National Research University of Electronic Technology

"Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering" redirects here. It is not to be confused with Moscow Institute of Electronic Machine Building, now Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics

National Research University of Electronic Technology (MIET)

Национальный исследовательский университет "МИЭТ" (МИЭТ)
Main building of MIET
Type	State
Established	December 9, 1965
President	Yuri Aleksandrovich Chaplygin
Rector	Vladimir Aleksandrovich Bespalov
Academic staff	375 (regular job) and 132 (second job) (2020)
Students	4556 (2020)
Postgraduates	180 (2020)
Location	Zelenograd, Moscow , Russia 55°59′0″N 37°12′30″E
Colors	White and blue
Website	http://www.miet.ru/ (in Russian) http://eng.miet.ru/ (in English)

National Research University of Electronic Technology (Russian: Национальный исследовательский университет "Московский институт электронной техники" / МИЭТ, lit. National Research University "Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology") is a Russian technical university in the field of microelectronics, information and computer technologies and one of 29 National Research Universities. University is founded in 1965 and located in Zelenograd, Moscow (the Soviet Union's center of electronic and microelectronic engineering). The university was often considered the center of the Soviet Silicon Valley.

Architecture

The University complex was designed by the architects Felix Novikov and Grigory Saevich and built in 1967-1971. The complex has some similarity with the complex of the Finnish Helsinki University of Technology, built in 1954-1969 by architect Alvar Aalto. The main administrative building (#1) with library and five large lecture halls, the assembly hall (#2) with dining hall, two academic buildings (#3 and #4), and sports complex (#5) of multipurpose arena and swimming pool were built of red bricks and connected by passages in united microtown.

The decoration of the exterior walls of the library is the huge white bas-relief (970 m², all four walls) "The Becoming of a Homo sapiens" (Russian: Становление человека разумного, Stanovlenie cheloveka razumnogo) completed in 1974 by the sculptor Ernst Neizvestny.

The main facades of the main administrative building and the assembly hall are turned to Shokin's Square (Russian: Площадь Шокина, Ploshchad Shokina), named after Alexander Shokin (1909-1988), the twice Hero of Socialist Labour, the USSR Minister of Electronic Industry, one of founders of Zelenograd and MIET. The main MIET entrance is decorated by clock designed by the artist Sergey Chekhov and the sculptor Valery Tyulin and placed in the white tower. The sound system of the clock mimics striking clock (one bell stroke every 15 minutes, and X strokes of the bell at X o'clock sharp).

There is Shokin's bust in the park near the square. There are also Skokin's and Presnukhin's (the first rector) memorial plates respectively on the right and left sides of the main administrative building facade (if we are looking on the facade).

Institutes and educational programs

• Institute of Biomedical Systems
  • Biotechnical systems and technologies
• Institute of High-Tech Law, Social Science and Humanities
  • Legal support for national security
• Institute of Linguistic and Pedagogical Education
  • Linguistic
• Institute of International Education
• Institute of Microdevices and Control Systems
  • Computer science and engineering
  • Radio engineering
  • Control of technical systems
• Institute of Nano- and Microsystem Engineering
  • Design and technology of electronic facilities
• Institute of Advanced Materials and Technologies
  • Nanomaterials
  • Material science and technologies
  • Technosphere safety
• Institute of system and software engineering and information technologies
  • Applied computer science
  • Software engineering
  • Quality control
• Institute of Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Military Educational Center
  • military specialties for Air Defence of the Russian Ground Forces

• Educational programs outside institutes
  • Design
  • Infocommunication technologies and systems
  • Information systems and technologies
  • Information security
  • Management
  • Applied mathematics
  • Electronics and nanoelectronics

Rectors

• Leonid Viktorovich Ershov – 1966 (acting)
• Leonid Nikolaevich Presnukhin – 1966–88
• Vitali Dmitrievich Verner – 1988–98
• Yuri Aleksandrovich Chaplygin – 1998–2016
• Vladimir Aleksandrovich Bespalov – 2016–...

Notes

The university can be also referred to as Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering in the English language sources, which was its English official name in the 1990s.

See also

• Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics, another Russian technical institute founded in 1960s within the scope of the Soviet microelectronics program

External links

• English and Russian official website