Vologda State University

Vologda State Technical University
Вологодский государственный технический университет
Type	Public
Established	1975
Rector	Leonid I. Sokolov
Address	Lenina 15, Vologda, Vologda oblast, ; 59°13′19″N 39°53′47″E / 59.22194°N 39.89639°E
Campus	Urban
Website	http://www.vstu.edu.ru

Vologda State Technical University (Template:Lang-ru), is the largest technical university of the Vologda oblast in Russia.

History

The history of the University began in 1966, when the General engineering faculty of the North-Western Extra-mural Polytechnic Institute (NWPI) was founded in Vologda. There was only evening and extra-mural training at the faculty. In 1967 the faculty was reorganized into the Vologda Branch of the NWPI. There were only 2 faculties:

Internal faculty
Evening and Extra-mural faculty

In 1975 the Vologda oblast executive committee offered to reorganize the Vologda Branch of the NWPI into the Vologda Polytechnic Institute (VPI). In 1999 the VPI was given the highest accreditive rank of the university. Since then it is called the Vologda State Technical University (VSTU).

Faculties

Power engineering faculty

The power engineering faculty (PEF) was founded in 1971 and alongside the Faculty of industrial management it is one of the oldest faculties. It consists of the following departments:

Power Supply
Information Systems in Management
Electric Equipment
Bio-Medical Engineering
Automation and Computer Science
Information Systems and Technology

At present the power engineering faculty prepares students for the following specialties:

Power supply
Electric drive and automation of industrial installations and technological complexes
Control and information science in technical systems
Information systems and technologies
Computing machinery, complexes, systems and network
Software of computing machinery and automation systems
Engineering in medical and biological practice

and the following training programms:

Power engineering
Electrical engineering, electromechanics and electrical technology
Automation and control
Information science and computer engineering.

Industrial management faculty

The Industrial management faculty (IMF) got its name in 1997, before that it was called the mechanics-technological faculty. Along with the power engineering faculty it is the oldest faculty of the Vologda State Technical University. It includes the following departments:

department of technology of mechanical engineering
department of technology and equipment of the automated manufactures
department of automobiles
department of economy and technology of production
department of theory and design of machines and mechanisms
department of safety of life and industrial ecology.

Now FIM prepares students in 4 specialities:

"Mechanical engineering technology" with specialisation "Technology, industrial management and marketing in machinery engineering"
"Automation of technological processes and Industries" with specialisation "Systems of the automated designing"
"Automobiles and automobile industry"
"Economy and management of an enterprise" in the branch of "Science and scientific service" with specialization "Innovation management"

and 2 training programms:

Technological machinery and equipment
Innovation management

Besides at the faculty there are additional programs of the higher professional education provided with an extra fee:

the second higher economic education;
the parallel higher economic education;
the reduced engineering and economic programs

Construction engineering faculty

The Construction Engineering Faculty (CEF), founded in 1972, is one of the oldest faculties. It consists of the following departments:

Architecture and city construction
Industrial and civil construction
Gas and heat supply and ventilation
Highway construction
City cadastre and geodesy
Descriptive geometry and graphics
Strength of materials

The Construction Engineering Faculty prepares students for the following specialties:

Architecture
Design of architectural environment
Industrial and civil construction
Towns utility services
Heat and Gas supply and ventilation
Highway and airfield construction
Industrial heat energy

and the training programm "Construction engineering".

Faculty of ecology

The faculty of ecology received its name in 2000. In 1977-2000 its name was hydraulic. It comprises the following departments:

department of water supply and drainage.
department of geoecology and engineering geology.
department of urban cadastre and geodesy.
department of complex use and protection of natural resources.
department of chemistry.

Now the faculty trains students in the following specialties:

Geoecology
Urban cadastre
Water supply and sewerage system
Rescue in emergency situations
Nature management
Multiple use and protection of water resources
Environmental territory planning

Faculty of economics

The faculty of economics was created in 1994. It is one of the youngest faculties of the VSTU.The faculty consists of the following departments:

Economics and management
Management
Finance and credit
Accounting and auditing
Economics and mathematical modeling
Economic theory and national economy

Faculty of Economics prepares students for the following specialties:

National economy
Finance and credit
Accounting, analysis and audit"
Economics and management (mechanical engineering)
Economics and management (construction engineering)
State and municipal management
Management of an organization

Faculty of humanities

The faculty of humanities is the youngest in the university, it appeared in September 2000. It consists of the following departments:

department of social and humanitarian sciences
department of social-cultural service and tourism
department of foreign languages
department of physical education
department of philosophy and law
department of linguistics and intercultural communication

Now the faculty of humanities offers courses in four specialties:

Management organization (specialization "Social Technologies")
Social and cultural service and tourism (specialization "Social and cultural service")
Translation and translation studies (specialization "Translation and interpreting")
Theory and practice of intercultural communication

Faculty of correspondence and distance studying

The Faculty of correspondence and distance studying (FCDS) was founded in 1973 and until 2002 it was known as the faculty of evening and distance studying. Now it combines correspondence and evening branches of the university. The faculty provides studying in 13 specialties:

Electricity
Electrical and power engineering of businesses, organizations and institutions
Management and informatics in technical systems
Technology of mechanical engineering with specialization of industrial management and marketing in engineering
Automobiles and automobile industry
Industrial and civil construction
Water supply and sewerage (specialization: the protection of the hydrosphere and aquatic ecology)
Finance and credit
Economics and management in engineering
Economics and management in construction
Accounting, analysis and audit
State and municipal management
Management of organizations

Intermediate faculty

The intermediate faculty of VSTU was created on the basis of Vologda branch of the S.A. Zverev Leningrad Physical-Mechanical Engineering College, which was opened in Vologda in August 1979. In 1989 the college was сonnected with the Vologda Polytechnic Institute (VPI).Since 1990 the college was transformed into the intermediate faculty of VPI (from 1999 - VSTU). The faculty implements programs of secondary vocational education in the following specialties:

Economics and accounting (graduate's qualification - accountant)
Insurance business (graduate's qualification - specialist of insurance business).
Computers, complexes, systems and networks (graduate's qualification technician).

Machinery technical school

In 2008 the Vologda Machinery Technical School joined to the Vologda State Technical University. It was an independent educational institution of the secondary professional education before that. The technical school was established in 1967 to prepare specialists for the Bearing Plant. Now the technical school prepares students in the following specialities:

Economy and book-keeping
Commerce
Technology of mechanical engineering
Installation and technical operation of the industrial equipment
Technical service and automobile repair
Automated systems of management and processing the data

Symbolics

The symbol of the Vologda State Technical University is Alkonost. It is a mythical maiden-bird, who is the patron of scientists and knowledge. In her hands there are education and prosperity symbols - a retinue and a flower. Alkonost sits on silver clouds which is an accessory symbol of Vologda (in Russia only the arms of Vologda has an image of clouds).

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