Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal

Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal is an engineering faculty which was established in the year 1873. It is affiliated with Universite de Montreal, Canada and is commonly referred to as, Montreal Polytechnic. The school stands at the 1^st spot in Canada for its engineering research. It offers postgraduate and graduate training in French and is highly reputed for its research. The school is also famous for its ritual of Calling of an Engineer in which a student graduating in Bachelors of Engineering is presented with an iron ring.
Apart from this, the school is also famous for the massacre which took place on 6^th of December in 1989. Marc Lepine, a 25-year old Canadian entered into the campus of Ecole Polytechnique and shot 14 women, wounding 4 men and another 10 women before shooting himself. The incident is the most fatal shooting incident in the history of Canada and is now commemorated as the ‘’Day of Action on Violence against Women’’.