École Centrale de Paris
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| Motto | Leader, Entrepreneur, Innovateur |
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| Type | Public, Grand établissement |
| Established | 1829 |
| President | Hervé Biausser |
| Postgraduates | 2,505 (1,789 engineer candidates) |
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| Location | Châtenay-Malabry, France |
| Affiliations | University of Paris-Saclay, Centrale Graduate School, TIME, CESAER, UniverSud Paris |
| Website | http://www.ecp.fr |
Coordinates: 48°45′56.8″N 2°17′18.3″E / 48.765778°N 2.288417°E
École Centrale Paris (ECP, often referred to as Centrale) is a French institute of research and higher education in engineering and science. It is also known by its original name École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures. It is one of the leading prestigious French 'Grandes Écoles' in engineering, especially known for its Centralien engineering program.
Founded in 1829, it is among the oldest and most selective grandes écoles in France. Since the 19th century, its specific model of engineering education has inspired the foundation of other schools, such as École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, as well as Faculté Polytechnique de Mons in Belgium.
In 2015, École Centrale Paris merged with Supélec to form CentraleSupélec, a constituent institution of the University of Paris-Saclay.
Between 1832 and 1870, the Central School of Arts and Manufactures produced 3,000 engineers, and served as a model for most of the industrialized countries. [....] There is no doubt that in the 1860s France had the best system of higher technical and scientific education in Europe.
The École Centrale des Arts et Manufatures was founded in 1829 as a private institution by Alphonse Lavallée, who became its first president, and three scientists who became its founding associates: Eugène Peclet, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, and Théodore Olivier. The founding vision was to train multidisciplinary engineers as the first 'doctors' of the then-emerging industrial sector in France, at a time when most engineering schools trained students for public service.
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