Cherbourg School of Engineering
The Cherbourg Engineering School (in French : EIC - École d'Ingénieurs de Cherbourg, now ESIX Normandie) is a French engineering university funded in 1993.
It is situated in Cherbourg-Octeville.
The school is accredited by the "Commission des titres d'ingénieur" to deliver Engineering Degrees.
This school is now part of the ESIX Normandie.
Teaching
The school graduate students in Production Engineering.
The school have a unique specificity in France: there are some classes about "Contamination control". The meaning of Contamination control is to manufacture products with specific constraints like in there is in microelectronic, food-processing, nuclear and pharmaceutical industry.
But the career prospects of the school are wider : aerospace, general mechanic, automobile industry, ...
International relations
The EIC organises each summer the European Summer University which subject is "From Innovation to Industrial Production"
The school have agreements allowing students to attend semester(s) in foreign countries :
- In Austria:
- Fachhochschule Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences - Department of Mechatronics.
- In Sweden:
- Linköping Institute of Technology - Department of Manufacturing Management.
- Royal Institute of Technology, KTH Stockholm - Department of Production Engineering
- In Finland:
Address
- Site Universitaire
- rue Louis Aragon
- BP 78
- 50130 Cherbourg-Octeville
- France
Official website of the EIC
Coordinates: 49°38′02″N 1°38′40″W / 49.63389°N 1.64444°W