Publish at January 11 2023 Updated January 11 2023
The "crisis of the grandes écoles" can be understood in different ways. One can see in it the premises of an epistemological rupture in the function of the engineer and therefore of his training. The claim of the youngest students is essentially based on the refusal to continue to make the engineer an executor of the industrial expansion that destroys nature.
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