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June 01 2012
Engineers and scientists—want to try your hand at teaching?
- Education
- MINATEC
- News
Faced with an explosion in the number of tutorials and lab courses being offered to its first-year students, Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma is making an appeal to MINATEC engineers, scientists, and PhD students to lend a helping hand. The goal is to hire around 30 temporary teachers for subjects like math, physics, electrical engineering, automation, […] >>
June 01 2012
Wavelens cuts the cost of smartphone autofocus
- Industry
- MINATEC
- News
The tiny motors that power the autofocus on smartphone cameras could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to technology from Wavelens, a start-up scheduled to be launched by the end of this year. The three Leti engineers behind the budding company have developed adjustable-focus lenses integrated on silicon that should be ready for […] >>
June 01 2012
Paris engineering students spend a day at the CEA
- Education
- Industry
- MINATEC
- News
- Research
Two École Centrale Paris professors—Dr. Emmanuel Defaÿ and Dr. Alexandre Reinhardt—brought their second-year materials process engineering students to MINATEC for a day to learn about the CEA’s latest research. The twelve lucky students visited the B2I showroom, Leti’s clean rooms, and several CEA labs focused on biology, healthcare, and energy harvesting. They also got to […] >>
June 01 2012
Dasein Interactions revolutionizes city planning models
- Industry
- MINATEC
- News
If you’ve seen the GIANT model in the DRT showroom, then you are already familiar with Dasein Interactions’ work. This start-up, in its final incubation phase at GRAIN, uses the next-generation interfaces developed at Leti to create models combining unparalleled interactivity with exceptional ease-of-use. Thanks to Dasein’s cutting-edge technology, city planners can view exactly what […] >>
June 01 2012
Phelma graduates make a splash in the job market
- Education
- News
According to the latest job placement survey of top-tier French universities (by the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles), nearly 80% of the Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma Class of 2011 was employed (including PhD research assignments) two months after graduation, at an average salary of nearly €35,000. 40% of the jobs were in the Rhône-Alpes region, 20% […] >>