The Department was founded in 1930.
Summary
The Department of Physics offers a general course of physics for undergraduate MPEI students, and prepares bachelors and masters who are able to solve a wide range of scientific and industrial problems in the field of optoelectronic systems and laser technology.
The department leads lectures, practical lessons and laboratory works of the general course of physics in six MPEI institutes. Subjects are mechanics, molecular physics, electricity and magnetism, wave and quantum optics, quantum mechanics and statistical physics.
The department has a specialized lecture hall B-200 and a demonstration room equipped by modern technical training facilities and equipment for lecture experiments. Modern information technologies and computer equipment are used in teaching the general physics course.
Research areas
- Application of optical methods (Particle
Image Velocimetry, Background Orientied Schlieren, Refractography,
Interferometric Mie Imaging, Laser Induced Fluorescence, Surface Plasmon
Resonance, Disturbed Total Internal Reflection) for liquid and gas flows
investigations
- Application of photogrammetric methods
(Digital Image Correlation, Image Pattern Correlation Technique) for
measuring surface shape and deformation
- Development of applied optical systems
- Development a new generation thermo- and
photoelectric receivers of electromagnetic radiation
- Semiconductor lasers characteristics
investigations
- Development of algorithms for digital
signal and image processing
- Application of computer (technical) vision
for practical industrial tasks
Recent projects
- RSCF grant "Development, research and
optimization of image processing algorithms for measuring deformations of
aerodynamic surfaces in flight experiments"
- MPEI grant "Development of an
optical-electronic system for complex diagnostics of gas-liquid
flows"
- MPEI grant "Development of a
photogrammetric system for measuring the surface shape for conditions of
increased vibration loads"
- Contractual work on the development of a
tomographic gas temperature measurement system based on a spectral ratio
pyrometer
- RFBR grant "Evolution of cold Rydberg
atoms near the ionization threshold into ultracold plasma"
- RFBR grant "Development of highly
sensitive optoelectronic sensors based on the phenomenon of surface
plasmon resonance"
Features
During the
training period senior students of the department are involved in research and
development work which are regularly performed at the department under the
guidance of its employees. As a result of such activities some students receive
monetary rewards from funding from grants and economic contracts. In addition
to scientific activities the Department of Physics regularly involves its
undergraduate students in career guidance activities with schoolchildren and in
the pedagogical process as part of educational practice. Graduates of the department
have a wide choice of research and production enterprises for employment in
their specialty. At the same time many students are employed in their specialty
already during their senior undergraduate and graduate courses. In addition
masters with high academic performance are encouraged to stay at the department
as a teacher and enter graduate school.
Educational programs
Bachelor
- 01.03.02
Applied mathematics and Informatics
- 08.03.01
Civil Engineering
- 09.03.01
Informatics and Computer Engineering
- 10.03.01 Information Security
- 11.03.01
Radio Engineering
- 11.03.04
Electronics and Nano-electronics
- 11.05.01
Radio-electronic systems and complexes
- 12.03.01
Instrumentation
- 12.03.04
Bioengineering Systems and Technologies
- 13.03.02 Electrical Power
Engineering and Electrical Engineering
- 27.03.02
Quality Control
- 27.03.04
Control in Engineering Systems
Master
- 11.04.04 “Electronics and
nanoelectronics”, Laser and optical measuring electronics
PhD
- 2.2.6 Optical and optical-electronic
devises and complexes