2015, the Institute has been educating these students within the framework of a new common ISAE-SUPAERO engineering curriculum. ISAE-SUPAERO is a school of application of l’Ecole Polytechnique and in particular it trains engineers of the armaments corps. It also trains military engineers with an aeronautics specialization once the latter have completed a first year at another French engineering school, ENSTA Bretagne, in Brest, France. In 2011, ISAE founded Groupe ISAE with the engineering school, ENSMA. In 2012, Groupe ISAE was joined by ESTACA and by l’Ecole de l’Air. The Institute also delivers continuing education through its subsidiary, EUROSAE. National rankings and acceptance rates National ranking (ranked for its Master of Sciences in Engineering) ISAE-SUPAERO is one of the most selective engineering school in France with acceptance rates below 10%. The undergraduate admission to ISAE-SUPAERO in the engineer cycle is made through two ways: the first pathway by which most students are recruited, is a very selective examination which requires at least two years of very intensive preparation after high school in classes préparatoires. The other pathway corresponds to the recruitment of about twenty undergraduate students from universities. For both ways, admission includes a week of written examinations during the spring followed by oral examinations that are handled in batches (séries) over the summer. About only 200 students from classes préparatoires or French universities are admitted to the prestigious school each year. The average acceptance rates of the national examination taken by students from classes préparatoires are indicated below: ISAE-SUPAERO (ENSICA and SUPAERO) alumni Notable alumni include: Raoul Badin, S-1910, one of the main inventors of the airspeed indicator and forefather of instrument flying. Henri Coandă, S-1910, discovered the Coandă Effect; Romanian designer of the first jet plane. Henry Potez, S-1911, founder of the Potez airplanes company. Mikhail Gurevich, S-1913, founder of MiG Marcel Bloch-Dassault, S-1913, founder of the Dassault airplanes company. René Couzinet, S-1925, aircraft designer, conceived the Couzinet 30 Arc-en-Ciel, the famous plane flown by Jean Mermoz, and also invented the retractable landing gear and the modern yoke. Henri Ziegler, S-1931, father of the Airbus program. Guy du Merle, S-1932, first director-general of the École nationale de l'aviation civile (French civil aviation university). François Hussenot, S-1935, inventor of the "hussenographe" (an early form of Flight data recorder or "black box"); also involved in the creation of EPNER. Jean-Claude Laprie (1944-2010), E-1968,director of research at the CNRS, former director of