École Supérieure d'Électricité
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| Motto | A Grande Ecole of engineering in the forefront of energy and information science |
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| Established | 1894 |
| Type | French Grande Ecole |
| President | Alain Bravo |
| Staff | 145 |
| Students | 2,770 |
| Undergraduates | 1,500 |
| Postgraduates | 1,100 |
| Doctoral students | 170 |
| Professional students | 130 |
| Location | Gif Sur Yvette, France |
| Campus | Gif, Metz, Rennes |
| Affiliations | 90 |
| Website | http://www.supelec.fr |
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[edit] What is Supélec?
Supélec, short for "Ecole Supérieur d'Electricité" is one of French's prestigious Grandes Écoles, one of the top in its field of electrical and computer engineering. Supélec was founded in Paris in 1894. Today the school is organised in a three-campus network, located in Gif-sur-Yvette on the outskirts of Paris, Rennes in Brittany and Metz in Lorraine. The school has 3 main missions : initial training of engineers, research and development, and professional training. 
[edit] History
In the 1994/1995 academic year, Supélec celebrated the hundredth anniversary of its creation, celebrating a century in the course of which electricity has become the key vector for the transmission of energy and information. It was also the commemoration of two centuries of scientific and technical research when physicists and engineers continued the work which commenced with the formulation of the first laws of electrostatics and magnetostatics.
In legal terms, Supélec is a private institution insofar as it belongs to the SEE, the learned society which created it. In 1987, the Supélec Association was formed - an association governed by the French law of 1901- which was granted permission to administer the school by the SEE and which also gave official status to the shortened version of the school’s name. By virtue of an agreement between the Supélec association and the public authorities, the school benefits from the support of the French Ministry responsible for higher education, and the Ministry of Industry, which gives it a status equivalent to that of publicly-funded establishments. These two ministries together accounte for almost one half of the school’s overall budget.
[edit] What is the Supélec degree in engineering ?
Engineering students are selected according to one single criterion - the quality of the applicants. Entry to Supélec requires two years of intensive university-level studies in Classes Préparatoires and a high rank in the highly selective Centrale-Supélec national entrance examination. The majority of students are admitted through this procedure. After two years of higher education in Classes Préparatoires students have a solid scientific background. The following three years at Supélec provide them with a real engineering culture. The students graduate with the "Diplôme d'Ingénieur de l'Ecole d'Electricité" having gained high level skills in the scientific, technical, technological, economic, organizational and strategic aspects of the profession. This degree is their passport to work in all domains of research and industry. The curriculum is similar to those offered at other French Grandes Ecoles, such as Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole des Mines de Paris, Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées or École Centrale Paris.
[edit] Curriculum
The first and second year educational program aims at:
- Enlarging and deepening scientific culture indispensable for the mastery of technical evolution
- Acquiring all of the knowledge necessary in the fields of information sciences and electric energy sciences: electronics, electrical engineering and power electronics, automatics, computer science, communications techniques, information systems, signal processing, components
- Preparing of engineering students for life in the enterprise within the context of globalisation: economics, financial management, law, project management, communication, international culture, as well as a solid training in foreign languages
It includes:
- Core curriculum modules, compulsory for all students
- Elective education modules in the fields of science, culture, or knowledge of the enterprise
- Projects
- Foreign language modules
- Sports and physical activities modules
The third year at Supélec offers fourteen different options, divided among the School’s five main fields: computer science, telecommunications, signal processing and electronics, electronic engineering, and automatics. Students attending Supélec since the first year may perform their last year of studies in a foreign university within the framework of the exchange program. Agreements exist with numerous American (Massachusetts Institute of Technology for example) , Australian (University of Sydney), Canadian (École Polytechnique de Montréal), Japanese (University of Tokyo), or European (Imperial College London) universities. In most cases, in return for a prolonged schooling, the student may also receive the diploma of the host university.
[edit] Famous Supélec engineers
Name (graduation year)
- Louis Charles Breguet, aeronautics manufacturer , one of the founders of Air France
- Rene Leduc, pioneer of the ramjet
- Rene Barthelemy (1910), pioneer of television
- Pierre Bézier (1931), mathematician, physicist
- Pierre Boulle (1933), writer, scenario writer "The Bridge on the River Kwai" and "Planet of the Apes"
- Maurice Lebourg (1933), inventor
- Beuillac Christian (1949), Minister
- Jean-Luc Lagardere (1951), Industrialist, Founder of the Largardère Group, shareholder of EADS.
- Philippe Morillon (1964) General of Army corps (4 stars), Ordering forces armed with UNO in ex-Yugoslavia (FORPRONU), appointed European
- Thierry Breton (1979), current Minister of Economics, finances and industry.
- Jean Pisani-Ferry (1973), economist, essay writer, professor at Ecole Polytechnique and Dauphine
[edit] Current industrialists and chairmen
- Bernard Dufau (1964), chairman of IBM France
- Roger Haddad (1966), chairman of Kxen
- Pierre Saubot (1966), chairman of Pinguely-Haulotte
- Andre Merlin (1967), chairman of RTE
- Bernard Vergnes (1968), former chairman of Microsoft Europe
- Roland Natalini (1971), chairman de Nexans (Alcatel Cables)
- Jacques Mahul (1972), chairman of Focal JM Lab
- Jean-Pierre Giannini (1976), deputy manager “nuclear weapons” of the Atomic Energy Commission
- Joel Karecki (1976), directing corporate strategy of Schneider Electric
- Herve Yahi (1979), chairman of Virtools, (former vice president de Bull SI&S)
- Laurent Schwartz (1980), cofounder and DG of Alten
- Bertrand Meis (1981), chairman of Meis, former chairman of King Products
- Laurent Fonnet (1982), directing general Monte Carlo TV
- Patrick Starck (1983), chairman of Hewlett Packard France
- Philippe Oros (1984), chairman and founder of QuesCom
- Jean-baptiste Rudelle (1991), chairman of Criteo, founder of Kiwee
- Nicolas Boutet (1993), chairman of NBD Net
- Stephan Morvillez (1998), chairman of Aedian Information system
- Michel Mayer (1981), current chairman of Freescale.
- Robert Malher (1972), chairman of France Alstom
