The faculty was founded in 1994. Today it is an educational and scientific center with more than 1500 students and more than 160 undergraduates. The faculty has 137 teachers, including 6 professors (of which 5 are doctors of science) and 35 associate professors (of which 32 are candidates of science).
Faculty deans:
- 1994-2005 - Afitov Eduard Andreevich, candidate of economic sciences, associate professor;
- 2005-2009 - Zhivitskaya Elena Nikolaevna, candidate of technical sciences, associate professor;
- since 2009 - Knyazeva Lyudmila Pavlovna, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Associate Professor
The Faculty of Engineering and Economics trains specialists with integrated knowledge in the field of economics and modern information technologies, which favorably distinguishes specialists trained at our faculty from graduates of economic faculties of other educational institutions of the Republic of Belarus. The degree of prevalence of certain knowledge depends on the specialty.
The training of specialists at the first stage of higher education is carried out in the following specialties that are in demand in the field of economics:
If desired, students of the faculty have the opportunity to receive an additional military specialty and become reserve officers.
Training of specialists at the second stage of higher education is carried out in the following specialties:
The teaching process involves teachers from most departments of BSUIR, as well as a number of leading educational and scientific institutions in Minsk. The students of the faculty, along with the study of social, humanitarian and general scientific disciplines, deeply study general professional economic disciplines (micro-macroeconomics, economics of an organization (enterprise), finance, accounting, etc.), and then, depending on the chosen profile, special disciplines (management, marketing , logistics, personnel management and foreign economic activity, strategic and innovative management, etc.), as well as gain in-depth knowledge in the field of computer technologies for processing economic information (computer information technologies, object-oriented design and programming, system analysis and design of information systems, development information systems for the Internet, etc.). This gives them significant competitive advantages in employment compared to graduates of other economic universities and faculties. They are in demand for work in various services of enterprises and organizations of various forms of ownership.
The faculty has educational laboratories equipped with modern computers with appropriate software, connected to the Internet, has a local network, an electronic library, which allows you to effectively organize the educational process, quickly and efficiently obtain the necessary knowledge and apply it in practice. Teachers of the departments involve students, undergraduates and graduate students of the faculty in research work, participate in symposiums and conferences of various levels. Teachers, graduate students and students of the faculty undergo educational and research internships in Germany and other foreign countries.
And if last time two oldest faculties were presented, today we are getting acquainted with the youngest ones.
The Faculty of Engineering and Economics of BSUIR is the youngest and one of the most prestigious, since integrated knowledge in the field of economics and modern information technologies provides graduates with a great competitive advantage in employment. In the curriculum: social and humanitarian, general scientific and economic disciplines; computer technologies for processing economic information; enterprise management, marketing, logistics, personnel management and foreign economic activity of the enterprise, strategic and innovative management. How much one or another knowledge prevails depends on the specialty.
"Information systems and technologies in economics"
Along with the basic engineering disciplines in this specialty, extensive training is provided in the field of programming and information technology, disciplines of economic and mathematical profile are studied. These specialists (qualification - software engineer-economist) can work as developers of software information systems, system analysts, designers of systems focused on the automation of economic processes, economists in economic and technical departments, in the field of management. Knowledge in the field of information technology and programming, mathematics and economics guarantees them an interesting job at enterprises, banks, scientific institutions, universities, commercial structures.
"Economics and organization of production"
The professional level of training allows you to combine engineering training with knowledge of the economy in a market environment, as well as the ability to improve the efficiency of an enterprise using management methods and the concept of logistics. Knowledge of computer technologies and processing of economic information allows these specialists to independently implement engineering and economic ideas using modern computer technologies. Graduates with an engineer-economist diploma are ready to work in the economic and technical services of enterprises and organizations, research organizations, and to run their own business.
"Marketing"
Students gain knowledge of the modern European marketing system, master new forms and methods of electronic commerce using the Internet and other computer technologies. They will be able to work as specialists and heads of marketing services at enterprises of any form of ownership, organize their own business.
Within the framework of this specialty, training in the specialization "Marketing in e-commerce" is being conducted.
DOSSIER "KP"
The Faculty of Engineering and Economics is an educational and scientific center with over 1200 students. By the way, the best group of the faculty was invited this year to the rally of the best student groups in Russia, where it won prizes in most competitions.
About 40% of teachers working at the graduating departments of the faculty have academic degrees and titles. The faculty cooperates with the residents of the High-Tech Park, cooperation agreements have been concluded with foreign universities. The joint educational scientific and innovative laboratory of the Department of Economic Informatics of the Faculty and Sam Solutions, opened in October 2007, is one of the best laboratories in the country in terms of equipment.
This year, the direction of education at the former Faculty of Economics of BSUIR has changed towards an engineering profile, namely, the faculty has been transformed into an engineering and economic one. And in the engineering specialty "Information Systems and Technologies in Economics", which has existed since 2001, enrollment has increased due to the opening of applications for distance learning. In addition, there is also a distance form of education, which last year received 6 people, and this year - already 30. In all three forms of education - full-time, part-time and distance - graduates are awarded the qualification "engineer-programmer-economist".
The curriculum provides for the study of various programming languages and systems, including C, C++, Java, .NET; modern visual programming environments such as Visual C++, C++ Builder, etc.; databases, DBMS and SQL, operating systems and environments. A significant place in education, according to the administration of the faculty, is occupied by computer networks, client-server architecture technologies, Internet and WEB-design. Studied HTML and XML, VbScript and JavaScript, ASP, JSP, Servlet and other technologies.
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They have nothing to do, they would decide who they train engineers or economists. Well, tell me why the hell an economist needs knowledge of networks, web design, client-server architecture and programming languages. What is not enough KSIS or what? Also, the specialty is stupidly named: "engineer-programmer-economist." We don't happen to be trained as a cook-plumber-stomatologist anywhere? Probably the dean of the Faculty of Economics, simply does not want to admit that no one needs graduates of his faculty. And in general, recently there has been an impression that the level of knowledge obtained at BSUiR does not correspond to the demands of the market and the level of university requirements.
July 28, 2004 - 20:30
I am also one of the former FVTshnikov, but I don’t see anything in this new specialty other than how to break freebies on the conjuncture.
A programmer will never become an economist, and this will hardly help him in his work, I say from my own experience that knowledge of debit and credit helps little. And none of our universities provides serious knowledge in economics and business.
To a teacher who makes stupid conclusions, one can probably attribute the same thing, apparently not the best teacher ...
According to the MCA, in my opinion, there is now confusion and vacillation ... After Demidovich, in my opinion, there was no normal dean, with each new one, the prestige fell, the requirements too, people began to say that it is now easy to study at the MCA, etc. etc.
2Lecturer of the Faculty of Engineering and Economics:
Where can I see the course program from 3-5? If it's easy to lay it out somewhere, but I'll read it, it's interesting. Too lazy to go to the university, although not far.
>The quality of your review suggests that you are apparently not one of the Top students.
Well, my grade point average is 4.5. Diploma and state exams for 5. Now I work just in the field of IT application in the economy (Security Portfolio Management in the US market). My specialty is purely programming, I understand economics just enough to understand the task and implement it. It is not possible to give good knowledge of programming and economics at the same time. Something is bound to get hurt. If I were you, I would pay more attention not to programming, but to designing and using software in the economic field, without getting into such subtleties as client-server architectures, web design (what does it have to do with economics), etc. etc. It is better to talk about SWIFT, Reuters, as an example, let's consider multexinvestor.com, SAP, 1C and something like that. Pay special attention to actuarial mathematics and optimization methods. Leave the programming to the programmers.
Yes, KSiS is also a POIT, and not just a Navy, but it trains software engineers, not system engineers. In addition, there is FITU, where they also try to teach programming.
There are a lot of departments in BSUIR trying to teach programming. Rather than blame it right away, it would be better to say thank you that EF finally decided to deal with the stupid economic and engineering duality, and made the choice in the right direction - towards training programmers, not economists.
The education system in our country in general suffers from many vices. One of them is an orientation towards theoretical knowledge, not practice. Hence the lack of skills of freshly released (and programmers) to work with REAL things and in a REAL team. Teachers are trying to teach something, but their attempts are nullified by the unwillingness to memorize absolutely unnecessary information (applies to students after the 2nd year, when you begin to understand what is really needed).
As for EF, in my time ALL students of this faculty laughed at themselves. They came out of there with NOBODY. Now they will also come out as nobody, because. you can't make something good out of nothing
Faculty of Engineering and Economics Lecturer July 29, 2004 - 18:26
I am glad that this specialty has aroused such interest, and the proposed texts are being read more and more carefully :).
I would also like to hear the opinion of economists and specialists with the qualification of "engineer-economist".
A little about the specialty:
1) About 20 years, or maybe more ago, back in the USSR, the qualification "engineer-economist" appeared. It lasted somewhere until 1998.
2) For about 25 years, or maybe more, the specialty of a software engineer appeared, which, at first, also had a lot of hunters to weigh what is more there: a programmer or an engineer. Now such a qualification does not hurt the ears. 3). Therefore, here is just a combination of 2 directions. But there is only one speciality. For her, it is possible that someday a definition with one word will appear.
4). Now, gentlemen, look around! Thousands of programmers went into the economy, work in it (by the way,
A former student of BSUiR too) defend candidate and doctoral dissertations there, successfully introduce technologies into business. What's this? Was this also invented at our former economics department? Then you should be proud of all this!
4). We simply fixed the already existing objective reality. A niche has formed between computer science and economics. And our specialty is an attempt to fill it with specialists. And the concept of a programmer is as broad as the concept of an engineer, mathematician, economist, etc.
5). We did it not ... out of nothing :). In BSUIR, there existed, though not for long, the specialty of economic informatics, and then a specialization with the same name. So, not quite out of nothing, because. at least 40, or even more, percent of graduates have become and work as cool professional programmers :).
By the way, for BSUIR, such specialization appeared in many technical and economic universities (and in private universities too) not only in Belarus, but also in Russia (although, in this case, I think, this is not the merit of BSUIR -:)).
6). In science (this is an objective truth) there are unifying and separating tendencies. Now is the time for unification. Look, computer science is "impudently" being introduced everywhere. Appear: economic informatics, historical informatics, medical informatics, etc. Computer science becomes a fundamental science.
Question: "What should be called (very briefly) the qualification of a specialist in this field, which will correspond to the essence of the matter?". Answer: "And so, often, the corresponding qualifications are built by adding another qualifier through a hyphen in the State classifiers, and when new, clearer names crystallize, then they are entered into the classifiers and correspondence tables are created." (By the way, last year, in order to get into this specialty without a medal in show jumping, an applicant had to get 3 tens in 3 exams (in a 10-point system). It seems that there are young guys and, probably, their parents who think differently than "cool" coders speaking here :). And if this is a opportunistic (read marketing) move, then it follows: WE ARE STRONG IN THE ECONOMY !!)
We are going on an excursion to BSUIR to the Faculty of Computer Systems and Networks. More than 2,000 students study at the faculty, who will build an IT country in the coming years. Marina Lukashevich, dean of the faculty, told the Onliner correspondent how the CSIS works.
Anticipating the surprise of readers, the interlocutor says that she practically grew up at the Faculty of Computer Systems and Networks. At one time she graduated from this faculty, magistracy, postgraduate studies, defended her dissertation at the computer department and for the last seven years has been deputy dean. So everything here is quite natural.
Within the walls of KSIS
Our long journey through the faculty starts from the statue of a KSiS student. A small bronze boy holds a laptop, on the cover of which the corresponding abbreviation is engraved.
On the doors leading to the dean's office, there is an announcement about the next competition for students from the HTP company. Among the gifts - MacBook. An excellent opportunity to show yourself and win a status working tool for a couple of years.
Marina Lukashevich says that KSIS is the largest faculty in BSUIR. About 2,300 students and undergraduates study here at seven departments. Three departments are general education, four are graduating. Graduates of the faculty leave the walls of the alma mater with the specialties "Information Technology Software", "Informatics and Programming Technologies", "Computers, Systems and Networks", "Electronic Computing Tools". Naturally, it is physically impossible to accommodate such a number of students in one building, so the departments of KSiS are located in three buildings.
Together with IT companies, 13 educational and scientific laboratories have been opened at the faculty: sponsors carry out repairs, purchase equipment, and maintain the premises in a presentable form. Laboratories are used both in the educational process and for trainings that company employees arrange for students.
In addition, five academic educational centers operate on the basis of KSiS: the SAP Regional Academic Center, the IBM Academic Technology Competence Center, the National Instruments Educational Center, the Cisco Local Network Academy and the NVidia GPU Educational Center. They are taught by certified teachers. In these centers, companies give access to their methodological materials, documentation, licensed software. The centers themselves are regularly accredited, master classes are held there, and certificates are issued to students at the end of the course.
The NVidia GPU Education Center was created with the support of EPAM and specializes in parallel computing. The company provided 20 video cards, textbooks, and its course is integrated into the educational process of the High-Performance Processor Architecture discipline. The guys who have studied here can later work on the BSUIR computing cluster. The cluster is used when writing master's theses, as well as for university research. Recently, for example, he has been involved in the calculation of graphene-based structures for a field-effect transistor. This cluster partially analyzed the data of the international project to search for traces of gravitational waves.
The Cisco Local Networking Academy teaches four CCNA R&S modules in networking disciplines. They are fully integrated into the main educational process and cover three disciplines: "Theoretical Foundations of Computer Networks", "Administration of Computer Systems and Networks", "Hardware of Computer Networks". Classes are taught by teacher Ivan Gletsevich, who has international certificates. They say he is the best cisco specialist in Belarus.
- There was a story- Artem begins to remember, having received the first certificate in this academy. - A guy comes to get a job as a system administrator. He says that he passed the test to Gletsevich. And he answered: “Did you pass the first time? You suit us."
Two equipment cabinets installed in the auditorium contain switches provided by Cisco. They do laboratory work.
National Instruments Center materials are built into the undergraduate curriculum. At the request of various companies, trainings are conducted on the basis of this center.
A National Instruments development board that connects to a computer. Through a specially configured environment, signals are sent to it and thereby explore the behavior of various elements in the framework of laboratory work.
Installation of computer vision. The dean teaches the Digital Signal and Image Processing course and uses these settings in the image processing labs: performers are required to identify defects, read QR codes, find elements with non-standard sizes, etc. The camera registers an image, and students develop an algorithm to detect one or another event from the task
- Someone promotes their brand in this way, someone attracts potential employees. Those guys who are mobile and want to get everything from the university can become holders of academic certificates. They will have something to write in their resume,- says the dean of the faculty.
There is also a mysterious “Soldier Hut” at the faculty. In this laboratory, which is a little over a year old, the guys perform hardware term papers in the disciplines “Circuit Engineering” and “Structural and Functional Organization of Computers”. "Soldering hut" is its popular name. In a serious way, the premises are called the student engineering and educational center of the computer department.
- There is everything here to make a hardware term paper, graduation project or your personal hardware project in circuitry. Soldering stations, autonomous power supplies, oscilloscopes, 3D printer and 3D scanner, drilling machine. I made an LED modular board on this one,- Artem explains to us.
Other student crafts include a robotic arm that mimics the movements of a hand in a special glove, an interactive game called Jumanji, a machine that can recognize the owner's face, and an automated bar. All this is done from consumables available in the laboratory, neatly packaged in boxes: temperature and humidity sensors, screens, matrices, boards, indicators, relays, LEDs, etc. In general, students have fun with benefit.
A weighty infrared soldering station is hidden in the corner of the “hut”, which is already used by undergraduates and graduate students as part of their projects. With the help of it, various elements are soldered onto the board, which there is a risk of burning with an ordinary soldering iron.
Branches of the departments of computers, IT and informatics are open at EPAM on Kuprevich street, where children have been going to classes since 2013. There are several disciplines of a practical nature ("Databases", "Web technologies", "Testing and verification of programs", "Cross-platform programming" and others), as well as laboratory work.
Experienced teachers work as lecturers at the university, and specialists who work, among other things, in IT companies, are involved in practice. The overwhelming majority of them are BSUIR graduates.
- We give lectures in our building, and once or twice a week the guys go to the branch to do laboratory work. Classes are taught by specialists from EPAM production. Over the past academic year, 711 students passed through the branch,- says Marina Lukashevich.
In addition, students can regularly participate in olympiads that are organized at the faculty. BIT-Cup is held on specific information technologies. For example, databases (SQL) or full-stack web development. The second Olympiad is BSUIR Open, which is already a classic sports programming competition. Guys come to it both from the regions and from abroad.
"Computer design automation" is comprehended on Artix-7 programmable logic integrated circuits. This is quite expensive equipment ($1300 on the manufacturer's website), on the basis of which, with the help of hardware description languages, firmware is made and the structure is described. In fact, this is a specialized microcircuit that can be reprogrammed directly on the board with power, SDRAM, Ethernet, USB, HDMI, PCI-Express
passing scores
- Traditionally, KSiS leads in passing scores. In some years, it turned out that in some specialties the maximum scores in the republic came out. For example, in 2017, the minimum threshold for the “budget” was 380 points. A lot of olympiads come to Computer Science and Programming Technologies.
Starting this year, we have a significant increase in recruitment for the POIT specialty. 240 people will come to the first course. The increase was due to the growth of places in the paid form of training,- Marina Lukashevich cites statistics.
The dean notes that guys with much lower scores can go to paid places. As an example, she shows the passing score for the EMU specialty, where last year there was a guy with 113 points.
Assessing the influx of students, Marina Lukashevich says that IT education is now popular:
- In IT, high salaries, and for some applicants and their parents, this becomes the only attractive moment when choosing this specialty. But when they come to the faculty, they do not quite understand where and why they entered.
If a child has been sitting at a computer and playing games all his childhood, this does not mean that he is capable of being a programmer. This is hard work. It is necessary to teach mathematics, physics, develop brains in order to be ready to study programming in the first year.
As an example, the dean recalls his former first-year student majoring in Computer Science. She studied without debts and great difficulties, but as a result, she moved to BSU to study cultural studies.
- We make children adults too early, we demand too much from them at the age of 16-17: decide on a specialty, plan a career. We must listen and look closely, give them a chance to change their mind, Marina Lukashevich thinks.
In general, during the winter session, the faculty lost 23 people from recruitment. It's not that much:
- The school has too much supervision and control. And in high school you need to be independent, to master. But if independent work is not taught, then there will be no miracle.
- I wanted to join the army, but they didn’t take it because of my health, I went to BSUIR. There were about 370 points, which was enough for admission.
He says that there was not much control from parents and at school, so he actually chose his future profession.
- You need to get used to the university, to deal with the main subjects - to understand where you need to work hard, and where you can slander. That is why it is important to communicate with senior students.
He assures that he knew practically nothing about his future profession. I only heard about the HTP and a couple of universities where IT specialists are trained. Nevertheless, the knowledge gained in the framework of school courses in computer science and physics turned out to be very useful in order to get involved in the educational process in the first year.
- The only problem is that the school foundation is quickly forgotten. Yes, and taught there all on top. And from the first course, immediately the basics of programming algorithms, the C language.
Artem is already looking for a job, and they are interested in the submitted resume of an inexperienced student. But not everyone can find a common language. In addition, many guys are dissatisfied with HR specialists who lack the technical base for interviews.
In general, as the dean notes, most students start working from the third year. The most active are employed already in the second year. And those who do internships in companies are most often taken there during distribution.
Is it necessary, in this regard, to increase recruitment for IT specialties and reduce training time in order to saturate the labor market? Marina Lukashevich believes that this will no longer be a university level: one should not confuse university education with a two-year college pipeline:
- I hear more and more often that companies do not need juniors, but middle managers. Don't go wide, go deep. The progressive increase in reception, which we now have, is sufficient.
What about the dynamics of “conscription” at BSUIR?
This year, the university plans to enroll almost 3,500 first-year students in all forms of education (full-time, evening, correspondence and distance learning). Almost 590 of them will go to Information Technology Software. It is the most popular specialty with one of the highest passing scores.
Enrollment for the specialty "Information systems and technologies in the gaming industry" has been increased. It is noted that the profession of "programmer-game designer" is in demand among applicants. The recruitment for "Electronic Marketing" has grown. The demand for this specialty is growing in the context of the development of the digital economy.
In general, sets are growing annually, mainly due to an increase in the number of paid places. At the same time, BSUIR notes that part-time education has decreased significantly over the past five years: from almost six hundred places, 110 remained. At the same time, enrollment for a reduced form of education for college graduates was increased from 90 to 245 people.
Since 2002, he has been conducting free technology trainings for students and those who want to master a new specialty. More than 20 thousand people became graduates of the company's educational programs.
BSUIR has EPAM laboratories for Java, JavaScript, .Net, DevOps, functional and automated testing, SAP, Data Engineering/BI and other areas. Branches of the university departments operate in the company's offices.
