3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the mines of Paris

The 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the mines of Paris (also School of the mines of Paris , or simply Mines Paris ) was founded the March 19th 1783 on ordinance of the king Louis XVI, with an intelligent aim of forming directing for the mines of the kingdom. It is one of most famous the schools of French engineers .

At the time of its foundation, the exploitation of the mines was the industry of high technology par excellence, where all kinds of problems going of the safety of the minors to economic management were found, or even of the geopolitical stakes. The competences developed by the School are thus right from the start very diverse, and the School knew to evolve/move during time to become a school today known as general practitioner with transverse and multi-field component.

History

Created by stop of the Council of the king of March 19th 1783, the first school of the mines is established with the mint of Paris.

Disappeared in 1791 in the revolutionary upheaval, then reconstituted by a decree of the Committee of public Hello the 13 messidor year II (1794), it was transported in Savoy, at this time Frenchwoman, after the decree of the consuls of the 23 pluviôse year X (1802).

After the events of 1814, the School was definitively reconstituted in Paris, by the ordinance of December 6th 1816, and was established with the Hôtel of Vendôme, skirting the Jardin of Luxembourg, site which it occupies still today.

In 1967 the School extended to Fontainebleau, and Évry, then in 1976 in the technological park of Sophia Antipolis.

The currency of the school is “theory and practical”.

Course

The École des Mines of Paris propose the following courses:

  • the cycle civil engineer, preparing with the diploma for the occupation of engineer of the school
  • the formation of the engineers of the body of the mines
  • the doctoral school
  • the Mastères specialized

Cycle civil engineer

The School of the mines of Paris trains engineers high level general practitioners called to occupy of the functions of responsibility in multiple fields, like the production, the research and the development, management, and in very diversified branches of activity. Teaching corresponds to this requirement of versatility and results in some main aims: to ensure a solid common scientific culture in the fundamental disciplines, to allow the pupils to look further into a field of their choice, to give a paramount place to the observation and the application, to develop the spirit to undertake.

For that, the course associates with teaching important periods of training courses, fact call to the scientific potential of the research centres, provides to the students an individualized teaching framing, and associates the actors of the economic life as often as possible.

Admission

The main part of manpower of the cycle civil engineer is recruited on contest after the Preparatory classes at the universities. The principal access road is the common Concours Mine-Bridges (die of preparatory classes MP, PSI, PC, Pt, TSI). Some academics as well as an important quota foreign pupils integrate also the cycle in second year.

The recruitment of the Corps of the Mines is carried out by classification at the exit of the Polytechnic school. Some places are also allotted on contest specific to the exit of the National university and the School of the mines of Paris (civil cycle).

The recruitment of the Mastères specialized is carried out on file and maintenance.

Opening towards the international one

The cycle civil engineer has a strong component of internationalization:

  • the pupils of the School have the possibility of carrying out one six-month period of their schooling in foreign universities of the more high level (Massachusetts Institute off Technology (MIT), Caltech, University off Hong-Kong, NAKED…)
  • the training course engineer is carried out abroad (52,3% of the pupils out of Europe)
  • about fifteen foreign pupils coming from centers partners (Chinese universities, UPC, UPM, MIT…) integrate promotion in second year for a program of Double diploma

Library

History

The library is created in 1783 in order to make it possible to the pupils to enjoy a practical documentation. Choices in the literary deposits make it possible to enrich it during the Révolution, with a strict documentary policy: only the books useful for the pupils and the professors are retained.

The funds of parallel to constitute the emergence of sciences like mineralogy or geology. The funds old is also marked by the documents in foreign language, particularly in German, country where initially these sciences develop.

The funds grow rich at the 19th century, by purchases, gifts, legacy, but also by exchanges with learned societies which are constituted then, always in connection with the development of sciences and the school. It acts in the beginning of a bottom primarily teaching, and nonpatrimonial, which makes it possible to follow the evolutions of teaching. The funds thus raise more economic aspect (even social, with an opening towards the Saint-simonisme) of the mines that technical side - rather taught in the small mines of Ales or Douai.

A new room of reading is inaugurated in 1926 by the marshal Foch, at the time of the handing-over of the Military Cross at the school.

The library today

It is located today on two sites, in Paris and Fontainebleau (collection of sciences of the ground). August 1st

Famous former students (alphabetical order)

Research centres

Energetics, genius of the processes, materials

  • Center of energy and proceeded
  • Center of Materials
  • Center of working of the materials
  • Laboratory of mechanics of the solids

Mathematics Applied, Data processing, Automatic

  • mathematical Morphology
  • Robot-like
  • Géostatistique
  • Research in Automatic data processing
  • and Mathematical systems
  • applied

Sciences of the Earth and the Environment

  • Center of geology of the Engineer
  • geological Center of data processing
  • Center of geotechnics and Exploitation of the Basement
  • Center of geophysics

Economic scenes and Social

  • Industrial Economy
  • scientific Management, Cindyniques
  • Sociology of the innovation

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