École nationale supérieure de mécanique et d'aérotechnique
French engineering school
The École Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et d'Aérotechnique (French pronunciation: [ekɔl nɑsjɔnal sypeʁjœʁ də mekanik e daeʁɔtɛknik]; ISAE-ENSMA) is a grande école founded in 1948 and located near Poitiers, France.
Graduates generally work as R&D engineers for corporations in the aerospace (60%), transportation, capital goods, and energy industry. The school is part of GEA, CESAER, PEGASUS and the ISAE group with the Institut supérieur de l'aéronautique et de l'espace (ISAE-SUPAERO). It is a member of Leonardo da Vinci consolidated University, an association of educational institutions in the former Centre, Poitou-Charentes and Limousin regions.
History
In 1945, the Institut de Mécanique et d’Aérotechnique de Poitiers (IMAP) was founded as a collaboration between the French Air Ministry, the University of Paris and the University of Poitiers. In 1947, the government of France began establishing a new set of national engineering schools. As part of these reforms, the IMAP was turned into the École nationale supérieure de mécanique et d'aérotechnique (ENSMA) on March 27, 1948.
In 1986, the ENSMA was awarded the status of établissement public à caractère administrative (a designation given to various institutions considered to contribute to the public interest), affiliated to the University of Poitiers.
In 1993 ENSMA moved from Poitiers Center to Futuroscope in view of having a larger campus for larger research capacities.
In 2011, the ENSMA co-founded a network of engineering schools called the Groupe ISAE in collaboration with the Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE).
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