École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne

Saint-Étienne School of Mines
Type	Grande école d'ingénieurs; (public research university Engineering school)
Established	1816; 208 years ago
Parent institution	Institut Mines-Télécom
Academic affiliations	Conférence des Grandes écoles
Location	Saint-Étienne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Campus	Urban
Website	www.mines-stetienne.fr

École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne, also called École des Mines de Saint-Étienne (literally meaning "Saint-Étienne school of mines") or simply Mines Saint-Étienne and commonly abbreviated EMSE is a prestigious French graduate engineering school (grandes écoles) training engineers and carrying out industry-oriented research. Its function is to support the development of its students and of companies through a range of courses and fields of research, from the initial training of generalist engineers ingénieurs civils des mines, to PhD teaching; from material sciences to micro-electronics via process engineering, mechanics, the environment, civil engineering, finance, computer science and health engineering.

History

The school was founded in 1816 by a decision of Louis XVIII (2 August 1816).

Admission for French students

For French nationals, admission to Civil Engineer of Mines is decided after competitive examination at the end of preparatory classes, a highly selective system.

Notable alumni

Benoît Fourneyron, designed the first practical water turbine in 1827
Henri Fayol, a French management theorist
Jules Garnier
Mahamadou Issoufou, elected Niger President in March 2011
Anne-Marcelle Kahn, (née Schrameck) first woman to graduate from the school, in 1919.^[3]
Tadeusz Nowicki

The puRkwa Prize

The puRkwa Prize is an "international prize for the scientific literacy of the children of the planet" awarded annually by the école nationale supérieure des mines of Saint Etienne and the French Academy of Sciences. The prize is awarded to pioneers in the innovation of general science education in school curricula for children less than 16 years of age. It was launched in 2004 at the initiative of Robert Germinet, the director of the école nationale supérieure des mines of Saint Etienne, and comes with an €80,000 monetary award.^[4]

Year	Recipient	Institution(s)	Nationality	Cited work	References
2005	Maricio Duque	University of the Andes	Colombia	Pequeños Científicos	^[5]
2005	Michael Klentchy	El Centro School District	United States	Valle Imperial Project in Science	^[5]
2006	Yu Wei	Southeast University	People's Republic of China	Zuo zhong xue	^[6]
2006	Karen Worth	Education Development Center Wheelock College	United States	K-12 Science Curriculum Dissemination Center	^[6]
2007	Jorge Allende	University of Santiago, Chile	Chile	Educación en Ciencias Basada en la Indagación	^[7]
2007	Stevan Jokic	Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences	Serbia and Montenegro	Ruka u testu	^[7]
2008	Guillermo Fernández de la Garza	National Autonomous University of Mexico United States – Mexico Foundation for Science	Mexico	Sistema de Enseñanza Vivencial e Indagatoria de la Ciencia	^[8]
2008	Wynne Harlen	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	Research in science education	^[8]
2009	Sally Goetz Shuler	National Science Resources Center	United States	Institutional award	^[9]
2009	David Jasmin	La main à la pâte	France	Institutional award	^[9]

Other schools of Mines in France

Other schools of Mines in Africa

École nationale supérieure des Mines de Rabat (Mines Rabat)

Other schools of Mines in the USA

Colorado School of Mines

Notes

^ "IMT - The number-one group of engineering..." Institut Mines-Télécom. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
^ "IMT Saint-Étienne - CGE". CGE. Conférence des grandes écoles. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
^ "Marcelle SCHRAMECK". www.janinetissot.fdaf.org. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
^ Fondation de l'École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne (2007). Le Prix puRkwa: Prix international pour l'alphabétisation scientifique des enfants de la planète [The puRkwa Prize: International prize for the scientific literacy of the children of the planet] (PDF) (Brochure) (in French, English, and Spanish). Saint-Étienne, France. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2010-09-01.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ "Le Prix puRkwa: Prix international pour l'alphabétisation scientifique des enfants de la planète" [The puRkwa Prize: International prize for the scientific literacy of the children of the planet] (PDF) (Press release) (in French). l'École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne. 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2010-09-01.
^ "Communiqué de presse" [Press release] (PDF) (Press release) (in French). l'École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne. 2006-03-17. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2010-09-01.
^ "Le Prix puRkwa Lauréats 2007" [The puRkwa Prize 2007 Award Winners] (PDF) (Press release) (in French). l'École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne. 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2010-09-01.
^ "Lauréats 2008" [2008 Award Winners]. Le Prix puRkwa (in French). l'École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2010-09-01.
^ "Communiqué de presse" [Press release] (PDF) (Press release) (in French). l'École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne. 2010-03-24. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-09-01. Retrieved 2010-09-01.