The first Mongolian alumnus graduated from MPEI in 1959. Since then, more than 500 Mongolian engineers, bachelor-students, master-students and more than 20 Ph.D.-students have been trained at MPEI. More than 150 specialists from Mongolia have undergone internships at MPEI. A large number of Mongolian students entered MPEI after 1999, when there was established MPEI Educational Center at Ulaanbaatar University (1999-2007). In 2004, MPEI Educational Center was awarded the Certificate of Merit of the Mongolian Embassy in the Russian Federation for its great contribution to the training of national skilled personnel of Mongolia.
For 2023-2024, 16 Mongolian
citizens are studying at MPEI and 4 professors from Mongolia are working here.
MPEI graduates successfully
work in Mongolian governmental authorities. They have taken the positions of
Ministers, directors of TPPs, and they head large companies. Many MPEI
graduates successfully work in the energy sector, industry, modern IT
companies, and universities in Mongolia.
In 2004, MPEI pooled the
efforts of leading Russian universities. Supported by the Moscow Centre for
International Cooperation, the Russian Centre for Science and Culture and the
Russian Embassy, MPEI held the First Olympiad on Natural Sciences and History
of Moscow in Mongolia. In the following years, these Olympiads became regular
and more than 20,000 Mongolian school students took part in them. In April
2013, MPEI headed the organizing committee to prepare and to hold a series of Olympiads
for Mongolian school students that were held within the It is Time to Study
in Russia! project. This involved over 30 Russian universities from Moscow,
St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Volgograd, Yakutsk, Ufa, Michurinsk, Kyzyl.
Based on the Olympiad results from 2013 to 2015, over 150 school students from
Mongolia received the Russian state scholarships to study at Russian
universities.
On the 12th of
December 2016 Mongolian President Mr. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj signed a decree
awarding MPEI the Order of the North Star of Mongolia for its great
contribution to the development and training of energy sector personnel.
MPEI cooperates with Erdenet
Mining Corporation, Mongolian University of Science and Technology, Institute
of Energy Economics of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar University, Association of Masters
and Engineers of Mongolian Power Engineering, etc.
MPEI has the closest working
experience with Mongolian University of Science and Technology. Over the last 3
years, in cooperation with Power Engineering School of Mongolian University of
Science and Technology, MPEI has launched a training programme for master- and
Ph.D.-students. The opportunities of the It is time to study in Russia! Olympiad
and the right of independent selection of foreign citizens to study at MPEI
were widely used for this purpose. Over the years, more than 20 master- and
Ph.D.-students have been sent to study at MPEI.
Work is actively underway to
establish Russian-Mongolian Consortium of Technical Universities to ensure the
operation of academic partnership programs between Mongolian University of
Science and Technology and Russian universities.
MPEI staff and teachers are
actively involved in cooperation with various organizations in Mongolia in the
field of energy, science and education. MPEI employees have been awarded the
title of "Advanced Worker of the Mongolian Power Industry" and the
honorary title of "Advanced Educator of Mongolia".
In 2019, a resource centre for
Russian education was established in the Mongolian-Russian Joint School in
Ulaanbaatar within the Export of Education Federal Project by MPEI. In December
2019, MPEI professors taught Physics to students of grades 9-11(12) from the
above Russian-speaking school. Based on the lesson results, the school
management expressed gratitude to MPEI. Learn
more about the resource centres.
In 2023, an agreement was
reached to establish the Target Preparation Centre of National Research
University MPEI in Power Engineering School of Mongolian University of Science
and Technology. The
agreement on the creation of the Center for Targeted Training was signed as
part of the 25th meeting of the Intergovernmental Mongolian-Russian
Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation in
Ulaanbaatar. The Centre plans to send Mongolian teachers and employees of the energy
industry to MPEI to get acquainted with new teaching methods and to develop
joint approaches to training prospective specialists. The internship
results are expected to be joint curricula, joint textbooks of methods in
Russian and Mongolian including country specifics units, creation of
joint-degree programs, development of necessary programs for existing employees
of the industry, preparation for translation into Mongolian of modern textbooks
of MPEI for use in the educational process.
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