École nationale supérieure des télécommunications de Bretagne

infobox University
name = Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne


motto = "A prestigious graduate engineering school and international research centre in the field of information technologies"
established = 1977
city = Brest
campus= Brest, Rennes
country = France
type = French Grande Ecole
president = André Chomette
staff= 288 (2005)
students = 1,084 (2005)
undergrad= 804 (2005)
postgrad= 280 (2005)
doctoral= 185 (2005)
profess= 46 (2005)
affiliations=
website = http://www.enst-bretagne.fr

The École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne (ENST Bretagne, sometimes known as Télécom Bretagne or even Télécom Brest) is a French research centre and high level training institution in Information Technologies and telecommunications. This "grande école" of engineering is located near Brest in Brittany.

Member of Groupe des Écoles des Télécommunications (GET, literally "Group of Schools of Telecommunication"), it has two campuses:
* Plouzané, in the Technopôle Brest-Iroise, near Brest (France);
* Campus de Beaulieu, in Rennes (France).

The ENST Bretagne has been the source of breakthroughs in the world of telecommunications, notably the turbo codes (first published in Proc. IEEE ICC'93) used extensively in 3G mobile telephony standards.

History

* 1974: Pierre Lelong - Secretary of State for the PTT (literally "Postal Telegraph and Telephone") - decides to establish a second school of telecommunications that will be located in the Brest area.
* 1977: Creation of ENST Bretagne in Brest. Admission of the first student body which counts 31 students.
* 1986: Creation of the Rennes site.
* 1997: Creation of the Groupe des Écoles des Télécommunications (GET).
* 2008: Renamed to Telecom Bretagne.

Curriculum

For students admitted in "formation initiale" (FI, literally "initial formation"), the curriculum takes 3 years and deals with six main domains in 1^st and 2^nd year:
* Mathematics and signal processing
* Electronics and physics
* Computer science
* Networks
* Economy and social sciences
* Languages and intercultural dimension

and 4 options in 3^rd year :
* Engineering and system integration
* Software systems et networks
* Services and business engineering
* Information processing systems.

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Admission

Illustrious Alumni

ee also

* École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Paris
* Telecom INT

External links

* [http://www.enst-bretagne.fr Official site]
* [http://www-eleves.enst-bretagne.fr Students' web pages]
* [http://www.aitb.org Alumni Association]
* [http://www.gertelecom.fr Junior Entreprise]