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State Engineering University of Armenia (Polytechnic)
Dr. Ruben Aghgashyan, Vice-Rector
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State Engineering University of Armenia is the legal successor of Yerevan Polytechnic Institute: one of the leading engineering schools of the former Soviet Union
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Mission Statement
State Engineering University of Armenia (Polytechnic) is a higher educational institution with a polytechnic emphasis, the basic mission of which is: to create and implement academic/research programs and services consonant with educational and technological needs of the national economy and society, to prepare students for life, career, life-long learning and professional progress in line with changing economic environment and emerging global information society, to create a supportive environment for the comprehensive personal and intellectual development of each individual, generation of law-abiding and responsible citizens.
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The University at a glance - 1
Yerevan Polytechnic Institute (YPI) was founded in 1933 having only 2 departments and 107 students. In 1980-1985 reached its peak with about 25000 students and more than 66 majors, becoming the largest higher education institution in Armenia. On November 29, 1991, the Yerevan Polytechnic Institute was reorganized and renamed State Engineering University of Armenia (SEUA). In 2005, by the Resolution # 1717 of the RA Government the traditional name “Polytechnic” was returned to the University as an acronym.
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The University at a glance - 2
The Central Campus of the University is located in Yerevan and the Branch Campuses - in Gyumri, Vanadzor and Kapan. The University has affiliated high schools in Yerevan and Regional Campuses, aimed at recruiting future gifted students from schools.
4 study programs of vocational, higher and post-higher professional education, conferring the qualification degrees of junior specialist, bachelor, master and researcher (PhD).
The University also offers extended education courses by means of its faculties and a network of continuing education structures. More than 35 Bachelor’s and 25 Master’s major specialties in Engineering, Industrial Economics, Engineering Management, Applied Mathematics and Industrial Sociology.
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The University at a glance - 3
At present 19 faculties with over 10 thousand students following 4 degree programs, about 200 foreign students studying in English and Armenian language groups. In addition, over 800 learners at the SEUA central and regional affiliated high schools. The academic staff of the University exceeds 1000, most of them with Degrees of Candidate or Doctor of Science.
With its developed research system and infrastructure the University is nationally recognized as the leading center in technical sciences.
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The University at a glance - 4
The University is a member of:
• • • • European Universities Association, Black See Universities Network, Mediterranean Engineering Universities Network, Association of Engineering Universities of CIS countries,
is involved in:
many European and other international research and educational programs (TEMPUS, TACIS, FP, DAAD, OSIAF, INTAS, USAID, NATO Science, NATO Networking, NISCUPP, etc.).
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The Structure of State Engineering University of Armenia (Central Campus)
Faculties Co-University Chairs
“Microelectronic Circuits and Systems” Interdepartmental Chair Life and Labor Safety Physical Training and Sports
Divisions
Scientific Researches
Scientific Research Laboratories Computer Center Laboratory of University LAN
Other Structural Units
Student Carrier Service Center University-Industry Liaison Center Faculty Development Center Preparatory Courses Library
Specialized
Computer Systems and Informatics
Cybernetics
Common Educational
Mathematics Physics Engineering Graphics
Correspondence Education Division of Foreign Students Graduate Division Courses in Humanities, Economics and Management Coordinating Division of Specialized Council
Radio Engineering and Communication Systems Chemical and Environmental Engineering Electrical Engineering
Languages Social-Political Disciplines and General Economics
Printing House Recreation-Sport Camps Art Clubs
Departments
Power Engineering Machine-building
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Public Food Complex
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Mechanics and Machine Science Alumni Association
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Mining Engineering and Metallurgy Transport Systems
Student Council Donation and Graduates Section
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THE REALITIES,
PROBLEMS AND NEEDS.
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OUR STRENGHTS
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SEUA (former Yerevan Polytechnic Institute) is the incontestable leader in technical education of RA During 78 years since its establishment SEUA has given more than 110,000 graduates The graduates have formed RA’s  main engineering manpower  scientific technical community  industrial leadership
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During its 78-year history the University has created some stable values and traditions, which united several generations of the faculty and students and defined its unique “Polytechnic” character.
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Polytechnic Roots and Polytechnic Orientation The Student's Success and Satisfaction is the Mirror of the University's Success
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The Unique Mission and Responsibility of the University
The University as an Ethical Model for the Students and Environment
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Open University Community, Shared Responsibility and Governance
Quality of Education by European Standards.
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MAIN PROBLEMS & NEEDS
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The offer based disciplinary structure (list of specialties) and relevant curricula of the University do not respond always to the changing needs of employment market. Rigidly planned and teacher centered educational system, which does not give freedom for learning choices to students. Too theoretical contents of educational programs not targeted to the generation of practical skills of the graduates. Dangerously fast increasing average age of teaching staff practically at all Faculties because of insufficient inflow of young academic staff not motivated to work at the universities for low salaries. Insufficient renovation of teaching laboratories and the technical infrastructure of Faculties and restricted use of new IT based educational methodologies. Lack of long term industrial collaboration links between Faculties and the national and international Armenian companies and enterprises of the corresponding fields.
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HOW TO SOLVE THE PROBLEMS
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To renovate the content of study programs based on the competency and skill needs of the employment market. To continue and deepen the replacement of old rigid organizational structure of education by a new, credit based flexible system able to respond to rapidly changing market demands. To strengthen the existing and establish new University – Industry partnerships to involve more employer organizations in the process of formation of high quality future engineers. To start close cooperation with local and foreign HEIs aimed to developing and implementing joint degree programs in the areas of mutual interests.
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The Vision of the University
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The University aspires to become an institution:
• where the entrance and educational recourses are accessible to diverse
social and age groups, to both local and international students
• whish is adaptable to environmental changes and responsive to the
changing needs of the society, economy and the demands of the market
• which has an essential role in programs of economic development • that prepares students for a full-fledged career, professional progress,
innovation and leadership
• that provides quality education by integrating theory and practice, creating a sound basis for general education
• that encourages the opportunity of open communication and debate to
all and where everyone is responsible for the development process
• which is proactive and entrepreneurial in its interaction with external
environment
• which is guided by global prospective and moves toward internationali-
zation and European integration.
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State Engineering University of Armenia
TEMPUS-JEP: “Development and Integration of University Self-assessment Systems” - (Initial Assignments)
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State Engineering University of Armenia
FOREWARD
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During the recent years certain methodological preconditions and practical experience are acquired in State Engineering University of Armenia (SEUA) to combine the existing separate mechanisms aimed at education quality assurance and to form an entire internal system of quality assessment, assurance and continuous enhancement.
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It became possible mainly due to quite productive cooperation of SEUA with some Armenian and European universities in the field of QA, a best example of which was the TEMPUS-JEP “Internal quality assurance system in Armenian HEIs (ARMQA)” carried out during 2007-2009 in close cooperation with Yerevan State University and 2 EU partners: Middlesex University (London) and Genoa University (Italy). The current 2 new TEMPUS projects, ongoing under the German partners’ general coordination, are considered as the best chance to complete the gained already experience and by the end of the projects to come over with the development of standards for both internal and external QA systems.
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The SEUA activity aimed to the assurance of education quality is carrying out in accordance with the goals and objectives defined in SEUA Strategic Plan 2011-2015. The strategy of development of quality assurance system and continuous enhancement of quality are integrated within the mentioned strategic plan.
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DIUS Assignment 1:
The current state and nearest problems of SEUA according to ESG components
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1. Policy and procedures for quality assurance
Standard: Institutions should have a policy and associated procedures for the assurance of the quality and standards of their programmes and awards. They should also commit themselves explicitly to the development of a culture which recognises the importance of quality, and quality assurance, in their work. To achieve this, institutions should develop and implement a strategy for the continuous enhancement of quality. The strategy, policy and procedures should have a formal status and be publicly available. They should also include a role for students and other stakeholders.
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1. Policy and procedures for quality assurance
The strategy of QA system development and continuous enhancement of education quality integrated within the SEUA strategic plans The proved Action plan and timetable of Strategic Plan accomplishment with the list of responsible executors The developed methodical framework, procedures and timetable for self assessment of educational departments and divisions The specialized Division of quality control established within the SEUA Educational methodical Department Self assessments realized in the SEUA all Faculties and regional branches The developed conceptual and organizational framework of SEUA internal QA system
The nearest objectives of reforms:
 Formation of long term QA policy as a base
for development and assessment of the quality continues enhancement internal system
 Development and approval of appropriate
official document on the policy of QA, which is required by ENQA standards
 Detailed description and bringing in
compliance with ENQA standards the processes and procedures of internal QA
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2. Approval, monitoring and periodic review of programmes and awards
Standard: Institutions should have formal mechanisms for the approval, periodic review and monitoring of their programmes and awards.
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2. Approval, monitoring and periodic review of programmes and awards
Design of curriculum in accordance with the State Educational Standards of qualifications Organization of a preliminary internal peer review of the developed curricula Organization of external expertise of the developed curricula Summarizing the results of external expertise and final corrections of the developed curricula Approval of curricula by the SEUA Academic Council in accordance with internal regulations Design of disciplines’ programmes at the chairs, organization of their external review and approval by the SEUA Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs
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The nearest objectives of reforms: Aimed at the taking into account the QA factor in advance, to implement a new methodology of planning, development, realization and monitoring of educational programmes with clear-cut separation of these processes and harmonization with ENQA standard’s criteria using European advanced experience.
3. Assessment of students
Standard: Students should be assessed using published criteria, regulations and procedures which are applied consistently.
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3. Assessment of students
A unified Rating Points system of assessment used at SEUA for students of all 3 educational cycles (BE, ME, PhD)
Current monitoring of student achievements through intermediate assessments and session examinations
The nearest objectives of reforms: Modernization of regulations and procedures of student assessment in line with ENQA standard’s criteria, in particular: - adequate tools for measuring the achievement of the intended learning outcomes and objectives of programme/discipline, - clearness and transparency of assessment criteria, - control of accuracy of the procedures’ maintenance, - introduction of computer based impartial technologies.
Centralized institutional examination commissions for all the basic common disciplines of the University Obligatory external expertise of all graduation works and dissertations Qualifications awarded by an independent State Examination Commission headed by a leading external expert of the field
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4. Quality assurance of teaching staffs
Standard: Institutions should have ways of satisfying themselves that staff involved with the teaching of students is qualified and competent to do so. They should be available to those undertaking external reviews, and commented upon in reports.
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4. Quality assurance of teaching staffs
Contractual system of teaching staff appointment
The nearest objectives of reforms.:
Competitive system of teaching staff recruitment in accordance with the prescribed qualification requirements to the existing categories Internal system of improvement of teaching staff professional skills through the SEUA Faculty Development Centre Partial assessment of teaching staff by means of sociological polls among students Assessment of teaching quality and teacher’s skills by colleagues through reciprocal lecture attending
Reconstruction of processes of teaching staff quality assessment, recruitment and enhancement of competences in harmony with the requirements of ENQA standards, especially, from the point of view of: - testing the minimum necessary level of pedagogical skills in the staffing phase, - organizing the quality enhancement of new appointed teaching staff, - monitoring the professional progress of teaching staff.
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5. Learning resources and student support
Standard: Institutions should ensure that the resources available for the support of student learning are adequate and appropriate for each programme offered.
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5. Learning resources and student support
Syllabuses, main and extra support teaching aids and methodical materials
The nearest objectives of reforms:
A network of specialized classrooms equipped for E-teaching and learning; good preconditions for distance learning New laboratories with capability to provide virtual laboratorial works and lessons
The University research library involved in the republican library network and equipped with two E-reading halls Partly developed institutions of academic counselors/curators and support services of student career forming
Development of procedures to ensure the quality of learning resources and other support services of educational process, in particular: - establishment of clear criteria of resource base necessary for a new program creation, - development of auxiliary new services promoting the learning process, - introduction of clear procedures and criteria for monitoring learning resources condition and their permanent improvement.
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6. Information systems
Standard: Institutions should ensure that they collect, analyse and use relevant information for the effective management of their programmes of study and other activities.
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6. Information systems
Collecting and processing regular information about students’ current and terminal progress in studies Analysis of students’ current, terminal and graduation progress results on the University different levels (chair, faculty, Rectorate and Academic Senate) Regular updating and analysis of data on student contingent and its movement Newly developed computer-aided system for faculty offices used to store and process data on students and their progression Presentation and discussion of the faculties’ annual reports and the resumptive report of the University
The nearest objectives of reforms:
Reorganization of the University internal information system and regulation of internal and external (public) information flows in accordance with the requirements of new established internal QA system.
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7. Public information
Standard: Institutions should regularly publish up to date, impartial and objective information, both quantitative and qualitative, about the programmes and awards they are offering.
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7. Public information
Annual publications of the offered programmes list, the vacancy numbers and entering requirements
Periodical publications of catalogues and other information materials about SEUA, its educational subdivisions and regional branches ՙPublication of the University periodicals: SEUA official monthly “Polytechnic”, yearly magazine “Polytechnic Panorama” and the Student Union’s monthly “Impulse” Yearly “Study guidelines and catalog of disciplines” for all graduate and postgraduate students; annual guides for first-year students Regularly updated Web site of SEUA that illustrates the University activity in different directions
The nearest objectives of reforms: Regulation of public information about the offered academic programmes by means of introducing clear-cut procedures of information presentation and putting the provided information into a common format, in particular: - including in provided information the missing so far descriptions of potential jobs available to the graduates of the offered specialties, - presentation of alternative tracks of academic programmes available for continuing the education.
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The SEUA nearest needs in QA - 1
To cover ENQA requirements completely and to ensure the internal QA system at SEUA the following further steps are needed:
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Development of the University long-term policy of QA and documentary verification of its formal status (ENQA 1.1 standard), Matching the existing QA procedures to the ENQA standards and documentation of the procedures methodical and organizational basics (ENQA 1.1 standard), Implementation of European experience based new methodology to separate the educational programmes planning, execution, monitoring and periodical revision cycles and to take into account the QA elements priory (ENQA 1.2 standard), Improvement of students assessment criteria aimed to adequate measurement of the level of obtaining the programme learning outcomes (ENQA 1.3 standard),
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The SEUA nearest needs in QA - 2
To cover ENQA requirements completely and to ensure the internal QA system at SEUA the following further steps are needed:
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Implementation of a testing mechanisms for new teachers in the phase of their appointment to examine and ensure the minimum level of their pedagogical skills and organizing the faculty further professional development and the progress monitoring (ENQA 1.4 standard), Development and implementation of a clear-cut system of normative requirements to learning recourses of the existing and new establishing programmes; a realized institution of tutors (ENQA 1.5 standard), Normative and procedural regulation of public information about the offered educational programmes, in particular, presentation of information on potential employment and alternative tracks of the programme available for continuing (ENQA 1.7 standard).
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DIUS Assignment 2:
The University mission and the underlying processes
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The SEUA Mission
State Engineering University of Armenia (Polytechnic) is a higher educational institution with a polytechnic emphasis, the basic mission of which is:
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to create and implement academic/research programs and services consonant with educational and technological needs of the national economy and society,
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to prepare students for life, career, life-long learning and professional progress in line with changing economic environment and emerging global information society,
to create a supportive environment for the comprehensive personal and intellectual development of each individual, generation of law-abiding and responsible citizens.
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The SEUA mission evolves around teaching and learning – (1)
The evolvement processes within underlying this dimension are identified in the SEUA Strategic Plan 2011-2015 and sound as follows:
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Gradual reconstruction of contents and structures of existing study programmes and development of new ones in line with the requirements of Tuning methodology; Goal 2, Objective 2.2. Improvement of existing credit system by widening the range of its possibilities and increasing the efficiency of its use; Goal 2, Objective 2.3. Improvement and renovation of academic staff in line with the development of modern quality requirements of study programmes; Goal 3, Objective 3.1.
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The SEUA mission evolves around teaching and learning – (2)
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Ensuring the satisfactory facilities and technical conditions of the educational processes in central and regional campuses of SEUA; Goal 4, Objective 4.3. Improvement of the University information resources make up process, ensuring their accessibility and effective use consonant with the developments of study programmes needs; Goal 6, Objective 6.2. Ensuring supportive prerequisites and encouraging mechanisms to enhance the quality and effectiveness of teaching and learning continuously; Goal 2, Objective 2.4. Implementation of a University system of quality assessment and assurance accordingly to the requirements of ENQA standards for the internal valuation of higher education quality; Goal 2, Objective 2.1.
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The SEUA mission evolves around research and development
The processes underlying within this dimension are again identified in the SEUA Strategic Plan 2011-2015 and sound as follows:
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Enhancement of the University postgraduate study programme in harmony with the requirements of National Qualifications Framework and demands of the research employment market, as the 3-rd cycle of higher education; Goal 7, Objective 7.1. Stimulation of the research products and services applied efficiency and innovative competitiveness enhancement, ensuring the supportive prerequisites for the commercialization of the products; Goal 7, Objective 7.3.
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The SEUA mission evolves around services to society
Objective 1.4. To develop and enhance the system of continuing education at the University in accordance with the demands of the education market.
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Monitor the demand for continuing (extended) education among the potential SEUA clients, conduct marketing of the demanded training courses and provide support to course design and delivery. Develop a comprehensive and demand based system of continuing education at SEUA with the active involvement of the regional campuses. Introduce distance learning technologies and support their efficient use in training courses of continuing education and correspondence form of instruction. Create conditions for concurrent enrollment, accumulation of credits and certification of external learners (non matriculated students) registered for the regular courses of study programs.
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DIUS Assignment 3:
Managerial organization schemes of SEUA internal QA system
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The diagram of administrative organization of SEUA internal QA system
RECTOR Academic Council
Vice-Rector
Deputy ViceRector for QA
QA Commission of AC
Regional Academic Councils
External Experts
Head of Academic Affairs Department
QA Commission of Student Council
Regional QA Commissions
Councils of Faculties
Faculty Development Centre
Academic Planning Division
QA Division
QA Sub-commissions of Faculty Councils
Regular Seminars
Local groups of Selfassessment
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The Diagram of Information Flows in the SEUA internal QA System
QA Commission of AC
Academic Council
Students
Vice-Rector
RECTOR
QA Commission of Student Council
Deputy Vice-Rector for QA
Head of Academic Affairs Department
Regional AC
QA Commission
External Experts
QA Division
Academic Planning Division
QA Sub-commissions of Faculty Councils
Councils of Faculties
Chairs, Faculties, Divisions
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The Flows of Control Commands in the SEUA internal QA System
QA Commission of AC
Academic Council
Students
Vice-Rector
RECTOR
QA Commission of Student Council
Deputy Vice-Rector for QA
Head of Academic Affairs Department
Regional AC
QA Commission
External Experts
QA Division
Academic Planning Division
QA Sub-commissions of Faculty Councils
Councils of Faculties
Chairs, Faculties, Divisions
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