Department of EiMT
Department of Electronics and Microprocessor Technology (EiMT)
He is a graduate department of the branch of the Federal state budgetary educational institution of Higher Professional Education "NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY "MEI" in Smolensk.
Until 2008, the department was called "Industrial Electronics" and was approved by the order of the Ministry of Higher Education of the USSR No. 457 dated 06.06.1972. Training of specialists in the profile "Industrial electronics" has been carried out since 1963.
Currently, the Department of EiMT SF MEI is preparing:BACHELOR of Engineering and Technology in the direction of 11.03.04 Electronics and nanoelectronics in the profile "Industrial Electronics";
MASTERS of Engineering and Technology direction 11.04.04 Electronics and Nanoelectronics under the Master's degree program "Industrial Electronics and Microprocessor technology"
The staff of the department consists of 13 teachers (11 associate professors and 2 senior teachers).
The Department of Electronics and Microprocessor Technology has 5 laboratories equipped with modern equipment and a computer class.
The basic direction of training is the design and operation of systems based on microcontrollers, as well as power electronics converter devices, which are widely used in industrial production, energy, aviation and space technology, transport, automotive technology, telecommunications systems, medical equipment, household appliances, etc. During the training, students master the methodology of system design, practical skills in developing software and hardware for intelligent microprocessor systems and industrial networks.
Graduates of the department become specialists in the field of microprocessor technology and measuring and information devices, as well as in the field of power electronics and low-power power converters. They are able to develop and operate industrial electronic devices for a wide range of purposes, wired and mobile communications, audio-video equipment, office equipment, banking and commercial equipment, medical, automotive and consumer electronics.
An excursion into the history of the departmentThe Department of "Electronics and Microprocessor Technology" bears this name relatively recently.
The first head of the department was Viktor Nikolaevich Volkov, who later became the director of the branch of the MEI in Smolensk. He successfully led the department until 1969, when the first graduation of certified engineers took place. The first staff of the department, along with the head, included: P.G. Lykov, L.G. Rastrygin, N.A. Gurova, Yu.I. Grushenko. They, together with two laboratory assistants, created several training laboratories in a short time and provided the educational process. At the same time, the formation of the department took place, the directions of training engineers were determined. Simultaneously with the educational process, teaching staff were being prepared for the department itself, its staff and traditions were being formed. The Department of Industrial Electronics of the MEI, headed by a prominent scientist Israel Lvovich Kaganov, winner of the Lenin Prize, Doctor of Technical Sciences, professor, provided great help in this.
Golden Time In 1970, after defending his PhD thesis on the study of the avalanche mode of operation of transistors, Vladimir Pavlovich Dyakonov became the head of the Department of Industrial Electronics of the Smolensk branch of the MEI.
So the first candidate of sciences and associate professor appeared at the department. By this time, 7 teachers were already working at the department: P.G. Lykov, V.D. Drozdov, L.V. Dolina, V.M. Dolin, A.A. Sterlyagov, V.A. Tsigankov, Z.I. Danilina.
There was a lot of work to be done on the formation of the department's staff, the radical expansion of the laboratory base and the organization of scientific work that was absent at that time. Candidate of Technical Sciences V.I. Orlov, Candidate of Technical Sciences Y.V. Troitsky and Candidate of Technical Sciences A.G. Kalinenko were accepted to the department. A new stage of the department's development has begun, marked by the expansion of scientific research and educational potential. The first steps were taken under the tutelage of the head Moscow Department of Industrial Electronics. However, her main research areas, traditionally associated with power converter technology and ion devices, were significantly expanded towards the newest areas of microelectronics, pulse technology and measurements of electronic device parameters, and a little later, information technology.
By the end of the 70s, the staff of the department had grown to almost forty people. In 1980, teachers and staff of the department conducted not only educational work, but were actively engaged in research activities. V.P. Dyakonov became the first Doctor of Technical Sciences in the Smolensk region. A research department was established at the department, which conducted contractual scientific work with the largest research institutes and design bureaus of that time - the Pulsar Semiconductor Devices Research Institute, the Elas NGO of the Microelectronics Research Center, the Moscow Radio Engineering Institute, the Leningrad NPO Dalnyaya Svyaz, the Riga Research Institute of Micro Devices, the Vilnius Research Institute of Radio Measurements, the Physics NGO, NPO "Micropribor", MRTI named after Mints, Smolensk Plant "Meter", Smolensk Research Institute "Technopribor" and many others. At various times, the engineers of the research department of the department were: A. Trubitsin, A. Remnev, V. Khaletsky, M. Bobylev, A. Maksimchuk, V. Smerdov, A. Troitskaya, O. Bokova, D. Karavaev, V. Podoprigorov, E. Petrenko, P. Adamov, A. Markov, V. Mogilin, A. Shiryaev, T. Kalaeva, O. Frolkov, V. Brytkov, S. Muravyev, S. Babin, K. Stroev, N. Stroev, O. Ivanov, S. Amelin.
From the very beginning, the staff of the department has relied on priority research in the latest areas of electronics. Already in 1973, the first monograph in the USSR on avalanche transistors and their use in high-speed pulse devices was published. V.N. Volkov, A.A. Sterlyagov, V.A. Tsigankov, S.I. Zienko (now Doctor of Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Optoelectronic Systems) and other teachers of the department defended their PhD theses in this direction. Soon the range of research expanded significantly. Under the guidance of Associate Professor Yu.V. Troitsky, research and development in the field of measuring the parameters of microelectronic products was started, and most of the department's staff engaged in the research and application of the newest devices at that time — powerful field-effect transistors. One after another, V.D. Drozdov, T.A. Samoylova (now an associate professor at the Pedagogical University), O.V. Semenova, A.M. Remnev, V.Y. Smerdov, A.A. Maksimchuk (now General Director of JSC Agroinformservice), P.G. Adamov (now an associate professor at the Medical Academy) defended their dissertations. Candidates of sciences of the Novikov couple, Tatiana Nikolaevna and Alexander Albertovich, came to the department from the graduate school of the MEI.
In the 80s, electronics became one of the most rapidly developing branches of science and technology. Graduates of the department were perhaps the most sought-after specialists at the enterprises of Smolensk and other cities of the Soviet Union. At the peak of this need, admission to the department was 3 groups of day and 2 evening departments. For two years, the PE department trained 4 groups of students in one stream, the number of graduates exceeded 80 certified engineers per year. During this period, A.O. Shiryaev became Candidates of Sciences, then M.A. Tretyakova (now Amelina) and S.A. Amelin. Life was interesting and multifaceted. Along with academic work, broad scientific activity, the general spirit of the team continued to be formed, interesting events were held, traditions were laid. Both students and staff of the department of those years have something to remember.
The specifics of industrial electronics, preserved today, are a wide profile of knowledge and an unusually rapid development of the industry. It is no coincidence that it was at our department that the newest scientific directions appeared and developed for the first time in the country — high-speed pulse devices on avalanche and high-power field-effect transistors, calculation and modeling of electronic devices on personal computers, the use of the latest computer mathematics systems in science and education. The novelty of our work in the field of electronic circuitry is marked by more than 200 copyright certificates for inventions. Yu.V. Troitsky, S.I. Zienko, V.N. Khaletsky, A.M. Remnev, V.Yu. Smerdov, P.G. Lykov, K.N. Stroev, A.O. Shiryaev were particularly active in inventing.
Difficult nineties
In the early 90s, due to the collapse of the USSR and serious changes in the structure of the country's industrial production, the need for specialists in the field of electronics began to fall rapidly. This could not but affect the work of the department. Active attempts have begun to adapt to new conditions and use the accumulated scientific potential not in the field of electronics, but in the field of computer science.
In 1993, the Smolensk Regional Center for New Information Technologies in Education (SOCNIT) was organized at SFMEI on the basis of our department. For several years of its existence, the center has published more than ten books on new information technologies, made a decisive contribution to the emergence of a new direction in Russia — computer mathematics systems in education and published a major monograph in English on the QBasic programming system, which received high marks abroad. In the mid-90s, the teachers of the department (V.P. Dyakonov, A.M. Remnev, V.Y. Smerdov) received grants from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research. Based on the results of fundamental scientific work in 1993, three employees of the department (V.P. Dyakonov, V.Y. Smerdov and P.G. Adamov) were awarded individual grants from the Soros International Scientific Foundation.
However, in general, the nineties of the last century were a difficult test for our whole country, and our department was not spared. The collapse of the USSR in the early 90s disrupted the development of our science and industry and negatively affected the development of the Department of PE. Because of this, many teachers have changed their place of work. The enrollment of students has decreased, the prestige of the engineering profession has fallen. Many of our graduates have been forced to choose other activities. However, the knowledge and experience gained within the walls of Alma Mater allowed many of them to reach significant heights in various fields of industry, business and management.
At this difficult time, in 1997, A.A. Sterlyagov became the acting head of the Department of Industrial Electronics. In order not to lose the prestige of a graduate of SF MEI, we had to change a lot in traditional training courses, areas of training specialists. A great merit in this belongs to A.G. Kalinenko, who became the next acting head of the Department of PE in 1998. It was necessary to keep up with the times, which required a lot of effort from all the staff of the department. The staff of the department managed to pass the tests with honor, scientific work continued, new training courses were being prepared, its own computer class was created, candidate dissertations of K.N. Stroev, N.N. Stroev and A.A. Penkov were successfully defended.
It was during this period that the transition to two-stage higher education took place. Training plans for bachelors and engineers have been developed and approved. Training of engineers began to be conducted in two specializations: "Electronic control and information systems" and "Office electronics", the demand for our specialists has increased. As a result of the successful work of the entire team, the department successfully passed the state certification in 2000.
The next head of the department was Doctor of Technical Sciences I.V. Abramenkova. She was a graduate of the Department of PE, worked as a teacher at Smolensk State University, headed the Department of Computer Science there. Under her leadership, the department began training masters. The first admission to the master's program took place in 2008. At the same time, the department changed its name to "Electronics and Microprocessor Technology". In 2009, I.V. Abramenkova received the academic title of professor.
Currently, the Department of EiMT trains bachelors, engineers and masters. Now the department employs 9 teachers, including 7 candidates of technical sciences and 1 Doctor of Technical Sciences. The level of specialists trained by the department remains traditionally high. Its graduates are still in demand and easily find jobs at enterprises and organizations in Smolensk, Moscow and other cities. Moreover, a significant part of students start working in their specialty during their studies and leave the university with already formed specialists with practical experience.