An experimental field for cultivating international talents, the Sino-French Engineer School will continue to carry forward its management philosophy – development, opening up, cooperation and win-win, and stand firm in Beihang University’s strengths in aeronautics, astronautics and communications to work with Le Groupe des Ecoles Centrales (a group of five central schools in Paris, Lyon, Lille, Nantes and Marseille) toward the goal of cultivating leading engineers with such abilities as global vision, systemic thinking and collaborative innovation to cope with a rapidly changing, diversified world through leveraging a plan that aims to advance the establishment of model internationalized schools in colleges and universities and being geared toward world-class certification and training systems. Under the guidance of building a number of world-class universities and disciplines, the School will first build itself to be a world-class one for training international engineers.

Created in 2005, the sino-french Engineer school is one of the leader among the sino-french Institutes of Engineering in China. This school is resulting from the collaboration between the prestigious Beihang University and the Group of Ecoles Centrale, which gathers the 5engineering Centrale Schools of France (CentraleSupélec, Centrale Lyon, Centrale Nantes, Centrale Lille and Centrale Marseille) which deliver an internationally reknown French degree of Generalist Engineer.

The sino-french Engineer school was the China’s first institution to pass accreditation by French CTI (Commission desTitres d’Ingénieur) and allows its students to get the Bachelor and Master degrees of Beihang University together with the French degree of Generalist Engineer. This school, open to Chinese and foreign students, develops an exciting and unique training program recognized all around the world which gathers the best aspects of engineering education in China and France. This training program combines both a scientific aspect at the forefront of current knowledge but also aspects of economics, management, finance and law that will help the graduated students to successfully evolve in their future Professional environment whatsoever. During this program, the students have also the opportunity to get international experience by spending one or several semesters in exchange in France or other countries in the world (Europe,Canada, ...)), including Morocco in Ecole Centrale Casablanca.

Thanks to such a program, through several innovation projects, internships in companies and / or research laboratories and courses given in French, Chinese and English by both Professors of Beihang University and Group of Ecoles Centrale but also by contributors from Industry,the students can acquire real capacities of adaptation and innovation which will allow them to imagine new solutions to take up the challenges of tomorrow(in energy, transport, smart cities, new technologies, Big Data, sustainable development ...) and become real actors to build the society of the future as international world-class engineers.