Transport and Telecommunication Institute

Transport and Telecommunication Institute

Transporta un Sakaru Institūts
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Type	Private
Established	1993
Rector	Igors Graurs
Location	Riga , Latvia
Website	www.tsi.lv

Transport and Telecommunication Institute (TTI) (Latvian: Transporta un Sakaru Institūts, TSI) (Russian: Институт Транспорта и Связи, ТСИ) (previously known as RCAII and Riga Aviation University) is the largest university-type accredited non-state technical higher educational and scientific establishment in Riga, the capital of Latvia. It was established in 1999, although incorporated the core of a technical and aviation school which dated back to 1919. The Institute modeling itself upon new educational technologies. Main directions of academic activities: Electronics and Telecommunications, Information Technologies and Computer Science, Economics, Management and Business Administration, Transport and Logistics.

Study Programmes

• Master's Degree Study Programmes
  • Master of Social Sciences in Economics
  • Master of Social Sciences in Management Science
  • Master of Engineering Sciences in Electronics
  • Master of Natural Sciences in Computer Science
  • Master of Engineering Science in "Management of Information Systems"
  • Master of Transport and Logistics
• Bachelor's Degree Study Programmes
  • Economics
  • Management Science
  • Electronics
  • Telecommunication systems and computer networks
  • Computer Science
  • Engineering science (Transport Commercial Operation)
  • Aviation Transport
• Higher Professional Study Programmes (II level)
  • Electronics
  • Transport and Business Logistics
  • Transport Management
• Higher Professional Study Programme (I level)
  • Technical Maintenance of Aviation Transport

Faculties

It is divided into several faculties, including:

• Faculty of Computer Science and Electronics
  • Mathematical Methods
  • Computer Networks
  • Electronics
  • Telecommunications
• Faculty of Management Sciences, Economics and Transport
  • Management
  • Economics
  • Transportation Technology and Logistics
  • Social Sciences and Law
• Department of Continuing Education
• Department of Basic Science
  • Mathematics
  • Physics
  • Linguistics
• Telematics and Logistics Institute
• Leadership Institute
• Latgale Branch.

History

Prehistory

On 24 May 1919, in Kiev a School of Aviation Mechanical Technicians was found. The aircraft repair shops and pilots' school - observers of the Kiev Polytechnical Institute - educational establishment where one of the first aviation society in Russia had been organized, were used as the school base. The members of this society were the aviation specialists who became famous later on: a pilot N. Nesterov the first one in the world who performed the "dead loop" and air ram attack; an aircraft designer I. Sikorsky - a founder of the first Russian heavy aircraft and a founder of the helicopter engineering in the USA. From Kiev the school had been evacuated to Moscow and in 1921 it was shifted to Petrograd and renamed as the Advanced Training Courses for Engineering Staff.

In 1938–39 a status of this educational establishment was changing according to the prevailing number of students and listeners raising the level of their skills. In May 1938 the courses were given a new name as the First Aircraft Maintenance School, and, at the end of 1939 - again as the courses staying with this name right up till its renaming in 1946 into the First Leningrad Higher Military Aviation Engineering School.

Relocation to Latvia

In June 1945 the school was relocated to Riga. In Riga also the Second Leningrad Higher Military Aviation Engineering School was functioning that had been reorganized from the technical school with similar name. Both schools had two faculties. The first - engineering and special electrical equipment, the second - radio engineering and air armaments. In 1949 both schools were joined in the Riga Higher Military Aviation Engineering School. In June 1960 the School was broken up and on its base the civil higher school was found - the Riga Civil Air Fleet Engineers Institute. In 1967 in connection with the reorganization of the Main Directorate of Civil Air Fleet into the Ministry of Civil Aviation, the higher school was named as the Riga Civil Aviation Engineers Institute (RIIGA). On 25 February 1992, the RIIGA passed under the jurisdiction of the Latvian Republic and changed its name to the Riga Aviation Institute. To its 80th anniversary the RAU was the largest higher school in Latvia occupying the third line in the rating of the educational establishments in the country.

Founding of the current institute

At the end of the 90s the higher school faced a number of internal and external problems, and in August 1999 the Cabinet of Latvia made a decision about the liquidation of the RAU as the governmental higher school. Such wording encouraged its employees to reorganize this educational establishment by now into the non-governmental institution. On 6 September 1999, the Joint Stock Company "Riga Aviation University" had been registered and from October of the same year it was renamed into the Transport and Telecommunication Institute. TTI has been included into the Training Directory of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).

References

• http://www.tsi.lv/?id=405&lang=en&ct=1&cid=2458&r=1201&top=0
• http://www.tsi.lv/?id=92&lang=en&ct=2&cid=2586&r=405&top=0
• http://www.tsi.lv/?id=1407&lang=en&ct=8&r=405&top=120

External links

• The English version of the web site of the TTI