École supérieure de chimie physique électronique de Lyon

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École Supérieure de Chimie Physique Électronique de Lyon
Established: 1883
President: Jean Dercourt
Director: Gérard Pignault
Staff: 400
Students: 700
Location: Lyon, France
Website: www.cpe.fr/

École Supérieure de Chimie Physique Électronique de Lyon or CPE Lyon is one of the French Grandes Ecoles of engineering.

It is located in Villeurbanne, near Lyon.

CPE Lyon offers a high level of teaching (Master's degree) in two different disciplines :

Chemistry and chemical engineering 
conception, synthesis and manufacture of new molecules with high added value, with the necessity of being “first on the market”, and with concern for the environment and sustainability
Electronics, telecommunications, computer science 
a global education in electronics, microelectronics, computer science, image and signal processing, and telecommunications.

CPE Lyon is also well-known for the quality of its research in organic chemistry, analytical sciences, chemical and process engineering, microelectronics, and image processing. Selected students can prepare a Ph.D. in one of the CPE Lyon research laboratories (50 new students per year on average).

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[edit] History

  • 1883 : The École Supérieure de Chimie Industrielle de Lyon (ESCIL) is founded by Jules Raulin, student of Louis Pasteur
  • 1919 : Victor Grignard awarded in 1912 with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, becomes director of the École Supérieure de Chimie Industrielle de Lyon (ESCIL)
  • 1919 : The Institut de Chimie et Physique Industrielles de Lyon (ICPI) is founded by Professor Lepercq
  • 1933 : The École Supérieure de Chimie Industrielle de Lyon (ESCIL) is awarded with the Légion d'Honneur by the Ministry of War, for services rendered to the nation
  • 1993 : Hubert Curien, former chairman of the European Space Agency (ESA), former president of the CERN and former minister is appointed President of the École Supérieure de Chimie Industrielle de Lyon (ESCIL)
  • 1994 : The École Supérieure de Chimie Industrielle de Lyon (ESCIL) and the Institut de Chimie et Physique Industrielles de Lyon (ICPI) merged together to found the École Supérieure de Chimie Physique Électronique de Lyon (CPE-Lyon)
  • 2005 : Jean Dercourt, Secretary of the French Academy of Sciences, is appointed President of the École Supérieure de Chimie Physique Électronique de Lyon (CPE-Lyon)

[edit] Alumni

Alumni of the École Supérieure de Chimie Physique Électronique de Lyon. They include, among many others :

Famous scientists

CEOs and industrialists

  • Laurent de la Clergerie (ICPI-E 1994) : Founder and Chairman of the Management Board of LDLC.com
  • Bruno Bonnell (ESCIL 1981) : Founder of Infogrames Entertainment SA., Chairman of the Board, Acting Chief Financial Officer and Chief Creative Officer of Atari, Inc..
  • Marcel Mérieux (ESCIL 1891) : Student of Louis Pasteur and founder of Institut Mérieux that became Sanofi Aventis. Institut Mérieux is a parent company of bioMérieux.

Other famous personalities

[edit] Facts & Figures

  • 75% of the students spend at least one year abroad
  • 75 Companies (average) attend the yearly CPE Lyon Student Recruiting Event (Journée Entreprise)
  • 11 Research Laboratories in cooperation with the CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
  • 24 000 m² dedicated to the Education, R&D
  • 500 publications per year
  • 50 PhD graduations per year
  • 30 patents per year
  • 3,37M€ revenues from contracts with the Industry in 2005

[edit] International Exchanges

Since many years CPE Lyon has been creating partnerships with 90 universities abroad including:

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