The École des Mines de Nantes, or EMN, ENSTIMN, EMNAntes, is a French engineering school based in Nantes, in the west of France. The school was founded in 1990 by the Ministry of Industry and belongs to the prestigious network of the Ecole des Mines (GEM)

The school offers 9 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)

The EMN has also signed agreements with Audencia Business School to offer a joint degree in management of information technologies.

[edit] Teaching philosophy

Albeit it offers a rather typical education for an engineering school, the EMN strives to give its graduate a practical, pragmatic approach of the technical and business skills it teaches. This philosophy, is illustrated by programs such as the Apprentissage Par l'Action ("Learning through interaction"), a case-based approach of 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, Nobel Prize winner.

[edit] 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