The Lyon school, established for 40 years this year in Roanne, has participated in the development of the Roanne region in the industrial and robotics field.
Friday June 21 was a day of celebration in the Polytech premises, located at the Technopôle Diderot in Roanne since 1987. A ceremony in the presence of Jean Auroux, mayor of Roanne at the time, and Minister of Labor under François Mitterrand, was organized for inaugurate the school on October 29, 1987.
Nearly 150 students in Roanne
Philippe Cassagneau, representing Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, to which Polytech Roanne has been attached for four decades, recalled that it was in 1984 that the Industrial Systems and Robotics sector was established in the sub-prefecture, all of first in CCI premises, then migrating three years later to the Technopôle Diderot.
“Polytech was established at the time to support the industry of the Roanne region. It is today firmly anchored and facilitates access to post-baccalaureate higher education for young Roanne residents interested in engineering,” he commented at the opening of the anniversary ceremony.
The Polytech school offers three years of public engineering training in industrial systems and robotics. Today it welcomes around a hundred students in its main course, as well as around forty divided into two preparatory classes in collaboration with the Jean-Monnet University of Saint-Étienne.
Export talent
The director of the school, Emmanuel Perrin, described the 40 years of existence of Polytech Roanne as “a great success”, and explained it by the export and import of students beyond Roannais after 2010. He also highlighted the work-study program, another “key element” of this success.
Emmanuel Perrin paid tribute to “the family of Roanne students”, always “very committed” in his eyes.
