The École nationale supérieure des Mines de Nancy (also known as ENSMN, les Mines, Mines de Nancy) is one of the top French generalist engineering Grandes Ecoles. It is a sister school to the École nationale supérieure des Mines de Paris. The grandes écoles (French for great schools) of France are higher education establishments outside of the mainstream framework of the public universities. ... The École nationale supérieure des Mines de Paris (also known as École des Mines de Paris, ENSMP, les Mines, Mines Paris) is one of the French generalist and most prominent engineering Grandes Ecoles. ...

It is located in the city of Nancy, in the east of France. Despite its small size (around 140 students in a year, with approximately 25% female), it is very famous in French industry. This article is about the city in France named Nancy. ...

It was created in 1919 on the request of the University of Nancy in order to participate in the reconstruction effort after World War I. At the end of the 1950s, under the impulse of its then-director Bertrand Schwartz (younger brother of Laurent Schwartz), the school reorganized its curriculum to include a balanced blend of engineering, management and social sciences. At the time, it was an innovative educational model for engineers, that was later extended to other Grandes Ecoles. 1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... Laurent Schwartz (5 March 1915 – 4 July 2002) was a French mathematician. ... The grandes écoles (French for great schools) of France are higher education establishments outside of the mainstream framework of the public universities. ...

Its former vocation to train mining engineers evolved in the course of time, because of technological progress and transformations of society. ENSMN has become nowadays a "generalist" school, with a broad variety of disciplines (all types of engineering, as well as the management sciences and computer sciences). Its students for the most part hold management positions in industry and large corporations, but some of them prefer scientific research in any of the French research institutes (such as CNRS or INRIA), or abroad. Engineering is the application of science to the needs of humanity. ... Management (from Old French ménagement the art of conducting, directing, from Latin manu agere to lead by the hand) characterises the process of leading and directing all or part of an organization, often a business, through the deployment and manipulation of resources (human, financial, material, intellectual or intangible). ... Computer science (informally: CS or compsci) is, in its most general sense, the study of computation and information processing, both in hardware and in software. ... The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) is one of the most prominent scientific research institutions in France. ... The Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA) is a French national research institution focusing on computer science, control theory and applied mathematics. ...

Some of its famous alumni include :

• Jean-Claude Trichet

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External link

• Site of the Ecole nationale supérieure des Mines de Nancy (http://www.mines.u-nancy.fr/)