• HEI, Ingénieurs pour le Monde (Engineers for the World) of today and tomorrow, a French Grande Ecole was founded in Lille in 1885, by the Industrial Leaders of Northern France, to meet their engineering and managerial needs. HEI has since extended its activities to the training of versatile engineers, open-minded to the world, humanistic in managerial approach with the added plus of an internati
onal and intercultural profile. HEI’s vocation is to develop the values of responsibility, integrity and diligence in carrying out projects and managing teams of all sizes and all international and intercultural dimensions.
• Some 130 years later, the school continues this mission through three core activities: the training of engineers and executives, industrial applied research and development and the providing of extension services to the business world including technology transfer. Since the creation of the school, these dimensions have defined the identity of HEI. We coach each student, personally, in the design and completion of his or her personal and professional project, enhancing learning outcomes in line with the needs, expectations and requirements of the global economic world. In other words, HEI is at the service of the private business and industrial sectors, revealing individual talents and insight, fostering innovation, developing and creating competitive advantage.
• HEI is one of the establishments of Yncréa (Groupe HEI ISA ISEN, recently merged in 2013). Yncréa is member of the Université Catholique de Lille: UCL (HEI is a founding member), a comprehensive University and the largest Private University in France.
• HEI disposes of two unique learning centers:
o Euratechnologies (http://www.euratechnologies.com/) where our IT department is located and,
o Urbawood (http://www.urbawood.fr/) home to ADICODE® and our living lab of connected objects.
• HEI and Yncréa continue expanding:
o Morocco opened in 2011,
o Campus Center in Chateauroux, France opened in 2015
o Senegal in Dakar since 2014
o Myanmar in Yangon and Mandalay opened in 2016