École polytechnique

École Polytechnique
Type	Public, Graduate engineering school
Established	1794
Students	3000
Location	Palaiseau, France
Affiliations	Conférence des Grandes Écoles; UniverSud Paris
Website	http://www.polytechnique.edu

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École Polytechnique (EP or "l'X") is a engineering graduate school in France..^[1] It is in a campus of Palaiseau (Northern France).

Its different curricula lead to the following French & European degrees :

Ingénieur Polytechnicien (Polytechnique Graduate engineer Masters level program)
Master of Science & PhD doctorate studies
Mastères Spécialisés (MS)
Massive Online Open Courses.^[2]

Academic activities and industrial applied research are performed in French and English languages. Students from a lot of nationalities participate to the different curricula at École Polytechnique.

Notable Graduates

Caroline Aigle, French fighter jet pilot
Paul-Louis Arslanian, Former head of Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la Sécurité de l'Aviation Civile
Michel Bernard, French public servant
Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematiker
Yves Carcelle, French businessman
Auguste Comte, French thinker
Valérie Cornetet, head of the Institut Polytechnique des Sciences Avancées
Philippe Crébassa, French public servant
Jacques Friedel, French physicist, educator and material scientist
Carlos Ghosn, French-Lebanese businessman
Patrick Ky, French Manager
Joseph-Louis Lagrange, mathematician and astronomer
Yves Lambert, French aerospace engineer
Edmond Malinvaud, French economist
Gérard Mestrallet, CEO of GDF Suez
Guy du Merle, French aerospace engineer, pilot and writer
Louis Pailhas, French politician and aerospace engineer
Yves Poilane, French manager
Siméon Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist
Jean Robieux, French Physicist
Gérard Rozenknop, French aerospace engineer
Jean-Paul Troadec, French aerospace engineer
Jacques Villiers, French aerospace engineer and public servant
Michel Wachenheim, French ambassador
Farid Zizi, French aerospace engineer

École Polytechnique Media

Logo Polytechnique - IP PARIS
Logo Polytechnique - IP PARIS
A statue in the courtyard of the school commemorates the cadets of Polytechnique rushing to the defence of Paris in 1814. A copy was installed in West Point.
The chemistry auditorium in the old building in the Quartier Latin, photographed by Jules David in 1904
Pediment of historical buildings, rue Descartes in Paris
Historical entrance of the École Polytechnique Paris' campus at the junction of the rue de la Montagne Saint-Genevieve and rue Descartes
École Polytechnique Saclay's campus map
The Polytechnique color guard at the 2010 Bastille Day Military Parade
Benoît Mandelbrot during his speech at the ceremony when he was made an officer of the Legion of Honour on 11 September 2006, at the École polytechnique