ENSICAEN’s mission is to train engineers to a high scientific and technical level. With some 720 students, the school has always succeeded in reuniting education & training and industrial links. Today, the school is continuing its growth with the inauguration of a new building and an alliance with the INSA in Rouen.

A constant quest for excellence | 5 engineering diplomas | Employment guaranteed | ENSICAEN’s first extension | Dominique Goutte, new Managing Director | Working towards INSA Normandie | ENSICAEN in a few figures

A constant quest for excellence
ENSICAEN is an internationally renowned, pluridisciplinary scientific research centre, benefiting from support from major institutions such as the CNRS and the CEA. This potential places ENSICAEN in 13th position among France’s engineering schools in terms of research activities.
- 1 ENSICAEN, UCBN, CNRS and CEA joint research unit
• Centre for Research on Ions, Materials and Photonics - CIMAP
- 5 ENSICAEN, UCBN, CNRS joint research units
• Crystallography and Material Science Laboratory - CRISMAT
• Caen Research Group in Computer Science, Imaging, Control and Instrumentation - GREYC
• Laboratory for Molecular and Thio-organic Chemistry - LCMT
• Catalysis and Spectrochemistry Laboratory - LCS
• Corpuscular Physics Laboratory - LPC
- 1 NXP Semiconductors, ENSICAEN, CNRS and UCBN research laboratory
• Semiconductor physics and micro-electronics laboratory - LaMIPS

5 engineering diplomas
ENSICAEN is certified by the CTI (Engineering Titles Commission) to award engineering diplomas in 4 initial higher education fields: Electronics and applied physics (Nuclear engineering and instrumentation centre / Communication science and technology centre); Computer science (image and multimedia / monetics and computer security / monetics and systems security, via apprenticeship.
Materials-Chemistry (chemistry / energy, structural materials – EMS ); Material Mechanics and Engineering (mechanical properties and materials transformation, via apprenticeship) and in 1 field in continuing education, Industrial engineering, in partnership with the ITII (Industrial Engineering Techniques Institute).

Employment guaranteed
Since 2007, an employment observatory has been set up within ENSICAEN. In 2007 and 2008, over 80% of currently active graduates found a job within… 2 months! According to a survey conducted in 2009 (2008 graduates), around 70% were even offered an employment contract before they graduate.
According to the same survey, the average yearly salary upon appointment for 2008 graduates was €33,800.

ENSICAEN’s first extension
On the 15th of January 2010, a new building was inaugurated on campus 2. It is directly opposite ENSICAEN’s existing premises.
The school’s attractiveness and the competitiveness of its laboratories are major assets for the Caen conurbation. In 2006, ENSICAEN adopted a strategic plan covering the period up to 2011 and integrating, as a key priority, the construction of premises and facilities in keeping with its ambition. Over 2,500m2, ENSICAEN’s very first extension(1) illustrates the will to offer engineering students high standard accommodation and learning facilities to ensure them state of the art training. The first phase is now complete and a project is underway to launch the second phase (construction of new laboratory buildings).
(1) Construction was made possible thanks to financial support from the Caen la Mer Urban Community (58%), the Lower Normandy Regional Council (35%) the Calvados Departmental Council (7%) and the project’s integration within the 200-2006 State-Region Plan Contract.

Dominique Goutte, new Managing Director
Since the 1st of December 2009, Dominique Goutte is ENSICAEN’s new Managing Director. He took over from Daniel Guerreau (see page 5 ). Since March 2009, Dominique Goutte, Doctor in Science, Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, had been Assistant Director for Nuclear Affairs in Saclay at the CEA’s Nuclear Energy Directorate. Prior to this position, he was successively a physicist in the Nuclear Physics Department, also in Saclay (1983-1990), then Manager of the Isomer Form Research Group (1990-1994), Manager of the Post-Accelerated tandem in Saclay (1993-1994), Head of the Department of nuclear Physics and the Military Applications Directorate in Bruyères-le-Chatel (1994-2000).
From 2000 to 2005, he was Director of the GANIL (National Heavy Ion Accelerator), and member of the CESR and Co-President, with ENSICAEN and the University of Caen, of Normandie Incubation. From 2005 to 2008, he was also appointed Director of the Department of “Energy, Transport, Environment and Natural Resources” (2005-2006) and Director of the Department of “Chemistry, Engineering Science, Nuclear Physics and High Energies, Energy and Sustainable Development” (2006-2008) for the Ministry of Research. Dominique Goutte, Managing Director

Working towards INSA Normandie
In October 2009, ENSICAEN and the INSA in Rouen officially announced the creation of the INSA Normandie, scheduled for 2011. A pledge for guaranteed growth. Two schools in two different towns and two different regions… Sealed late 2009, the process should lead to the fusion of both establishments and the effective creation of the INSA Normandie by late 2011. Management departments from both ENSICAEN (National Graduate School of Engineering) in Caen and INSA (National Institute of Applied Sciences) in Rouen have been given the green light from their respective boards of directors to launch the process aimed at reuniting the two engineering schools. The establishments are highly complementary in terms of their higher education & training and research, and have been developing extremely fruitful cooperation for many years now. They are also both founder members of Normandy’s forthcoming PRES (Research and Higher Education Cluster) along with the Universities of Caen, Rouen and Le Havre. And with that in mind, they have decided to join forces to build a leading engineering school in Normandy (INSA Normandie) and to guarantee for its future 2,800 students (600 graduates per year by 2015) diversified and high standard scientific and technological training sure to reinforce their innovative and adaptive capacity within today’s extremely competitive market.

ENSICAEN in a few figures
720 engineering students,
6,900 graduates since its creation,
5 engineering diplomas, 1 of which is available via continuing education and 2 via apprenticeship
3 Specialised Master’s Degrees and 6 Research Master’s Degrees
550 lecturer-researchers, researchers, doctoral students, technicians, engineers and administrative employees
7 research laboratories, over 350 scientific publications per year

The winning “education & training, research and enterprise” triangle. Created in 1976, ENSICAEN has always strived to develop this training, research and enterprise triptych.

From its classrooms to its laboratories, via its many partner businesses! The road is well marked out on the Norman capital’s University Campus 2. ENSICAEN (National Graduate School of Engineering) has, for over thirty years, successfully weaved its web in France’s higher education and training sector. And the establishment’s winning recipe is undoubtedly the “education & training, research and enterprise” trio. “The link between research and training is manifest here. Our lecturer-researchers work throughout the school’s seven laboratories, so research constantly enhances teaching. Similarly, our industrial partners find our training courses of great relevance,” highlights Jean-François Hamet, university professor and the school’s assistant managing director. And ENSICAEN’s delegate research director, Jean-Pierre Grandin is keeping a close eye on progress. “Higher education is evolving in time with our research skills,” he believes. “As such, the school has progressed in the field of nuclear engineering and in materials for energy and the petrochemical sector. In the same vein, relationships with industrial partners have helped reinforce our training offer in certain sectors. We are truly moving towards a reinforcement of the magic triangle.”

“Enhancing ENSICAEN’s attractiveness”

Director of the school since December 2009, Dominique Goutte is perfectly familiar with the world of research, higher education and the regional economic fabric. Former director of GANIL from 2000 to 2005, ENSICAEN’s new head fully intends to continue such positive action, “I want to pursue the commitments undertaken over the past years, aimed at enhancing ENSICAEN’s national attractiveness and at guaranteeing its position amidst the currently changing French higher education system.” Well established within the economic fabric, ENSICAEN is multiplying its links with industry. Via its Industrial Relations Department (DRI), the school has developed a vast network of partner companies. “Aimed both at guaranteeing courses that are in line with the needs of the socio-economic world and the best possible professional integration for our graduates,” notes Guillaume Boitier, director of the DRI. The first business club to emerge reunited industrial partners from the monetics sector. “At the time, the sector’s recruitment needs were well above the number of graduates. And we needed to respond to that collective demand. As early as 2004, an apprenticeship-based engineering course was launched. And it’s up to us to imagine what tools we can develop in response to such needs,” he adds. In close collaboration with the three faces of the triangle, the DRI deals with all school departments’ relationships with the outside socio-economic world. A business club in advanced instrumentation has also been created. Whilst the brand new apprenticeship-based engineering course in “Material Mechanics and Engineering”, launched this year in Caen, will continue in Caligny (near Flers) at the CIRIAM (Industrial Park for Research and Innovation Applied to Materials) on Faurecia’s doorstep.

“It’s essential that we keep in touch with the outside environment.”

These many links are also the product of the provision of innovative and industrial learning tools (monetics platform, technology halls specialising in optics…). ENSICAEN is also working on similar tools in the fields of nuclear engineering and materials. “We need to be aware of business needs and expectations. Not so much in response to a specific demand, but as a general rule. It’s essential that we keep in touch with the outside environment. And we’re keeping up with the latest developments,” confirms Jean-François Hamet. Consequently, the school’s course options have been rethought. A useful evolution both for students and for businesses. But the school is also looking to enlarge its perimeter and its audience. Discussions are already underway with its neighbour, the Upper Normandy engineering school: INSA (National Institute of Applied Sciences) located in Rouen. “My ambition is to see to fruition our project to create a Normandy PRES (Research and Higher Education Cluster) and the INSA Normandie, both perfectly in line with our recent evolution and sure to promote the establishment throughout the region, the country and of course offering increased international exposure. The idea is to develop a unique offer over two sites,” explains Dominique Goutte, ENSICAEN’s new managing director. The future INSA Normandie should become France’s 7th or 8th ranking engineering school. And to satisfy current and future demands, a new building has just been inaugurated , opposite the school’s historic glass premises. “The aim is to offer future engineering students relevant learning, in line with economic needs and to train them in both research and the reality of the business world. It’s also to continue to increase awareness on the constant quest for excellence throughout ENSICAEN, CNRS and UCBN joint research laboratories,” stresses Dominique Goutte.

Dominique Goutte
Managing Director
Tél. : 02 31 45 27 95

Jean-François Hamet
Assistant Managing Director
Tél. : 02 31 45 27 75

Jean-Pierre Grandin
Delegate Research Director
Tél. : 02 31 45 29 47

Guillaume Boitier
Director of the Industrial Relations Department
Tél. : 02 31 53 81 64

Olivier Delacroix
Director of Studies and Student Life

ENSICAEN
6, Boulevard du Maréchal Juin
14050 Caen Cedex 4
Mél : 02 31 45 27 50
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