Its main features are:
- a vast multi-disciplinarity in the field of engineering sciences,
- internationally recognised excellence,
- an activity in connection with industry and services.
ParisTech’s 126 laboratories (3 500 faculty members) cover the major fields in science and technology :
- mathematics and its applications
- information and communication sciences and technologies
- physics, optics
- materials science, mechanics and mechanical engineering
- fluid mechanics and energy
- chemistry, physical chemistry and chemical engineering
- life sciences and engineering
- earth sciences and environmental engineering
- economics and social sciences
The works of Maurice Allais (Nobel prize for Economics,1988), Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (Nobel prize for Physics, 1991), Georges Charpak (Nobel prize for Physics, 1992), Pierre-Louis Lions (Fields Medal, 1994), highlight ParisTech’s academic excellence.
Our ParisTech laboratories have strong links with industry :
Mobility : many researchers have had corporate experience, and over half our PhD students choose to work with companies after their thesis.
Contracts : part of the research is financed by industrial partners: large international groups, small and medium-sized companies, beside the public sector
Entrepreneurship : many small companies come into existence from the research work done at ParisTech.