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Senthilkumar Vaitheeswaran Karur was born in India, studied in Russia, and work for a Boing company in the United Kingdom now. But for us he will forever remain a MAI graduate, part of the university family.

More than a quarter of prospective students, who want to become aviation engineers, apply to MAI where they have unique opportunities for comprehensive development of engineering, management and leadership skills.

MAI scientists presented Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities an experimental plan which is planned to be carried out on the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) until 2024.

Artemiy Mazaev and Leonid Tsyplenkov, students of Moscow Aviation Institute, developed a way to identify psychological disorders in schoolchildren and students by monitoring their activity on social networks. The system was called "Elisa".

The creation and widespread use of composite materials in different industries are one of the world trends today. MAI specialists are actively engaged in the introduction of modern materials in the domestic aircraft industry, offering new effective solutions to enterprises.

In a few coming years, drones will possibly become an accessible and, consequently, a large-scale professional tool. They will even help saving the world.

At the Arzamas Instrument-Making Plant named after Plandin, the results of the implementation of a joint project for the development of social robots between Arzamas Design Bureau and Moscow Aviation Institute were summed up.

On March 16, the opening of the Almaz orbital station exposition took place at the MAI School No. 6 "Aerospace", as well as a new student coworking center was opened at the university. 

History and perspectives of the Propulsion Engineering School. 

Student of Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University) Vasily Nazin in a group of Moscow students and schoolchildren participates in the development of the Astra ground station for receiving and processing data from Earth remote sensing satellites. 

The created method of connecting one shuttle to another will save fuel and eliminate breakdowns.

The EU funded initiative FUTPRINT50 kicked-off in January 2020 and runs until December 2022 with the aim to accelerate technologies required for the entry-into-service of a commercial hybrid-electric aircraft in a class of up to 50 seats by 2035/40.

Denis Kuritsyn, Associate Professor of the MAI Department "Production Technology and Operation of Aircraft Engines", is improving friction welding with stirring, which in the future will abandon the use of rivets in the aircraft industry.

On January 28-30, Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University) took part in the IV International Specialized Conference on Additive Technologies “3d Fab + Print Russia 2020”, which was held at the Expocentre Fairgrounds. 

On January 20-22, 2020, a European Commission meeting was held in Brussels, dedicated to the launch of the IMOTHEP (Investigation and Maturation of Technologies for Hybrid Electric Propulsion) project, an ambitious research initiative, which is funded by the European Commission under Horizon 2020.

Scientists of Moscow Aviation Institute and Lavochkin Scientific and Production Association presented a report on development a design of a powered balloon for Venus exploration at the XVIII academic conference on cosmonautics "Korolev Readings". 

Alexander Gomberg, Design Engineer at Department 105 "Aerodynamics of the Aircraft" of Moscow Aviation Institute, told the Izvestia newspaper how aeronautics giants can serve outer space and remote areas of the country.

An autonomous drone navigation system, based on the convolutional neural network, simultaneous position control of the device in space and map building, is being developed at Moscow Aviation Institute.

Engineers of MAI School No. 7 “Robotic and Intelligent Systems” under the direction of Associate Professor of Department 702 “Drive Systems of Aerospace Engineering” Artyom Alekseenkov, together with specialists from the Technodinamika holding, tested the PM.00 electro-hydraulic control actuator, designed specifically for more electric passenger cargo aircraft.