Best Educational Programs: OPERATION OF TRANSPORTATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL MACHINES AND COMPLEXES
MOSCOW STATE AUTOMOBILE AND ROAD TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
Faculty of Road Transport
Bachelor’s programme
Master’s programme
ZIMANOV, Lev Leonidovich
Dean
HEI’s image. The Moscow State Automobile And Road Technical University (MADI) is one of the largest HEIs in Russia, a leading research, academic and methodological centre for training bachelors, professional specialists, masters and research workers in the sphere of building roads, bridges and airports, operating and maintenance of transport equipment, economics, management and logistics of transport and building, automated management systems and organization of road traffic.
Programme presentation. The training specialty “Operation of Transportation and Technological Machines and Complexes” is one of the basic specialties of the Faculty and is very popular among school leavers, which assures high-quality students with high state examination grades. Students of the Faculty study construction and operation of vehicles, as well as basic engineering disciplines: “Theory of Mechanics”, “Strength of Materials”, “Theory of Mechanisms and Machines”, “Machine Components” and others. Students have the possibility to choose subjects from the first year of study, which allows them to go deep in the most interesting aspects of the future professional activity.
Teaching staff. The study process is performed by highly-qualified teachers. The teaching staff of major departments includes 8 Doctors of Sciences and 19 PhDs. In order to improve connections with the real professional activity, the Faculty invites heads of transport companies to conduct lectures and practical courses.
Competitiveness of students. The Programme’s students are the backbone of MADI’s teams in Olympiads in engineering. Over 80% of thesis projects are developed on the basis of projects of partner-organizations, one third of them are implemented in manufacturing. Thesis works of MADI’s graduates win prizes of regional and national competitions.
Interaction with employers. The major departments of the Faculty actively cooperate with leading companies of the industry OJSC “KamAZ”, State Unitary Enterprise “Mosgortrans”, OJSC “Krauze First Autocombinat”, CJSC “SP Business-Car” and others. Within the cooperation framework the Faculty founds new departments, research and technology centres; students undergo working and pre-degree practice.