EIGSI La Rochelle is heir to one of the four private Parisian Engineering Grandes Ecoles from the start of the 20th century: the Ecole d’Electricité et de Mécanique Industrielle (EEMI – école Violet) created in Paris in 1901.
Commission-Titres-IngenieurEIGSI is certified to award the title of graduate Engineer by the CTI for a maximum period of six years. In 2012, EIGSI formed a partnership with CFA-EIA and opened an apprenticeship engineering training section certified by the CTI in May 2012.
The school’s missions cover three dimensions: training, research, and innovation, which may be represented as a triangle, or as two foundations, with research and innovation contributing to reinforcing engineer training excellence. Research and innovation have several beneficial effects: they guarantee the standard of knowledge transmitted to students by the research professors who find themselves up against the very best international standards in their discipline. Also, they offer students excellent training grounds.
Learning about the process of innovation is a critical element of our training program. Creativity and innovation are taught in various forms (module on introduction to research methods, Innovation & Entrepreneurship projects in the 4th and fifth years). By participating in research activities, trainee engineers develop their taste for research and their ability to be bold and act on innovation.
EIGSI La Rochelle is a school that offers a 5-year course in general engineering. The training program aims to reconcile learning about engineering techniques with knowledge of the industrial world to enable graduates to adapt to their professional environment changes. The school currently has 800 students, 65 permanent staff members, and 300 occasional contributors from education and business.
EIGSI La Rochelle provides high added value general scientific and technical training, with a significant dimension accorded to training in human skills and international openness, good relations with companies, and the support of research and innovation which feeds into the theoretical basis to generate training which is always at the cutting-edge of the discipline.
Balance and progressive learning are critical factors in academics at EIGSI.
This phase in the course guides the student’s career and offers knowledge of the professional world. The major represents 2/3 of lessons over the last two years of the course. The student outlines the career of his choice.
The choice of major he makes is the result of a gradual reflection.
EIGSI La Rochelle offers study programs that develop cross-cutting expertise to train general system engineers. Thus, in addition to focusing on knowledge, expertise, and people skills, we also teach students to engage in relational leadership. The courses offered have several training goals, in particular.
EIGSI places great importance on work placements (a minimum of 44 weeks in 5 years). In parallel, one of EIGSI’s key focuses is “project culture. “ Indirect contact with companies’ real problems, students participate in more than a dozen projects. These are designed to apply their project management skills, cement their scientific and technical skills, and develop new ones. These projects entail compliance with specifications, a budget, and time constraints. Furthermore, the collaborative work required in project mode participates fully in listening, observation, and group leadership skills.
Since 2012, in partnership with CFA-EIA, EIGSI has offered an apprenticeship general engineering training course that combines a major in “Information Systems and Supply Chain Management.”
This course enables apprentices to define their professional projects in the logistics chain and information system professions. The three-year course is based on a regular rhythm of school-business training. Open to holders of a scientific and technical 2-year post-baccalaureate qualification, this course welcomes 24 apprentices in EIGSI-3, the first year of the engineering cycle. Thanks to EIGSI’s network of partner companies, they are received by companies such as Aerazur, Airbus, Alstom, Eads-Sogerma, Esterline, Valeo, Innovia, Delphi, Devoteam, Vuitton, etc.
EIGSI, Engineering School, has a rich history dating back more than 110 years, combining academics, tradition, innovation, and human adventure. Founded in 1901 in Paris, EIGSI is one of France’s oldest private engineering schools. Since its foundation, it has graduated more than 7800 engineers.
In 1901, it was initially being called EEMI, the School of Industrial Electricity and Mechanics. EEMI quickly emerged as a leading engineering school in electrical and mechanical engineering. EEMI was known as an innovation center, training creative, innovative engineers at the forefront of technical and scientific progress.
The first graduates of the school included modern-day adventurers who, driven by their passion for engineering, embarked on the exciting new aviation adventure. Géo Chavez, a Peruvian origin student, beat two records in a row in 1910: the highest altitude flew (2,652 meters) and the air crossing of the Alps. And Roger Baptiste, a test pilot in the 1930s, flew many prototype flights.
EEMI lost many men during the two world wars but continued to grow and achieve great fame under the name of Ecole Violet, due to its location on rue Violet in Paris.
In 1990, EEMI became EIGSI and moved to La Rochelle. A new place, a new campus, and a new challenge for this celebrated general engineering school.
