Now I am student of the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics.
On September 1, 1964 Minsk Radioengineering Institute admitted students for the first time. The youngest Institute of the Republic was established on the basis of the oldest Polytechnic Institute of the Republic of Belarus. It was assigned to meet the demand of the Republic in highly qualified specialists for evolving national radioelectronic industry.
In 1993 Minsk Radioengineering Institute was granted the status of university and celebrated its 30th anniversary as the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics. Within this period BSUIR has trained thousands of engineers, doctors and candidates of science.
Over 11 thousand students from the country and outside study at its 9 faculties: the Faculty of Computer-Aided Design, the Faculty of Information Technologies and Control, the Faculty of Radioengineering and Electronics, the Faculty of Computer Systems and Networks, the Faculty of Telecommunication, the Faculty of Engineer Economics, the Faculty of Extramural, Evening and Distance Education, the Pre-University Preparation and Occupational Guidance Faculty, the Military Faculty.
Now BSUIR prepares engineering staff on 22 specialities in the field of computer facilities, computer science, radio engineering, microelectronics, telecommunications automated systems, artificial intelligence, medical electronics, and economy.
The educative process and scientific research are conducted by highly competent teaching staff that consists of professors, assistant professors, lecturers and teachers. They give lectures, hold seminars and have practicals with the students in various subjects: physics, higher mathematics, descriptive geometry, technical drawing, etc. Special attention is given to such subjects as computing technology, impulse techniques, analogue and digital computers, theoretical foundations of electroengineering. Nobody can deny vital importance of mastering foreign languages nowadays. English, French, German and Spanish are taught at the University. Students also have an opportunity to study a second foreign language and to advance in one of the foreign languages and to acquire the speciality of a translator.
The University has all necessary facilities for teaching including up-to-date computers and laboratory equipment, robots, closed-circuit TV. A large electronic library is at the students’ disposal.
To sum up, the University provides a good engineering education. The graduates of the University work at computer centres, design offices, industrial enterprises, research laboratories and institutes, joint ventures and banks.
So, I take radio engineering at the University. As I am a correspondence student, I do not attend lectures every day. I have lectures only in September, January and June. In January and in June I also have my terminal examinations. From September to January and from January to June I study by myself, I get tasks and tests at the university or by mail, read my notes of lectures, study text-books in the library, consult my teachers and professors and fulfill these tests and send them back to the University. My short-term classes and lectures held in autumn, winter and in summer begin at 8 o’clock and finish at 10 p.m. It’s difficult to study by correspondence but I am not afraid of hard work. I am young and my practical experience helps me a lot in my studies.
Topic 7
MY FUTURE PROFESSION
Text I: Telecommunications
Telecommunications is a process of sending or receiving messages by telephone, radio, television or telegraph. In other words, it is a communication over a distance using equipment to overcome that distance. Telecommunications enables people around the world to contact one another, to access information instantly, and to communicate from remote areas. Telecommunications also provides the key medium for news, data, information, and entertainment transfer.
Over the past hundred years, the telephone has become the most familiar form of telecommunications. More recently, it has been supplemented by a range of computer-based telecommunications services. These have become popular through the Internet and World Wide Web, vast computer networks, which provide many people with the means to exchange information. Nowadays it is taken for granted that by pressing a few buttons people can talk to their families, friends, or business associates across the world.
The telecommunications industry has blossomed with the advent of new technologies. The advance of sophisticated telecommunications systems such as the Internet and fiber optics and the development of improved computer technology have stimulated the growth of this industry. Consequently, there is an increasing demand for skilled workers to meet the needs of telecommunications services.
Telecommunications engineers are employed by different industrial enterprises and organizations, especially in the field of radio electronics and communication. They are also in great demand at design offices, research institutes, television companies, telephone exchanges, broadcasting stations, consulting firms and other telecommunications services. They are able to develop, design, maintain up-to-date telecommunications systems and facilities, and install automatic telephone exchanges. Further, they inspect and test telecommunication equipment and networks, analyse and record test results.
