History
The State University of Intellectual Technologies and Communications is a public academy in the city of Odesa, Ukraine. In 1900 Higher Telegraph Mechanics Courses were opened in Odesa for technicians’ training in the southern part of Russia. Some private radio and telegraph stations accomplished practical needs in communication in Odesa during the Revolution and Civil War period. In 1919 all those few stations were reorganized into Odesa State Radio and Telegraph Plant (ORTP in Sofievskaya Str.), the first one in Russia. In 1923 ORTP stopped its independent functioning, but in the building of the former Higher Telegraph Mechanics Courses educational process, it was named after the former Ukrainian Minister of Education Grinko – Odesa Higher Strong Currents Electrotechnical School (OHES).
In the autumn of 1929, Odesa Higher Electrotechnical School became the Electrotechnical Department of Odesa Polytechnical Institute (OPI). Next year according to the USSR Government Resolution (4/237 of July 23, 1930) the Electrotechnical Department was singled out into the Odesa Communication Engineers Institute with the first graduates in 1931. During the uneasy period of war beginning, when future graduates were to present their Diploma projects, they went to the Military Commissar Offices to take part in the war without waiting for their Diplomas to be received. During the uneasy period of war beginning, when future graduates were to present their Diploma projects, they went to the Military Commissar Offices to take part in the war without waiting for their Diplomas to be received.
Both old and new pre-war Institute laboratory buildings had been ruined and they couldn’t be restored. The students lived and studied in the same premises. The half-ruined building of the students’ hostel in Manezhnaya Street was temporarily occupied by the lecturers who returned to the Institute, and the building in Ostrovidov Street was occupied by OMD Headquarters. Soon after the war, the legendary Victory Marshal G.K. Zhukov worked there. There is a memorial plate there on the building. The beginning of an educational process in a new building (September 1953) was a significant event in the Institute’s life. In 1953 the Institute graduated 7 Doctors and 46 Candidates of Technical Sciences.
University Today
The State University of Intellectual Technologies and Communications consists of 465 highly qualified members of academic staff. The academic staff consists of 44 professors with a Doctorate of Science and 328 PhDs in fields with recognition from the Academics of Branch Academies, Laureates of State International Awards, Honored Statesmen of Science and Techniques, and workers of the Ukrainian Higher School. Today, the university provides high-quality higher education for more than 7,000 local and international students. The academy has a brainstorming experimental base and close ties with both Ukrainian and European IT and telecommunication organizations. The educational process and scientific research take place primarily in specialized labs.
Structure
- Scientific Research Institute of Information Communication;
- Educational and Scientific Institute of Radio and Television Electronics;
- Computer Technologies, Automation, and Logistics, Educational and Research Institute;
- Educational and Scientific Institute of Economics and Management;
- Educational and Scientific Institute of Problems of Information Society;
- Department of Telecommunications Systems.