Moscow State Technical University of Civil Aviation
The Moscow State Technical University of Civil Aviation (MSTUCA) is a leading higher education establishment of Russia which trains Civil Aviation specialists, the centre of science and culture where training and retraining specialists and fundamental scientific research on a wide range of scientific, technical, humanities and economic directions are carried out.
The MSTUCA graduates can work not only in Civil Aviation but in any industry and transport. The University has creative links with many foreign educational establishments and trains foreign students from 30 countries.
The University chairs are headed by experienced scientists - educators, many of them being widely known both in Russia and abroad. Training and research laboratories are equipped with modern computers, instruments and devices, stands, models, simulators, working models of aviation equipment, technical training and knowledge test aids. This makes it possible to conduct classes and carry out scientific work at the up-to-date level of science and technology.
Students can be trained in the following specialities:
- maintenance of aircraft and engines;
- maintenance of aircraft electric systems and flight-navigation complexes (aircraft avionics);
- maintenance of transport radio equipment;
- management;
- applied mathematics;
- computers, computing complexes, systems and networks;
- technological processes and productions safety (on air transport).
Training is conducted on a multi-level basis which enables to obtain the following:
- a diploma on incomplete higher education (2 years of training);
- a "bachelor's" diploma (4 years of training);
- an "engineer's" diploma (5-5,5 years of training);
- a "master's" diploma (6 years of training).
The students who showed aptitude to research work can be recommended to take post-graduate courses. The post- graduate and doctors courses train specialists of higher qualification in the following fields:
- maintenance of air transport;
- automation of technological;
- processes and productions;
- computers, computing complexes and networks;
- radiolocation and radionavigation;
- radiotechnical and TV systems and devices;
- radiophysics;
- economics and management of national economy;
- economic-mathematical methods;
- computing mathematics.
The University has a training airfield and radiofield equipped with modern aircraft and radar equipment where classes are conducted under conditions close to real ones.
MSTUCA arranges production practice for students at base enterprises of Civil Aviation - plants, airports, scientific-research institutions of Civil Aviation.
The University computer network includes display class-rooms for group and individual classes of students, the library information system, automated work places of scientific-research and managerial subdivisions, a software-hardware complex enabling the users to use external computer networks.
The University library is provided with text-books for specialities of all the departments, on crucial problems of science and technology, social sciences. It is one of the best aviation-oriented libraries of
Russia. Comfortable reading-halls with an electronic catalogue and xerox are available to readers.
MSTUCA is a major research center. Here fundamental research and design work on the problems of safety of flights, maintenance and repair of aviation equipment, radiolocation and air traffic control, commercial operation of air transport, management of aviatransport enterprises, methodology of higher education is carried out to the benefit of Civil Aviation and other industries.
Students' scientific-research groups are set up and work successfully at the University. There students improve their theoretical knowledge, acquire practical skills by engaging in the designing and construction of aircraft, in the development and updating of aviation equipment and radioelectronic systems. Contests and scientific-technical conferences of students are held on a regular basis at the University. The best works are recommended for Russian and international contests of students' scientific works. The students of the University very often are prize-winners and laureates of such contests.
The University has a sport complex and many sport clubs.
The sport complex includes a track-and field stadium and a football field, special gyms for sporting games, tennis courts, a skiing base and functional rehabilitation complex. The University teams and athletes have repeatedly become champions and prize-winners of Russia and Moscow.
The spacious movie-concert hall equipped with modern cinema and video projection equipment, acoustic and illuminating systems, rehearsal premises provide good conditions for amateur activities, movie-lectures, concerts of masters of art and popular musical groups.
The MSTUCA has a dormitory located in a park zone, not far from the University and metro station. The students live in rooms for 1 or 2 persons. There are good conditions for studies. On winter and summer vacations the students of the University can have a rest at boarding-houses and rest-homes.