| Mines de Nancy | |
|---|---|
| Established | 1919 |
| Type | Grandes Ecoles |
| Students | 803[1] |
| Location | Nancy, France |
| Campus | Nancy, Parc de Saurupt |
| Affiliations | Groupe des écoles des mines, Artem, INPL |
| Website | www.mines.u-nancy.fr |
The école nationale supérieure des mines de Nancy (ENSMN; also referred to as les Mines or Mines de Nancy) is one of the prestigious French generalist engineering Grandes Ecoles. The ENSMN is an establishment of teaching and research in engineering with 1000 students, 60 permanent professors, 400 people in research and R&D including a hundred doctorants.
It is located in the city of Nancy, in the east of France, which gather 48 000 students. Despite its small size (around 140 students in a year, with approximately 20% female and 20% foreign), it is well represented in French industry.
It was created in 1919 on the request of the University of Nancy in order to contribute to the reconstruction of the mining and steel industry in the east of France after World War I. At the end of the 1950s, under the impulse of its then-director Bertrand Schwartz (younger brother of Laurent Schwartz), the school reorganized its curriculum to include a balanced blend of engineering, management and social sciences. At the time, it was an innovative educational model for engineers, that was later extended to other Grandes Ecoles.
Its students for the most part hold management positions in industry and large corporations, but some of them prefer scientific research in any of the French research institutes (such as CNRS or INRIA), or abroad.
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The former vocation to train mining engineers evolved in the course of time, because of technological progress and transformations of society. ENSMN has turn into a "generalist" school and proposes to its students the following specialisations for their second year :
Every student have to do some internship in order to get degrees. It is a way to get foreign expirements.
Students have to make a report and an oral presentation of these internships.
Admission to Civil Engineer of Mines is decided through competitive examination at the end of preparatory classes, a highly selective system.
The students of the ENSMN organize their own meeting with professionals, who present their companies and their activities. The FORUM EST-HORIZON is currently the biggest meeting between the professional world and the students in the East of France. With 60 exhibitors covering a large variety of economic and industrial fields, the forum gathered last year more than 2 000 students, looking for advices, information and internships.
In 2011, the Forum Est-horizon amalgamated with the forum of ICN business school, which should rise the number of companies to a hundred or so. A lot of new students are expected too.
Conseil d'administration [modifier] Le Conseil d'Administration est un organe important de l'École.
among its members :