Military Technical College
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The Egyptian Military Technical College (Arabic: الكلية الفنية العسكرية), is the country's scientific military college aimed to supply the army with its need of the professional engineers. Graduates of the Military Technical College get commissioned as officers in the different branches of the egyptian armed forces
Its commandant is Professor, Major General, Abdel Rahman el-Bardawiny, B.Sc, M.Sc, Ph.D.
His deputy is Major General, Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Ghany Fayed.
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[edit] Historical Background
The Egyptian Military Technical College was established to aid fulfilling one basic principle of the July revolution, to build a strong Egyptian army. As a milestone in building this army, the role of recent technologies and modern trends in armament came to mind. Thus, the idea of establishing a technical military academy became essential to supply the newborn army with engineers who constitute its technical mind.
In October 27, 1957, the Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces issued an order to establish a scientific military college under the name, The Military College for Science, and occupied in 1958 Abd El-Rehiem Sabry Palace in Dokky, Cairo.
The educational foundation and the teaching plans were established by a group of Czech faculty members and Egyptian university professors in analogy with the Czechoslovak Military Academy of Brno, Czechoslovakia.
The Military College for Science became the Military Technical College according to the re-organizational instructions , issued on September 7th, 1959.
The College started to qualify its own Egyptian teaching staff at 1960. The early groups were sent to the Chezkoslovak Military Academy to get their Ph.D degrees in different specializations of the college during the period 1964 - 1975. The following groups have been sent to distinguished universities in France ,Great Britain, and USA, since 1977. The role of the Czech faculty members ended and the college started to depend totally on its own staff, by 1978.
In 1978 the college was assigned the mission to start graduate studies for the professional officers of the Egyptian Armed Forces. Several Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees as well as graduate professional diplomas have already been awarded.
Thousands of B.Sc. engineer officers graduated from the Military Technical College. Considering the cooperation among Egypt ,Arab, and African countries there were foreign cadets who have graduated and finished their graduate studies in Military Technical College.
[edit] Academic Programs
[edit] Undergraduate
The Military Technical College awards the Bachelor of Science in Engineering in different specializations, for which the MTC cadets have to spend 5 academic years on campus.
After the second year, cadets join designated specializations as follows:
- Electrical Engineering Department
Specializations: Radar, Rocket Guidance , Communications, Computer , Optoelectronics, Electrical Power, Bio-Medical Engineering, and Electronic Warfare.
- Mechanical Engineering Department
Specializations: Tanks, Mechanical Power, Motor Vehicles, Mechanical Equipment, Weapons and Ammunition, and Printing Engineering.
- Chemical Engineering Department
Specializations: Explosives and Rocket Propellant, Chemical Warfare.
- Aerospace Engineering Department
Specializations: Aircraft Ground Equipment, Aircraft Born Equipment, Aircraft Special Systems and Armament, Aircraft Mechanics, Rockets.
- Civil and Architectural Engineering Department
Specializations: Civil Engineering, Architecture
[edit] Graduate Programs
The Military Technical College offers study programs leading to the degrees of Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy in the following areas:
- Architectural Engineering
- Chemical Engineering
- Civil Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Engineering Mathematics
- Engineering Physics
- Mechanical Engineering
The Military Technical College offers study programs leading to the professional Diploma in Engineering and Operations Research in addition to 145 short courses in different engineering branches.
[edit] Research
The Military Technical College consistently ranks among the top research facilities in the Arab Republic of Egypt. With more than 20 research groups, the college also consistently ranks among the top institutions in industry-supported research.
The college's faculty and students are involved in more than 30 research projects in fields ranging from biotechnology to materials, from the environmental friendly power resources to satellite communications, and from transportation to information technology.
[edit] Public Service
As part of its public service mission, MTC is involved in a multitude of outreach projects that serve, not only the army, but the civilian sector as well.
It is considered as the most powerful engineering institute in the region
