News : Education

On September 7 Grenoble Institute of Technology-Ense3 (the Institute’s school of energy, water, and environmental engineering), will begin the school year at GreEn-ER, the Presqu’ile’s new innovation center for energy and renewable resources, located at 21 avenue de Martyrs. Exemplary in its energy usage, the school’s new building is a living lab for energy management […] >>

The 2015–16 school year will mark the rollout of a new first-year curriculum at Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma. The scope of the PMP (physics, materials, processes) and PET (physics, electronics, telecoms) core curricula will be broadened to six 32-hour science courses. The new curriculum will minimize dispersing core content across too many courses and sharpen […] >>

The fifth annual GIANT International Internship Program (GIIP), which kicked off at the end of May and will continue for 10 weeks, saw record enrollment. GIANT laboratories are hosting 27 international interns, from undergrad through to post-doc, almost all from the United States. In contrast, in 2011, GIIP’s first year, there were only seven interns. […] >>

Phelma student Florian Castellane is crazy about robotics. Last year, he decided to take a gap year in Japan, where he spent time at a signal-processing lab at Tokohu University in northeastern Honshu. He is currently working on his culminating project on reconstructing 3D scenes from video at Japan’s National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo. […] >>

The 20th annual Grenoble Institute of Technology Adventure Race will take place from May 8–10, offering up three days of outdoor thrills instead of the usual two. A total of 30 mixed-gender teams (150 participants) will hit the trails in Savoie and Chartreuse for a grueling 160 km route with an elevation gain of 5,500 […] >>