Louvain School of Engineering

The Louvain School of Engineering is one of the four components of the Science and Technology Sector (SST) of UCLouvain. The other three are the Faculty of Science (SC), the Faculty of Bioengineers (AGRO) and, since 2009, the Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Urban Planning (LOCI). 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. 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. Studies All courses are organised on the Louvain-la-Neuve campus. The bachelor's degree in computer science is also taught in Charleroi. Only a minor amount of courses of the master's degree in cybersecurity are held at Louvain-la-Neuve, it being a joint degree between UCLouvain, the Royal Military Academy, the University of Namur, the Université libre de Bruxelles, the Bruxelles-Brabant College (HE2B) and the Haute École libre de Bruxelles - Ilya Prigogine, with courses in Louvain-la-Neuve, Namur and Brussels. 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 and Yale University. ==== 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 ===== Source: 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). 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 Cyclotron Research Center and particle accelerator, the Biological imaging technology platform, the inter-institute Serres-Phytotron technological platform the Institute of Intensive Computing and Mass Storage or the Earth and Life Institute. These further include numerous research centers and individual laboratories primarily in Louvain-la-Neuve, the Louvain-la-Neuve Science Park, in Charleroi (Aéropole Science Park) and other sciences parks of Wallonia. The Louvain School of Engineering is part of the Conférence des Grandes écoles. == History ==

Leuven Inspired by the École centrale des arts et manufactures in Paris, the École des Arts et Manufactures and the École des Mines were founded in 1864 within the Faculty of Science of the (still unitary) Catholic University of Louvain in Louvain (Leuven). 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'', , hosting the Catholic University of Louvain's Faculty of Applied Science. Until 1889, the diplomas awarded by the Écoles spéciales were considered as "scientific" diplomas because only the State Universities, which were Liège and Ghent, were authorised to award "legal" diplomas, which were necessary for civil service and public works engineers. The abolition of the monopoly of state universities enabled the University of Louvain to organise 5-year courses in mining and civil engineering from 1890 onwards. In addition, a training as engineer-geologist leading to a university degree was created. The Institute for Electromechanics (''Institut d'Électromécanique) was inaugurated in 1901, in new buildings in the center of Leuven, the first proper buildings built for the Special Schools. Further institutes were created in the Arenberg Castle park in 1925, and the Écoles spéciales'' moved into the castle in 1931, in Heverlee. The first courses in Dutch were given in 1914. The École polytechnique de Louvain In 2008, the Faculty of Applied Sciences officially changed its name to École polytechnique de Louvain (EPL). It uses the English translation Louvain School of Engineering in its international and external communication. It also incorporated UCLouvain's department of computer science. File:Logo EPL.svg|The Faculty's logo between 2008 and 2018. File:UCLouvain École polytechnique de Louvain.svg|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. 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 Georges Lemaître (1894-1966), author of the Hubble–Lemaître law and the Big Bang theory, teacher at the faculty until his emeritus 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. • Vincent Blondel, author of the Louvain method and current rector of UCLouvain == See also ==