École Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et des Microtechniques

The École Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et des Microtechniques (ENSMM) is one of the French "Grandes Écoles" of Engineering (Equivalent Institute of Technology). It belongs to the Polyméca network.

History

The school was created in 1902 by the Université de Franche-Comté under the name of "Laboratoire de Chronométrie". In 1961, it became the "École nationale supérieure de chronométrie et micromécanique" (ENSCM).

Location

It is located in the city of Besançon in the East of France (4 hours from Paris, 2 hours and a half from Strasbourg and 2 hours and a half from Lyon).

Formation

Study in France

The school educates every year 750 engineers in 5 areas:

* Materials science
* Mechatronic
* Mechanics
* Micromechanics
* Optoelectronics and Microelectromechanical systems

Students can choose to spend their last year either at the "ENSMM" or in one of the schools of the Polyméca network.

Study abroad

The "ENSMM" has signed a partnership with several other universities around the world:

* Technische Universität, Vienne, AUSTRIA
* Institut National d’Informatique, Alger, ALGERIA
* Universidade Federal, Uberlândia, BRASIL
* Universidade Polytechnique, São Paulo, BRASIL
* École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, CANADA
* Ecole de Technologie Supérieure, Montréal, CANADA
* Université Laval, Québec, CANADA
* Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, CHINA
* Shanghai Jiaotong University, CHINA
* Hochschule Karlsruhe, GERMANY
* Université des Sciences et Techniques de Bucarest, HUNGARIA
* Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, INDIA
* Université Degli Studi Di Napoli Federico II, ITALY
* Politecnico di Torino, ITALY
* Politecnico Di Milano, ITALY
* Tokyo Denki University, JAPAN
* Ecole Nationale de l'Industrie Minérale, Rabat Morocco
* Université Technique, Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA
* Université Valahia, Targoviste, ROMANIA
* Académie des Sciences, Moscou, RUSSIA
* Ivanovo State University of Chemistry and Technology, RUSSIA
* Université d’Instrumentation et d’Aéronautique, St Petersbourg, RUSSIA
* Escola Tecnica Superior d’Enginyeria Barcelona, SPAIN
* Universidad de Oviedo, SPAIN
* Universidad De Vigo, SPAIN
* Université of Wales College Newport, UNITED KINGDOM
* Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

It also belongs to the N+i international network.

External links

* [http://www.ens2m.fr/ Official Website of the ENSMM]
* [http://www.besancon.fr/ Official Website of Besançon]
* [http://www.univ-fcomte.fr/ Université de Franche-Comté]
* [http://www.nplusi.com/index.php N+i network website]