Institut Polytechnique des Sciences Avancées
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IPSA, Institut Polytechnique des Sciences Avancées, is a French private grande école
in aeronautical and space
engineering located at Ivry-sur-Seine
and Toulouse
, certified by the State since 2010 and by Commission des Titres d’Ingénieur since 2011.
The school was created in 1961 and is part of IONIS Education Group. The school has received the GIFAS award in 2011 for the student aerospace challenge.
Grandes écoles
The grandes écoles of France are higher education establishments outside the main framework of the French university system. The grandes écoles select students for admission based chiefly on national ranking in competitive written and oral exams...
in aeronautical and space
Astronomy
Astronomy is a natural science that deals with the study of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth...
engineering located at Ivry-sur-Seine
Ivry-sur-Seine
Ivry-sur-Seine is a commune in the Val-de-Marne department in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris....
and Toulouse
Toulouse
Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...
, certified by the State since 2010 and by Commission des Titres d’Ingénieur since 2011.
The school was created in 1961 and is part of IONIS Education Group. The school has received the GIFAS award in 2011 for the student aerospace challenge.
Former students
- Philippe Harache (1976), former Executive Vice-President "customers" Eurocopter
- Christian Gras (1983), Executive Vice-President "customers" Eurocopter
- Stéphane Gaillard (1997), Technical Assistant to Vice President development flight testFlight testFlight test is a branch of aeronautical engineering that develops and gathers data during flight of an aircraft and then analyzes the data to evaluate the flight characteristics of the aircraft and validate its design, including safety aspects...
AirbusAirbusAirbus SAS is an aircraft manufacturing subsidiary of EADS, a European aerospace company. Based in Blagnac, France, surburb of Toulouse, and with significant activity across Europe, the company produces around half of the world's jet airliners.... - Eric BoullierÉric BoullierÉric René Boullier is a French motor racing engineer and manager, currently the team principal of the Lotus Renault GP Formula One team and vice chairman of FOTA.-Career:...
(1999), Team principal Lotus Renault GP - Julien Simon-Chautemps (2002), race Engineer Vitaly PetrovVitaly PetrovVitaly Alexandrovich Petrov is a Russian Formula One racing driver, currently driving for the Lotus Renault GP team. He is known as "Vyborg Rocket" in Russia. He is, to date, the only Russian to have competed in the Formula One World Championship....
Lotus Renault GP