The Leonard de Vinci Engineering School (ESILV) is an

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located in

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, France. It is fully accredited to award the title of ''ingénieur'' by the French Commission of Engineering Titles. ESILV is part of the "

Pôle universitaire Léonard-de-Vinci The Leonardo de Vinci University Center (French language, French: ''Pôle universitaire Léonard-de-Vinci'') is a French Private universities in France, private university cluster located at La Défense. History The Leonardo de Vinci Universi ...

". The director of the school is Pascal Pinot. It was placed 10th among French engineering schools "Post-bac" in the 2010 ''

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'' rankings. Since 2022, the school has been the highest-ranked private school post-high school according to
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',
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''. In 2024, ESILV was ranked 2nd by
L'Étudiant
', 3rd by
Le Figaro
' in post-baccalaureate rankings, and 1st by
Usine Nouvelle
' in the same category. Furthermore, in 2023, it was ranked 3rd in the general ranking of French engineering schools by ''Usine Nouvelle'', where it was also ranked first in the following categories: aerospace, automotive and transport, mechanical engineering, as well as computer science, electronics, and telecommunications.

History

The Leonard de Vinci Engineering School (ESILV) was created in 1995 by the Conseil général des Hauts-de-Seine. It is an engineering school which is located in

La Défense La Défense () is a major business district in France's Paris metropolitan area, west of the city limits. It is located in Île-de-France region's Departments of France, department of Hauts-de-Seine in the Communes of France, communes of Courbe ...

. Since 2003, the diploma of ESILV is a recognized diploma by the

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CTI
. This accreditation has been renewed in 2013.

Departments

The ESILV is composed of four departments: * Financial engineering * New energies * Computer science * Computational mechanics The majors offered apply in the area of modeling and numerical simulation, computer networks and databases, new energies, new information technologies, computational mechanics, and financial engineering.

Admission

Students enter after high school graduation (e.g. French

Baccalauréat The ''baccalauréat'' (; ), often known in France colloquially as the ''bac'', is a French national academic qualification that students can obtain at the completion of their secondary education (at the end of the ''lycée'') by meeting certain ...

). Application is made during the senior year. Students may also enter after the

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and spend three years in the school or after a Licence and spend two years in the school.

Studies

There are a wide variety of classes taught at the Engineering School Leonard de Vinci: mathematics, scientific computation, computer science, mechanical engineering, and financial engineering to name a few. In addition, students take classes at the partnering management school EMLV in areas such as marketing and management. For further real-world experience, their curriculum includes two six-month internships with industrial partners. Since the graduation of the first senior class in July 2000, all of the alumni of the ESILV have successfully joined the work force and were hired as: *Computational Engineer *Design Engineer *Development Engineer *Testing Engineer *Software Engineer *Production Engineer *Research Engineer *Computer Network Engineer *Trader Engineer *Risk Management Engineer *Security and Exchange Manager *Quantitative Finance Analyst

Administration

* Director: Pascal Pinot * Director of studies: Remy Sart * Head of the Department of New Energies: Frédéric Fauberteau * Head of the Department of Computer Science: Gaël Chareyron * Head of the Department of Financial Engineering: Cyril Grunspan * Head of the Department of Computational Mechanics: Radoin Belaouar

References

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