The Faculty of Telecommunications

Telecommunications is a process of sending or receiving messages by telephone, radio, television or telegraph. In other words, it is a communication over a distance using equipment to overcome that distance. Telecommunications enables people around the world to contact one another, to access information instantly, and to communicate from remote areas. Telecommunications also provides the key medium for news, data, information, and entertainment transfer.

Over the past hundred years, the telephone has become the most familiar form of telecommunications. More recently, it has been supplemented by a range of computer-based telecommunications services. These have become popular through the Internet and World Wide Web, vast computer networks, which provide many people with the means to exchange information. Nowadays it is taken for granted that by pressing a few buttons people can talk to their families, friends, or business associates across the world.

The telecommunications industry has blossomed with the advent of new technologies. The advance of sophisticated telecommunications systems such as the Internet and fibre optics and the development of improved computer technology have stimulated the growth of this industry. Consequently, there is an increasing demand for skilled workers to meet the needs of telecommunications services.

The Faculty of Telecommunications was established in 1980. Today this well-developed educational and scientific center consists of 5 academic departments: Telecommunication Systems, Telecommunication Networks and Devices, Information Security, Metrology and Standardization, and a general university Department of Physical Training.

The educational process and the work of scientific schools in the field of infocommunication systems and devices, standardization and certification, and data security are organized by 135 lecturers. The staff includes Valentin Muravyov, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 19 Doctors of Science and full Professors, 55 Ph.D. and Associate Professors. Today the Faculty numbers over 1000 students. In 2009 two first-degree programmes (‘Telecommunication Networks’ and ‘Data Security in Telecommunications’) were started in the English language.

The faculty prepares specialists in the following specialties:

- Infocommunication Technologies (Telecommunication Systems); 

- Infocommunication Technologies (Infocommunication Networks); 

- Infocommunication Technologies (Digital Television and Radio Broadcasting); 

- Infocommunication Technologies (Multimedia Information Distribution Systems); 

- Infocommunication Technologies (Laser Information Measurement Systems); 

- Infocommunication Systems (Standardization, Certification and Parameters Monitoring); 

- Data Security in Telecommunications. 

- The students of the faculty make a close and profound study of mathematical and physical foundations of telecommunication technologies, including all types of infocommunication systems and networks. They are involved into scientific activities in specialized laboratories, where they study modern means and methods of designing digital data-transmission systems over cable, satellite communication lines, as well as electronic switching systems, using modern information technologies. They also master foundations and information security techniques in telecommunication systems. Thanks to competent education, the graduates of the faculty are well adapted to work with up-to-date telecommunication technologies. They are competitive experts in the field of their development and implementation.

Telecommunications engineers are employed by different industrial enterprises and organizations, especially in the field of radio electronics and communication. They are also in great demand at design offices, research institutes, television companies, telephone exchanges, broadcasting stations, consulting firms and other telecommunications services. They are able to

• manage engineering teams

• design telecommunications equipment including modems, switches, routers and radio links

• develop real-time computer systems, including imbedded computer systems and their software

• build and test prototypes of new equipment including integrated circuit components

• predict telecommunication system performance

• optimise the performance of telecommunications systems

• provide technical support to marketing or customer service staff and telecommunications technicians

• train technical and engineering staff once new systems have been installed

• supervise special research projects on next generation telecommunication systems.

The Faculty of Radio Engineering and Electronics

The Faculty of Radioengeneering and Electronics is the oldest faculty at the University. It dates from 1964 when Minsk Radio Engineering Institute was established. Presently the faculty is a large educational, scientific and engineering center with more than 1100 students.

The faculty prepares specialists in the following specialties: Radioengineering (Programmable Radioelectronic Devices);

– Radioengineering (Digital Radiocommunication Engineering);

– Radioinformatics;

– Radioelectronic Systems;

– Radioelectronic Information Security;

– Micro- and Nanoelectronic Technologies and Systems;

– Quantum Information Systems;

– Nanotechnologies and Nanomaterials in Electronics;

– Electronic Instrumentation and Control Systems for Physical Installations.

There are over 80 lecturers at the faculty, including Vladimir Labunov, member of the National Academy of Science of Belarus, 15 Doctors of Science and Professors, 48 Associate Professors, laureates of state prizes, honoured scientists. The faculty consists of 5 academic departments: Antennas and Ultra High Frequency Devices, Information Radiotechnologies, Micro- and Nanoelectronics, Radioengineering Systems, and Electronics.

Scientific research results of the faculty staff have received recognition from the world academic community and have been used in developing up-to-date spacecraft and special-purpose missiles and radar systems as well as advanced micro- and nanoelectronic technologies. The faculty lecturers’ textbooks and monographs are published both in Belarus and abroad.

Training at the faculty combines a fundamental training in mathematics, physics, chemistry, programming with the profound study of modern radioengineering, micro- and nanoelectronics, computer methods of data processing and the design of sophisticated devices and systems. There are 26 university laboratories with modern equipment and computer devices at the faculty. Students have the opportunity to master a speciality and do research in the faculty joint laboratories and department branches created at the leading core enterprises of the Republic. The faculty organizes and supervises probation periods of undergraduates, Master, PhD students in foreign scientific centers and universities.

Electronics engineers are employed by electrical utilities, communications companies, manufacturers of electrical and electronic equipment, consulting firms. They design, develop and test power equipment and systems, industrial process control systems, telecommunications, broadcast, recording and audiovisual systems, microelectronic systems and circuits, computers, computer systems and networks and computer software. Further, they assist in inspection, testing, adjusting and evaluation of incoming electrical, electromechanical and electronic components and assemblies to ensure their conformance with product specifications. They also install, operate and maintain electrical and electronic equipment and systems. They calibrate electrical or electronic equipment and instruments according to technical manuals and written instructions, they collect and compile operational or experimental data, and they assist in the preparation of estimates, schedules, budgets, specifications and reports.

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