Technical University of Moldova (TUM) is the only higher technical educational institution accredited by the State in the Moldova Republic. Since its establishment in 1964 until now, it has trained about 78 387 engineers and economists. At TUM, the studies are organized within nine faculties: "Energetics and Electrical Engineering" "Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, and Transport" "Computers, Informatics and Microelectronics" "Engineering and Management in Electronics and Telecommunications" "Technology and Management in Food Industry" "Light industry" "Cadastre, Geodesy and Construction" "Urbanism and Architecture" "Economic Engineering and Business." Within the 'Faculty of Engineering and Management in Machine Building, «there activates the Technical College.
The University offers courses in 60 specialties and specializations for the I cycle, 43 specialties for masters, and 45 specialties for a doctorate, covering the national economy's needs in preparing engineers. At TUM, studies are organized under the European System of Transferable Academic Credits (ESTC). The ESTC facilitates the mobility of students and young professionals in the European area with recognition of diplomas. To cope with the market economy's demands, it has been modified the concept of training engineers by completing the list of subjects relating to engineering specialty itself with a series of economic-managerial disciplines. For this purpose, several international languages are studied (English, French, or German). The disciplines of economic and managerial nature will help the engineer in the future to initiate a proper business. Of those over 60 thousand businessmen working in Chisinau, about 75 percent are graduates from TUM.
At TUM, activate branches of particular groups to teach all the subjects in one of the modern languages. At the "Faculty of Computers, Informatics, and Microelectronics," they have the Francophone Branch "Informatics" and the Anglophone Branch "Computer Sciences and Electronics." At the "Faculty of Engineering and Management in the Food Industry,» it activates the Francophone Branch "Food Technologies." Students from these branches do linguistic and specialized internships in the USA, France, Canada, Germany, etc. Many of them write their license theses and the best students follow the master or doctorate courses in those countries.
The TUM students do their internships at companies of the country (private and State), with which the University has contracts based on mutual interest. Every year, hundreds of students from TUM do their internships in other countries. TUM maintains Scientific and Didactic links: Romania, Russia, Ukraine, France, Italy, Germany, USA, Canada, England, Czech Republic, Turkey, Belgium, Slovakia, etc. To scientific researchers at TUM is given special attention, they being an essential component of education. Students actively participate in the research process, which leads to raising their level of professional training. As a rule, the University wins first place in the exhibitions "Infoinvent" held annually in Moldova and international exhibitions. In the last years, TUM has won over 30 gold medals, silver and bronze medals, and many honorable mentions.
TUM cooperates with more than 75 universities and scientific centers from different countries. Here are held international scientific conferences and symposiums. TUM is a member of the Black Sea Region Universities Network, including 11 countries of the Regional Economic Cooperation. Thus, TUM fits into a university area, which will become part of Europe's unique university area. University life includes other aspects as well – sports, amateur artistic activities, etc. Sport plays a significant role in the University. Factors contributing to sports development are improving from year to year: built modern stadiums and gyms specialists in the field train students. TUM participates in all the 18 sports of the republican students where they win first places. At TUM, there are artistic groups of music and folk dance. University Fanfare is in the second place, being preceded by the Presidential Fanfare of Moldova.
We can conclude that, in the 4-5 years of studies at TUM, the studious youth is formed civic and professionally at the highest requirements. TUM graduates successfully work in various branches of the national economy, contributing significantly to the formation of the Republic of Moldova's new intellectuality and completing our young State's leading structures. The Technical University of Moldova is recognized on the national scientific research stage, with remarkable results and internationally. The six research centers TUM successfully put the University's research strategy into practice in numerous research grants and programs won through competition. The research results are embodied in scientific papers, monographs, and patents, all bringing prestige to the University. Students are involved in the research and development of year and license projects by presenting results at national and international conferences.
The Technical University of Moldova proposes raising the value of the national engineering education through the quality of education as a determinant of the competitiveness of local human potential development of scientific and technical research as an indispensable component in professional engineering training encouraging mobility of students and teachers promoting access and integration of graduates in the local labor market, etc. Higher Education of the Republic of Moldova is in an era of great transformation required by implementing the principles of the Bologna Process, which resulted in restructuring the entire national university education. The great challenge of the new concept that launches to the academic education is competitiveness at national, European, and global levels. To meet the imperatives of the time, the Technical University of Moldova has structured the educational process in two cycles, giving young people a wide variety of courses in the technical field in the I cycle – license and cycle II – Master. Cycle III – Ph.D. – is in pre-deployment condition.
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