State Engineering University of Armenia

The State Engineering University of Armenia (SEUA) is a technical university

University

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located in Yerevan

Yerevan

Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country...

, Armenia

Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...

. Established as the Yerevan Polytechnic Institute in 1933, it provides educational and research programs in various fields of technology and science related to engineering. Currently there are more than 10,000 students and more than 1,000 faculty members.

General information

State Engineering University of Armenia is the legal successor of Yerevan Polytechnic Institute named after Karl Marx

Karl Marx

Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement...

which was founded in 1933 having only 2 departments and 107 students. The Institute grew along with the Republic’s industrialization pace and in 1980 – 1985 reached its peak with about 25000 students and more than 66 majors, becoming the largest higher education institution in Armenia and one of the most advanced engineering schools in the USSR. On November 29, 1991, the Yerevan Polytechnic Institute was reorganized and renamed State Engineering University of Armenia (SEUA).

The Central Campus of the University is located in Yerevan and the Branch Campuses - in Gyumri

Gyumri

Gyumri is the capital and largest city of the Shirak Province in northwest Armenia. It is located about 120 km from the capital Yerevan, and, with a population of 168,918 , is the second-largest city in Armenia.The name of the city has been changed many times in history...

, Vanadzor

Vanadzor

-Industry:Vanadzor is dominated by large chemical plants which include: "Prometey-Khimprom", "Vanadzor Chemical Plant", "Vanadzor Khimprom" and "Vanadzor Chemical Fiber Plant". Another big enterprise is the "Vanadzor Thermal Power Plant....

and Kapan

Kapan

-Notable landmarks:*Vahanavank monastery*Baghaberd and Halidzor Fortresses.*Tatev Monastery - This monastery, situated northwest of Kapan was founded in the ninth century in the place of an ancient tabernacle well-known in ancient times...

. There are divisions, departments and chairs operating within the Campuses. The governance bodies of the University are the University Council, the Academic Council, the Rectorate and the Student Council

Student council

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.
The University has affiliated high schools in Yerevan and Regional Campuses, aimed at recruiting future gifted engineering students from schools and providing their profound training in the University environment before their admission to the University.

The University accomplishes 5 study programs of vocational, higher and post-higher professional education, conferring the qualification degrees of junior engineer, bachelor, diplomaed specialist , master and researcher. Besides the degree programs, the University also offers extended education courses by means of its departments and a network of continuing education structures. The specialization scope of the University includes all the main areas of engineering and technologies represented by 39 Bachelor’s and 23 Master’s specializations in Engineering, Industrial Economics, Engineering Management, Applied Mathematics and Sociology.
During 75 years of its existence, the University has given over 100 thousand graduates who have contributed greatly to the development of industry forming once powerful engineering manpower and technology base of Armenia.

Apart from the academic units, the University has a number of support services such as the Computer Centre, Scientific Library with more than 1 million books, Printing House, Faculty Development Centre, Industrial Liaison and Students Carrier Support Centre, as well as cultural, sports and other social facilities and summer recreation camps.

The information infrastructure of the University is well developed: today the University has a contemporary computer network with more than 1200 units, a number of technologically enabled classrooms and specialized computer labs.

Thousands of the University alumni are united today in YPI-SEUA Alumni Association committed to support the progress of their Alma Mater.
At present SEUA has over 10 thousand students following 5 degree programs, among them over 500 foreign students studying in English language. The number of the regular academic staff of the University exceeds 1000, most of them with Degrees of Candidate or Doctor of Science. With its developed research system and infrastructure the University is nationally recognized as the leading center in technical sciences.

The University has a leading role in the reformations of the higher education system of Armenia. SEUA was the first HEI in RA that introduced two and three level higher and post-higher education systems, implemented experimentally the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) in harmony with the developments of the Bologna Process

Bologna process

The purpose of the Bologna Process is the creation of the European Higher Education Area by making academic degree standards and quality assurance standards more comparable and compatible throughout Europe, in particular under the Lisbon Recognition Convention...

. During the last decade, the University has also developed an extended network of international cooperation including many leading Universities and research centers of the world.
The University is a member of European University Association

European University Association

The European University Association represents and supports more than 850 institutions of higher education in 46 countries, providing them with a forum for cooperation and exchange of information on higher education and research policies...

(EUA), involved in many European and other international academic and research programs (TEMPUS

TEMPUS

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, TACIS, USAID, INTAS, NATO, NISCUPP etc.).

Faculties, Chairs

Chemical Technologies
Chemical engineering
Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with physical science , and life sciences with mathematics and economics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms...

and Environmental Engineering
Environmental engineering
Environmental engineering is the application of science and engineering principles to improve the natural environment , to provide healthy water, air, and land for human habitation and for other organisms, and to remediate polluted sites...
Electrical Engineering
Electrical engineering
Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...
Machine Building
Cybernetics
Cybernetics
Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the structure of regulatory systems. Cybernetics is closely related to information theory, control theory and systems theory, at least in its first-order form...
Power Engineering
Power engineering
Power engineering, also called power systems engineering, is a subfield of engineering that deals with the generation, transmission and distribution of electric power as well as the electrical devices connected to such systems including generators, motors and transformers...
Radio Engineering
Electronic engineering
Electronics engineering, also referred to as electronic engineering, is an engineering discipline where non-linear and active electrical components such as electron tubes, and semiconductor devices, especially transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, are utilized to design electronic...

and Communication Systems
Computer Systems and Informatics
Informatics (academic field)
Informatics is the science of information, the practice of information processing, and the engineering of information systems. Informatics studies the structure, algorithms, behavior, and interactions of natural and artificial systems that store, process, access and communicate information...
Mechanics
Mechanics
Mechanics is the branch of physics concerned with the behavior of physical bodies when subjected to forces or displacements, and the subsequent effects of the bodies on their environment....

and Machine Study
Mathematics
Mathematics
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Mining
Mining
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and Metallurgy
Metallurgy
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Transportation Systems
Transport network
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Social Sciences
Social sciences
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and Languages
Foreign Student Division

International Contacts

At present, the map of SEUA’s international cooperation includes:

China
China
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- University of Jilin
- Shangha Institute of Electric Power
- Huazhong Technical University
Finland
Finland
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- Central Ostrobotnia Polytechnic
France
France
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- Ecole Supérieure d’Ingénieurs de Marseille (ESIM)
- Université Paris XII – Val de Marne
- Université de Provence (Aix – Marseille I)
- Université de la Méditerranée (Aix – Marseille II)
- Université de Droit, d’Economie et des Sciences
- Chamber of Commerce (Marseille)
Germany
Germany
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- Technological University of Ilmenau
- Institute of Optoelectronics (Wesling)
- Technical Universities of Stuttgart and Darmstadt.
Greece
Greece
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- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- National Technical University of Athens
- Technological Eduicational Institute of Piraeus
Italy
Italy
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- “La Sapienza” University
- “Tor Vergata” University (Rome)
Portugal
Portugal
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- Technical University of Lisbon
Russia
Russia
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- Moscow Institute of Energetics
- Bauman Technical University (Moscow)
- Moscow Technical University of Communication and Informatics.
Spain
Spain
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- Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
- Alicante University
Sweden
Sweden
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- Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm)
- Lund University
Syria
Syria
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- University of Damascus.
Ukraine
Ukraine
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- National Technical University of Ukraine (Kiev)
- Ukrainian State Academy of Light Industry (Kiev)
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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- Brunel University of West London
- The Queen’s University of Belfast
- Universities of Wolverhampton and Huddersfield
United States
United States
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- California State Polytechnical University (Pomona)
- New Jersey Institute of Technology
  New Jersey Institute of Technology
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- Perdue University (Indiana)
- Southern University Baton Rouge
- Grambling State University and Southern University New Orleans (Louisiana)

Rectors

Hovhannes Babajanyan 1934-1936
Hmayak Ghondakhchyan 1936-1937
Ashot Meliqjanyan 1937 from August to October
Misak Petrosyan 1937-1946
Petros Melqonyan 1946-1965
Ashot Aslanyan 1965-1966
Artsrun Gasparyan 1966-1980
Rafayel Movsisyan 1980-1988
Yuri Sargsyan 1988-2006
Vostanik Marukhyan
Vostanik Marukhyan
Vostanik Marukhyan in Yerevan, Armenia is the current Rector of State Engineering University of Armenia, t.s.c. professor, full member of Engineering Academy, member of the National Assembly of Armenia , chairman of “Thermal Power Engineering and Protection of Environment” of department Power...

2006-current

Notable alumni

Karen Demirchyan
Karen Demirchyan
Karen Demirchyan was a Soviet Armenian communist, First Secretary of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1974 to 1988 and later independent politician...

- First Secretary of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic
Robert Kocharyan - President of Armenia 1998-2008
Andranik Margaryan - Prime Minister of Armenia 2000-2007
Hrant Vardanyan - Businessman
Tigran Torosyan
Tigran Torosyan
Tigran Suriki Torosyan , born April 14, 1956 in Yerevan, was the speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia from 2006 to 2008. From 1993 he was a member of Republican Party of Armenia and the party board. In 1998-2008 he became a Deputy Chairman of the RPA board. On June 1, 2006 he was elected...

- President of National Assembly of Armenia
Khachatur Suqiasyan - Businessman, Indicator of National Assembly of Armenia
Ara Ernjakyan - Art Director of Yerevan State Chamber Theatre
Arthur Aghabekyan - Armenian Deputy Minister of Defense
Gevorg Emin
Gevorg Emin
- Biography :Emin, the son of a school teacher, was born in the town of Ashtarak. In 1927, his family left Ashtarak and moved to Yerevan, the capital of Soviet Armenia. In 1936 he finished secondary school; in 1940 he graduated from the local Polytechnical Institute as a hydraulic engineer...

- Writer
Vardan Oskanyan
Vardan Oskanyan
Vartan Oskanian is former Foreign Minister of Armenia and founder of the Civilitas Foundation.-Early life and career:Born into the Armenian diaspora in Syria, Oskanian was educated in the Armenian schools of Aleppo. After graduating from high school in 1973 he left for Armenia, where he attended...

- Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia

Milestones

1933 February 27. According to the Resolution of the Government of Soviet Armenia, the two Yerevan Institutes of Civil Engineering and Chemical Technology were merged and 1933

1933 March 1 Yerevan Polytechnic Institute (YPI) was established with two faculties: Faculty of Civil Engineering and Faculty of Chemical Technology.

1933 March 14. In comemoration of 50 years after Karl Marx's death, the Institute was renamed to Yerevan Karl Marx Polytechnic Institute.

1939 Industrial Correspondence Education Institute joined YPI, becoming its Department of Correspondence Education.

1942 September 1 The faculty of Electrical Engineering was founded.

1944 September 1 The faculty of Mechanical Engineering was founded.

1946 Autumn The first Students’ Scientific Conference of the Institute took place.

1947 The Students' Scientific Association of YPI was established.

1953 The Faculty of Mining was founded.

1956 The library reading-hall of YPI with 45 thousand books was opened.

1957 May 1. The first issue of the newspaper §Polytechnic¦ was published.

1959 Leninakan and Kirovakan Branches of YPI were founded.

1961 The Faculty of Automatics and Computing Technics was founded.

1964 The chamber music band of YPI was created.

1966 The Faculty of Automatics and Computing Technics was renamed into the Faculty of Technical Cybernetics.

1972 The Faculty of Radioelectronics was separated from the Faculty of Technical Cybernetics.

1972 The Faculty of Power Engineering was founded.

1972 The Branch of the Faculty of Radioelectronics was founded in Dilidjan.

1974 The Faculty of Social Specialities was established.

1978 The Faculty of Computing Technics was founded based on the faculties of Technical Cybernetics and Radio Engineering.

1978 The Faculty of Radioelectronics was renamed into the Faculty of Radio Engineering.

1985 The Faculty of Transportation was organized with the units separated from the faculties of Machine Building and Mechanical Engineering.

1991 The Stepanakert Branch of YPI was founded in Artsakh. Later in 1993, on its base the Artsakh University was established.

1991 November 29. By the Order No 4 of the RA President, YPI was reorganized into State Engineering University of Armenia (SEUA).

1991 December 9. The Resolution No 670 of the RA Government on the establishment of SEUA was adopted, which approved the guidelines of reformations in accordance with the SEUA Master Plan.

1992 The Department of Mathematics was founded by the merger of three Mathematics chairs.

1992 The Department of Social and Political Disciplines was founded, reorganized in 1994 into the Department of Social-Political Disciplines and General Economics.

1994 The Department of Mechanics and Machine Science was created.

1994 The Alumni Association and the Student Council of SEUA were established.

1996 SEUA became a member of the Association of European Universities (AEU).

2001 June. The SEUA Interdepartmental Chair of Microelectronic Circuits and Systems was established based on the Armenian Branch of Leda Systems Co.

2001 July. The Student Career Service Center was founded.

2003 October. The 70-th anniversary of establishing YPI-SEUA was celebrated. The President and the Prime Minister of RA participated in the celebration ceremonies.

2004 September. The University’s historical classroom No 1301 was overhauled and now it serves as an assembly hall for Academic Council sittings and other solemn events.

2005 September. By the resolution of RA Government the traditional name “Polytechnic” was returned to the University as an acronym.

2005 December. The first session of the SEUA new Council was convened, and President of NAS RA Fadey Sargsyan was elected as a Chairman of the Council.

2006 May The SEUA Alumni Union reorganized into Alumni Association, and the Prime Minister of RA A.Margaryan was elected as a President of the Association.

External links

State Engineering University of Armenia (SEUA) official site

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