Mohammadia School of Engineering

Mohammadia School of Engineering
المدرسة المحمدية للمهندسين
École Mohammadia d'Ingénieurs
Motto Science and Engineering
Type Public School of Engineering
Established 1959
Chairman Prof. M. Larbi ABIDI
Students 500 (FTE, 2013)
Location Rabat, Morocco
Campus Urban
Website www.emi.ac.ma

The Mohammadia School of Engineering[1] (French: École Mohammadia d'Ingénieurs, abbreviated EMI; Arabic: المدرسة المحمدية للمهندسين‎) is the first to be established engineering school in Morocco. EMI was founded in 1959 by the King Mohammed V as Morocco's first polytechnic, it's the largest institution of higher education in technology and one of the leading technical schools in Morocco.

History

EMI became in 1981 under the order of the king Hassan II the first school combining academic and military education. Following the establishment of polytechnical schools in many European countries the early years of the 19th century, often based on the model of École Polytechnique in Paris in 1794.

Special events

  • First Computer in Morocco as a gift from the king Baudoin of the Belgians to EMI.
  • First Internet node in Morocco introduced by EMI.
  • First School to introduce in 2003 the Internet country code top-level domain ".ma".
  • First School introducing the Electrical Engineering 's bachelor's degree.

Organization

After three years of academic studies and military training the students have to take an oath in front of his majesty the King of Morocco in order to get the 'Grandes Ecoles d'ingénieurs' degree,a Bac+5 in the French education System, and the equivalent of a master's degree . In the military side the students graduate as reserve Officers.The school consists of nine departments :

  • Department of Civil Engineering
  • Department of Computer Science
  • Department of Electrical Engineering
  • Department of Industrial Engineering
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Department of Mineral Engineering
  • Department of Modelling and Scientific Computing
  • Department of Networks & Telecommunications

References

  1. ↑ "Islamic Financial Engineering Laboratory."Mohammadia School of Engineering. Retrieved on November 19, 2017. "The Lab capitalizes on the long-standing expertise of the Research Laboratory for Applied Mathematics (LERMA) at the Mohammadia School of Engineering,[...]"

Coordinates: 33°59′58″N 6°51′7″W / 33.99944°N 6.85194°W / 33.99944; -6.85194

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