The Centrale Lyon (), formerly (, abbr. ECL), is a research university in greater Lyon, France. Founded in 1857 by François Barthélemy Arlès-Dufour in response to the increasing industrialization of France, it is one of the oldest graduate schools in France.History | École Centrale de Lyon http://www.ec-lyon.fr/en/centrale-lyon/history The university is part of the Grandes Écoles, a prestigious group of French institutions dedicated to engineering, scientific research, and business education. The current 45-acre (18 ha) campus opened in 1967 and is located in the city of Ecully.
The is traditionally known for its research and education in applied science and engineering. It excels in the research fields of acoustics, biosciences and nanotechnology, and is continuously ranked in the top five Grandes Écoles for the quality of its engineering graduate programs. The school is well-reputed for educating and training highly skilled engineers through many specialized graduate programs with a strong emphasis on laboratory instruction. Students graduate with a degree known as the diplôme d'ingénieur, which is an academic title protected by the French government and equivalent to a Master of Science, or with a PhD upon completion of their doctoral studies.
The has strong ties with top institutions in Europe including Imperial College London and Darmstadt University of Technology. The university is one of the founding members of the Ecoles Centrales Group network (with campuses in Paris, Nantes, Lille, Marseille, and Beijing). It is also a founding member of University of Lyon's center for Research and Higher Education, which has over 120,000 students. Thus, it shares many of its PhD programs with other institutions part of University of Lyon such as INSA Lyon, , and Claude Bernard University Lyon 1.
History and location
It was founded in 1857 on a private initiative by Désiré Girardon, who was its first president. The founding vision was to educate multidisciplinary engineers for the emerging industry ("doctors for fabs and plants"). The institution was given to the French State Ministry of Education in 1947. Initially located downtown Lyon, it was transferred to Écully, its current location.
Growth 1857: Birth of the Lyons Central School for Industry and Commerce, on the initiative of Desire Girardon, a professor at La Martiniere School, an institution for the teaching of advanced industrial science and based primarily on the methods of La Martiniere school. The school was located at the corner of the Rue d'Enghien (later Rue Vauban) and the course of Bourbon (later Castellane dock and pier-General Sarrail). 3 November 1857: Opening of the school with 14 students, who are promoting an issue, that of 1860. 1860: The first class graduated, it will be followed by a promotion of 17 students. 1869: Transfer of School Augagneur dock. 1887: The school was officially placed under the patronage of the Chamber of Commerce of Lyon.
At the heart of Lyon 1901: Transfer street Chevreul on land donated by the city of Lyon in the person of its mayor, Edouard Herriot. 1930: First woman in a promotion. 1947: Assignment of the school to the state. 1949: Creation of the student association. 1963: Establishment of joint competition with the Ecole centrale de Paris.
Opening internationally since the campus Écully
1967: Transfer in Ecully, creation of a campus in the "American". 1968: First agreement with the School of Darmstadt (Germany). 1970: New name: (English: Central School of Lyon) and first class of over 100 engineering students. 1980: First agreements with Japan and the United States. 1983: First batch of over 200 engineering students. 1990: Creation of the Intergroup schools "Central", the first agreement with China. 1992: School is a Public Establishment Scientific and Cultural Professional, the first agreement with the countries of Central and Eastern. 1996: Creation of the European university network for dual degrees (TIME network). 2000: First agreements with countries in South America (Argentina, Chile, Brazil etc.). 2001: First batch of over 300 students. 2002: Opening an office in Shenzhen, China. 2003: Opening of the Franco-Russian center for technology transfer. 2005: Creation of central Beijing. 2007: Intergroup is the group of central schools with Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes and Paris. 2006-2007-2008: 150th anniversary of the . 2009: Yin Yang - Alliance project between Central and Lyon Business School EM LYON. 2011: Agreement with France AEROTECHElargissement du réseau FRANCE AEROTECH et signature d’une charte de gouvernance
Academics
The centralien program is the main academic program offered by the , as a Centrale Graduate School. It is quite different from typical university or college studies; and specific to the French system of grandes écoles. The engineering degree of the (ingénieur centralien or "centralien engineer") is a Master of Science degree.
The defining characteristic of the curriculum is that it is multidisciplinary, with studies focusing on all math and physics derived engineering specialties: mechanics, physics, materials, fluid mechanics, electrical engineering, applied mathematics, civil engineering, aeronautics, computer science, telecommunications and micro-nano-biotechnology.
Admission
The large majority of the students are admitted after two to three years of classes préparatoires, known as "mathematics superior" and "mathematics special", which are an undergraduate courses with almost exclusive emphasis on math and physics. These undergraduate students must then take a nationwide competitive entrance examination (Concours Centrale-Supélec) to enter a Centrale Graduate School, including the . recruits among the top 6% of the students in classes preparatoires, who represent themselves 7% Figures of higher education students, which makes it a selective and prestigious institution. A few seats are available each year to select students from French universities after completion of three or four years of post high-school education. A significant contingent of students also comes from leading international universities which belong to the TIME network.
Curriculum
Education at the ECL is multidisciplinary and typically lasts three to four years. During the first two years (tronc commun, or "core curriculum"), students take mandatory classes in science (mathematics, physics); in engineering (solid mechanics, heat transfer, digital image processing, computer programming) and in social sciences (economics, management, foreign languages). Students are then offered to sign up for different engineering specialties during their last year at the school. After completing these three years of education, they receive the degree of , more commonly called .
National and international ties
The belongs to the French Centrale Graduate School, together with École centrale Paris, École centrale de Lille, École centrale de Nantes, École centrale de Marseille and École centrale de Pékin (Beijing, China).
Since 1857, the school has built important international ties. Students come from around the world to study for several years on the school campus. école centrale students may also obtain a double diploma at one of several partner schools. Furthermore, the école is one of the founding members of the TIME network. (member list)
France Centrale Graduate School CentraleSupélec (FR-CS) TIME-in - TIME-out École centrale de Lille (FR-ECLi) TIME-in - TIME-out École Centrale de Lyon (FR-ECLy) TIME-in - TIME-out Centrale Méditerranée (FR-ECM) TIME-in TIME-out École centrale de Nantes (FR-ECN) TIME in&out Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (FR-ENPC) École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (FR-ENSTA) École Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (FR-Supaero)
Europe Austria Technische Universität Wien (AT-TUW) TIME-out - TIME-out - TIME-in Belgium Faculté polytechnique de Mons (BE-FPMS) TIME-out - TIME-in University of Louvain (UCLouvain, BE-UCL) TIME out&in Université libre de Bruxelles (BE-ULB) TIME-out -TIME-in University of Liège (BE-ULG) TIME-out&in Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE-VUB) TIME out - TIME-in Czech Republic České vysoké učení technické v Praze (CZ-CVUT) Denmark Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DK-DTU) TIME in&out Finland Teknillinen Korkeakoulu (FI-TKK) Germany RWTH Aachen University (DE-RWTH) Technische Universität Berlin (DE-TUB) Internationale Beziehungen TIME in&out Technische Universität Darmstadt (DE-TUDa) TIME in&out Dresden University of Technology (DE-TUDr) TIME in&out Technical University of Munich (DE-TUM) TIME in&out University of Erlangen–Nuremberg (DE-UEN) University of Stuttgart (DE-UST) Greece Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR-AUTH) Ethniko Metsovio Polytechnio Athina (GR-NTUA) Hungary Budapest University of Technology and Economics (HU-BUTE) Italy Politecnico di Milano (IT-PoliMi) TIME-in&out Politecnico di Torino (IT-PoliTo) Università degli Studi di Padova (IT-UniPd) TIME in&out Università degli Studi di Trento (IT-UniTn) TIME in&out Norway Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO-NTNU) TIME in&out Poland Wroclaw University of Technology (PL-WUT) Portugal Instituto Superior Técnico (PT-IST) Russian Federation Bauman Moscow State Technical University (RU-BMSTU) TIME in&out Moscow State Technical University of Radio Engineering (RU-MIREA) TIME in&out Tomsk Polytechnic University (RU-TPU) Spain Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ES-UPM) TIME in&out Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (ES-UPV) TIME in&out Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ES-UPCo) Universidad de Sevilla (ES-USE) Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya (ES-UPC) Sweden Chalmers Tekniska Högskola (SE-CTH) Kungl. Tekniska Högskolan (SE-KTH) TIME in&out Lunds Tekniska Högskola (SE-LTH) TIME in&out Switzerland Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (CH-ETHZ) École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH-EPFL) United Kingdom Queen's University of Belfast (GB-QUB) Imperial College London (GB-ICL)
America, Asia and Africa Brazil Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (BR-UFRJ) State University of Campinas (BR-UNICAMP) Japan Keio university Doshisha university Tohoku university
Research The is highly involved in research, and has the highest rate of PhD lecturers amidst the French grandes écoles.
ECL hosts six research centers related to the CNRS - French National Center for Scientific Research: Ampère: electrical engineering, electromagnetism, control engineering, microbiology ICJ: applied mathematics INL: Lyon Institute of Nanotechnology LMFA: fluid mechanics and acoustics LTDS: tribology and systems dynamics LIRIS: computer science, signal and image processing
Ampère The overall objective of the research at Ampere is the management and rational use of energy in the systems in relation to their environment. Ampère was born in 2007: fusion of CEGELY (Center of Electrical Engineering of Lyon) and LAI (Laboratory of Automation Industrielle de Lyon), and integration of researchers in environmental microbiology. Contractualised with CNRS and three establishments in Lyon (ECL, INSA, UCBL), Ampere has over 160 employees. Tags: Materials of electrical engineering, power electronics, high-voltage, EMC, electromagnetic modeling. Control-command, mechatronics, fluid power, robotics, medical diagnosis and dependability. Gene transfer and bacterial adaptation, ecological engineering. The laboratory is organized into three scientific departments: Electric power: to create and optimize the devices for transportation, distribution and conversion of Electrical energy, taking into account their environments. Bioengineering: the emergence of fundamental concepts, methods and applications in bioengineering by a synergy between electrical engineering, science of microsystems and biology.