École centrale de Marseille

Ecole Centrale de Marseille

Motto	Nous avons un monde à transformer
Motto in English	We have a world to transform
Type	Public, Graduate engineering
Established	1891
Founder	Jules Macé de Lepinay
Academic affiliation	Centrale Graduate School, Top Industrial Managers for Europe
Budget	22 000 000 €
Director	Carole Deumié
Students	1100 (2019)
Location	Marseille , France
Website	https://www.centrale-mediterranee.fr/en

The École Centrale de Marseille, also known as Centrale Méditerranée is a leading graduate school of engineering (or Grande école of engineering) located in Marseille, the second largest city in France. The École Centrale de Marseille was created in 2006 by the merging of different previous institutions and has its origins from the École d'ingénieurs de Marseille founded in 1891.

It is one of the prestigious Centrale Graduate Schools^[1] (Paris, Lyon, Lille, Nantes, Marseille) and a member of the TIME (Top Industrial Managers for Europe) network.

From its creation, Centrale Méditerranée trains engineers, recruited since 2004 through a highly competitive exam shared with the other Centrale Graduate Schools.

Academic profile

The Ecole Centrale de Marseille is a multidisciplinary school, where the great majority of the students have endured two or three years of intensive maths and physics training (known as prepa) in order to train for the Concours Centrale-Supélec (known as one of the hardest competitive exams in France).

As future general engineers, students do not have any particular major before the last year (Master's level), during which they have to choose among a few electives:

• Mechanical engineering
• Chemical engineering
• Physics, optics and electrical engineering
• Business Administration and Finance
• Mathematics and computer science

The students can also complete their last year in one of the other Centrale Graduate Schools or be part of an exchange program.

There are three-years PhD programs available in all the aforementioned domains of research (the students are required to have completed a Master's program).

Exchange programs

Being a part of the TIME (Top Industrial Managers for Europe) network, the school has exchange program with many universities across the world, among them Technical University of Munich (Germany), Cranfield University (UK), Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), Penn State (US), University of São Paulo (Brazil), University of Waterloo (Canada), Keio University (Japan) or University of Chile (Chile).

Research

Eight research laboratories are under the joint leadership of Ecole Centrale Marseille and Aix-Marseille University :

• Laboratory for Mechanics and Acoustics (LMA - Laboratoire de Mécanique et d'Acoustique)
• Institut Fresnel (Optics, Photonics and Signal Processing)
• Institute of Research on Non Equilibrium Phenomena (IRPHE - Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Équilibre)
• Institute of Molecular Sciences of Marseille (iSm2 - Institut des sciences moléculaires de Marseille)
• Mechanics, Modelling and Clean Processes (M2P2 - Mécanique Modélisation et Procédés Propres)
• Research Group in Quantitative Economics of Aix-Marseille (GREQAM - Groupe de Recherche en Économie Quantitative)
• Laboratory of Analysis, Topology, and Probability (LATP - Laboratoire d’Analyse, Topologie, Probabilités)
• Laboratory of Fundamental Computer Science (LIF - Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale)

Rankings

Ecole Centrale de Marseille is ranked among the top 20^[2] French Grandes Ecoles, though it does not appear in international rankings due to its very limited number of students (250 students for the class of 2016).

Alumni

The alumni network is made of over 16,000 graduates.^[3]

Notable alumni

• Malika Haimeur (1956–), awarded the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize for Women & Business in 2009

References

External links

• Official website

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