important international ties. Students come from around the world to study for several years on the school campus. École centrale students may also obtain a “double diploma” at one of several partner schools. Furthermore, the École is one of the founding members of the TIME network (Top Industrial Managers for Europe). (Member List)
[edit] Research
The École centrale de Lyon is highly involved in research, and has the highest rate of PhD lecturers amidst the French Grandes écoles.
ECL hosts 7 laboratories related to the University of Lyon:
- CEGELY : Electrical Engineering [1]
- ICTT : Teleformation, Teleinteractivity [2]
- INL : Lyon Institute of Nanotechnology [3]
- LMFA : Fluid Mechanics and Acoustics[4]
- LTDS : Tribology and Systems dynamics[5]
- LIRIS : Computer Science, Signal and Image Processing [6]
- MAPLY : Applied Mathematics[7]
[edit] Some famous alumni
- Paul-Émile Victor (1928), explorator,
- Antoine Bethenot (1945), member of the Academy of Sciences
- Marc Riboud (1947), Photograph
- Auguste Moiroux (1949), Industrial
- Georges Penz (1949), CEO of Chantiers de l'Atlantique,
- Pierre Beuzit (1966), Research Director of Renault/Nissan,
- Pascal Henault (1970), research director of Peugeot/Citroën,
- Christian Mari (1974), Research Director of Snecma Moteurs,
- Olivier Piou (1980), CEO of Gemalto, world leader of chip card Roland Moreno,
- Didier Lamouche (1981), CEO of Bull .
[edit] The Graduate School
In addition to the centralien engineering programme, the École centrale de Lyon offers a broad range of master's programmes in science and engineering (1 year- or 2 year-programmes). These programmes are opened to applicants having completed their undergraduate studies at other institutions.
The ECL also has a Ph.D. programme for students with a master's level. More than 100 doctoral candidates work in one of the 5 laboratories of the school.
[edit] See also
Intergroupe des écoles centrales
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