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France’s 3rd edition of the FIRST Tech Challenge international robotics competition—hosted by Grenoble Institute of Technology—will be held on May 1415, 2014. The competition is open to high-school students; the number of teams participating soared from seven in 2012 to seventeen this year! Students from Grenoble Institute of Technology (Phelma, Esisar, ENSGI, and Ense3 engineering […] >>

Grenoble Institute of Technology’s Continuing Education Department has teamed up with Grenoble Ecole de Management to offer a new part-time program in Technology Management. It is open to technicians with at least three years of work experience who want to move into a management position. The 22-month program will start this September with 20-30 students. […] >>

The Embedded Systems Design Platform—created by Saclay-based List and Grenoble-based Leti—ended 2013 with a remarkable achievement. Its engineers developed a revolutionary new system design approach that enabled high-tech firm M3Systems to double the performance of one of its systems, while optimizing its size and power consumption. The new approach uses a high-level virtual prototyping environment […] >>

For the past several years, the Franco-Peruvian organization Puya de Raimondi (headed by a CEA scientist) and the NanoAndes network have been fostering research ties between France and Latin America. This transatlantic collaboration recently marked a new milestone with the publication in Mexico of Física de semiconductores y componentes electrónicos—the Spanish translation of a book […] >>

Leti—working on a project for Montpellier-based start-up Oridao—has developed a miniature RFID tag for all kinds of metal objects, from those no bigger than a centimeter to those the size of a filing cabinet. Metal objects drastically diminish the effectiveness and bandwidth of the tiny antennas in RFID tags. Leti engineers came up with a […] >>