École des Mines de Nantes

The École des Mines de Nantes, or École nationale supérieure des mines de Nantes (Mines Nantes) is a French high-level engineering school (grande école), part of the Institut Mines-Télécom. The school is based in Nantes, in the west of France. It was merged with Télécom Bretagne in 1 January 2017, the new school's name is IMT Atlantique.

The school offers 10 majors:

• Energy (GSE)
• Decision-making software engineering (GIPAD)
• Logistics and production systems (GOPL)
• Management of Information Technologies (OMTI)
• Information Systems engineering (GSI)
• Quality and Safety (QSF)
• Automation (AII)
• Environment (GE)
• Nuclear : Technologies, Safety and Environment (NTSE)
• Nuclear : Systems and Technologies Applied to Nuclear reactors (STAR)
• Nuclear : Sustainable Nuclear Energy and Waste Management(SNEWM)- International master taught in English

The EMN has also signed agreements with Audencia Business School to offer a joint degree in management of information technologies. The school depend on the French minister of industry.

Teaching philosophy[]

Although it offers a fairly typical education for an engineering school, the EMN strives to give its graduate a practical, pragmatic approach to the technical and business skills it teaches. Manifestations of this philosophy include programs such as the "Apprentissage par l'action" ("Learning through action"), a case-based approach to sciences that places students in front of industry-inspired puzzles and develops students' analytic skills and intellectual curiosity. The EMN is also a partner of "La main à la pâte" ("Hands in the dough"), an innovative initiative to teach sciences in primary courses supported by Georges Charpak, who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1992.

Programs taught in English[]

EMN offers 4 Master of Science programs fully taught in English. The programs are:

• MOST (MSc in Management and Optimization of Supply Chains and Transport).
• PM3E (Master of Science in Project Management for Environnemental and Energy Engineering).
• ME3 joint masters (European joint Masters in Management and Engineering of Environment and Energy) in collaboration with 4 other partners (UPM Madrid, KTH Stockholm, BME Budapest and Queen’s University Belfast). This program has obtained the prestigious Erasmus Mundus label of the European Union.
• SNEAM (Master of Science in Sustainable Nuclear Energy - Applications and Management)

Other schools of Mines in France[]

• École nationale supérieure des Mines d'Albi Carmaux (Mines Albi-Carmaux)
• École nationale supérieure des Mines d'Alès (Mines Alès)
• École nationale supérieure des Mines de Douai (Mines Douai)
• École nationale supérieure des Mines de Nancy
• École nationale supérieure des Mines de Paris (Mines ParisTech)
• École nationale supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne (Mines Sainte-Etienne)
• École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Rabat (Mines Rabat)

External links[]

• Ecole des Mines de Nantes

Coordinates: 47°16′56″N 1°31′15″W / 47.28222°N 1.52083°W / 47.28222; -1.52083