Open Day of Faculty of Business Informatics and Complex System Management and Institute of International Relations
26.02.2018

The National Research Nuclear University MEPhI has held the Open Day of the Faculty of Business Informatics and Management of Complex Systems and the Institute of international relations: about 300 students and their parents gathered in the assembly hall. The beginning of the event was accompanied by sports optimism thanks to the broadcast of the final Olympic hockey match: the winning goal was scored a few minutes before ending the game.

“The innovation economy is, first of all, the economy of fundamentally new digital technologies that requires a fundamentally new economists, managers, analysts, and managers,” the event was opened by the dean of the faculty, professor A.V. Putilov. In his speech, he showed that the faculty is a modern scientific and educational association that allows to solve topical scientific and educational problems for both the Russian real sector of the economy and for the social and economic researches of international level, including the development of the program “Management in the nuclear industry”, created with the assistance of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Today the faculty offers the following professions of the future for the new economy: System analysis and management: “Industry 4.0”; Business informatics: distributed registry systems, virtual and augmented reality”, “Internet of things”; Applied Informatics: digital production, big data; State and municipal management, digital technologies in management practice and many others.

The quality of education is ensured both by highly qualified teaching staff, including outstanding Russian scientists, members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and technical and technological capabilities. The information technologies and hardware complexes, used in educational practice, allow to make training effective and modern. For example, there is a system "Infomephist", which is based on supercomputing database.

Recognition of the University in the field of economic education was obtained in 2014 by its adoption in the association of leading Russian universities in the field of Economics and Management, which, along with 19 humanitarian universities, includes only two technical ones.

The director of the Institute of International Relations (IIR) B.M. Tulinov stressed that the educational training in IIR has a bright specificity and is based on a unique specialization – “international scientific, technological and industrial cooperation”, which is implemented only in our University. He told about participation of outstanding specialists in IIR, strength and sustainability of its international relations.

IIR trains analysts, managers, specialists in information and PR-technologies for staffing international activities of the Russian Federation. In educational programs of IIR finds the optimal balance between natural sciences and general technical training, allowing to understand the essence of scientific and technological issues, and the study of the theory and practice of international relations. A high level of linguistic training contributes to successful activities in the field of international scientific and technological cooperation.

Alumnus of IIR make a successful career in the state corporation Rosatom, where they occupy quite high positions, being in demand in organizations and departments of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Education and Science, Ministry of Economic Development, Rosoboronexport, etc.

Executive secretary of the Admission Committee V.I. Skrytniy outlined the terms “control points” of the admissions process and told about the peculiarities of admission in 2018. All the necessary information for applicants is available on the Admission Committee’s website (in Russian) of MEPhI.

The program of the Open Day also included speeches of the alumnus, who vividly reflected the attractiveness of training at MEPhI, the prospect of the resulting competencies and opportunities for future career growth. Numerous questions were answered in details. The Open Day showed the desire of young people to study at the University, parents of students were convinced of the quality and modern level of educational technologies.