École Supérieure d'Informatique et Applications de Lorraine

Infobox_University
name = ESIAL


established = 1990
type = Grandes Ecoles Public
city = Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy
adress = Campus Aiguillettes - 193 avenue Paul Muller - Villers-lès-Nancy
country = France
mascot = Pink Rabbit
website = [http://www.esial.fr/ www.esial.fr]

Located in the scientific campus of the Université Henri Poincaré, the École Supérieure d'Informatique et Applications de Lorraine (ESIAL) is one of the French state-funded "Grandes écoles" of engineering (engineering schools), specialized in Computer science, accredited by the [http://www.cefi.org/CEFINET/GLOBAL/CTI/TITRE.HTM Commission des Titres d’Ingénieurs]

It has been created in 1990 and is based in Nancy, France.

The standard curriculum is a three-year program (after two-years preparation) resulting in the French Diplôme d'Ingénieur, is equivalent to a Master's degree of the European Higher Education Area.

Educational Programs

ESIAL is aimed at producing engineers well-versed in the principles of computing science and automation, expert at integrating computing hardware and software into their products : information engineers, networking engineering, software engineering, telecommunications engineering, system engineering. Studies are organized into four possible themes and students (at the end of the first common year) have to choose a fild they want to learn more :

* IL - "Ingénierie Logicielle" Software engineering
* SIE - "Systèmes d'Information d'Entreprise" (Enterprise Information Systems)
* TRS - "Télécommunications, Réseaux et Systèmes / Services" Telecommunication
* ALSI - "Applications Logicielles pour les Systèmes Industriels" (not opened in 2006/2007 and 2007/2008)
* LE - "Logiciels Embarqués" Embedded system

At the end of each year, ESIAL students have to do an internship in order to practise their knowledge and be part of the "Working world":
* First year : a 1 month internship in a non-Computer Science field, in order to discover the every-day life in a firm.
* Second year : a 2 month internship in a computer development field.
* Third year : a 6 month Engineer internship.

Teaching

Most of ESIAL teachers are researcher, mainly in these three laboratories :

* the LORIA (Laboratoire lorrain de recherche en informatique et ses applications), associated with the INRIA Lorraine (Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique) since 1986.
* the CRAN (Centre de recherche en automatique de Nancy), associated with CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) for more than ten years.
* the IECN (Institut Elie Cartan de Nancy) associated with CNRS and the INRIA Lorraine

External links

* [http://www.esial.fr École Supérieure d'Informatique et Applications de Lorraine] (Official Website)
* [http://www.loria.fr LORIA]
* [http://www.inria.fr/ INRIA]
* [http://www.cran.uhp-nancy.fr/ CRAN]
* [http://www.cnrs.fr/ CNRS]
* [http://www.iecn.u-nancy.fr/ IECN]

See also

* Education in France
* Grandes écoles
* Concours commun Mines-Ponts