ENSAIT
The École nationale supérieure des arts et industries textiles is a French Engineering grand établissement and a member of UP-TEX research cluster.
ENSAIT is a higher education and research institute, gathering all the disciplines related to textiles. ENSAIT chairs include four departments related to education and research.
Admission
- A majority of full-time students requesting admission have to pass a competitive exam in order to attend ENSAIT at the end of their undergraduate studies.
- International students with a bachelor's degree can also request for admission. About fifty percent of students at ENSAIT have an international profile.
- Professional part-time education is also developed.
Textile curricula and research activities
ENSAIT different curricula lead to the following degrees :- Ingénieur ENSAIT Master's degree
- Masters Research and Specialized Masters, in cooperation with the University of Lille, École centrale de Lille and École nationale supérieure de chimie de Lille.
- Doctoral degree
- Technical textiles, Mechanical engineering
- Industrial and manufacturing engineering
- Smart material
- Textiles Chemistry, Biotechnology in Textiles
- Clothing Technologies, Design
Each year, approximately 80 students receive an ENSAIT Master's degree referred-to as diplôme d'ingénieur ENSAIT, and around 10 students receive a doctoral degree.
History
The school was founded in Roubaix with municipal funding. It was originally meant to provide a special studying program for the requirements of the textile industry at Roubaix and France. After 1889, the institution became known as the École d'Arts et Métiers Textiles.Because the school was near from the war front, it was closed in some wartime periods, many students and academic staff died in these wars.
Nowadays, the ENSAIT has a very large parc of machinery. In 1991, the GEMTEX was inaugurated as the first French center with research competence in all textile engineering fields. Entrepreneurship is also promoted with GENI-INNOTEX.
As of 2004, the institute, together with similar ones, was seen as a major contributor to research and development within the French textile and clothing industry.