Physical Engineering Faculty

The Physical Engineering Faculty was set up in 1966. The founding fathers of the faculty were Academician G.I. Budker, Director of the Institute of Nuclear Physics (SB RAS), and Professor G.P. Lyshchinsky, Rector of Novosibirsk Institute of Electrical Engineering. They were aware that it was the discoveries in physics that formed the basis of new technical development. They realized the urgent need of training specialists in engineering, electrophysics, semiconductors, dielectrics beingcapable of carrying out research work independently.

At the very beginning the faculty headed by E.S.Samoilov, Candidate of Sciences, consisted of one department: the Department of Electrophysical Installations and Accelerators with Professor E.A. Abramyan being its first head. The faculty continued growing very intensively. Up to 1992 the faculty included 4 departments: the Department of Semiconductor Devices and Microelectronics, the Department of Applied and Theoretical Physics, and the Department of Fundamental Physics added to the first one - the Department of Electrophysical Installations and Accelerators.

1992 is considered to be another landmark in the history of the faculty. As a result of the university reorganization the faculty structure underwent fundamental changes too. Firstly, it was reduced to two departments: the Department of Electrophysical Installations and Accelerators and the Department of Laser Systems. Secondly, two institutes of the Siberian Branch: the institutes of Nuclear Physics and Laser Physics became the basic institutes of the faculty. This fact was of great importance as from that time on training in these fields has been provided on the basis of the newest information and facilities of these two leading research centers.

At present the faculty, headed by Professor A.K. Dmitriyev, Doctor of Physical-Mathematical Sciences, has four departments:

- Applied and Theoretical Physics,

- Optoinformation Technologies,

- Electrophysical Installations and Accelerators,

- Laser Systems.

The teaching staff is highly experienced and qualified. Among them there are 53 Candidates of Sciences and 38 Doctors of Sciences. There are also 24 Professors and 3 Honored Artists.

The faculty introduced the multilevel system of education awarding B.Sc. degrees in the fields of physics, engineering physics, optotechnology, photonics and optoinformatics, innovations.

Students are offered the following areas of specialization leading to M.Sc. degrees in physics:

-nucleus and elementary particles physics;

-plasma physics;

-accelerator physics.

Some students choose the following areas of specialization with M.Sc. degree awarded:

- optical systems of location,communication and data processing,

- physics of optical phenomena.

The faculty also trains highly qualified specialists (engineers) in the following fields:

-laser systems in rocketry and astronautics;

-optoelectronic devices and systems,

-cameramanwork (this leads to the profession of a television camera-man).

During the first two years students are given fundamental training in basic subjects: profound training in physics and mathematics, and knowledge of the present-day methods of experimental research, methods and technical facilities for automatic data processing and data collection.

From the third year of study students of the faculty are given training both at the university and the basic research institutes. They are assigned an adviser and do supervised research. Students are involved in the research teams at the institutes’ laboratories. Their term and degree papers are included in the research programs of the institutes’ laboratories.

Many faculty graduates choose to continue their education and take postgraduate courses leading to Candidate of Sciences degrees, successfully defend their theses and join the staff of the INP and ILP (SB RAS) as well as of other scientific and educational institutions or manufacturing enterprises of our country and abroad.

Wide international relations of the SB RAS institutes, numerous research seminars and conferences, including those with the participation of foreign researchers, give students unique opportunities for professional growth.

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