École nationale supérieure des mines de Nancy
| 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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[edit] The Civil Engineer of Mines diploma
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 :
- "Département Matériaux" (materials and mechanics)
- "Département Energie : Production, Transformation" (energetics)
- "Département Procédés, Energie, Environnement" (energetics and environment)
- "Département Génie industriel" (applied mathematics and industrial engineering)
- "Département Information et Systèmes" (computer science)
- "Département Géoingénierie" (geological and civil engineering).
[edit] Internships
Every student have to do some internship in order to get degrees. It is a way to get foreign expirements.
- Operator internship (6 weeks), whose aim is to discover social reality of work
- Optional summer internship (free)
- Assistant-engineer internship (8 to 12 weeks)
- Engineer internship (25 weeks at least)
Students have to make a report and an oral presentation of these internships.
[edit] Admission
Admission to Civil Engineer of Mines is decided through competitive examination at the end of preparatory classes, a highly selective system.
[edit] Research
- LSG2M : science and engineering of materials and metallurgy
- LSGS : science and engineering of surfaces
- LPM : physics of materials
- LAEGO : environment, geomecanics, buildings
- CRPG : petrography and geochemistry
- LORIA : computer science and its applications
- ERPI : innovative Processes
[edit] Forum Est-Horizon
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.
[edit] Famous alumni
- Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank
- Jacques Bouriez, chief executive officer of Louis Delhaize Group
- Patrick Cousot, professor at New York University
- Jean-Yves Koch, managing director of Capgemini
- Louis Doucet, chief executive officer of GE Money Bank
- Bertrand Méheut, chief executive officer of Canal+ group
- Amina Benkhadra, current Moroccan minister of energy, mines, water and environment since 2007.
- Kofi Yamgnane, mayor of Saint-Coulitz (Brittany), mayor of Saint-Briac (Brittany), French junior minister of social integration in 1991-1993 and deputy of Finistère in the French Parlement in 1997-2002. He ran for the 2010 Togolese presidential election.
- Philippe Guillemot, chief executive officer of AREVA T&D
Conseil d'administration [modifier] Le Conseil d'Administration est un organe important de l'École.
[edit] The board of directors
among its members :
- Anne Lauvergeon, chief executive officer of AREVA
- Claude Imauven, chief executive officer of Saint-Gobain PAM, chief executive officer of Saint-Gobain
- Jean-Yves Koch, managing director of Capgemini
[edit] Other schools of Mines in France
- École nationale supérieure des Mines d'Albi Carmaux (Mines Albi-Carmaux)
- École nationale supérieure des Mines d'Alès (Mines Alès)
- École nationale supérieure des Mines de Douai (Mines Douai)
- École nationale supérieure des Mines de Nantes (Mines Nantes)
- École nationale supérieure des Mines de Paris (Mines Paristech)
- École nationale supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne (Mines Sainte-Etienne)
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Site of the école nationale supérieure des mines de Nancy
- Promotional site of the Ecole des Mines de Nancy
- Site of the Group des écoles des mines
Coordinates: 48°40′45″N 6°11′00″E / 48.67917°N 6.1833333°E
