" The key word in defining the programs that make up the foundation of the training is therefore balance – between scientific and technical training, between expanding knowledge and specializing and between exercising abstraction skills and developing a taste for practical application."

 

Patrick Aldebert

The training provided in the Supélec Engineering program, offered on the Gif-sur-Yvette, Metz or Rennes campuses, is characterized by the fields of information sciences, energy and systems.

 

The main aim is to train well-rounded and balanced engineers to have:

  • an excellent scientific level, which is essential for adapting to new technologies,
  • fundamental knowledge about all disciplines covering these fields,
  • recognized skills in one of these fields, rendering students both quickly operational and able to contribute to the improvement of their company,
  • knowledge of the various aspects of business,
  • the ability to speak English and another modern language so that they can work in international and multicultural environments.

The key word in defining the programs that make up the foundation of the training is therefore balance – between scientific and technical training, between expanding knowledge and specializing and between exercising abstraction skills and developing a taste for practical application.

 

The space given over to human and social aspects, knowledge of business and communication, modern languages, and taking personal initiatives within the program or in associations, without compromising scientific and technical training, is also a demonstration of this balance. The division between oral teaching and laboratory training is another facet of this desired balance.

Personalize your track

Customized learning

Throughout their studies, students must make choices and manage priorities: choosing elective classes and languages, 3rd-year major, projects, associations, etc.The richness of the educational offerings, the variety of fields, the choice of associations to join, the inevitable constraints – all lead students to develop their autonomy in managing their priorities.

 

Master’s combination

Students who wish to complete a Research Master’s in parallel with their major or option may take an additional course within a specialty associated with the major or option.

 

Sciences et Technologies : Digital Tech Year

 

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Since 2015, the Digital Tech Year (http://paris-digital-lab.com/) has been a unique experience in direct contact with companies, focused on innovation.

 

It aims to:

  • develop the innovation potential and entrepreneurial spirit in the best IT talents of the school
  • meet the digital Open Innovation requirements of leading companies or start-ups in their field

 

See the presentation video : https://vimeo.com/158338326

 

Success stories 

Jean-Baptiste Rudelle, Co-founder and CEO of Criteo. (Supélec 91)
https://youtu.be/GKit59JMLyM

 

Renaud Séguier, Co-founder of Dynamixyz, CentraleSupélec professor, Rennes campus
https://youtu.be/36gE40AO8kY

 

Matthieu Hug, Co-founder of RunMyProcess, acquired by Fujitsu in 2013. (Supélec 97)
https://youtu.be/kIfOwIXNQcg

 

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is central to CentraleSupélec training.

 

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Highly active in this field, the school offers:

  • A series of four independent elective modules in the 1st and 2nd years and a minor in the 3rd year (introduction to Entrepreneurship I, II, III and IV, Entrepreneurship minor, Research and Innovation). There are also several innovation awareness modules on offer;
  • Launched at the beginning of 2015, the Digital Tech Year is an Innovation Factory (www.innovationfcty.fr) program that gives the best digital performers of CentraleSupélec to join companies focused on innovation for a whole year of technical immersion.

Students who have a personal plan to create a company can also dedicate their 2nd and 3rd-year projects, as well as their end-of-study internships, to this.

 

Gap Year/Long internships

Students can, if they wish, make a gap year or complete a long internships lasting one year (two six-month internships) before completing their 3rd year of studies.

 

Double degrees

In the 3rd year, in addition to the international offer, the school provides opportunities to complete double degrees with French institutions, awarding the Supélec Engineering degree and:

  • The ESCP Europe diploma (total duration of studies: 4 years)
  • National Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology (INSTN) Atomic Engineering degree (total duration of studies: 4 years)
  • IFP School Engineering degree (total duration of studies: 3.5 years)
  • IGR-IAE of Rennes degree
  • Paris-Sud University and ISNTN degree
  • Paris-Sud University degree
  • Officer in the French National Navy degree (Naval College, total duration of studies: four years)
  • ENSAM Engineering degree (total duration of studies: four years

Make your track international

International Mobility

 

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Our international dimension in figures

  • One international track (fundamentals in English, support and assessment in English and French)
  • Six months minimum spent abroad
  • 60 nationalities represented on the campus
  • 22% of students are international
  • 11 modern languages taught
  • 150 students completing a double degree each year
  • 70 exchange students for one semester

The international action of the Supélec Engineering program is aligned with the strategy aiming on the one hand to make its own recruitment more international, and on the other, to make a condition of degree award the validation of an experience abroad lasting at least one semester.

 

Beyond acquiring scientific and technical skills, an international double degree offers other learning dimensions:

  • development of cultural and intellectual mobility
  • a feeling for human relations
  • the ability to adapt to other educational systems, working methods and lifestyles
  • the ability to work in another language

 

To do so, several options are possible:

Several international mobility possibilities are available for students:

  • Completing a semester abroad, as part of the 2nd year Engineering program
  • Completing the entire 3rd year of the program abroad (proposed program abroad/supervised by the school)
  • Completing the end-of-studies internship, at the end of the 3rd year of the Engineering program, abroad (this internship must be authorized by the school to count as the international experience obligation)
  • Completing an end-of-first year internship, and a 2nd-year internship abroad, as long as the total length of both internships last for a minimum of 16 weeks (these internships must be authorized by the school)
  • Complete the Master of Science at GeorgiaTech Lorraine, in parallel with the 3rd year on the Metz campus (offered by the school)
  • Complete the "Managing Japanese Companies" program of the MBA with the Rennes Institute of Management in parallel with the 3rd year on the Rennes campus (offered by the school)
  • Request that the school validate a period of minimum 16 weeks spent in a laboratory or company, between the 2nd and 3rd years of the Engineering program
  • Submit a request for validation to the Supélec Engineering program board, for students who have already completed an international experience between obtaining their French baccalaureates and being admitted to the Supélec Engineering program (whatever the duration of the placement), or completed an international experience within their program with a partner school

The school encourages and facilitates double training programs, especially those that lead to students obtaining two degrees.

 

Partner universities

Students completing the Supélec Engineering program also have the option of completing part of their training abroad in the form of a 2nd-year semester or the whole of their 3rd year. In the latter case, this stay leads most students to obtain a double degree (the Supélec Engineering degree alongside a diploma from the other country) but also means extending the length of studies.

To roll out its policy of international openness, CentraleSupélec maintains active relationships with the largest training and research institutions in the world. It boasts a large number of bilateral collaborations with universities in North America, South America, Asia, Australia and Europe. CentraleSupélec is a member of the T.I.M.E. (Top Industrial Manager for Europe) association, which unites 54 of the most prestigious institutions in most European countries.