École nationale supérieure de techniques avancées

The École nationale supérieure de techniques avancées (National Higher School of Advanced Techniques), also known as ENSTA, is a French "grande école" in engineering. It is a member of ParisTech (Paris Institute of Technology).

It is located in Paris, in the former premises of SUPAERO; it has an annex in Palaiseau (coord|48.708345|2.222099), next to École polytechnique.

Every year about 150 engineers graduate from it.

ENSTA offers its students general engineering training with the aim of enabling them to design, produce and oversee complex industrial systems, while meeting strict economic constraints and dealing with an international environment. To do this, the School provides high-level scientific and technological training, which is frequently updated to keep pace with changes in the leading edge technologies and supplemented by language, general culture, law and economics teaching.

The teaching is given by research professors at ENSTA with the participation of numerous auxiliary teachers from the economic and industrial world familiar with the latest technical developments in a wide variety of fields.

Research, which is one of the School's primary missions, makes a dynamic contribution in both the fundamental and applied fields, to the School's pedagogical project and to meeting the needs of business. Half is the responsibility of the School's research professors, and the other half is carried out by researchers from the CNRS, the INSERM and the École polytechnique working in ENSTA's premises.

The general nature of the training given enables ENSTA graduates to find a career in a large number of sectors such as the automotive or naval industry, networks and telecommunications, space propulsion, robotics, oceanology and the environment. Most of the ENSTA graduate engineers are much sought-after by companies and generally find their first job in R&D departments and design offices, rapidly moving towards supervisory and project management posts.

ENSTA is a public teaching and research establishment operating under the supervision of the Ministry of Defence. It is headed by a general weaponry engineer (DGA). Some former graduates of "École polytechnique" attend ENSTA before joining the military corps of weaponry engineers, which staffs the DGA.

Key figures

*Training
**135 engineering degrees awarded in 2004
**9 “Mastère” specialist course degrees in information system architectures
**8 “Mastère” specialist course degrees in Naval Architecture

*Student numbers
**458 students (excluding doctoral research students)
**83 foreign students, accounting for 18% of student numbers

*Courses available
**343 courses
**31 law, economics, management courses
**24 culture and communication seminars
**9 languages taught

*The teachers
**100 full-time research professors
**More than 650 auxiliary teachers

*International relations
**41 exchange and partnership agreements with foreign universities
**7 double-degree agreements

*Research
**About sixty doctoral research students in 2004
**About a hundred publications in reading committee reviews in 2004

External links

* http://www.ensta.fr/