Member Institutions
Les Institutions membres
Budapest
University of Technology and Economics (BUTE)
Delft University
of Technology (TUDELFT)
Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven)
Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)
Instituto
Superior Técnico Lisboa
(IST)
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Technische Universität München (TUM)
Czech Technical
University in Prague (CVUT)
Ecole Nationale du Génie Rural des Eaux et des Forêts (ENGREF)
The Ecole Nationale des Ponts et
Chaussées
L'Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et
Métiers
Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications
Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées
Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la
Ville de Paris (ESPCI)
The Institut National Agronomique de Paris-Grignon (INAPG)
Norwegian
University of Science and Technology
(NTNU)
Technische
Universität Wien (TU Wien)
The goal of the Budapest University of
Technology and Economics is to train
professional engineers who are capable of high-level creative technical work, who can organize and supervise production and infrastructure,
and who are qualified to perform scientific research, participate in
technical development, solve engineering problems and implement solutions. In
addition to educating engineers and teachers of engineering, the University provides continuing education through:
The University
takes special pride in the contributions made to Science, Engineering, and
Culture through its faculty, graduates, and researchers. Several Nobel Prize laureates have been
associated with the Budapest University of Technology and Economics: Dennis Gábor (Physics), George Hevesy
(Chemistry), Eugene Wigner (Physics), György Oláh (Chemistry) and János Harsányi (Economics). Notable personalities have also studied
or taught at BUTE: John von Neumann, the inventor of the computer
; Edward Teller, nuclear
physicist ; Leo Szilárd, known for his work on
nuclear chain reactions ; Marcell Breuer,
architect ; Theodore von Kármán, aerodynamic
scientist ; Ern Rubik, inventor of the famous cube ; Donát Bánki, co-inventor of the carburetor
; Károly Zipernowszky, one
of the inventors of the transformer ; Dénes Mihály, one of the inventors of television.
Organisation
and Administration of the University. The Budapest University of Technology and Economics functions under
the supervision of the Hungarian Ministry of Education. The executive
functions of the university are carried out by the University Senate and the
Rector.
For More Information: http://www.bme.hu
13 000 students in 15 engineering programmes , 800 Ph.D students
2 200 scientific staff. 2 680 non-scientific staff
The 15 Programmes at
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Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis & Management Architecture Applied Physics Material Science Chemical Technology Technical Mathematics Geodetic Engineering |
Industrial Design Engineering Earth Sciences Civil Engineering Marine Technology Technical Informatics Electrical Engineering Aerospace Engineering Mechanical Engineering |
Tradition
Delft University of Technology is the largest
Engineering institution in the Netherlands. It was founded in 1842. The
University has a tradition of providing high level education and research and
has excellent experimental facilities.
Student Organisations
Student organisations play
an important role at the University. Each programme
has its own student organisation that deals with
excursions, job placements and extracurricular activities. There are a number
of different fraternity-organisations located in the
historic centre of
International Cooperation and Student Mobility
Delft University of Technology has a strong
international cooperation policy in which student mobility plays a major role.
The target is to have 50% of our graduates with international experience.
The University is active in a number of international
Engineering organisations. At present the rector of
the University is president of CESAER. The University was one of the founders
of the Leuven Network, a university network of six
Engineering institutions that exchanged 800 students under the ERASMUS programme. Formal cooperation agreements have been
established with a number of high level Engineering
institutions from all over the world. For nine study programmes,
Delft University of Technology also offers a two year Master of Science programme in the English language.
Intensive Course Programmes
in ATHENS
For More Information :
Student Advisory Office - Delft University of
Technology - PO Box 5, NL-2600AADelft- The Netherlands,
tel : 31-15-27 88 012
- fax 31-15-27 85 690 - mailto: dir.ssc@tudelft.nl
On WWW : home page : www.tudelft.nl < http: //www.tudelft.nl >
Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven) ^
Faculty of
Engineering
Prof. Dr. ir.
Y. Willems
, Dean
History
The K.U.Leuven dates back to 1425, but its Faculty of
Engineering is of course much younger. From 1864 on, a
The
bilingual university was split into two parts in 1968. The Dutch speaking part
stayed in
The K.U.Leuven Faculty of Engineering now is a knowledge centre
in the ‘Humbolt’ University tradition : the teaching is
based on research, or : those who produce knowledge also teach it. The Faculty
roughly counts 180 professors, 30 post-docs and 500 research students. Together
they teach to about 2500 students.
The
Flemish Interuniversity Micro-Electronics Centre (IMEC) is situated on the same
campus, as is the Innovation and Incubation Centre from which more than 20
spin-off companies have been launched.
Teaching
The
Faculty offers (Dutch spoken) Master courses in the following fields : Architecture, Chemical Engineering, Civil
Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Materials Engineering,
Mechanical Engineering and Mining Engineering.
The
Faculty offers a number of complementary courses and advanced postgraduate
Master degrees.
Engineering
and technology evolve rapidly. The Faculty therefore initiates and co-operates
in many continuing education projects with other universities and with
professional societies, also in an international context.
International
Dimension
The
Faculty has definitely gone international. The Faculty of Engineering at the K.U.Leuven is one of the founding members of CESAER, the
Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research.
The
Faculty is involved in joint projects with research centres and private
companies world-wide. Research is funded by regional, national and European
authorities and by private companies in
Student Life
The K.U.Leuven students are represented in most of the
university and Faculty advisory boards. Student associations are well-organised
and very active. The old streets of
For More Information :
contact the
secretariat : M.J. Geerts – Arenbergkasteel
– B-3001 Heverlee (
Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) ^
The "Université Catholique de Louvain", Louvain-la-Neuve,
and its Faculty of Engineering
In 1425 a university was founded in
In 1968, the University was separated into two universities : the French-speaking "Université
Catholique de Louvain"
and the Dutch-speaking "Katholieke Universiteit Leuven". During
the years 1972-1978, the Université Catholique de Louvain moved from
the old town of Louvain (Leuven)
to be re-established in the new town of Louvain-la-Neuve
at 30 km at the south-east of Brussels.
Louvain-la-Neuve is a unique example of a new town built in the 20th
century. It is largely pedestrian, designed with the objective of recreating
the atmosphere of the ancient medievial towns, where
the interactions between people are favoured by
reduced distances from home to work or to school.
The U.C.L. is now organised
into 10 faculties and has an enrollment of about 21 000 students, 4 200 of
which are foreign students representing all 5 continents. The Faculty of
Engineering has 1
700 students.
Engineering
Degree
The basic engineering curriculum at the Faculty of
Engineering consists of a five year programme of
study, each year being subdivided in
two semesters. Examinations are organized on a semester basis. The programme leads to the degree of "Ingénieur
civil", a title which is recognized and protected by Belgian law. The
degree is usually considered to be equivalent to the degree of Master of
Science and Engineering. These studies are only accessible to applicants who
successfully pass an entrance examination.
The first two years of the programme
are devoted mainly to a basic scientific training mainly including Mathematics,
Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Drawing, Projects and Humanities. These
two years are called "candidatures"; successful completion of the
final examinations leads to the diploma of "Candidat
Ingénieur Civil".
The two year programme of
basic scientific courses is followed by an additional three years of
engineering studies called the
"engineering years". When starting the engineering years, all
students must select a field of specialization. Available programmes
include Civil Engineering ; Mechanical Engineering ;
Architectural Engineering ; Electrical Engineering ; Materials
Engineering ; Processes Engineering ; Electromechanical Engineering ;
Mathematical Engineering and Informatics. In most of these main fields, several
sub-options are available.
For More Information :
Université
Catholique de Louvain - Faculté des Sciences Appliquée - Rue Archimède, 1
B-1348
Louvain-la-Neuve - Tél : 00 32 10 47 24 61 - Fax: 00
32 10 47 24 66 -Emailsecretaire@fsa.ucl.ac.be
HTTP://WWW.fsa.ucl.AC.BE
The Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), created in 1911, is the largest Portuguese
university in the area of engineering, science and technology. IST´s mission is to contribute to the development of
society by promoting a higher education of outstanding quality in the areas of
Engineering, Science and Technology, at the undergraduate and graduate levels,
and by carrying out the Research & Development activities which are
essential to ensure the highest standard of education.
The Mission of IST thus reflects the three activities
that define the concept of the research university :
Education, Research & Development, and Links with Society.
Within its principal
function, IST aspires to teach according to the expectancies of the
excellent students that IST wants to attract, and corresponding to the needs of
society in general and the productive tissue in particular. Teaching activities
include 19 undergraduate programmes (Aerospace
Engineering, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Biological Engineering,
Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Civil Engineering,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Environmental Engineering,
Industrial Engineering, Industrial
Engineering and Management, Information Science and Computer Engineering,
Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mining Engineering and Earth
Resources, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Physics Engineering,
Territorial Engineering) each one with a 5 years duration (10 semesters). There
are 23 Master’s Programmes, each with a duration of 1 year of course work and the elaboration of a
thesis, and, finally, there are several areas for doctorates, according to the
IST expertise. At the moment there are 10 000 students :
8 300 are undergraduates and 1700 post graduates.
Complementary to the teaching activities, R&D aims
at promoting the scientific knowledge and to contribute to development of
applied engineering and technology projects. Moreover, R&D is intended to
strengthen the quality of teaching excellence. R&D activities are carried
out, mainly, through the development of PhD’s. There are 11 departments at IST
(Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science, Materials Engineering, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Mining
Engineering, Physics, Informatics Engineering, Economics and Management, and
finally, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering) corresponding to broad
areas of R&D. This activity is funded through EC funds Portuguese industry and the Portuguese
governmental agency for R&D.
Links with society are reinforced through the development of
other complementary activities, such as vocational training, rendering of
services and consulting services.
IST has a teaching staff of 956, of whom, 570 have
doctorates. There are 622 non-teaching staff. IST campus has a total area of 84.000 m2.
For More Information :
Instituto
Superior Técnico - Adelino Galvao
GIRE - International Relations Office - Av. Rovisco Pais - 1049-001 Lisboa
Tel. + 351 21 8417685 - Fax + 351 21 8419280 - E.mail isabel@gire.ist.utl.pt
http://www.ist.utl.pt
Universidad Politecnica
de Madrid ^
(UPM)
Universidad Politécnica de
Madrid, UPM, is the technical
UPM has around 45.000 students, 3 500 faculty members,
and an annual budget of some 209 million Euros.
The University offers programmes
in Architecture, Forestry and Computer Science, as well as in the following
engineering fields (in alphabetical order): Aeronautics, Agronomy, Civil
Engineering, Environment Sciences, Industry, Geodesy and Cartography, Naval
Architecture, Science Materials, and Telecommunications. In
addition, PhD. programmes are offered in all of
the above mentioned fields.
International co-operation is one of the main goals of
UPM; therefore the University participates in numerous international
collaboration schemes both within and outside the European Union, such as
SOCRATES (ERASMUS, LEONARDO, LINGUA.) TEMPUS, ESPRIT, ALFA, INTERCAMPUS, VULCANUS, and others.
UPM has also signed a good number of bilateral
educational exchange agreements with similar universities in
Universidad Politécnica de
Madrid is also an active member in many international associations such as
CESAER, SEFI, EAIE, BEST, CRE, IAU, IEEE, and others.
For More Information :
www.upm.es or contact:
Prof. Marinela García Fernandez- Director for International Affairs,
Socrates, Co-ordinator
Avda. Ramiro de Maeztu nº
7 – 28040
Tel. : +34 91 336 6266/67 – Fax +34-91 336 61 68/6173-
E.Mail: Marinela@upm.es
POLITECNICO
DI MILANO^
The Politecnico di Milano is a University teaching technology supported by an
outstanding tradition and strongly committed to innovation.The
Politecnico di Milano was established in 1863 as a State university. It
consists of Schools (Facoltà) of Engineering,
Architecture and Industrial Design and it is Italy's largest institution in
terms of student population in these fields.
The number of
students enrolled in all Campuses is approximately 42000:
about 26000 in
the Colleges of Engineering, about 12000 in the college of Architecture and
4000 in Industrial Design.
The Politecnico di Milano is structured in a network of Schools spread over
the Lombardy region with a central administration and management. The Schools are housed in seven Campuses, two
of which located in Milan
(Leonardo
Campus and Bovisa Campus) and the others in
The educational
policy mainly consists in offering different curricula tailored to local needs
and to the industrial environment while integrated in a coordinated educational
system which enables student mobility within the network.
As of the
academic year 2000/01, according to the new Italian law the Politecnico
di Milano has started
implementing the Bologna Process with the 3+2-year system.
The Politecnico di Milano offers 29 different Bachelor (Laurea),
25 Master of Science (Laurea Specialistica)
and 30 Doctor of Philosophy programmes. As far as
research is concerned, state-of-the-art laboratories are located
in the 18 Departments, with extensive on-site computer
facilities.
For More Information : www.polimi.it or contact:
Prof. Giancarlo Spinelli
Tel. +39 (0)2 23992309
fax. +39 (0)2
23992399
e-mail: giaspi@mate.polimi.it
"...
to teach the exact sciences and their applications in all branches of higher
technology … [and] … to pass on the vital spark of science to the industrial
world."
Carl Max von Bauernfeind, Director of the Royal Polytechnic School of
Munich in the inaugural lecture on
The TUM can trace its actual
origins to the independent '
The TUM has produced a large
number of leading scientists and engineers. The liquefaction of air by Carl von
Linde (1895), the invention of the diesel engine by
his student Rudolf Diesel (1897), the discovery of the structure of hemoglobin by Hans Fischer (1930 Nobel Prize for
Chemistry), the discovery of recoil-free gamma-ray resonance absorption by
Rudolf Mößbauer (1961 Nobel Prize for Physics), and
the establishment of organometallic chemistry as a
field of science by Ernst Otto Fischer (1973 Nobel Prize for Chemistry) stand
for a large number of pioneering inventions and discoveries made at the TUM.
Today the TUM is divided into
12 faculties with 480 professors (of which 250 are chair holders at the
university and in the teaching clinics) 9.500 employees and approximately
20.000 students. The core university areas, namely the Faculties of
Architecture; Civil Engineering and Surveying; Electrical Engineering and
Information Technology; Economic and Social Sciences; Medicine; and Sports
Science, are all situated at the Main Campus in Munich, the location of the
University Management and central administration offices. Freising,
a town 30 kilometers north-east of Munich, is the
location of the Weihenstephan Campus and the Center of Life and Food Sciences, which in turn is home to
seven research departments (Basic Biosciences; Plant Sciences; Animal Sciences;
Ecology; Ecosystem and Landscape Management; Food and Nutrition; Biogenic
Products and Technology of Land Use) and six teaching departments (Bio
Sciences; Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences; Forestry Science and
Resource Management; Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning; Nutritional
Science and Ecotrophology, and Brewing and Food
Technology). The TUM also operates a research campus in Garching,
a town on the north-east outskirts of
In order to open TUM for more
international students, various TUM faculties have introduced English taught
bachelor's and master's courses, whereby one example concerns the Master's
Program in Industrial Chemistry offered by Singapore's German Institute of
Science and Technology, which is run by a TUM subsidiary.
For more Information: http://www.tum.de
Czech Technical University in Prague is the oldest technical university in Central
Europe (founded in 1707) and the largest such University in the Czech
Republic (over 20 000 students).
Other important dates in the history of the University are 1803, when the
studies were reformed on the model of the Ecole Polytechique de Paris; 1869, when the formerly bilingual
University was divided into separate Czech and German institutions; 1920, when
the Czech Technical University in Prague was formed, and 1989, when the
so-called velvet revolution led the University back into close contact with
western Europe.
The university
has six faculties: Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering,
Electrical Engineering, Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering,
Architecture, and Transportation Sciences. There are also a number of
institutes and a Business and Innovation Centre.
Traditionally students take an 11 or 12 semester
full-time study programme leading to the Inzenyr (Ing.) diploma,
equivalent to a Master’s degree. There are at present over 1 500 students
working on PhD programmes.
Some Bachelor programmes have been
established in the last 12 years, and the university is now going over to the Bachelor - Master - PhD system.
The European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) is in use at all faculties.
After the period of isolation (1938 – 1989) the
University has engaged enthusiastically in international activities, which it
regards as a source of a wide range of positive influences. In general, the
University is happy to join in with all efforts to harmonize European and international
education and to remove barriers to international cooperation in education and
research.
For more
information:
http://www.cvut.cz/
International Office: http://www.cvut.cz/international.html
Ecole
Nationale du Génie Rural des Eaux et des Forêts (ENGREF) ^
Areas
of Expertise in Education Training
- Forestry : Since 1824, ENGREF has developped traditional skills for Production Forestry, such
as Forest Management; Silviculture of Indigenous and
Exotic Species; Forest Ecosystem Studies; Forest Protection; Forestry Economics
and Marketing.
New technologies and concepts are concerned :
growth; modelling; advanced wood technologies;
genetics; forest ecology; forest conservation; landscape planning; natural
resource management and forest planning.
Tropical and mediterranean
forestry : integrated rural development; agroforestry; rural economics and land planning of tropical
countries. Tropical forest sciences and ecosystem research are developed at the
Kourou centre in French Guyana.
- Water Management : One of the major competences of ENGREF. It includes
irrigation; drainage; river flow control; watershed management; water supply
and sanitation. This programme relies on disciplines
such as Hydrology; Special Data Bases and Management; watershed equipment.
Water Management nowadays means mastering
hydraulic multicriteria analysis, regulation on water
transfer, pollution sanitation ; and socio economics
applied to projects.
- Land Planning and Public Policy
: ENGREF has developped a competence in Land Planning and in the
Evaluation of Public Policy Impact on Rural Areas. Integrated Environnment concerns Agricultural Development and Land
Planning. These are three areas which work in synergy for linking answers to
social demands.
Emphasis is given to the study of the consistency
between public policies at local, national and European levels.
For More Information : www.engref.fr
The
Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées ^
(ENPC)
The corps of
Engineers of Ponts et Chaussées (Bridges and Roads) was created in 1716. In 1747
the Royal Council issued a decree setting up a specific training programme for State Engineers which was entrusted to Jean-Rodolphe Perronet. In 1997, the Ecole des Ponts celebrated its
250th anniversary.
During the XVIIIth century, teaching was carried out by the most
outstanding students in the Institute who took their fellow students in hand
and passed on to them their knowledge and skills. After the French Revolution,
the Institute built up a teaching faculty and adapted its curriculum and
teaching methods to the latest developments in science and technology. Its
doors were open to new categories of students, including non-civil servants and
foreigners. Among its graduates from this period are famous scholars and
engineers such as Cauchy and Navier and later Fresnel, Becquerel and Bienvenue;
all of them helped contribute to the remarkable advances made in France during
this period in transport and infrastructure networks.
During the 1980’s
and 90’s changes in the curriculum have given students more choices : in
addition to the traditional courses in
Civil Engineering, Town Planning and Regional Development, students also have the possibility of choosing options in related
fields such as Industrial Engineering, Computer Science Environmental Studies,
and Economics. Students also do a
wide range of practical training periods in government and industry, which
provide them with professional experience and open the path to a wide variety
of careers : graduates from the Ecole des Ponts can be found in all major areas of the economic
sector : Construction and Building, Town Planning, Scientific Research,
Production and Management, Finance and Banking.
The Ecole des Ponts has 10 research laboratories, 10 «Mastere »
degrees, 14 doctoral programmes and awards 50 Ph.D degrees each year. The ENPC has extensive relations
with foreign universities and institutes, including joint degree programmes with several European higher educational
establishments. During Academic year 2001-2002, there were 311 foreign
students studying at ENPC, representing some 64 countries.
For more Information :http://www.enpc.fr
L’Ecole Nationale
Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers ^
(ENSAM)
ENSAM was founded
in 1780 by Duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt.
It is a public higher-education institution where
1 000 engineers
graduate each year, in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering.
A Multi-Site National
Institution
8 centres : Aix-en-Provence,
Angers, Bordeaux, Châlons-en-Champagne, Cluny, Lille,
Metz, Paris ; 1 post-graduate institution : Chambéry
Major Fields of Study
Product
Development, Materials, Processes, Machine Design, Methods and Industrial Systems
7 Departments
Mechanics and
Structures / Materials / Energetics / Computer
Science and Mathematics / Control Theory, Electronics, Electrotechniques
/ Production, Industrial Engineering / Foreign Languages, Human and Social
Sciences, Sport
Engineering Programme
3 000 students with : 200 foreign students, 1 000 Engineering degrees
awarded annually; 150 students abroad
for one or two semesters per year
Double-Degree Programmes : (Franco-German; Franco-Spanish-Portuguese partner
universities).
Study and
Research
620
administrative and technical staff; 380 full-time teaching staff; 250 full-time
research staff
240 doctoral students; 50 Ph.D's
awarded each year
17 research
laboratories, 7 of them are associated with the (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS)
7 research teams
10 specialized
post-graduate programmes of study
: predoctoral studies (DEA)
For More Information :
http://www.ensam.fr
Ecole
Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris ^
(ENSCP)
ENSCP was founded
in 1896 by Charles FRIEDEL and Henri MOISSAN (Nobel Prize for Chemistry in
1906) and is one of the leading French “Grande Ecole”
in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. It is also a renowned research centre
where basic and applied research cover the following areas :
- Organic Synthesis and
Biotechnology
- Energetics
and Chemical Engineering
- Stucture and Properties of Matter, Material Sciences
The Engineering
Programmes of Study are Multidisciplinary and
Organized in Five Departments :
- Structure and Properties of Matter
- Energetics,
Transformation of Matter and Chemical Engineering
- Organic and Bio-Organic Chemistry
and Polymers
- Mathematics and Computor Sciences
- Management, Languages and
Communication
Students at ENSCP
receive their degree after five years of studies, following the French
secondary school “Baccalauréat”. In the final year
they undertake a personal research project, “microthesis”.
25% of the students do this thesis in foreign laboratoires,
mainly in Europe, the USA and Canada. The research programme
during this last year can also lead to the granting of a predoctoral
diploma (DEA), thus enabling students to prepare a doctoral degree. More than
one third of the ENSCP’s engineer-graduates receive
their doctorate (often abroad).
ENSCP has a total
of 220 students and a research and administrative staff of 300, of which, 90
are Ph.D students.
For More Information :
http://www.enscp.jussieu.fr/
Ecole
Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris ^
(ENSMP)
Founded in 1783
by the King Louis XVI, and located since 1816 in the
Several programmes of study
are proposed to students :
The Engineering Degree Programme
(five years of study) : 120 degrees / year.
Other Post-Graduate Specialized Programmes : 100 degrees / year
-The
"Ingénieurs du Corps des Mines" Programme
-Institut Supérieur d’Informatique et d’Automatique
-The "Mastère" programmes : 12 months of professionally-oriented study offered to
students who have completed their fifth year of higher education.
The Doctoral programme : 100 degrees / year
-DEA : a year (of predoctoral) study
-Doctoral Degree : three years of research.
The Ecole des Mines de Paris
has 17 research centres working in 5 areas :
-Earth and
Environmental Sciences
-Process
Engineering and Energetics
-Materials
Science and Engineering
-Applied
Mathematics, Computer Science, Robotics, Systems and Control
-Social and
Economic Sciences.
For More Information : http//www.ensmp.fr
Ecole Nationale
Supérieure des Télécommunications ^
(ENST)
ENST was
created in 1878 as the
Ecole Supérieure de Télégraphie; in 1934 , the Institute received
its current offical name, the
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications. Today, ENST is recognized as the leading Grande Ecole in the area of the Sciences and Techniques of
Telecommunications and their Management. Digital and Optical Communications
; Electronics ; Computer Science ; Networks ; Signals and Systems ;
Image Processing...are among the ENST research and teaching domains.
Three programmes of study
are proposed to students :
-The Engineering Degree Programme : 5 years of study following the French secondary
school "Baccalauréat" (concerns 650
students).
-The « Mastère » Programme : 12 months of study in Telecommunications related
areas offered to students who have completed their fifth year of higher
education (concerns 70 students).
-The Doctoral Programme : 3 years of
research in a state of the art Telecommunications domaine
(200 students).
ENST is also
associated with 12 DEA programmes, one-year predoctoral studies, (concerns about 360 students of which
10% come from the ENST).
The Institute is
administered by a Director, assisted by a team of advisors.
Four Scientific Departments and a Department of
Languages and Cultures assure the teaching and research activities. Total scientific staff numbers :
128 with, in addition , an administrative staff of 156.
For years ENST
has followed a
policy promoting international relations :
Today, 26% of the ENST
students following one of the three degree programmes,
come from another country. In addition,
each year over 130 foreign students spend 3-12 months doing research in ENST
laboratories and some 20
professors from around the
world carry out sabbatical periods with
ENST departments.
For More Information : http://www.enst.fr
Ecole Nationale
Supérieure de Techniques Avancées ^
(ENSTA)
One of the
leading French ‘Grandes Ecoles’,
ENSTA - (National Engineering Institute for Advanced Technologies) trains highly qualified engineers with a
global knowledge. Their background enables them to design, build and manage
complex industrial systems.
The Institute’s
specific profile lies in high technology. ENSTA graduates work in a vast array
of branches, ranging from the Automobile Industry to Petroleum, Information
Technology and Electronics ; Engineering ; Transport ;
Shipbuilding and even Financial Services. Their functions range from R&D to
Industrial Production and Management engineers. Many of them evolve in the
course of their career from technical tasks to high-level management functions.
About 160
students graduate every year. The engineering programme
lasts for 3 years. It combines a broad scientific core, specialized technical
areas and general courses (such as Communication, Economics, Finance, Law and
two foreign languages) as well as a part-time research project and various
internships with companies.
Teaching is done
by researchers from ENSTA’s five Research
Laboratories (Mechanics, Electronics and Computer Science, Chemical
Engineering, Optics and Physics, Applied Mathematics) as well as by some 1 000
engineers from industry.
For More Information :
www.ensta.fr
Ecole Supérieure de
Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI)
^
__________________________________________________
This institution, established in 1882, belongs to the
city of Paris.
ESPCI has one objective : to
train polyvalent engineers in all fields of Physics and Chemistry.
As a consequence, a specific feature of the programme is the integration of research and education for
industrial research. All the students follow courses in Physics. Chemistry and Biology, as well as Mathematics, Computer Science and
Foreign Languages. They have daily contact with experimental science
and, during, the first three years, 15 hours per week are spent in research
laboratories. During the third year, a four-month industrial internship is
required of all students. The last year is devoted to research at an Msc. level. The educational
system is original among French institutions and includes tutorials for each course ; each group of four students receives guidance and
advice from a tutor. In addition, there is an excellent faculty to student ratio : more than 60 teaching professors with only 72
students per class per year.
For years, ESPCI has achieved a world-wide reputation
in research, testified by its six Nobel
Prize winners, going from Pierre and Marie Curie to Pierre-Gilles de Gennes and Georges Charpak.
Presently, there are 18 research
laboratories with over 250 researchers including 40 foreign researchers. A wide variety of research topics are developed in the areas covering
Physics, Chemistry and, more recently, Biology. These topics deal with both basic and applied research, leading
to collaborative activities with various university laboratories as with French
and foreign firms. Each year more than 20 doctoral theses are defended and over
40 national and foreign patents are
obtained.
For More Information : http ://www/espci.fr
INAPG, a public institute of Higher Education and Research,
(under the aegesis of the Ministry of Agriculture and
Fisheries) is one of the select French "Grandes Ecoles". The
Institute results from a merger, in 1971, of the prestigious Institut National Agronomique in
Paris (1876) and the Ecole Nationale
Supérieure Agronomique de Grignon.
INAPG trains high-level engineers and executives in
the fields of Agriculture and Food Sciences, Biology, Environment, and
Services, and also awards doctorates. The Institute is involved in research in
association with teams from national research institutes (INRA, CNRS,
CEMAGREF...) and French universities in technology transfer, and in
international cooperation. INAPG has strong ties with industry through research
programmes, consultancy, apprenticeship, and through
professional training schemes.
INAP-G in Brief
Two sites :
Paris and Grignon; 40 000
square metres of teaching, research and
administrative facilities; 950 ha of experimental farms;
130 researchers from National Institutes, mainly INRA;
1 200 students including doctoral candidates; 150
teaching-researchers.
Six departments
for education and research, with a
permanent staff of 470 : 1. Agronomy
and Environment (staff 105) - 2. Animal Sciences (67)
- 3. Biology (73) - 4. Organization
and Modelling of Information and Processes (27) - 5.
Economic and Social Sciences (41) - 6. Food and
Biological Science and Industry (157)
For more information : http :/www.inapg.inra.fr/
Norwegian
(Norges
Teknisk- Naturvitenskaplige Universitet ; NTNU)
Introduction
NTNU was
established on
Location :
NTNU is located in Trondheim, Norway’s third largest
city, in the Troendelag region of
Number of Students :
18
000. NTNU is
International
Exchange Students/Guest students 2001-2002 : 1000
Study Areas :
As of January, 1996,
NTNU is organized into the following Faculties:
|
Architecture,
Planning and Fine Arts Civil and
Environmental Engineering Electrical
Engineering and Telecommunications Physics,
Informatics and Mathematics Applied Earth
Sciences and Petroleum Engineering Chemistry
and Biology |
Marine
Technology Mechanical
Engineering Humanities Social Sciences
and Technology Management Medicine |
Exchange Programmes :
NTNU participates
in exchanges through the NORDPLUS and SOCRATES/ERASMUS Programmes.
Several Leonardo placement projects are coordinated from
For More Information :
WEB address :
http://www.ntnu.no/intersek/.
For further
details please contact the International Office :
NTNU - International
Office - Hoegskoleringen 1 - N-7034 Trondheim
Fax : +47 73595210 - Tel : +47 73595700 - Email: international@adm.ntnu .no
Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien)
The Vienna University of Technology (VUT) was
established in 1815 as k.k. Polytechnic Institute and
received its university status in 1975.
It has always been a concern of the VUT to position
itself amongst the top-ranking universities both on national and international level
by means of the most up to date curricula and practice oriented teaching and
research.
Teaching at the VUT is characterised particularly by
imparting a broad fundamental knowledge combined with the option of acquiring
specialist knowledge in different fields.
The VUT puts very much emphasis on the linkage between
theory and practice, which manifests itself by continuous participation of
students in research programmes.
VUT at a glance:
Faculties:
Architecture and Regional Planning
Civil Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
Computer Sciences
Technical Chemistry
Technical Mathemathics and Geoinformation
Technical Physics
Fields of Study:
Diploma-Studies (5 years):
Architecture, Regional Planning, Civil Engineering, Mechanical
Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Process and Chemical Engineering,
Technical Mathematics, Technical Physics, Technical Chemistry, Surveying and
Geo-Information, Secondary School Teacher Accreditation
Bachelor-Studies and Master Studies (3 + 2 years):
Actuarial Mathematics, Business Computing, Data Engineering &
Statistics, Media-Informatics, Medical Informatics, Software and Information
Engineering, Technical Informatics, Power Engineering, Automation Engineering,
Telecommunications, Computer Engineering, Microelectronics
Doctoral Studies (2 years)
Students: 18.931 (19% foreigners)
Graduates (per year): 860
Teachers/Researchers (full time): 1.065
Departments/Institutes: 87
Location:
Home Page: www.tuwien.ac.at