Moscow State Aviation Technological University

The university chronicle starts in 1932 with the foundation of Dirigible Engineering Educational Center attached to Civil Air Fleet (CAF) Ministry by joining Aircraft School of Leningrad Institute of CAF Engineers and Moscow Aviation Institute. In 1939 the center was reorganized into Moscow Institute of CAF Engineers and named after K.E. Tsiolkovsky.

Konstantin Eduardovitch Tsiolkovsky (1857–1935) was Russian scientist and inventor in the field of aerodynamics, aerospace engineering and the theory of aircraft, rockets and dirigible. On June 17, 1940, Moscow Institute of Aviation Technology (or shortly MATI) was established. MATI attained the university status and name Moscow State Aviation Technology Institute – Russian State Technological University in 1992.

About 260 professors and Doctors of Sciences as well as more than 700 associate professors and Ph.D. scientists work at the university. University realizes the training according to the 24 specialties of higher professional education and trains researchers according to the 28 scientific specialties, carries out retraining of the specialists from industry and raising the level of their skill according to the various programs.

Only in 1991 MATI was opened to foreign students. More than 200 students from Great Britain, USA, Germany, South Korea, Turkey, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Kenya, Morocco, Oman, China, Iran and some other countries are studying at the university. University carries out a student and scientific exchange with the universities of the US, Great Britain, Taiwan, China, South Korea.

On the 31st of March 2015 the Ministry of Education reorganized Moscow Aviation Institute by annexation of the Russian State Technological University named after Tsiolkovsky.

Cooperation of MATI and Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center in the field of training of the specialists for aerospace industry, as well as scientific and research cooperation in development of new technology for space exploration has resulted in establishing MATI's branch at Khrunichev Space R&D Center. This MATI branch received the name "Aerospace University for Specialized Training". The main goal for establishing an aerospace university was training of the specialists in the field of development and production of advanced aerospace technology using for this aim teaching, scientific and production experience of MATI and Khrunichev Space R&D Center.

The main fields of Aerospace University activity are the following:

• development of the educational programs for additional education in Aerospace Engineering;
• training of the technical staff (engineers, technicians, etc.);
• teaching of the foreign students according to the educational programs additional to the undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate programs in Aerospace Engineering

Short-term educational programs for foreign specialists from aerospace industry (similar program MATI in cooperation with Khrunichev Space R&D Center is carrying on in the frame of the Russian-Britain Project for additional training of the students and specialists in aerospace technologies).

University building in Tagansky District

There are seven main faculties in the university:

• Faculty of Aerospace Technology
• Faculty of Aerospace Engineering and Technology
• Faculty of Avionics and Informational Systems
• Faculty of Material Science
• Faculty of Applied Mathematics, Mechanics and Computer Science
• Faculty of Economics and Ecology
• Faculty of Social Science

• Airbus
• BAE Systems
• Royal Navy
• Kingston University
• Delft University of Technology
• All-Russian Institute Of Aviation Materials
• Vnukovo Airport
• Energomash

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