The National Graduate School of Engineering Chemistry of Lille

Nationally recognised qualification equivalent to a Master’s degree in Engineering

>Lille & Villeneuve d’Ascq

• 1 hour from Paris• 30 min from Brussels• 2 hours from London

• 1.1 million inhabitants• 87 associated towns• 80 000 students

4 Universities

20 Graduate Engineering

Schools

>A nice place to live in

>L’École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Lille, in figures

• first graduated student in 1911

• 3500 alumni students

• 80 graduates / year

• 350 students

• 130 teachers, among which 40

contributors from industry

• first woman graduated in 1919

now 60 % of the students

>Education at ENSCL

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Diplôme d’ingénieur Year 5 - Master level

Year 8: PhD

Industry

Undergraduate preparatory programm

Engineering programme

National competitive entrance examination

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>Training at ENSCL

Final year (5th academic year) : 6 options : • « Sustainable chemistry  and process »• « Formulation and Engineering Chemistry », • « Optimization and Reliability of Engineering Materials »,• International year abroad,• Double diploma with IFP School (Petroleum), • Master by Research

Core syllabus: chemistry : science and technology

Semester 5 Semester 6 Semester 7 Semester 8

Personalized syllabus: science and technology

chemical engineering and materials ORchemistry and molecular engineering

Semester 9 Semester 10

OPTIONS

YEAR 1 YEAR 2 YEAR 3

Organic chemistryPolymer chemistryChemical engineeringCatalysis Mineral chemistryMaterials science…

>The Fédération Gay-Lussac: 19 Engineering Chemical Engineering

Schools• 6000 students

• 1600 graduate/an

• 90 laboratories

• 1100 PhD students

• 30% of the French Research in

chemistry/chemical engineering

>Spring-boards into Industry

• Executive internship :

1 to 2 months’ full time internship to learn how a company works.

• Application internship :

2 to 3 months (minimum) in a firm, working as an engineer.

• End-of-study work :

6 months’ (minimum) work in a firm culminating in a study of the highest scientific, technical and methodological level, defended in front of a jury.

>The main job outlets

Car industry4%

Engineering,Services

3%Environment,Water treatment

3%

Quality control2%

Biochemistry2%

Petrochemistry5%

Distribution,Business

5%

Public job5%

Cosmetics6%

PharmaceuticalChemistry

7%

Materials,Metallurgy

7%

Various8%

Chemistry11%

Electronics -Data Processing

11%

Research& Development

21%

>A few firms hiring frequently our graduated students

• Chemistry : BP, Total, Arkema, Rhodia, Roquette, Shell

• Energy : CEA, EDF, Institut Français du Pétrole

• Metallurgy and Materials :Mittal Arcelor, Europipe, Enersys, Ugo, Ascométal, Renault, PSA, Bombardier, TRB, Centre de Recherches Métallurgiques,Dillingen Hüttenwerke, Novelis,

• Pharmaceutical industry : Novartis, Sanofi, Aventis, Höchst, Synthélabo, Pfizer

• Others : Henkel, L’Oréal, Procter & Gamble, Astra, PPG, Unilever, Nestlé, Rom & Haas,Nicols, Thomson, Auchan, Lafarge

>International Commitment

-2 mandatory foreign languages- Compulsory mobility abroad

-80 cooperation agreements in the world- double-degrees

>Offer to International Students

• International office in charge student and faculty exchange/joint curricula/double degrees

• 10% of international students• Mentor programme (Welcoming students’club)• Intensive French Summer courses and on a weekly

basis• Guaranteed accommodation on campus to all

international students • Academic tutoring• Research projects within laboratories

(including industrially oriented projects)

>Specific Programmes

• Double-diploma agreements :

Regensburg University (Germany),UPC Barcelona University of Sao Paulo (Brazil),Uberlandia Federal University (Brazil),Nagoya Institute of Technology (Japan),Xiamen University (China),Sichuan University (China)Yucatan University (Mexico)

• Chemistry International Studies : (CHEM.I.ST.) Admission after a secondary school diploma

>Research at ENSCL

• Close relations with the University

• Research laboratories

• 130 Researchers

• 70 PHD Students

>ENSCL some main research topics

• Electrical properties of oxide ceramics,

• Electronic, ionic and mixed conductors

• Metallurgy – Thermodynamic of alloys

• Formulation chemistry

• Catalysis – enantioselective catalysis – biocatalysis

• Engineering of fireproofing materials

• Photochemistry and radiochemistry of polymers

Thank you for your attention…

Contacts :Director of International Academic programs :

Zahia TURPIN (zahia.turpin@ensc-lille.fr)