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ECE since 1919: Who are we?

For over a century, ECE has been training engineers, experts, and technicians who envision the technologies of tomorrow. Founded in 1919, the school places innovation, student support, and international openness at the heart of its educational project.

Archive of the École Centrale de T.S.F. showing students gathered in the basement of rue de la Verrerie, which had become too cramped, celebrating a 100% success rate in the P.T.T. exam in December 1926. Source: personal collection of Mr. Pierre Mouchel.
ECE student ambassadors welcoming visitors during an open house event on the Paris campus.
Archive of the École Centrale de T.S.F. dating from 1937, showing a class in the Lucien Bossoutrot room of the annex opened at 47 rue de l’Échiquier in Paris. Facing the students, two teachers present a radio diagram on the board. Source: Pierre Mouchel collection.
Two ECE students working together during a class on the Paris campus.
Archive of the electronics laboratory of the Grenelle annex dating from the early 1950s, showing students surrounded by modern equipment. In the foreground on the left is a shortwave telegraph transmitter, now a museum piece. Source: Hervé Rostagnat collection.
ECE student operating a pillar drill in the FabLab on the Paris campus.
Archive of the electronics laboratory of the Grenelle annex dating from the early 1950s, showing practical work conducted on modern equipment. Michel Rostagnat appears in the foreground on the right, sharing his teaching between theory and practice. Source: Hervé Rostagnat collection.
François Stéphane presents Milo, the first robot student enhanced by AI thanks to the LLMs designed at ECE.
Archive of ECE from 1947, showing Georges Pachot on the left during a practical course in his laboratory, surrounded by students handling radioelectrical measuring devices. Source: André Rovarch collection, class of 1944.
ECE ambassadors interacting with two visitors during an open house on the Paris campus.
ECE student testing an electronic circuit with a multimeter in the FabLab on the Paris campus.

Key dates of ECE

Over a century of innovation

The Birth of the ECE

Archive photo from the École Centrale de T.S.F. showing students and teachers in front of the laboratory on Rue de la Verrerie in Paris. In the center is Eugène Poirot, dressed in dark clothing, who had been teaching at the school since 1924 before becoming its director in 1926. Source: the personal collection of Mr. Pierre Mouchel.

Archive de l’École Centrale de T.S.F. montrant élèves et enseignants devant le laboratoire de la rue de la Verrerie à Paris. Au centre figure Eugène Poirot en tenue sombre, enseignant dans l’établissement depuis 1924 avant d’en prendre la direction en 1926. Source : collection personnelle de M. Pierre Mouchel.

The Early Days of Television in Education

Archive photo from December 14, 1956, on the set of Télé-Paris, where Eugène Poirot, facing the camera, and Michel Rostagnat, seated to his right, host the E.C.T.S.F.E. Night. Photo: Odette Beaumont. Source: Michel Rostagnat’s collection.

Archive du 14 décembre 1956 sur le plateau de Télé-Paris, où Eugène Poirot, de face, et Michel Rostagnat, assis à sa droite, présentent la Nuit de l’E.C.T.S.F.E. Photo : Odette Beaumont. Source : collection de M. Michel Rostagnat.

The Age of Modern Electronics

Archival photos of the ECE facilities from the 1990s, showing students at computer stations in the computer and electronics lab. Source: E.C.E. collection.

Archive des locaux de l’ECE datant des années 1990, montrant des élèves sur des postes informatiques dans la salle d’informatique et d’électronique. Source : collection E.C.E.

Opening of the Lyon Campus

The school is continuing its national expansion with the opening of its Lyon campus.

Le campus de l'école d'ingénieurs ECE à Lyon vu depuis l'extérieur.

Opening of the Bordeaux Campus

The ECE is expanding its regional network and welcoming its first students in Bordeaux.

Photo du campus de Bordeaux de l’école d’ingénieur ECE près de la Garonne

Opening of the Rennes Campus

The school continues to expand in order to offer its students even more opportunities.

L'entrée du campus de l'école d'ingénieurs ECE à Rennes

    Our pedagogy

    Training designed to reveal every talent

    The ECE is the school of 1001 possible paths. Students progressively customize their curriculum through choices of majors, minors, specializations, projects, work-study programs, or international experiences.

    The school relies on a project-based pedagogy that engages students in concrete situations, closely aligned with the needs of businesses. This approach fosters the acquisition of technical, human, and managerial skills throughout the curriculum.

    The personalized support, the richness of student life, and international openness contribute to making the ECE experience a human as well as an academic adventure.

    Two students working on a project in a classroom at ECE.

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