École catholique des arts et métiers

Not to be confused with Arts et Métiers ParisTech.

The École catholique des arts et métiers (ECAM) of Lyon is an engineering school, it is one of the French "Grande écoles". It was created in Reims in 1900 and moved to Lyon in 1946, on the hills of Fourvière.

General information

ECAM offers a five-year engineering curriculum and is designed for students with a French or equivalent Baccalaureate. It encompasses a 2–year preparatory curriculum followed by a 3-year graduate engineering degree in engineering sciences and technologies.

Curriculum

The ECAM curriculum comprises scientific and technical courses together with practical training in the 5 following departments: Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Electrical and Electronical Engineering, Automation, IT and Production Engineering or carrying out projects. Besides, 3 Trainings are made compulsory in France and abroad (12 months in all). The general knowledge includes: communication techniques, social and economic studies together with foreign languages. The preparatory classes are located on the ECAM Engineering School campus. The curriculum is composed of 3 modules: the scientific courses, the engineer’s general knowledge and literary courses among which: foreign languages (English, Japanese, Chinese or German). The engineering curriculum provides the students with 6 semesters identical for every student. The basic sciences for the engineer encompass the major topics of Mechanical Engineering, as follows: Solid and Fluid Mechanics, Vibrations, Structures Calculation, Energetics, Automation, Materials Sciences, Manufacturing together with those of Electrical Engineering, namely: Electrotechnics, Power Electronics, Microelectronics, Servomechanisms. Besides, IT and Engineer’s Math are to be added. The general and professional knowledge comprises: foreign languages, the discovery of foreign cultures through their successive stages, the corporate life: management, strategy, labor law, etc.

Facilities

The numerous laboratory courses and projects offer the students the opportunity to work with the latest hardware and software, thus allowing them to be immediately operational in a wide range of scientific and technical fields. With more than 350 on-line computers, ECAM has access to the most advanced communication technologies. Four self-access computer-rooms are available 24 hours, 7 days a week. High-speed internet together with video-conference facilities, among others, allow efficient remote design cooperation. Every ECAM student has their own mail address.

Figures

694 students, 14% of whom are female,
14 month internship (average) during the whole curriculum, with 6 month abroad,
116 students in the Institut des Techniques d'Ingénieur de l'Industrie cursus,
50 Industrial contracts in research and development,
92 teachers
25 teacher-researchers in 5 departments,
5762 engineer graduates since its creation in 1900.

External links

Catholic universities in France

École Catholique des Arts et Métiers Catholic University of Lille Catholic University of Lyon Catholic University of Rennes Catholic University of Toulouse Catholic University of the West Catholic Institute of Higher Studies Catholic University of Paris

Catholicism portal

Conférence des Grandes écoles

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Accredited degrees	Bilan d'aptitude délivré par les grandes écoles Mastère spécialisé MSc

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