CentraleSupélec was present at all stages of the creation of the Université Paris-Saclay, which officially came into being on November 5, 2019, with the publication in the Journal Officiel of its founding decree. The school is a component establishment of the university, along with AgroParisTech, the Institut d'Optique Graduate School and the Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay.

Paris-Saclay University offers a complete and varied range of Bachelor's, Master's and PhD degrees, the quality of which is recognised internationally thanks to the reputation of its research and the commitment of its teaching staff. Its components and component institutions further expand this offer with cutting-edge thematic training in science and engineering, life sciences and health, social sciences and humanities.

With 275 laboratories shared with the CEA, CNRS, IHES, INRAE, INRIA, INSERM, ONERA, Paris-Saclay University represents 13% of the French research potential. Composed of 65,000 students, 9,000 teachers and lecturers and 11,000 technical and administrative staff, the University Paris-Saclay is a driving force for the development of its territory and one of the best institutions in France.

At the same time, the University's component establishments and components are working on the construction of the 17 Graduate Schools. Each Graduate School coordinates a set of master's degrees and training programmes, doctoral schools and research teams organised around a theme, one or more disciplines, or a mission.

CentraleSupélec coordinates the "Engineering and Systems Sciences" Graduate School

In a unique ecosystem bringing together academic centres and industrial partners within the same territory, this "Engineering and Systems" Graduate School will offer recognised master's and doctoral level training in the fields of Engineering Sciences and associated digital sciences. These courses open the door to professional integration into the Research and Development community in France and abroad. The Graduate School will have more than 1,000 Master's students and 600 PhDs graduating each year in several major research areas: materials, mechanics, civil engineering, industrial engineering, optics, electronics, telecommunications, electrical engineering, robotics, applied mathematics and numerics, high-performance computing, biomedical imaging, biotechnologies...

This Graduate School will bring together more than sixty research laboratories that contribute to responding, through research and innovation, to major societal challenges. To prepare for tomorrow's world, it will seek a balance between the ecological and economic development of our societies by conducting research at the best global level.  The increase in the international visibility of French engineering science education should enable the Graduate School to attract the best students in its various training cycles.

CentraleSupélec's ambition between 2020 and 2024 is therefore to successfully launch this Graduate School to make it a strong point of the Université Paris Saclay.

The School has also chosen to be an operator in eight other Graduate Schools:

• BASE (Biodiversity, Agriculture and Food, Society, Environment)
• Chemistry
• Economy
• Higher education and research
• Life Sciences and Health
• Mathematics
• Physics
• Sociology and political science.

More than 150 associations and clubs on campus offer a wide range of activities to students:

• Campus life (Newspapers, TV, Internet, social functions, …)
• Arts
• Humanitarian (Mada, Perunidad...)
• Sports
• Events …

Cette incroyable richesse associative est d’ailleurs l’une des grandes spécificités de l’École, qui reconnait son intérêt dans l’acquisition des compétences.

CentraleSupélec also enables engineering students to acquire proficiency in engineering plus another specialization.

A Leading International Higher Education and Research Institution

The CentraleSupelec curriculum includes a six-month period abroad minimum.

To achieve its objectives, the CentraleSupélec engineering curriculum offers a wide range of opportunities through international experience:

•  Dual degree ( years at CentraleSupélec and one to two years at an academic partner) allowing completion of both degrees:
•  Six-month experience at a laboratory or company.

Agreements with nearly 180 partner universities in 45 countries enable CentraleSupelec to provide students with a broad variety of courses. Universities include:

United Kingdom

• Cambridge
• Oxford
• London School of Economics
• Imperial College London…

Europe

• École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
• Technical University of Munich, Germany
• Politecnico Milano 1863, Italy
• Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
• Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain  

China

• Shanghai Jiaotong University
• Tsinghua University, Beijing
• Beijing Jiaotong University
• Zhejiang University
• XI’An Jiaotong
• SouthWest Jiaotong University
• Centrale Beijing

Japan

• Keio Business School (KBS)
• Todaï
• Tohoku University

Brazil

• The University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Sào Paulo
• The Escola Politécnica of the University of São Paulo
• Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza
• Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
• Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
• Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

A Leading International Higher Education and Research Institution

Top 5 universities in the world:

For dual degrees

1. United States (Columbia, Stanford, Berkeley, MIT...)

2. United Kingdom (Cambridge, Imperial College London, Oxford, London School of Economics...)

3. Germany (TU Berlin, TU Munich...)

4. Sweden (KTH)

5. Australia, Denmark, Singapore

 CentraleSupélec, a truly international school

• 176 partner universities in 45 countries
• 80 dual degrees programs
• 6 months minimum abroad (12 months typically)
• 32% of international engineering students
• Nearly 70 nationalities on campus
• 2 mandatory modern languages including English

• 21% of international faculty-researchers
• 3 campuses abroad: Centrale Beijing (China), Mahindra École Centrale (India)

     and Centrale Casablanca (Morocco), as well as 4 international laboratories

CentraleSupélec engineering through apprenticeship is the key to excellence in professionalization by giving each student-engineer the opportunity to complete their training in an alternating work and study period under the company partner’s guidance, throughout the academic year.

During training, the apprentice is provided with a customized teaching method. Besides completing CentraleSupélec engineering degree, the apprentice also acquires a genuine organizational and sectoral culture they can valorise at the end of the engineering curriculum.

The apprenticeship program leads to the same degree as the student curriculum.

Enrolling for the apprenticeship curriculum means:

• Acquiring professional experience over a period of three years and graduating from school with a degree recognised by companies searching for new talents
• Joining a company as an employee and learning more about its business and its different management viewpoints through a wide range of projects stretching from one to six months
• Benefiting from individual educational guidance in the company, and at school
• Enjoying financial self-sufficiency with a monthly salary

Accessing the curriculum through apprenticeship:

• French Higher School Preparatory Classes “TSI/PT” from the first year of the curriculum
• French Higher School Preparatory Classes “MP/PC/PSI” from the second year of the curriculum
• A two-year university degree in Technology from first year of the curriculum

Training through apprenticeship:

• The apprentice acquires the same qualifications as the whole class. The apprenticeship curriculum proposes specific teaching courses, including progressive sharing with the traditional academic curriculum.
• A limited number of students - 25 maximum - enables individual guidance for each student.
• A differentiated educational method: the apprenticeship curriculum is mainly based on an inductive educational approach: from practical problems, students will move on to abstract topics with immediate implementation of concepts.
• The apprentice benefits from individual guidance through:

-  A supervisor who welcomes the apprentice, handles supervision and practical training within the company and takes part in assessments.

-  A mentor who is responsible for guiding and supervising the apprentice throughout the curriculum through regular communication.

• The projects carried forward in the company enable students to acquire a part of the engineering curriculum skills.

Curriculum framework

The first year is dedicated, and is taught on the Rennes or Metz campuses. For the 2018-2019 academic year, students will study on the Rennes campus.

The curriculum includes core courses, combined with top-up courses in Mathematics and Physics, so that students can go on to address more complex systems. The alternating work and study schedule offered (one month in school, one month in a company) enables deep immersion in each environment, and is acclaimed by both students and companies.

The second year is entirely completed on the Paris-Saclay campus in Gif-sur-Yvette. The courses are aligned with the pace of the academic modules described in the student curriculum (general and specific teaching modules). They may be either specific or shared with the student curriculum.

The third year is completely common to the student curriculum and is taught on one of the three school campuses, according to the field: (see next page).

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Contacts

• For questions about the curriculum: Catherine Luce:

     Email: alternance@centralesupelec.fr 

     Phone: +33 1 75 31 62 42

• Program manager: Pierre-Yves Richard:

    Email: pierre-yves.richard@centralesupelec.fr

• For presentations and institutional communication: 

    Email : Adriano Barros Cotta

Provide highly skilled world-changing engineers to face the world

Our mission is to prepare engineering students to address the major scientific, technical, economic, environmental and societal challenges of the 21st century. To achieve this goal, CentraleSupélec has developed, a new curriculum training engineering entrepreneurs provided with an excellent scientific expertise who meet the current needs of companies and society as a whole.

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A CentraleSupélec engineer is a highly skilled engineering entrepreneur

CentraleSupelec, an international and strongly business-oriented institution, enables engineers to:

• a scientific and technical culture through highly developed abilities for conceptualization and abstraction as well as strong skills in complex systems
• Foster innovation and leadership in an international environment, adding
• Stand at the forefront of current technological and societal changes, especially in the digital field
• Take a broad worldview, be aware of major societal issues, be socially responsible and value mutual respect

A CentraleSupélec engineer can deploy nine major skills. These are essential and give the curriculum its structure

1. Analyze, design and implement complex systems with scientific, technological, human and economic components

Graduates will analyze, design and implement complex systems with scientific, technological, human and economic components. A complex system is a set composed of several entities whose piece-by-piece study is not sufficient in order to grasp the understanding of their overall behavior and to act upon it. Complex systems are often composed of a large number of entities which are described by varied disciplines operating at different scales; they comprise feedback loops between these entities, and generate emergences - expected or not - due to the fact that the overall behavior is not the result of the mere sum of the behavior of these entities as described separately, due to the interactions between those same entities.

Complex systems appear in many natural, as well as artificial situations. The electricity network of a country, an A380 Airbus, an artificial heart and the banking system are examples of complex systems.

2. Acquire and develop in-depth expertise in a scientific or sectorial field and/or job

High competence in the discipline or sector will allow the graduate to master a field extensively, think in depth, and thoroughly understand the difficulties and intricacies of a subject. This "expertise" approach enables one to appropriate complex thought patterns that can then be transferred to other sectors; it gives distance and perspective to effectively address future learnings. In addition, the proximity to research provides objectives of excellence.

Graduates must acquire professional skills along two lines: the discipline or sector of activity, on the one hand, and the job line (cross-sectors, for example: business in design and development, professions linked to operations such as production, supply chain, etc.), on the other. Graduates are flexible and will adjust their competencies to meet all the requirements in the course of their professional development.

3. Act, initiate, and innovate in the science and technology environment

Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship are some of the many strong points of our graduates. They can act and undertake. Entrepreneurs are more than simply drivers of action. They have decided to become masters of their future, to change the system around them, to seize an opportunity and/or fulfill a dream, and they take the risk of starting new activities. They can do so by creating a company or launching an initiative within an existing structure. In all cases, they are personally involved, taking responsibility for the project design, implementation and outcome.

4. Create value for a company and its customers

Graduates can fully understand and analyze the purposes of the projects they undertake and they can account for their value. They know their customers’ needs and address them while suggesting relevant solutions.

5. Thrive in a multicultural and international environment

Graduates are comfortable working in international, multicultural teams, either in French or English. They can propose solutions suited to their environment in a given country or on a global scale.

6. Thrive and innovate in the digital world

Digital technologies are still developing at breakneck speed and their use by individuals and companies brings a transformation of society and economy by initiating more sharing, cooperation and empowerment. The movement is accelerating and it can lead companies to transform or disappear. The transformation is technological, but also organizational and cultural. Students are thus at ease in the digital world where they can innovate and interpret. They understand the techniques and sciences that support the digital revolution and know about their developments.

7. Convince others

Graduates can communicate and convey clear, accurate messages and adapt to a large audience or group of people. They can convince decision-makers and get the support and the resources they need to act.

8. Be a leader: lead a team, carry out a project

As they work on complex systems that combine many elements and participants, it is necessary for graduates to be a part of multiple teams, to know how to lead them, develop them, and foster the talent within those teams. They are also able to initiate and carry out a project successfully.

9. Think and act as an accountable, ethical professional

Graduates are the key actors of their professional and personal development. They think and act ethically, respecting their co-workers and business partners, as well as the collective interest and assets.

The curriculum will be mainly taught on the new Paris-Saclay campus. Student engineers have the opportunity, from the second year of their curriculum, to complete eight-week periods adding high value on the Metz and Rennes campuses.

Program strengths :

• Strong scientific culture (mathematics/IT) to analyse complex systems
• Project-based teaching: multidisciplinary and multi-angle thematic modules
• Modular program: multiple choices, in-depth study and specializations option (research, entrepreneurship, apprenticeship, digital)
• Individual guidance based on personal development and career choice
• In-depth professionalization program based on strengthened ties with business professionals (6 to 24 months in a company during the curriculum), 140 corporate partners (large companies, small and medium size businesses in multiple fields)
• Leading international Higher Education and Research Institution: 3 campuses abroad, 176 academic partners and 80 dual-degree agreements

John Cagnol in charge of new engineering curriculum design, outlines its novelties: (in French)

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Our mission is to prepare you as global leader of tomorrow committed to addressing major scientific, technical, economic, environmental and societal issues of the 21th century. To achieve this goal, CentraleSupélec has developed a new curriculum training engineering entrepreneurs provided with an excellent scientific background by enabling them to meet the current requirements of companies and society as a whole.

The curriculum provides a wide range of options: study in-depth specific disciplines and methods, spend a semester abroad, or complete a double-degree. Throughout the program, student engineers have the opportunity to customize their curriculum to acquire cutting-edge expertise in such areas as research, entrepreneurship and digital. Students can also choose apprenticeship from the first year to experience a professional environment or complete a dual-degree within the eleven prestigious universities and benchmark academic partners.

A unique living and studying place

From your first year, you will attend the new CentraleSupélec campus in Gif-sur-Yvette. Located at the heart of the Plateau de Saclay, the campus offers a unique atmosphere to study and build life-long friendships. In this magnificent and leading-edge setting, facilities have been designed to enhance relationships, exchange views, participative and join participative and multidisciplinary projects.

From you second year and according to your specialization, you will attend some courses at our Metz and Rennes campuses. 

More information on new engineering program is available on our website