East Kazakhstan Technical University
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D. Serikbayev East Kazakhstan Technical University (Kazakh: Дәулет Серікбаев атындағы Шығыс Қазақстан техникалық университеті, Däulet Serıkbaev atyndağy Şyğys Qazaqstan tehnikalyq universitetı; Russian: Восточно-Казахстанский технический университет имени Даулета Серикбаева) is located in Oskemen, Kazakhstan.
Founded in 1958 as Ust-Kamenogorskij stroitelno-dorozhnyj institut, UKSDI (literally: Ust-Kamenogorsk Road Construction Institute), the university is named after the first rector Serikbayev Daulet Mirkasymovich, a famous public figure and social activist who ensured the status of a leading science and technology university.
According to the Republican Ranking Agency, the university is in the second place among technical universities of Kazakhstan. The D. Serikbayev EKTU is the only university in Kazakhstan preparing specialists for the nuclear industry. Additionally, it is the only university in Kazakhstan that received a large amount of state funding for realization of ongoing scientific research and development projects.
As of May 2019, the university consists of three schools, six faculties, military sub-department, and Higher IT College. As of 2018, the total number of students enrolled is over six thousand. The D. Serikbayev EKTU offers eighty one educational programs on bachelor, master's, and doctorate levels, in addition to twenty experimental innovative programs. In the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation University, there are dual-degree programs in IT, economics, management, instrument engineering and geodesy. The D. Serikbayev EKTU has sixty three industrial partnerships in such companies as Kazzinc, Ulba Metallurgical Plant, Azia Avto, Vnitsvetmet, and 1C-Rating.
In addition to the Center of Advanced Development “VERITAS”, which develops new types of products for major enterprises of the East Kazakhstan region, leading scientists of the university work on research projects with application in IT, mechanical engineering, solar energy, agro-industrial complex, and other priority areas.
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