The École des Mines de Nantes, or EMN, ENSTIMN, EMNAntes, is a French engineering school based in Nantes

Nantes

Nantes is a city in western France, located on the Loire River, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the 6th largest in France, while its metropolitan area ranks 8th with over 800,000 inhabitants....

, in the west of France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

. The school was founded in 1990 by the Ministry of Industry and belongs to the prestigious network of the Ecole des Mines (GEM)

The school offers 10 majors :

• Energy
  Energy
  In physics, energy is an indirectly observed quantity. It is often understood as the ability a physical system has to do work on other physical systems...
  
   (GSE)
• Decision-making software engineering
  Software engineering
  Software Engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, and the study of these approaches; that is, the application of engineering to software...
  
   (GIPAD)
• Logistics
  Logistics
  Logistics is the management of the flow of goods between the point of origin and the point of destination in order to meet the requirements of customers or corporations. Logistics involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging, and...
  
   and production systems (GOPL)
• Management of Information Technologies (OMTI)
• Information Systems
  Information systems
  Information Systems is an academic/professional discipline bridging the business field and the well-defined computer science field that is evolving toward a new scientific area of study...
  
   engineering (GSI)
• Quality and Safety
  Safety
  Safety is the state of being "safe" , the condition of being protected against physical, social, spiritual, financial, political, emotional, occupational, psychological, educational or other types or consequences of failure, damage, error, accidents, harm or any other event which could be...
  
   (QSF)
• Automation
  Automation
  Automation is the use of control systems and information technologies to reduce the need for human work in the production of goods and services. In the scope of industrialization, automation is a step beyond mechanization...
  
   (AII)
• Environment
  Environmental science
  Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical and biological sciences, to the study of the environment, and the solution of environmental problems...
  
   (GE)
• Nuclear
  Nuclear engineering
  Nuclear engineering is the branch of engineering concerned with the application of the breakdown as well as the fusion of atomic nuclei and/or the application of other sub-atomic physics, based on the principles of nuclear physics...
  
   : Technologies, Safety and Environment (NTSE)
• Nuclear
  Nuclear engineering
  Nuclear engineering is the branch of engineering concerned with the application of the breakdown as well as the fusion of atomic nuclei and/or the application of other sub-atomic physics, based on the principles of nuclear physics...
  
   : Systems and Technologies Applied to Nuclear reactors (STAR)

The EMN has also signed agreements with Audencia

Audencia

Audencia Nantes School of Management is one of the foremost business schools in France, accredited by EQUIS , AACSB and AMBA...

 Business School to offer a joint degree in management of information technologies.

Teaching philosophy

Albeit it offers a rather typical education for an engineering school, the EMN strives to give its graduate a practical, pragmatic approach of the technical and business skills it teaches. This philosophy is illustrated by programs such as the Apprentissage Par l'Action ("Learning through interaction"), a case-based approach of sciences, that places students in front of industry-inspired puzzles and develops students analytic skills and intellectual curiosity. The EMN is also a partner of "La main à la pâte" ("hands in the dough"), an innovative initiative to teach sciences in primary courses supported by Georges Charpak

Georges Charpak

Georges Charpak was a French physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992.-Life:Georges Charpak was born to Jewish family in the village of Dąbrowica in Poland . Charpak's family moved from Poland to Paris when he was seven years old...

, Nobel Prize winner.

External links

• Ecole des Mines de Nantes