| IMT Nord Europe | |
| Former Name: | École des Mines de Douai |
| Established: | 1878, 1990, 2017 |
| Type: | Grande école d'ingénieurs (public research university Engineering school) |
| Parent: | Institut Mines-Télécom[1] |
| Academic Affiliations: | Conférence des Grandes écoles[2] University of Lille Community of Universities and Institutions (COMUE) Lille Nord de France |
| President: | Alain-Louis Schmitt |
| City: | Lille (Villeneuve-d'Ascq), Douai, Valenciennes, Dunkerque and Alençon |
| Country: | France |
| Coor: | 50.3752°N 3.0678°W |
| Students: | 2'000 |
| Campus: | University of Lille (Cité Scientifique) and Douai |
| Website: | http://www.imt-lille-douai.fr/en/ |
IMT Nord Europe or École nationale supérieure Mines-Télécom Lille Douai is a French graduate school of engineering (grande école d'ingénieurs). It is located in the Hauts-de-France region, shared between 2 campuses: the science campus (cité scientifique) of the University of Lille (Villeneuve-d'Ascq, European Metropolis of Lille); and the city of Douai. It is accredited by the Commission des Titres d'Ingénieur (CTI) to deliver the French Diplôme d'Ingénieur.
The school trains high-level engineers and scientists (Master and PhD level) in various technological fields. A small number of students are accepted each year, after a very selective exam. It is a crucial part of the infrastructure of French industry.
It is affiliated to University of Lille and Institut Mines-Télécom (Mines-Télécom Institut of Technology - IMT).
The École des Mines de Douai merged with TELECOM Lille in 2017 to become the largest engineering school in France north of Paris under the name IMT Lille Douai, then IMT Nord Europe.
The École des Maîtres-ouvriers mineurs de Douai was founded on 27 March 1878 on the same model as the École des mines d'Alès, founded forty years earlier.It was originally a vocational school providing for the training needs of skilled workers "Maîtres-mineurs" for the coal mining industry. Chief Engineers Lebleu and Peslin were its first directors. The number of admissions was 24 in 1878 and 20 in 1879, enough to meet demand, but fell to 15 in 1880 and averaged only 13 in the following decade.An Alumni Societe (Société amicale des anciens élèves) was founded in 1886.
On 10 February 1892 Henry Küss was entrusted with the Douai mineralogical district, including mining school, a post he held until 1906.Under Kuss the number of admissions averaged 27.5.Only candidates who had working experience as minors were admitted.To reassure critics who denounced training of civil servants and thought over-rapid improvement in the social status of workers would be dangerous, In 1905 Henry Küss stated that the pupils did "not need a very extensive scientific background, which they would anyway with very few exceptions be unable to assimilate.By 1906, out of 393 alumni whose occupations were known, 151 were supervisors and 110 were surveyors or verifiers.From 18 January 1906 graduates of the school could be appointed contrôleurs des Mines in the colonies.By 1913 more than 80 of Küss's former pupils were working in the colonies or foreign countries.
In the 1960s the school made basic changes to adapt to the recession in the coal industry.In 1965 it became a school for general engineers with two streams, Buildings/Public Works, and Mechanical/Metallurgy.Studies took four years, interspersed with five mandatory internships in companies.The school was authorized to issue an Engineering diploma in 1966.Research activity developed from the mid-1970s, and a technology incubator was founded in 1985 to support creation of innovative new businesses.In 1980 the school became the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines.
The École des Mines de Douai merged with TELECOM Lille in 2017 to become the largest engineering school in France north of Paris under the name IMT Lille Douai.
All Institut Mines-Telecom (IMT) schools are Grandes Écoles, a French institution of higher education that is separate from, but parallel and connected to the main framework of the French public university system. Similar to the Ivy League in the United States, Oxbridge in the UK, and C9 League in China, Grandes Écoles are elite academic institutions that admit students through an extremely competitive process.[3] [4] [5] Alums go on to occupy elite positions within government, administration, and corporate firms in France.[6] [7]
Although the IMT schools are more expensive than public universities in France, Grandes Écoles typically have much smaller class sizes and student bodies, and many of their programs are taught in English. International internships, study abroad opportunities, and close ties with government and the corporate world are a hallmark of the Grandes Écoles. Many of the top ranked schools in Europe are members of the Conférence des Grandes Écoles (CGE), as are the IMT schools.[8] [9] Degrees from the Institut Mines-Telecom are accredited by the Conférence des Grandes Écoles[10] and awarded by the Ministry of National Education (France) (French: Le Ministère de L'éducation Nationale).[11]
The selected students have various profiles. At the beginning the school offers a training with general courses:
During the second semester, several elective courses are offered and give students the opportunity to learn a particular subject related to engineering topics. These courses are divided into 4 sections:
The first year is equivalent to a bachelor's degree in general engineering: students have general knowledge about several engineering topics.
The second year is the first master year. Students are required to select a minor and a major. This couple of courses gives them a very personalized educational path. There are 13 minors and 8 majors. Some minors cannot be selected with some majors.
| scope=col | Environment and industry | scope=col | Civil Engineering | scope=col | Energy Engineering | scope=col | Mechanical Engineering | scope=col | Quality Engineering | scope=col | Computer Engineering | scope=col | Industrial Engineering and Industrial Automation | scope=col | Technology of Polymers and Composites | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row | Health, Quality, Environment in Civil engineering | X | X | |||||||||||||
| scope=row | Statistics of measures and risks | X | X | |||||||||||||
| scope=row | Techniques in Research and Development | X | X | X | ||||||||||||
| scope=row | Structure of Materials | X | X | X | ||||||||||||
| scope=row | Structural analysis | X | X | |||||||||||||
| scope=row | Manufacturing and Automation | X | X | X | ||||||||||||
| scope=row | Acquisition, processing of measures and regulation | X | X | |||||||||||||
| scope=row | Hydraulics et Hydrogeology | X | X | |||||||||||||
| scope=row | Valorisation of materials | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||
| scope=row | Renewable energies | X | X | |||||||||||||
| scope=row | Mobile applications and embedded systems | X | X | |||||||||||||
| scope=row | Decision Engineering | X | X | X | ||||||||||||
| scope=row | Quality and security of information systems | X | X | X |
The 8 majors offered are:
During the third year, in order to complete their technical knowledge students are required to study courses linked to professional positions. They have to select one group of courses among the following ones:
Mines Douai has a various range of academic partnerships with French and foreign universities. French students can go to a foreign university during the second year and/or the third year. They can also earn a double degree with some of the universities below. Foreign students can also come to Mines Douai.
Austria: Vienna University of Technology
Bulgaria: Technical University, Sofia
Canada: Université de Sherbrooke
Chile: University of Santiago, Chile
China: Zhejiang University Hohai University
Czech Republic: Technical University of Ostrava
Germany : Technische Universität Berlin, Braunschweig University of Technology, Brandenburg University of Technology, Clausthal University of Technology, Bauhaus
India: Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune University, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Japan: Kyoto Institute of Technology
Morocco: National School of Mineral Industry, École nationale supérieure d'électricité et mécanique (ENSEM) de Casablanca
Poland: Wrocław University of Technology
Portugal: University of Minho
Romania: University of Galați, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași, Politehnica University of Timișoara
Slovakia: Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
Spain: Polytechnic University of Catalonia, University of Zaragoza
Switzerland: Université de Berne, ETH Zurich
Brazil: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro State University Canada: École polytechnique de Montréal, École de technologie supérieure China: Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Hohai University, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Tongji University, Southeast University Germany: RWTH Aachen University (IKV and IKA)
New Zealand: University of Auckland Spain: Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales de Madrid
Tunisia: École nationale d'ingénieurs de Sfax
USA: University of Delaware, Georgia Institute of Technology
Vietnam: National University of Civil Engineering