The nine skills of the CentraleSupélec engineer-entrepreneur:
 

• Specialization in complex systems: resulting from an interdisciplinary scientific education enabling them to understand all aspects of a problem
• Expertise in their field: having consolidated their knowledge in one field of engineering sciences while being highly trained in all others
• Creativity: able to innovate and quickly adapt to the technological, social and economic changes of their environment
• Reactivity: knowing how to identify and seize opportunities and to act at the right time
• Multiculturalism: being at ease working in an international environment;
• Familiarity with the latest digital evolutions: taking advantage of all digital technologies, developing and adapting with them, innovating and “disrupting”
• Persuasiveness: knowing how to communicate, motivate teamwork and elicit commitment to their project
• Leadership: of their project and team
• Humanism: being aware of the human dimension of societal issues, respectful of others and conscious of their responsibilities

The six core principles for implementing the new program:

• A program organized around skill acquisition: teaching the student to use skills better and apply them in new situations
• The student as an actor in their program and goals: proposing a large variety of programs and rhythms, enabling each student to make motivated choices, developing their professional goals and acquiring targeted skills
• Active learning: generating an environment that promotes the development and motivation of students with active learning, diverse teaching methods, more personal work, adapted assessment methods and higher requirements
• Autonomous learning: giving students the ability to learn autonomously and effectively throughout their engineering training program, as they will have to do throughout their lives thereafter
• An international school in a favorable environment: attracting the best students from around the world, able to work in an international environment and be recognized by the best companies and institutions. The program will continuously recruit international instructor-researchers and guarantee students the possibility of completing programs entirely taught in English.

Evolution of teaching methods: promoting interaction, closer links with research, working in a single discipline or interdisciplinary teams, teaching innovations

The new program is founded on a major innovative principle: to develop in students the skills that enable them to work in the newest and increasingly complex situations, with a contribution that is relevant, effective, creative and demonstrates their sense of responsibility. The students will personalize their program, selecting modules which enable them to work toward their own professional goals and in accordance with their level of knowledge.

To do this, the school boasts high-quality instructors who support students to succeed, with digital teaching methods that encourage students to be autonomous, as well as privileged links with research organizations and companies to develop “project mode” classes.

The eight scientific/industry majors proposed in the New CentraleSupélec engineering program:

• Energy
• Health/Life and Environmental Sciences
• Mathematics, Data Sciences and Big Data
• Communicating Systems and Connected Objects
• IT and Digital
• Large Cooperating and Automated Systems
• Transportation, Large Construction Works and Buildings
• Physics and Nanotechnologies

In the era of MOOCs

From 2014, CentraleSupélec has been one of the first higher education institutions to be recognized for its teaching innovation. The school participates actively in the online education movement in France via a significant digital policy, and was among the first three French institutions to be selected to propose Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on Coursera.

Coursera is the leading online training platform carrying MOOCs, having established partnerships with the largest universities and organizations in the world to provide online classes that are accessible to everyone.

In keeping with this, CentraleSupélec began in January 2014 offering following MOOCs: “Discrete Inference and Learning in Artificial Vision”, developed by Nikos Paragios and Pawan Kumar, and “An Introduction to Functional Analysis” by John Cagnol.

Today the school offers three MOOCs on Coursera and one on OpenClassrooms, and has recorded more than 313,000 class participants in less than three years across all of its online lesson offerings.

Making lessons freely available all over the world fulfills CentraleSupélec’s aim to give access to excellent quality training to everyone who has an Internet connection.

Focus on Build Your First Android App

What you’ll achieve

In this project-centered course*, you’ll design, build, and distribute your own unique application for the Android mobile platform. We’ll provide you with a set of customizable building blocks that you can assemble to create many different types of apps, and that will help you become familiar with many important specificities of Android development. When you complete the project, in addition to having a personalized app that you can use and share, you’ll have the skills and background you need to move on to more advanced coursework in Android development.
 

What you’ll need to get started

This project-centered course is designed for learners who have some prior experience programming in Java, such as an introductory college course or Coursera’s Java Programming Specialization (https://www.coursera.org/specializations/java-programming). You will need a computer with a stable Internet connection, but you will not need an Android phone - we’ll use free software that you can use to emulate a phone on your computer. We'll use Android Studio as IDE; it is compatible with most computer and operating systems.

You can find detailed system requirements here

*About Project-Centered Courses: Project-centered courses are designed to help you complete a personally meaningful realworld project, with your instructor and a community of learners with similar goals providing guidance and suggestions along the way. By actively applying new concepts as you learn, you’ll master the course content more efficiently; you’ll also get a head start on using the skills you gain to make positive changes in your life and career. When you complete the course, you’ll have a finished project that you’ll be proud to use and share.

Build Your First Android App (Project-Centered Course)

Dr. Virginie Galtier, Associate Professor, Computer Science

Michel Lanotto, Associate Professor, Computer Science

Time: 10 hours of study, 10 hours of active project work

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Focus On Strategy: What Managers Can Learn from Philosophy - PART 1

About this course

In the expression “creative thinking”, the key word is not creative; the key word is thinking. With the help of great philosophers, you will rediscover the art of thinking.

To help leaders to be rigorous even without figures, great philosophers have lots of ideas. Managers are invited to rediscover the art of thinking. They should understand the role of mental models, realize the importance of cognitive bias, agree on clear definitions and efficient criteria etc.

Creativity demands the ability to free ourselves from conventional ways of thinking, to "think outside the box". But we need to go a step further. Once outside the box, we need to construct a new box or boxes (that is, new intellectual frameworks or models) to help us structure our thinking. Only once we have done so can we generate truly game-changing ideas.

Luc de Brabandere, professor at CentraleSupélec

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Focus sur :Two Speed IT: How Companies Can Surf the Digital Wave, a BCG Perspective

Transform or disappear, the Darwinism of IT: In order to adapt to a digital world, a two-speed IT is needed. Despite the importance of IT in today’s digital world, Chief Information Officers (CIOs) often struggle to get their voices heard by executive committees. Faced with this challenge, IT departments are being forced to reinvent themselves to adapt their companies to the fast paced evolution of technology. The Boston Consulting Group has developed a business approach that allows IT to shed off its appearance of a heavy cost center and to adopt a new, more realistic persona as a quality service provider, partnering with users and the management.

Whether you are a professional, a student in engineering, a student in a business school or just interested in digital transformation and its implications on IT, learn with three BCG experts why and how to manage an IT department as a business in order to transform a company and adapt it to a digital world.

Two Speed IT: How Companies Can Surf the Digital Wave, a BCG Perspective

Antoine Gourévitch, Senior Partner and Managing Director at The Boston Consulting Group

Vanessa Lyon, Partner and Managing Director at The Boston Consulting Group

Eric Baudson, Managing Director at The Boston Consulting Group

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Focus on Financing Your Company

It’s no secret: every company needs money to function. However, when you are preparing to launch your own company, what are the concrete steps to follow? When you want to raise funds from business angels or venture capitalists, how do you go about it? Are you even sure you want to work with business angels or venture capitalists? And what is their motivation for providing capital?

This class presents fundraising processes and the nature of relationships forged with business angels and venture capitalists.

Fee-based classes

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Focus on Sustainable Development

The aim of this class is for participants to address the technical, economic, social and environmental issues of the 21^st century. These issues, by their nature, are strongly interactive and complex and require an interdisciplinary approach to adopt a global exploration, going beyond prejudices and received ideas. This is why specialists renowned in the fields of economics, demographics, energy, climate, water and agriculture, from the most prestigious institutions and research centers of France (CentraleSupélec, INED, Cnam, CEA, AgroParisTech), enthusiastically speak to students to explore different points of view and debate issues. The general approach adopted for this class consists of examining sustainable development issues pertaining to rigorous and recent scientific studies, in order to:

• provide and discuss key figures (from an assessment of the current situation to exploring possible future scenarios),
• help students understand how these figures are established (hypotheses and limits of the underlying scientific models),
• together address the issues in their various dimensions (particularly from a local to a worldwide scale).

Four formats adapted to your objectives

Our Specialized Master’s: to obtain an diploma   CentraleSupélec Specialized Master’s degrees are accredited by the Conférence des Grandes Écoles (CGE) and deliver a diploma equivalent to six years of higher education. Some of these are registered with the RNCP (French National Directory of Professional Certification) and confer a Level 1 title. Full-time or part-time (compatible with professional work), these last for 12-18 months. Find out more

Our certifying training programs: to acquire new skills   This training program delivers CentraleSupélec Executive Education certification. These training programs are developed from a combination of coherent modules focused on a specific theme and upon which acquired knowledge is assessed. Compatible alongside a professional activity, our certifying training programs are completed over a period of 14-22 days. They contribute to the award of a Level 1 (five years of higher education RNCP (French National Directory of Professional Certification) certification. Find out more

Our short training programs: to develop or complement skills   These inter-company training programs bring together various company employees around a united theme. The diversity of companies encourages exchanges and initiation to new practices. These training programs are constantly updated to adapt to the new issues we face. Find out more

Intra-company customized training programs: let’s co-develop your training programes   Our customized training programs are designed so that the employees of a company can gain the essential knowledge needed to attain a common goal. One of the main specifics of these training programs is that working in collaboration with a company is done before and after the training, to obtain a specific training that meets the requirements of the company objective. Find out more

Four main fields of education

By supporting professionals through the various stages of their career in the fields of engineering sciences and management, we extend our foremost mission, which is to train leaders with a developed scientific and technological literacy, as well as innovators able to take up the major challenges of their time.

LEADERSHIP AND TRANSFORMATION
 

Innovative managers leading major projects will design complex systems, generate added value and develop human capital. Management and Strategy Collective Intelligence and Leadership Project Management Engineering and Innovation Management Negotiation

OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE

Efficient organizers, focused on continuous improvement and developing approaches, will be at the heart of changes and will mobilize all available resources. Lean et Lean Six Sigma (LSS) Product Life cycle Management (PLM) Supply Chain Management Purchasing

IT AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Brilliant architects who master systems and create revolutionary tools, will optimize operations and align IT with their careers. ent--> IS Architecture Digital Business Big Data Cloud Computing IS Management IS Sécurity Embedded Computing and the Internet of Things

ADVANCED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Pragmatic scientists, aligning their work with the realities of today’s market, will optimize the competitiveness of their companies and the quality of our daily lives. Management and Systems Engineering Telecommunication Electromagnetism and Radio Frequencies Power Electronics Electrical and Thermal Energy Electronics and Instrumentation Automatics and Signals Material Mechanics

École Centrale Paris (founded 1829) and Supélec (founded 1894), two large engineering schools, have created a joint and unique large institution, CentraleSupélec. One outcome of this union is CentraleSupélec Executive Education, an entity that is entirely dedicated to ongoing training.

CentraleSupélec Executive Education offers a range of qualifying and certifying diplomas, short courses or customized programs, with the aim of developing managerial, organizational, scientific and technological skills in our future leaders.

The training programs go far beyond the mere acquisition of knowledge: the aim is to shape individuals who are conscious of the major economic, environmental and social issues of our era to transform daily life. Through these high quality training programs, and through the school’s close links with prestigious companies and research centers, and through its international presence, CentraleSupélec Executive Education guarantees you an unrivalled educational experience.

Some of our certifying training programs enable you to gain a coherent set of skills recognized as Level 1 on the French National Directory of Professional Certification (RNCP) (equating to five years of higher education).

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• The annual cost of registration for doctoral thesis work is €391.
• Funding is available from the French Ministry of Research and Higher Education, industrial organizations, and funding organizations (ANRT, Digiteo, etc.)
• All information can be found on the Ministry website: http://www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/cid76053/le-financement-doctoral.html

To apply to complete a doctoral program with CentraleSupélec, the candidate must hold a Master’s or equivalent diploma.

The application for a doctorate must be submitted to one of the doctoral schools with which the thesis supervisor is associated, and must detail at least the following: a thesis subject, a thesis supervisor, a research department, and funding. Conditions for admission are defined within each doctoral school.

Doctoral students are recruited by doctoral schools:

• on the Gif-sur-Yvette
• on the Rennes campus
• on the Metz campus:
  • IAEM Lorraine Doctoral School
  • EMMA Doctoral School

Registration

Academic registration is completed with doctoral schools and administrative registration with CentraleSupélec. Registration is initiated online via the ADUM website.

• For the Paris-Saclay campus, doctoral students from the Université Paris-Saclay must register via ADUM.
• For the Rennes campus, visit http://matisse.ueb.eu/fr/inscription/.
• For the Metz campus, visit http://iaem.univ-lorraine.fr/ or http://emma.univ-lorraine.fr/, then choose section Thesis à registration/re-registration.
   

Cost and funding

The annual cost of registration for completing a thesis is €391. Funding comes from the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, industrial companies and funding organizations (ANRT, Digiteo, etc.).

Thesis charter

The charter formalizes the agreement between the doctoral student, the thesis supervisor, the director of the research unit in which the student intends to prepare the doctorate, the director of the doctoral school to which the student is attached and the registration institution. The objective of this charter is to ensure that the doctorate is completed under optimal conditions and to encourage the student to pursue a career as a young researcher with success. For each signatory, the charter outlines rights and obligations.

• For the Châtenay-Malabry and Gif-sur-Yvette campuses, there is a thesis charter specific to all the doctoral schools of the Université Paris-Saclay.
• For the Rennes campus, the thesis charter for UEB doctoral schools is accessible here.
• For the Metz campus, visit http://iaem.univ-lorraine.fr/ or http://emma.univ-lorraine.fr/, then the section Thesis à registration/re-registration.

Interdisciplinary programs

Doctoral students are invited to take additional classes (120 hours over three years), over and above their research work, to deepen their scientific knowledge and prepare their professional future.

Since the new decree dated May 25, 2016, doctoral students must prepare a training agreement signed by the school director, and compile a portfolio of training programs listing the skills they have acquired during the completion of their thesis.

CentraleSupélec participates in the professional insertion of students by providing interdisciplinary training programs, pooled across doctoral colleges. These training programs are organized in streams, to provide doctoral students with a comprehensive overview of business sectors and sectors associated with the training offering. Some programs are labeled (e.g. the Association of French Engineering Schools (CDEFI), etc.).

• For the Paris-Saclay campus, the course catalogue is available at the following address
• For the Rennes campus, the course catalogue is available at the following address
• For the Metz campus, the course catalogue is available at the following address

Additional placements

During their studies, within the doctoral charter, the doctoral student may complete additional remunerated assignment representing 1/6 of their academic agenda (renewable under certain conditions). These include:

• Teaching placement (64 hours of tutorials) enabling doctoral students to gain teaching experience via one of the teaching departments
• Consultancy and expertise placement that can be completed within a company, a local authority, an administrative body, a public institution, an association or a foundation
• Placement to promote scientific and technical research results
• Dissemination of scientific and technical information placement
• A call for applications is open every year.

International Joint Supervision (Cotutelle)

In order to encourage mobility among PhD students and develop international scientific cooperation, PhD students may complete their thesis under joint supervision between two institutions, one in France and one overseas.

Joint supervision is established either with a framework agreement signed between the two institutions, and an application, or with an individual agreement.

For the Châtenay-Malabry and Gif-sur-Yvette campuses, click here.

European label

In order to recognize the European dimension of a doctoral project, Université Paris-Saclay awards a “European Doctorate” label to a PhD student with at least three months of mobility experience in Europe, as well as other criteria. You can read all the details here.

Associations for doctoral students

There are currently two associations of doctoral students at CentraleSupélec. These associations organize scientific and social events as well as events that bring together companies and students, and forums that give doctoral students from CentraleSupélec and the four other École Centrales a chance to get together. Doctoral students also participate actively in the school’s other associations.