Томскийн Политехникийн Их сургууль

National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) is a technical university in Russia. TPU was a member of 12 international associations, including the Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research (CESAER) until it was suspended in March 2022, and the European University Association (EUA) until it was suspended in March 2022. TPU was included in Project 5-100, a 2013 state program aimed at bringing at least five Russian universities from among the project participants into the 100 best universities in the world.

In 2022, the university was ranked #801 in the world by World University Rankings by Times Higher Education, and #879 in the world by U.S. News & World Report in 2023, and in 2020 it was ranked #862 in the world by University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP)

History

Tomsk Technological Institute of Emperor Nicholas II

TPU was founded by the Ministry of National Education of the Russian Empire in 1896 as Tomsk Technological Institute of Emperor Nicholas II with the two departments: Mechanical and Chemical Engineering. The State Council of Russia made a decision on the establishment of an institute as a polytechnic academic institution consisting of the four departments: Mechanical, Chemical Engineering, Mining and Construction Engineering. The university's main building was constructed in 1897–1907 based on a project by Robert Marfeld, an academician of architecture.

The position of the first rector was offered to Dmitri Mendeleev. However, he had to refuse the job offer due to his health. Despite his refusal of the job offer, he took active participation in Institute development. In January 1899, in accordance with the Supreme Decree of the Department of Civil and Ecclesiastical Administration, a student of Mendeleev, Professor Efim Zubashev was appointed the first rector and chairman of the construction committee to erect premises of Tomsk Technological Institute.

The first classes started on October 9, 1900. Professor Vladimir Nekrasov gave the first lecture on analytic geometry. Among the first professors of the institute, there were notable scientists: Professor Nikolai Kischner, who discovered the Wolff–Kishner reduction; Professor Theodor Molien, who gave a foundation to higher mathematical education and mathematical research in Siberia; Evgeny Biron, who discovered the phenomena of secondary periodicity; Professor Boris Weinberg, who was an outstanding scientist in physics and glaciologist; Professor Vladimir Obruchev, who was an organizer of the Mining Department and a founder of mining and geological school in Siberia. In the autumn term of 1904/05, Adam Yensh, an outstanding Russian urban planner and a sanitary engineer, gave lectures on construction works and architecture to students of the Construction Engineering Department and on introduction to architecture to students of the Mechanical, Mining and Chemical Engineering Departments. In 1917, Tomsk Technological Institute of Emperor Nicholas II was renamed into Tomsk Technological Institute.

1917–40

In 1925, the institute was renamed into Dzerzhinsky Siberian Technological Institute. In 1930, Dzerzhinsky Siberian Technological Institute was divided into the following institutes:

• Siberian Geological Prospecting Institute (Tomsk);
• West Siberian Mechanical Engineering Institute (Tomsk);
• Siberian Chemical Engineering Institute (Tomsk);

Academics

• TPU offers
• 29 bachelor’s degree programs;
• 32 master’s degree programs;
• 9 specialist degree programs;
• 19 postgraduate programs;

31 research degrees.

In 2017, TPU institutes were transformed into engineering and research schools:

• School of Computer Science and Robotics;
• School of Non-Destructive Testing;
• School of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies;
• School of Earth Sciences and Engineering;
• School of Energy and Power Engineering;
• School of Nuclear Science and Engineering;
• Research School of High-Energy Physics;
• Research School of Chemistry and Applied Biomedical Sciences;
• School of Core Engineering Education;

School of Engineering Entrepreneurship.

Yurga Institute of Technology (Yurga campus)

Yurga Institute of Technology (Yurga campus) of TPU was set up as a result of a number of transformations: the Study Support Center (1957), the Mechanical Engineering Faculty (1987), a TPU affiliate in Yurga (1993) and Yurga Institute of Technology (1993). The institute trains engineers for Kemerovo Oblast. The problem of training engineers was always solved in cooperation with Yurga Machine-Building Plant.

Students are trained at 10 departments of the institute where eight out of them are graduate departments. The institute contains over 1,500 students studying full-time, part-time or remotely. The institute includes eight academic and laboratory buildings with over 70 laboratories.

Center of Academic Geology Internships

The Center of Academic Geology Internships is located on the shore of Lake Sobachie in Khakassia. The Center was set up in 1959. It is used for completing geology internships at universities of Western Siberia.

ITR-1000 Nuclear Research Reactor

The IRT-1000 Nuclear Research Reactor was constructed in 1959-67. Annually, over 430 students complete training at the Reactor. They obtain practical expertise on control of a nuclear installation, the physical protection of nuclear facilities, nuclear safety and security, as well as radiation safety. Among all Russian operating reactors, only in Tomsk, at the TPU Reactor, international students are able to complete training. They are trained to work at nuclear facilities in their home countries.

Research

Research at TPU is developed in various areas:

• High-energy physics;
• Chemistry and applied biomedical sciences;
• Non-destructive testing;
• Earth sciences and engineering;
• Advanced manufacturing technologies;
• Intelligent energy;

Nuclear science and engineering.

In October 2012, TPU launched a development program for Resource Efficient Technologies for the period 2013–2018. That program was presented by TPU in 2009 at the Russian federal competition "National Research University". A key point of the program of TPU was announced the formation of high school as a world-class university-based staffing and development of technologies for resource-efficient economy.

TPU developed educational module "Resource Efficiency", prepared and published a textbook "Principals of resource efficiency", optional subject matter of the same name introduced in the curriculum (for all disciplines and areas of undergraduate).

TPU envisages university development in the field of resource-efficient technologies that unites six research and educational clusters:

• Safe Environment
• Non-destructive testing and diagnostics
• Materials for extreme conditions
• Domestic and industrial waste recycling
• Sustainable Energy
• High-temperature superconductivity technologies for energy production
• Nuclear and hydrogen fuel of the new generation
• Hybrid simulation in energy production
• Resource-efficient generation
• Medical Engineering
• Bioengineering materials and technologies
• Radiation technologies in bioengineering
• Electrophysical biomedical complexes
• Planet Resources
• Resource-efficient use of mineral resources
• Clear water
• Green chemistry
• Cognitive Systems and Telecommunications
• Cognitive software and hardware systems
• Wireless telecommunication systems and technologies
• Social Science and Humanities in Engineering
• Social science and humanities component of engineering

Mechanisms of technical innovations initiation and engineering forethought.

International cooperation

TPU was a member of 12 international associations, including the Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research (CESAER) until it was suspended in March 2022, and the European University Association (EUA) until it was suspended in March 2022. Among the business partners of the university is Schlumberger Limited (France). TPU researchers conduct research projects within the grant programs of the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), Horizon 2020, Erasmus Programme and others.

Notable alumni and faculty

David A. Frank-Kamenetskii, theoretical physicist and chemist, professor and doctor of physical, chemical, and mathematical sciences. Developed the thermal explosion theory, worked on plasma physics problems and in astrophysics.

• Nikolay Kamov, helicopter designer
• Alexander Kazantsev, science fiction writer
• Mikhail Mil (did not graduate), helicopter designer, founder of the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant
• Fritz Noether, German-born mathematician, faculty; executed by the Stalinist NKVD
• Antonina Pirozhkova, civil engineer and writer
• Vladimir Rott, Russian-Canadian electrical engineer turned author
• Kanysh Satpayev, one of the founders of Soviet metallogeny
• Nikolay Semyonov, physicist and chemist.1956 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry
• Dan Shechtman, Israeli professor, awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of quasicrystals
• Nikolay Urvantsev, geologist and Arctic explorer
• Mikhail Usov, geologist
• Gennady Mesyats, physicist, founder of scientific schools
• Nikolay Nikitin, structural designer and construction engineer
• Matvei Kapelyushnikov, mechanical engineer and inventor

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