Louvain School of Engineering
École polytechnique de Louvain | |
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Rector | Vincent Blondel |
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Students | 2100[1] |
Location | , 50°40′06″N 4°37′15″E / 50.668372°N 4.620832°E |
Colours | Louvain & EPL blue |
Website | uclouvain.be/epl |
The Louvain School of Engineering or École polytechnique de Louvain (EPL) is a faculty of the
Description
The Louvain School of Engineering is one of the four components of the Science and Technology Sector (SST) of
The EPL organizes studies in civil engineering and computer science. Studies in architectural civil engineering are organized jointly with the LOCI Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Urban Planning. These are LOCI's only studies organised in Louvain-la-Neuve instead of its Brussels (Saint-Gilles) and Tournai campuses. Together, the Louvain School of Engineering and LOCI hold 40% of Wallonia-Brussels Federation engineering students, making it the country's largest engineering school, by far.[1]
The faculty headquarters are located in Louvain-la-Neuve since 1972. From 2018, the faculty is also establishing on the UCLouvain Charleroi campus, starting with a bachelor's degree in computer science in September 2020.[3]
Studies
All courses are organised on the
The faculty has also developed specific programs in collaboration with other universities. While students can choose to swap some courses with courses given in Leuven at sister university KU Leuven's Faculty of Engineering science; other partnerships include MIT[5] and Yale University.[6]
Undergraduate studies (3 years)
- Bachelor in engineering science, orientation civil engineer
- Bachelor in computer science
Graduate studies (2 years)
- Master : mechanical civil engineer
- Master : electrical civil engineer
- Master : electromechanical civil engineer
- Master : civil engineer physicist
- Master : biomedical civil engineer
- Master : civil construction engineer
- Master : civil engineer in computer science
- Master : civil engineer in chemistry and materials science
- Master : civil engineer in applied mathematics
- Master in computer science (120 ECTS)
- Master in computer science (60 ECTS)
- Master in cybersecurity
- Master in data science, orientation information technology
Erasmus Mundus programs[1]
- European Master of research on information and communication technologies (MERIT)
- European Master in functionalised advanced materials and engineering (FAME)
- European Master in engineering rheology (EURHEO)
Specialized masters (1 year)
- Specialized Master's degree in nuclear engineering
- Specialized Master's degree in nanotechnology
Doctoral studies
- Doctorate in engineering sciences
- Doctorate in construction engineering and urban planning
Structure
Within the Louvain School of Engineering, ten different so-called Commissions de programme organise and supervise the teaching curricula: one commission for the bachelor's degrees (BTCI), and one commission for each graduate field of studies. In addition to these commissions which can be considered as graduate school departments, the School of urbanism and territorial planning (URBA) coordinates teaching and research in urban planning.[7]
Four research institutes are attached to the Louvain School of Engineering: the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics (ICTEAM), the Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences (IMCN), the Institute of Mechanics, Materials and Civil Engineering (IMMC) and Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modeling in economics and statistics (LIDAM).[8]
Post-doctoral research is mainly done through independent research institutes within UCLouvain's Sciences and Technology Sector (SST). In engineering, these notably include the Louvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology, the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (IBST), Electronics and Applied Mathematics (ICTM), the Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences (IMCN), the Institute of Mechanics, Materials and Civil Engineering (IMMC), the Institut de recherche en mathématique et physique including the
The Louvain School of Engineering is part of the Conférence des Grandes écoles.
History
Leuven
Inspired by the
In 1867, the Schools were renamed into the Special Schools of Arts and Manufacturing, Civil Engineering and Mines (Écoles spéciales des Arts et Manufactures, du Génie Civil et des Mines) to which was later added d'Architecture et d'Électricité,[1] which led to the long lasting name of Écoles spéciales.
The Union of Engineers from the Louvain Special Schools (Union des Ingénieurs sortis des Écoles Spéciales de Louvain), now called AILouvain (Alumni Ingénieurs de Louvain) was founded in Charleroi in 1872, as was the Cercle industriel.[10]
Until 1889, the diplomas awarded by the Écoles spéciales were considered as "scientific" diplomas because only the
The first courses in Dutch were given in 1914.[9] A 1929 law greatly broadened the offer of "legal" diplomas and 9 new engineering courses were created in Louvain and Courtrai (textile industry). The courses of physical engineering and shipbuilding engineering began in 1945 and were the only ones not to be duplicated when the university was split: they were transferred entirely to Louvain-la-Neuve.
Programs in management and labour sciences were created in the 1950s.
The School of Urban and Regional Planning (URBA), whose structure within the faculty has remained intact since then, was founded in 1961.
In the same year, the Écoles spéciales became the Faculty of Applied Sciences (Faculté des sciences appliquées, FSA), as an entity which for the first time was independent from the Faculty of Science, and the
The Faculty was linguistically separated in 1964 into the Dutch-speaking Faculteit ingenieurswetenschappen and the francophone Faculté des sciences appliquées.[9]
The split
At the beginning of the 1960s, the practical split of the
In 1971, the French-speaking programmes of the Faculty of Applied Sciences were offered on the Heverlee campus, on the outskirts of the city of Louvain (Leuven). From 1973, the programs for the last three years of civil engineering were given at the new Louvain-la-Neuve site, while the candidature degrees (undergraduate) were still being taught at Heverlee. In 1975, the entire Faculty of Applied Sciences (FSA) of the UCL was established in Louvain-la-Neuve. The students from the faculty were the first students (and residents) of the city of Louvain-la-Neuve.
At that time the "city" was only made up of a few academic buildings. The construction site was huge and the city very sparsely populated.
The transfer of the sacred pavement
"The 1972-73 academic year began on October 2. For the first time, students met in Louvain-la-Neuve: the engineers.
They inaugurated the Sainte-Barbe auditoriums, walked in boots among the construction sites, walked in all directions through the tiny district of the Kots du Biéreau and the embryo of the rue des Wallons. A little lonely, but full of energy and imagination.
An idea emerged: take a pavement from the Place du Vieux-Marché in Leuven (the one bordering the bottom of the Halles) and, in turns, run through the forest and countryside, and transplant it to the only public space existing in Louvain-la-Neuve: Place Sainte-Barbe!
This was done on October 12. The first kilometre was solemn in appearance, with the pavement placed on a processional stretcher. The real start took place at Arenberg Castle (Heverlee), whose park had been home to the Faculty of Applied Sciences for decades.
- UCLouvain Archives, Service des Archives de l'Université catholique de Louvain, rue Montesquieu 27, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Since 1986, students from
In 1990, the Faculty of Applied Sciences co-founded CESAER, the
The École polytechnique de Louvain
In 2008, the Faculty of Applied Sciences officially changed its name to École polytechnique de Louvain (EPL).
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The Faculty's logo between 2008 and 2018.
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Logo since 2018.
Multi-site faculty
From 2020, the Louvain School of Engineering will organise a bachelor's degree in computer science at UCLouvain Charleroi.[3] It thus becomes the first faculty in the University's Science and Technology Sector to become so-called "multi-site" and to be established on two different campuses. It is also the sector's first degree offered in Charleroi.
Notably faculty or alumni
- Canon in 1964.
- Charles-Jean de La Vallée Poussin (1886-1962), civil engineer of mines (1890), renowned mathematician.
- Charles Manneback (1894-1975).
- Vitold Belevitch (1921-1999), civil engineer, author (among others) of mathematical theorems on electrical circuits, professor at the Louvain School of Engineering.
- Prof. Baron Marcel Crochet (1938), civil engineer (fluid mechanics), Rector of UCLouvain from 1995 to 2004.
- Alain Hubert, polar explorer
- Jean-Jacques Quisquater, cryptographer and faculty professor.
- Jean-Pierre Hansen, civil electrician engineer, currently president of SNCB-Logistics (2012–present), former managing director of Electrabel (1992-1999 and 2005-2010) and Associate Professor of Economics at the EPL.
- Stefan Vanoverbeke, CEO of IKEA France.
- Louvain methodand current rector of UCLouvain
See also
- Université catholique de Louvain
- Louvain-la-Neuve
- UCLouvain Charleroi
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain - Historique et fonctionnement". Alumni Ingénieurs Louvain.
- ^ "University of Louvain Science and Technology Sector". UCLouvain. Retrieved 20 August 2019.
- ^ a b "Rapport de commission présenté au nom de la Commission de l'Enseignement supérieur, de l'Enseignement de Promotion sociale, de la Recherche et des Médias". Parliament of the French Community. 23 April 2019. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
- ^ "Master in CyberSecurity". masterincybersecurity.ulb.ac.be. Université libre de Bruxelles. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
- ^ "MIT-Belgium - Université catholique de Louvain Seed Fund". Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
- ^ "Summer Research Program with Yale". UCLouvain. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
- ^ "UCLouvain entities directory". UCLouvain. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
- ^ "Vision and Missions". Louvain School of Engineering. UCLouvain. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
- ^ a b c d "Faculty of engineering science - History". KU Leuven. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
- ^ "Histoire du Cercle industriel". cercle-industriel.be. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
- ^ a b Crochet, Marcel (2012). Des Écoles spéciales à l'EPL. 50 ans de science et de technologie à l'UCL (in French). Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses universitaires de Louvain.
- Belgian official journal. 6 November 1990.