State Engineering University of Armenia
The State Engineering University of Armenia (SEUA) (Armenian: Հայաստանի Պետական Ճարտարագիտական Համալսարան) is a technical university located in Yerevan, Armenia. 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 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, Vanadzor and Kapan. 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.
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. 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 (EUA), involved in many European and other international academic and research programs (TEMPUS, TACIS, USAID, INTAS, NATO, NISCUPP etc.).
Faculties, Chairs
Courses
- Correspondence Courses
- Foreign Student Division
Campuses
International Contacts
At present, the map of SEUA’s international cooperation includes:
- China
- University of Jilin
- Shangha Institute of Electric Power
- Huazhong Technical University
- Finland
- Central Ostrobotnia Polytechnic
- France
- 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
- Technological University of Ilmenau
- Institute of Optoelectronics (Wesling)
- Technical Universities of Stuttgart and Darmstadt.
- Greece
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- National Technical University of Athens
- Technological Eduicational Institute of Piraeus
- Italy
- “La Sapienza” University
- “Tor Vergata” University (Rome)
- Portugal
- Technical University of Lisbon
- Russia
- Moscow Institute of Energetics
- Bauman Technical University (Moscow)
- Moscow Technical University of Communication and Informatics.
- Spain
- Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
- Alicante University
- Sweden
- Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm)
- Lund University
- Syria
- Ukraine
- National Technical University of Ukraine (Kiev)
- Ukrainian State Academy of Light Industry (Kiev)
- United Kingdom
- Brunel University of West London
- The Queen’s University of Belfast
- Universities of Wolverhampton and Huddersfield
- United States
- California State Polytechnical University (Pomona)
- New Jersey Institute of Technology
- 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 2006-current
Notable alumni
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.
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