Marcel Dassault was a French engineer and industrialist who spent his career in aircraft manufacturing.

The Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace is a French grande école of engineering, founded in 1909. It is the world's first dedicated institute of aerospace engineering. ISAE-SUPAERO is part of University of Toulouse, ISSAT, PEGASUS, GEA, Toulouse Tech, CESAER and Aerospace Valley. The institute is ranked highly among Europe's engineering schools.