École Spéciale des Travaux Publics
École Spéciale des Travaux Publics, du bâtiment et de l'industrie, is a French engineering and research graduate school in Paris.History
The ESTP was founded in 1891 by Léon Eyrolles and was officially recognized by the State in 1921. It is a general engineering school recognized for leading French higher education in the fields of construction and project management. ESTP Paris is one of the most prestigious civil engineering schools in France.
It has trained a total of 24,000 engineers and 7,000 construction site managers.
The school has also educated since 1891 site managers in building and public works in an undergraduate program.
In 1999 the school formed a partnership with Arts et Métiers ParisTech to offer a double-degree program.Courses
The institution offers courses in building engineering, civil engineering, topography, surveying, electrical engineering granting diplomas and degrees for two- and three-year courses. The college was partly located on Boulevard Saint-Germain, in what has since become New York University's Paris campus, but entirely moved to Cachan, in the southern suburbs of Paris.
The college is open to English-speakers who want to study engineering in conjunction with French.Alumni
Notable alumni include:
- Patrick Bernasconi, French business executive
- Dominique Cerutti, French businessman
- Léon Eyrolles, French politician and entrepreneur, founder of the first ESTP
- Menachem Mendel Schneerson, last rebbe of the Lubavitch Hasidic dynasty, philosopher, theologian, engineer, educator and writer
- Moshé Feldenkrais, Israeli engineer
- Marc de Garidel, French businessman
- Nicolas Grunitzky, second president of Togo
- Roger Guérillot, French colonist of Ubangi-Shari
- Ginette Hamelin, French engineer and architect; member of the French resistance; died in a concentration camp
- Saad Hassar, Moroccan politician
- Bruno Itoua, Congolese politician
- Harold Martin, New Caledonian politician
- Guillaume Sarkozy, French entrepreneur
- Jeanne Scelles-Millie, French architectural engineer and author
- Gilles Tonelli, Monegasque engineer, diplomat and politician