The ENSTA Paris, officially École nationale supérieure de techniques avancées (; ), is a French graduate school of

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(''école d'ingénieurs''). Founded in 1741, it is the oldest ''

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'' in

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. It is located in

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in the south of Paris, on the

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campus, and is a constituent faculty of the

Polytechnic Institute of Paris The Polytechnic Institute of Paris () is a Public university, public technological university located in Palaiseau, France. It consists of six engineering ''grandes écoles'': , ENSTA Paris, ENSAE Paris, École des ponts ParisTech, Télécom Paris ...

. In 2021, 180 engineers graduated from the school.

History

Originally, the school was the brainchild of

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, inspector general of the Navy. He had identified the need to give the Navy's master carpenters a theoretical education, particularly in mathematics and physics, which were making quick progress, so that they would have a clearer understanding of their trade. Duhamel du Monceau founded the first school in his home in Paris on the Isle Saint Louis in 1741. This date is recognised as the origin of the institution. In 1748 it was moved to the royal library on rue Richelieu, and in 1753 to the

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Palace, immediately adjacent to the Académie des Sciences. It was closed in 1759 during the

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. In 1765, he managed to persuade the duc de Choiseul to reopen it as part of a sweeping overhaul of the navy. Duhamel du Monceau continued to run the school for the rest of his life. The School of Student Engineer Constructors, as it was known, was closed in 1793 during the French Revolution. It reopened in 1795 as an application school for the Ecole Polytechnique. Later on, it became known as ''Ecole nationale supérieure du Génie maritime'' (National Higher College of Maritime Engineering). In 1970, the Délégation générale pour l'Armement (Arms administration of the Ministry of Defence) merged the school with three of its other establishments: - the École nationale supérieure des Poudres (Powders and explosives institute) - the École nationale supérieure de l'Armement (Arms engineering institute) - the École des Ingénieurs hydrographes de la Marine (Hydrographic institute). This formed the École nationale supérieure de Techniques avancées (ENSTA), the role of which is to train engineers in the naval, mechanical, nuclear, chemical, electronic and related fields. The scientific skills of each of the founding institutes survives in the broad range of research disciplines covered at ENSTA, as well as in the more general nature of its teaching and the variety of specialities offered to the students. Today, ENSTA's legal status is that of a "public administrative establishment", placed under the supervision of the Ministry of Defence. It is headed by a general officer of the Corps of Ordnance Ingineers ( DGA). Some former graduates of attend ENSTA before joining the military Corps of Ordnance Engineers, which staffs the DGA.

Rankings

National ranking (ranked as ENSTA Paris for its Master of Sciences in Engineering) International ranking (ranked as Institut Polytechnique de Paris)

Academics

''ENSTA Paris'' is a ''Grande École'', a French institution of

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that is separate from, but parallel and connected to the main framework of the French public university system. Similar to the

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in the United States,

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in the UK, and

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in China, ''Grandes Écoles'' are elite academic institutions that admit students through an extremely competitive process. ''Grandes Écoles'' typically they have much smaller class sizes and student bodies than public universities in France, and many of their programs are taught in English. While most ''Grandes Écoles'' are more expensive than French universities, ''ENSTA Paris'' charges the same tuition fees: €243 annually for the master's degree in 2021/2022 International internships, study abroad opportunities, and close ties with government and the corporate world are a hallmark of the ''Grandes Écoles''. Degrees from ''ENSTA Paris'' are accredited by the ''Conférence des Grandes Écoles'' and awarded by the

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(). Alums go on to occupy elite positions within government, administration, and corporate firms in France.

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Degrees

*Diplôme d'Ingénieur de l'ENSTA Paris (equivalent to a Master of Sciences in Engineering) *Master's degree in Nuclear Plant Design *Master's degree in Acoustical engineering *Master's degree in Maritime engineering : transport systems and offshore energies *Master's degree in Operational research *Master's degree in Analysis, modeling, simulation *Master's degree in Consulting in Organization, Strategy *Master's degree in Cyber-physical systems design *Master's degree in Processes, energy, environment *

Mastère Spécialisé The Mastère Spécialisé (), also called the Specialized Master or Advanced Master is a French post-graduate specialization degree created in 1986 by the French Conférence des Grandes Écoles. It is a full-time, one-year program (75 ECTS) whic ...

Maritime Engineering: transport, energy, sustainable development *

Architecture and security of information systems *

Design and Exploitation of Autonomous Maritime System *

Project Manager in charging infrastructure and electric vehicles *

Engineering of Localization Systems and Multi-Sensors

Notable alumni

Military and politics

* Alain Bouquin, General Commander of the

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* Édouard Jean Baptiste Milhaud * Guillaume Delcourt

Engineering and industry

* Louis-Émile Bertin * Valérie Cornetet * Henri Dupuy de Lôme *

Jacques-Noël Sané Jacques-Noël Sané (18 February 1740 – 22 August 1831) was a French shipwright. He was the creator of standardised designs for ship of the line, ships of the line and frigates fielded by the French Navy in the 1780s, which served during the Fr ...

* Léonce Verny * Ernest Mercier, former President of

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* Jerome Guillen, President of Automotive at

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* Fatim-Zahra Ammor Moroccan Minister

Chemistry

* Paul Marie Eugène Vieille

Physics

* Gérard Albert Mourou, Physics Nobel Prize 2018 Gérard Mourou * François Forget, Astrophysicist and Member of the French Academy of Sciences * Paul-Henri Rebut, Physicist, designer and Director of JET nuclear fusion facility, Chevalier de l'Ordre national du Mérite, Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, Hannes Alfvén Prize and Member of the French Academy of Sciences

Mathematics

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Computer Science

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References

External links

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