École nationale des travaux publics de l'État


The École nationale des travaux publics de l'État, National School of Public Works of the State, is an engineering school part of the French Grandes Écoles under the supervision of the Ministry of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Sea, and part of the University of Lyon network. It is located since 1970 in Vaulx-en-Velin, in the suburbs of Lyon, facing the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Lyon, the school of architecture of Lyon.

Presentation

Founded in 1954 in Paris, the ENTPE moved in 1970 in the Lyon area, where it settled in Vaulx-en-Velin, in a building built by the architect Jacques Perrin-Fayolle. It shares its campus with the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Lyon, the School of Architecture of Lyon. The main vocation of the ENTPE is to train the civil engineers who will be the main managers of the Ministry, even though nowadays more and more of its students work for private companies.
The school has long been a full part of the Ministry of Infrastructure but is now administratively speaking a national public establishment of an administrative character, outside university perimeter.

Admission

Students can be civil servants or not:
Admission to the ENTPE is made through a very selective entrance examination, and requires a minimum of two years of preparation after high school in classes préparatoires.

Internal exams

Also exists an exam exclusively made for civil servants having served a minimum of four years as higher technicians. Each year, 10 to 15 civil servants are chosen that way

Recruitment after another degree

A direct admission in second year is possible, for French students or students with citizenship from the European union. It is necessary to already withhold a Master I diploma cum laude in Civil Engineering, Mathematics, Mechanics or Physics.

Foreign students

Foreign students have access through the "classical" external way or can access with special conditions through agreements with foreign schools.

Curriculum

Initial Curriculum

The ENTPE trains engineers in 3 years in all the fields of civil engineering, town and country planning and sustainable development. The teaching is the same, regardless of the admission way.
The training goes the following way :
The ENTPE also proposes a large panel of complementary courses, mainly enabling students to obtain a second degree. It is for instance possible for students to obtain degrees from the following schools:
The ENTPE is also entitled to deliver PhDs inside one of the 6 laboratories it shelters. Up to 20 PhDs are delivered each year.

Partnerships

French partnerships

The School is member of the following:
The School also enables students to attend classes and obtain degrees from foreign universities, through many partnerships:
Along with teaching, the ENTPE also deploys a strong activity in research. There are actually 6 different laboratories in the school, each one specialized in one the fields of study evoked before. Its staff sums up to over 200 persons. 4 of its 6 laboratories are part of the CNRS.

Openings

As its name goes, the School trains in the fields of civil engineering, but also those mentioned before: Building, City Planning, Environment, Transportation, and to sum it up, all the fields of engineering linked to sustainable development.

Non-civil servant students ("civilians")

After School, they are mainly hired by big civil engineering companies, or engineering cabinets, such as Egis, Eiffage, Vinci, Arcadis, Bouygues, etc.

Civil servants

There are different possibilities:

Life on Campus

It was established in Vaulx-en-Velin on a common campus with the school of architecture of Lyon. Numerous sports infrastructures exist, among which can be mentioned a 25 meters and 4 meters deep swimming pool, a dojo, a fitness room, 4 tennis courts. There is naturally also a cafeteria, a students' bar with its patio, a music room.
Thanks to an agreement with the local HLM office, students are housed in cheap and comfortable apartments near the school.

Community Life

Like many other schools, the ENTPE focuses a lot on community life through different sport activities:
But also on less physical activities: