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The State Engineering University of Armenia (SEUA) is the leader of national technological education. Since its foundation in 1933 SEUA (previous Yerevan Polytechnic Institute) has had over 100.000 graduates. Today the University has over 11.000 students and 1.000 full-time faculty members, most of them carrying doctoral degrees. 105 majors are offered for the Bachelor of Engineering and the diploma Specialist (5years) degrees, 19 majors offered for the Master of Engineering Degree, 34 majors offered for Doctoral degree. SEUA has 3 branch campuses in Gyumri, Vanadzor and Kapan.

SEUA today provides not only a modern technological education, but also training in ICT, Foreign Languages, Business and Management, Social and Political Sciences. The academic activities are combined with a wide range of research and development programs.

SEUA is endeavoring to internationalize its Education and Science systems, share it's experience and learn more from partners.SEUA is always ready to collaborate and join efforts with its partners to make common future.

SEUA is helping local and global communities in their quest for educational development and is offering ICT degree and certificate training programs to foreign students in English language.

The web www.seua.am is a road map to the educational opportunities, intellectual and technical resources available at the University. It is also a guide to the University’s programs and services, as well as supporting tool for addmission and the partnership building.

For entrants
The reception plan on specialties, fee privileges, tuition fees, reception of documents and training courses...

Departments and Chairs
The Departments are the main divisions of the University, organizing the academic-methodic and scientific- research processes. They are specialized in the directions of information technologies, Material Science, Power Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mining Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Machine-building, Transportation Infrastructure, etc.

Education on different specialties or parts of the curriculum, as well as the corresponding methodic and research works are carried by the Departments' Chairs either by the Chairs of University subordination.

Education for Foreign Students
More than 500 foreign students are being trained at the University. The training is carried in the Armenian, Russian, and English.

Alumni
Since its foundation in 1933 the University has trained more than 100 000 graduates who have created the industry in the republic and provide for functioning of its engineering infrastructure.

Academic Structure




Structural Units   

Campuses

The Campus is a regional structural unit of the SEUA established to meet the needs of the given region of the RA in specialists with engineering and engineering-economic educational background. The Campus is established, reorganized, or abolished by the Resolution of the RA Government, upon the recommendation of the Board of Trustees. The Statute (conferred qualification degrees), powers and structure of the Campus are prescribed in Campus Regulations. The educational, research/industrial, and other subdivisions may perform their activities within the Campus. The SEUA central administrative system includes the administration of the central (Yerevan) Campus as well. The Director of the Campus is appointed by the Board of Trustees upon recommendation of the SEUA Rector. The Director of the Campus is appointed for a term of 5 academic years, not more than two consecutive terms. The nomination procedure of the Director, his powers, obligations and functions are prescribed by the SEUA and Campus Regulations.


Schools and Divisions

The School is the basic self-governing structural unit which organizes and implements the educational process at the SEUA and is constituted on the base of professional orientation or the character of its activities. The School is established with a statute of a legal person whose powers, structure, activity principles and interrelations with the SEUA are regulated by these statutes and the School regulations. The latter must be approved by the SEUA Council. The School is established and abolished by a resolution of the SEUA Council in conformity with the SEUA Strategic Plan. The Departments, University College, Sectors, Research/Industrial, and other subdivisions might be established within the School.

    The school has the following powers, obligations and functions:

to administer the basic funds provided to the School, and financial resources
    accumulated by means of its own activities;
to raise additional nonbudgetary financial resources;
to organize and coordinate activities of interSchool structural subdivisions and
    determine the ways of their development;
to plan and organize the academic process for relevant specializations, admission of
    students, their reinstatement, and submit proposals on their exclusion;
to resolve the problems of School's social and economic development;
to nominate its representatives to the SEUA Council and Academic Council.

The School's activities are administered by the School Council which resolutions are obligatory for students and personnel of the School. The School Council consists of ex-officio and elected members with total membership not more than 50, for a term of 5 academic years. The ex-officio members are: the School Director, Vice Directors, Heads of Departments and Sectors, Trade Union Chairmen and Heads of the School's other subdivisions. The number of ex-officio members cannot exceed 1/3 of elective membership. At least 80% of the elected membership must be faculty representatives and not less than 10% - the representatives of School's students. The structure, formation procedure, and activity regulations of the Council, norms of representation of subdivisions of the School in the Council are prescribed by the School Regulations.

    The School Council has the following powers, obligations and functions:

to present proposals to the SEUA Rector on the candidacy for the office of the
    Director of the School and his discharge prior to the expire of his period of office;
to submit proposals to the SEUA Academic Council on establishment, reorganization
    and abolishment of Departments, Sectors, Laboratories, and other subdivisions
    within the School;
to work out proposals on establishment and abolishment of academic majors and
    specializations;
to consider curricula;
to consider the draft list of School personnel, budget and submit them for approval in
    due course;
to consider proposals of Departments and Sectors on establishment of new academic
    offices, appointments and promotions;
present nominations for Professorship to the SEUA Academic Council;
to discuss and present proposals on candidacies for the School offices of Vice
    Directors, Director of the College, Heads of Departments and Sectors;
to consider and submit to the Academic Council candidacies for honorary titles,
    awards, nominal stipends and rewards.

The Director is the supreme officer of the School appointed by the SEUA Rector upon the recommendation of the School Council and presentation of the Academic Council, for a term of 5 calendar years, not more than for two consecutive terms. Vice Directors of the School are appointed by the SEUA Rector upon the presentation of the Director of the School. Their powers and code of conduct are prescribed by the Director of the School.

   The Director of the School has the following powers and functions:

to act on behalf of the School in the SEUA and other organisations;
to submit in due course proposals to the SEUA Rector on appointment and removal
    of Vice Directors, Heads of Departments and Sectors of the School, to employ on a
    contract base Heads of other subdivisions and other staff members;
to present to the SEUA Rector's injunction proposals on admission, registration,
    transfer and dismissal of students.

The Division is a structural subunit which has no faculty and organizes certain forms of education or educational stages. Depending on the forms and ways of realization of the academic process, the Division may partly or completely have the powers of the School. The structure, powers, activity principles and interrelations with the SEUA and its other structural units are regulated by the SEUA Regulations and Regulations of the Division approved by the SEUA Council.


The SEUA Colleges

The SEUA College is a structural subdivision of the University which implements training of specialists for Junior Engineer qualification wi?+thin the School. The SEUA College is established by the resolution of the RA Government upon recommendation of the Board of Trustees. The structure, training duration, administration, activity principles and interrelations with the SEUA are regulated by the present Statute and the College Regulations approved by the SEUA Council. The Director of the SEUA College is appointed by the University Rector upon recommendation of the Director of the School.

Departments

The Department is the main subdivision of the School which organizes the educational and research processes, unites the faculty and research staff, and realizes the educational process in one or more adjacent specializations or separate blocks of general engineering education. The resolutions on establishment, reorganization and abolishment of the Department are approved by the SEUA Academic Council upon the recommendation of the corresponding School Council. Sectors and other subdivisions subordinated to the Department might be within the Department. The structure, powers, activity principles and interrelations with the School are regulated by the present Statute, School Regulations and Department Regulations approved by the SEUA Council.

   The Department has the following powers, obligations and functions:

to work out the annual financial plan of the Department;
to submit proposals on establishment/abolishment of Sectors and other departmental
    subdivisions, and area distribution;
to organize and manage activities of the departmental subdivisions;
to present proposals on establishment of faculty and research offices within the
    Department, to nominate faculty and research staff, to draw up pertinent contracts;
to work out academic plans for majors and specializations or their parts relevant to its
    profile;
to realize academic plans, organize industrial practice, implement the attestation of
    graduate;
to establish treaty liaisons with industrial, research and other institutions.

    The supreme officer of the Department is the Head appointed by the SEUA Rector upon recommendation of the School Council for a term of five calendar years, not more than two consecutive terms. The structure, principles of management and activities of the Department are prescribed by the SEUA Regulations.


Sectors

The Sector is an academic and research subdivision of the Department which unites the teachers and researchers implementing an entity of a single or more courses of common professional feature. The Sector is administered by its Head appointed by the SEUA Rector upon the recommendation of the Department and submission of the SEUA Academic Council.

   The Sector has the following powers, obligations and functions:

to realize the academic process in accordance with curricula for qualification degrees
   conferred by the SEUA;
to work out curricula for general courses and academic plans for specializations;
to organize and implement research works in the area of Sector's scientific
   specialization;
to nominate persons for the office and faculty;
to carry out scientific/research works, create text-books, teaching aids and other
   publications.


History

    The State Engineering University of Armenia, former Yerevan Polytechnic, is the leader of national technological education and one of the leaders among former Soviet Polytechnics. Over 90,000 graduates during the 67-year life, many of them today are in industrial leadership of the Republic. Our graduates have succeeded also in other areas of human activities, one of them - Robert Kocharian, President of Republic of Armenia.
    Being founded in 1933 with 2 departments and 107 students, our University had grown into the largest higher educational institution of Republic with campuses in Gyoumri, Vanadzor, Goris and Kapan, thus involving in its sphere all industrial regions. In 1991 it was reorganized into the State Engineering University of Armenia. In 1980-85 the University reached its peak with more than 20,000 students, and more than 80 specialties taught.
    The University today has over 6,000 students (after the collapse of Soviet system, according to new realities in the demand of engineering workforce, the University sharply decreased its student body). However SEUA had succeeded to keep its academic staff - about 1,000 full-time professors, most of them carrying doctoral degrees. The 39 majors offered for Bachelor of Engineering degree and 13 majors offered for Master of Engineering and Doctoral degrees cover almost all areas of engineering and technology. In the frames of realization of University's Strategic Plan, SEUA has reformed its administration and management structure and revised the curricula, accepted the internationally adopted 3-level model of University education, and offers now degrees at Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral level in various technical and professional disciplines. The University has a Foreign Students’ Division with instruction in English and Russian. There is also a network of continuing education units and computer training courses at the central and regional campuses.