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In May, three students from Grenoble Institute of Technology’s Phelma engineering school won the region’s Campus Création entrepreneurship award for their innovation: Oria, a ring that creates sound effects to accompany the notes played on a digital musical instrument. Since September, they have gone from idea to startup. For their senior year at Phelma, students […] >>

Phelma’s 2016 incoming class has set new records in the common entrance exam rankings, rising between 100 and 200 slots depending on major. The school’s 2015 rankings were already remarkable! The total number of incoming students was similar to 2015. In initial degree programs, Grenoble Institute of Technology’s Phelma engineering school admitted 363 first-year students; […] >>

In September, a new student dormitory opened in the Presqu’île neighborhood, just a five-minute tram ride from Grenoble Institute of Technology’s Phelma engineering school and right across from GreEN-ER. The 300-student dorm is named after Geneviève-Jourdain, a Grenoble Institute of Technology faculty member who pioneered signal processing and who passed away in 2006. One thing […] >>

The 2016 Parvis des Sciences, which coincides with France’s 25th annual national Science Week, is expanding considerably this year, with twice as much event space and more than 40 activities, up from 27 in 2015. October 6 and 7 will be open to school groups only; the general public is welcome to attend the event […] >>

Grenoble Institute of Technology’s Phelma engineering school cut the ribbon on two new buildings—an auditorium and an extension—in June. Used from the start of the new academic year, at Sustainable Mobility Days, and at the Parvis des Sciences science fair, it is safe to say that the new facilities are now an integral part of […] >>