Moscow Engineering Physics Institute

Moscow Engineering Physics Institute

Infobox University
name = Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
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established = 1942
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city = Moscow
country = Russia
website = http://www.mephi.ru/ http://www.mephist.ru/

Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (Russian: Московский Инженерно-Физический Институт, abbreviated МИФИ, MEPhI) is one of the most recognized technical universities in Russia. MEPhI was founded in 1942 as Moscow Mechanical Institute of Munitions ( _ru. Московский механический институт боеприпасов, ММИБ), soon renamed to just Moscow Mechanical Institute. Its original mission was to train skilled personnel for military and atomic programs. The university got its present name in 1953.

Today MEPhI has six departments (experimental and theoretical physics, high technology physics, cybernetics, information security, automatics and electronics, and humanitarian department) offering bachelor, masters, and post-graduate degrees in physics, mathematics, computer science, and other areas. MEPhI facilities include a 2.5 MW (thermal) pool-type research reactor. The university has about 6,000 students within six branches in Moscow and other towns.

Among MEPhI graduates are Nobel Prize winners, members of Russian Academy of Sciences, winners of various national prizes. Its professors and alumni have made major contributions to various fields of theoretical and experimental physics, mathematics, cybernetics and computer sciences.

MEPhI's logo is a representation of the hand of man taming the wild animal of sciences for his own use. Students at the school sometimes creatively interpret the logo to be the hand of the school's rector pressing the students for more and more work until sparks shoot out of their eyes.

During the last years Moscow Engineering Physics Institute has worked to improve its curricula in humanities, economic sciences and foreign language.

The University is located close to the Kashirskaya station on the Zamoskvoretskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. Its campus borders the famous Kolomenskoe park and museum.

External links

*ru icon [http://www.mephi.ru/ Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (State University) Russia ]
*en icon [http://www.mephi.ru/eng/second.html Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (State University) Russia ]


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