École polytechnique de l'université de Nantes

Infobox University
name = École polytechnique de l'université de Nantes


type = Grande école
director = Jean-Michel SIWAK
students = 1,250 ("2007")
staff = 165 ("2007")
undergrad =
established = January 2000
postgrad =
doctoral =
city = Nantes and Saint-Nazaire
country = France
telephone = [phone]
address = Polytech'Nantes La Chantrerie Rue Christian Pauc BP 50609 44306 NANTES CEDEX 3 France
campus = multiple campuses
former_names = IRESTE, ISITEM & ESA IGELEC
website = [http://www.univ-nantes.fr/jsp/fiche_pagelibre.jsp?&CODE=73426073&LANGUE=1 Official website in English]
affiliations = University of Nantes, "Polytech group", Conférence des Grandes Ecoles

École polytechnique de l'université de Nantes (also known as Polytech'Nantes) is a French "Grande École" — a graduate school of engineering — which provides curricula and run research programmes in a variety of scientific and technological fields:
* electrical engineering
* electronic systems and computer engineering
* computer science
* thermal sciences
* material sciences.

General information

It is located on two distinct campuses:
* "La Chantrerie" coord|47|16|59.16|N|1|30|51.16|W|region:FR_type:edu|name=La Chantrerie Campus in the city of Nantes
* "Gavy" coord|47|15|2.11|N|2|15|29.07|W|region:FR_type:edu|name=Gavy Campus in the city of Saint-Nazaire

The school was created in January 2000 through the fusion of three existing engineering schools: ESA-IGELEC, IRESTE, and ISITEM.

Affiliations

Polytech'Nantes is a department of the University of Nantes and a member of the "Polytech group" which is a network of 11 graduate engineering schools within France's leading science universities located in Marseille, Nantes, Montpellier, Nice, Grenoble, Paris, Chambéry, Clermont-Ferrand, Orléans, Tours and Lille.

A recent report has ranked Polytech'Nantes in 77th position among 140 French "Grandes écoles" with respect to the professional integration of its graduates. [ [http://www.challenges.fr/classement.php?art=5 "2007: The engineering Grandes écoles ranking" (in French)] . "Challenges.fr". Retrieved on 2007-06-26.]

References

ee also

Polytech'Paris-UPMC

External links

* [http://www.univ-nantes.fr/jsp/fiche_pagelibre.jsp?&CODE=73426073&LANGUE=1 Polytech'Nantes official website]
* [http://www.polytech.univ-nantes.fr/ Polytech'Nantes official website in French]
* [http://www.polytech-group.org "Polytech group" official website]
* [http://www.cge.asso.fr/cadre_pres_en.html "Conférence des Grandes Ecoles" official website]
* [http://bde.polytech.univ-nantes.fr/cms/ Student union website in French]