The largest technical university in the country - the Moscow Polytechnic University has absorbed two metropolitan universities, including the Engineering University - MAMI. Reviews of graduates of previous years do not fully understand such a replenishment of the "alma mater". However, today's students believe that the university did not lose at all from the merger. Firstly, because the Moscow Polytechnic University was a very good successor to the best traditions of MSTU MAMI, the reviews note the steady development of the scientific and educational activities of the new educational institution, which consists of two perfectly complementary and equally glorious Moscow universities. Moreover, each of them went through a difficult path of many reorganizations and renamings.
The path
The first step is always important, because it is he who chooses the direction for the whole long and long journey. Moscow State Engineering University (MAMI) began to receive reviews already in its infancy, in 1864, when a smalltrade school for the poor. And since the direction was chosen correctly, after a short time, the Komissarov Technical School already flaunted on the site of the school - the leading technical secondary educational institution, which, perhaps, had no equal in tsarist Russia.
Many believe that it was then that the formation of domestic vocational education began. KTU improved, accumulated experience, and most of its traditions were preserved for a long time after the revolution. Other educational institutions were organized on its basis, which will be discussed below, but the direction was preserved even at the time of the organization of MAMI. The reviews of specialists who graduated from this university are full of nostalgia and gratitude for the quality of education, since specialists from these walls have always come out wonderful.
KTU
At that time, the machine-building industry did not exist in Russia, and the craft school taught the children of the poor and orphans the craft of bookbinding, shoemaking and tailoring. The school was founded by Christian Meyen, and the funds for this were allocated by the railway magnate - Pyotr Gubonin. In 1866, when no one had even dreamed of creating a technical university at the tailoring base of MAMI, the reviews about this school were very positive.
Otherwise, in 1866 she would not have been given the name of the national hero Komissarov, who saved Alexander II during an attempt on his life. So the school became Komissarovskaya. And in 1869, the same Gubonin built a building for the school right in the very center of Moscow - in Blagoveshchensky Lane - and a beautiful temple of Alexander Nevsky, adjacent to the newcraft school. The Komissarov school developed very quickly. The boys have been studying here for three whole years on a full basis, and the processing of wood and metal has completely supplanted shoemaking and tailoring training in three or four years. In 1870 the school became a college.
IKTU
Now they studied here for five whole years, and since 1886 for seven. By 1892, new buildings and a variety of equipment appeared according to the latest models of that time. In 1902, the school already had twenty separate buildings, its own power plant and electric lighting from it. Copper and iron foundries appeared, as well as a large woodworking shop.
From time to time MAMI students write reviews about these ancient buildings, where the KTU was once located, which in 1916 was awarded the title of Imperial (IKTU). They love their university and its history. Students write that in terms of their technical equipment, curricula, teaching methods and education, the school clearly exceeded the level itself. All this was more like a higher educational institution, and universities did not stand above it in terms of equipment. The school differed from the university only in that here the wards received practical work skills.
Lomonosov College
The professional authority of IKTU in the country was unusually high. Many prominent production workers and future scientists studied here. V. M. Kovan - one of the pillars of domestic engineeringgraduated from this school. M. A. Saverin - a prominent teacher and scientist, professor at Moscow State Technical University. Bauman also received his first knowledge in this school. Already in Soviet times, teachers of IKTU, who worked there for a long time before the revolution, became professors.
These are Academicians of the USSR Academy of Sciences V. S. Kulebakin and V. A. Aleksandrov-Roslavlev, D. K. Karelskikh, I. V. Doctors of Sciences who previously worked at IKTU. And immediately after the revolution, this educational institution began to be called differently: in 1919 it was renamed the First Moscow Mechanical and Electrotechnical College named after I. I. Lomonosov (popularly - Lomonosov College).
PMEI
At the same time, new departments were opened, now there are five of them: automotive, steam engineering, internal combustion engines, metal processing, electrical engineering. The technical school had its own Presidium, chaired by I. V. Gribov, who later headed the automotive and tractor department, as well as the department for the operation of the car. But it was much later, when this educational institution was already called the Moscow Automotive Institute. Reviews about MAMI (Moscow) consisted and consist for the most part of gratitude to the teachers. Ivan Vasilyevich Gribov enjoyed unquestioned authority and immeasurable love of the students.
However, the capabilities of the former IKTU significantly exceeded even the programs of the technical school, much more highly qualified personnel were trained herefor the young Soviet industry. That is why already in 1920 the technical school became the Lomonosov Practical Mechanical and Electrotechnical Institute. At that time, practical institutes trained highly specialized specialists in certain branches of knowledge. The course of study became three years, and it was divided in two. A year and a half later, students received a certificate of graduation from the concentr, which indicated their qualifications: engineer, technician, and so on, and after another year and a half - the second, but always only in their chosen speci alty. In terms of the volume of programs, it was still far from being a university of mechanical engineering.
MAMI
Reviews about the quality of teaching, however, were excellent even then, otherwise the practical institute could not have become a higher technical educational institution already in 1922. However, the institute did not come to its usual name for all of us immediately. At first it was the Moscow Mechanics and Electrotechnical Institute with the rector I. V. Gribov. In 1924 it became the Moscow Mechanical Institute. (In 1925, he first graduated forty-five real mechanical engineers.)
In 1930, the institute was called the Moscow Automobile and Tractor Institute. And only in 1932 he received his real name - the Lomonosov Moscow Automotive Institute. However, this transformation was not completed. There even came (albeit not for too long) a period when this illustrious educational institution as such ceased to exist. It was not yet complete death, since the entire institute was reduced to the size of a faculty, but,you can say - coma. Fortunately, the government quickly corrected this unfortunate mistake.
Transformations
Further, for many years after the re-establishment of MAMI, he selflessly carried out the difficult mission of the country's main branch higher educational institution and trained the most highly qualified personnel for all research institutes and enterprises of the automotive industry. Then came a new time, the time of the next transformations. In 1992, MAMI became the Academy of Automobile and Tractor Engineering. The new status did not last long. Already in 1997, an order was received from the Ministry of Education to rename the academy to MSTU MAMI. Then, in 2011, the two universities merged, that is, MSTU MAMI received a new structural unit in the form of the Moscow State University of Engineering Ecology.
MSUIE is also a fairly old university with its own traditions. It was founded in 1931 on the basis of the faculty of the Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology (Mendeleev Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology) and, one can directly say that it literally flourished under the name of the Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering Engineers. It was the oldest and one of the most respected universities in the country, a leading educational institution for the training of scientific and engineering personnel. There were also many wonderful teachers here. I. I. Artobolevsky, for example, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, widely known for his work, as well as the well-known and popularly beloved P. L. Kapitsa, Nobel laureate and member of the British Royal Scientific Society. But now we are not talking about MGUIE, but about MAMI. The university collects reviews in huge numbers. Especiallyinteresting to read student forums.
Automechanics are joking
MGUIE University, of course, has its own pride, and in the merger of universities, equality turned out to be somewhat like rivalry at first. Therefore, the discussion on the forums of such painful topics as the domestic auto industry, sometimes turned not only to individuals, but also to accusations of insufficient professional training of the educational institution.
From adherents of chemical engineering towards "automechanics" the word "pampers" often flew (there is such a Japanese company Unicharm, which produces Mamy Poko baby products - "Mami Poko" diapers). Reviews sprinkled with emoticons indicate that the "auto mechanics" did not remain in debt.
About problems
But jokes aside. In fact, the most interesting and most painful topics are discussed. The illnesses of our automotive industry have occurred and are occurring precisely from the fact that young technologists, designers and engineers cannot convey their ideas to use in the industry.
This is a huge problem. Because they almost always find such recognition outside the country, and the implementation of their ideas does not take long. There are so many cases when in the silhouette of a foreign concept car you can see the outline of a drawing that has been gathering dust in Russia for a long time on a shelf just because the design student is too young for ideas that can be implemented.
Now
And now at MSTU MAMIthere is a student design bureau, where the student has the opportunity to show their talents. Moreover, he can see the results of labor - a finished car that actually functions.
Now the university has six faculties and three branches. The number of areas and specializations is increasing every year, and the contingent is becoming more and more at MSTU MAMI. Feedback from students suggests that learning is becoming more difficult, but more interesting. Moreover, students literally write this at all departments - both correspondence, evening, and daytime.
Very much needed information
Simultaneously ten thousand people study at MSTU MAMI. Students' comments have repeatedly mentioned the hospitality of the university at Bolshaya Semyonovskaya, 38. Applicants are not offended here, although they replenish their ranks with all the severity of the competitive basis. Faculties are ready to accept talented young people. There are plenty to choose from!
1. Cars and tractors.
2. Power engineering and instrumentation.
3. Design and technological.
4. Mechanical and technological.
5. Economic.
6. Automation and control.
Mandatory for all non-residents studying at MAMI, a hostel. Reviews say - good, in any case. All details on admission and further education can be found in Open Days, information on dates can be obtained on the university website. There are preparatory courses - correspondence and full-time.
