Saint Petersburg State University Of Aerospace Instrumentation

The Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (russian: link=no, Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет аэрокосмического приборостроения) is a university with 13 faculties in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Faculties are devoted to innovation management, aerospace engineering, electronic engineering, energy development, computer science, telecommunication, humanities, military science, economics, jurisprudence and special faculties for distance education and recently acquired colleges.

University has several buildings and campuses, two of them located near to Chesme Church. Main building is located on the bank of the Moyka River, on the opposite bank of the river stands the building of Moika Palace. One campus of SUAI is situated in Ivangorod, near the border with Estonia.

There are students from many countries through international educational programs. Total quantity of students is more than 10 thousand.

Faculties

History

In 1941 the institute was founded as the "Leningrad Institute of Aviation" (russian: link=no, Ленинградский авиационный институт).

In 1945 the institute was reorganized as the "Leningrad Institute of Aviation Instrumentation" (russian: link=no, Ленинградский институт авиационного приборостроения (ЛИАП)).

In 1992 the Leningrad Institute of Aerospace Instrumentation passed the state accreditation and has received a new status – Saint-Petersburg State Academy of Aerospace Instrumentation (russian: link=no, Санкт-Петербургская государственная академия аэрокосмического приборостроения (ГААП)).

In 1998 the Saint-Petersburg State Academy of Aerospace Instrumentation passed the state accreditation and has received a new status – Saint-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (abbreviation SUAI) (russian: link=no, Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет аэрокосмического приборостроения (ГУАП)).

In 2007 SUAI acquired two colleges, whose main specializations were computer science, automatics and electronics. They were united into new faculty in 2009. Both of them were established in 1930.

International Partners

Worldwide
* International Society of Automation
* SPIE
* UNESCO
* CDIO Initiative
In Argentine
* Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina
In Belgium
* College of Europe
In Bulgaria
* Institute of Mathematics and Informatics (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
In Canada
* McMaster University
In China
* Beihang University
* Harbin Institute of Technology
* Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
In Europe
* TEMPUS
In Finland and Russia
* FRUCT
* Turku Science Park
In France
* École supérieure d'ingénieurs en génie électrique
* École nationale supérieure de l'électronique et de ses applications (Cergy-Pontoise)
* École nationale supérieure d'ingénieurs de constructions aéronautiques
* École Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et des Microtechniques
* INRIA
* Institut supérieur d'électronique de Paris
* Rouen Business School
* University of Bordeaux 1
* University of Franche-Comté
In Hungary
* Budapest University of Technology and Economics
In Germany
* Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
* University of Stuttgart
* University of Ulm
In Israel
* Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
In Italy
* University of Catania
* Roma Tre University
In The Netherlands
* Eindhoven University of Technology
In Poland
* Szczecin University of Technology
In Russia
* Russian Federal Space Agency
* Moscow State Aviation Technological University
* Baltic State Technical University
* Kazan State Technical University named after A. N. Tupolev
* Moscow Aviation Institute
* Siberian State Aerospace University
* Ufa State Aviation Technical University
* Rybinsk State Aviation Technical University
* Samara State Aerospace University
* Ulyanovsk State University
In Spain
* Technical University of Madrid
* University of Valladolid
In Sweden
* Lund University
* Ching Yun University
In USA
* Indiana University
* Harrison College (Indiana)
* University of California, Riverside
* University of Maryland, College Park
* Suffolk University
and others,.

Plagiarism cases in University academical staff

Russian civic activity site dissernet.org has published an investigation which demonstrates a significant amount of plagiarism in the Doktor Nauk degree thesis of the current head of SUAI Prof. Antokhina.

Notable students and alumni

* Anatoly Glushenkov – first democratically elected Governor of Smolensk Oblast (1993–1998)
* Konstantin Khabensky – actor
* Viktor Khryapa – bronze medalist of Summer Olympic Games 2012
* Oleg Kuvaev – artist, designer and animator
* Andrey Moguchy – artistic director of Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater
* Georgy Poltavchenko – Governor of Saint Petersburg
* Viktor Rashchupkin – Olympic Champion of Summer Olympic Games 1980
* Anatoly Roshchin – Olympic Champion of Summer Olympic Games 1972
* Maria Semyonova – writer
* Andrey Turchak – Governor of Pskov Oblast
* Alexander Vasilyev – musician (not ended)
* Natalia Vorobieva – Olympic Champion of Summer Olympic Games 2012

Famous faculty

* Yuri Vasilyevich Gulyayev – full Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1984–1991), the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 1991)
* Nikolay Nikolayevich Krasil'nikov – professor, winner of the Russian Federation Government Prize in Education (2009)

References

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Educational institutions established in 1941
Aerospace engineering organizations
Engineering universities and colleges in Russia
Universities and institutes established in the Soviet Union
Universities in Saint Petersburg
1941 establishments in Russia
Aviation in the Soviet Union