The Tashkent Automobile and Road Construction Institute was established in Tashkent, Uzbekistan to cover the high demands for professionals in the transportation and automobile field
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About the Institute[edit]
The Tashkent Institute of Design, Construction and Maintenance of Automobile Roads (TIDCMAR) is an institute in Central Asia which focuses on training engineers on automobile and road construction fields. It was first established during Soviet times by the edict of Uzbek government number 697 on 27 December of the year 1971 and by the edict of "Ministry of Higher and Secondary Education Affairs" number 27 on 21 January of the year 1972 under the base of automobile-road faculty at "Tashkent Poly Technical Institute". The first academic year at the institute started on 1 September 1972.
TIDCMAR's main building is located in the center of Tashkent, near to the metro station "Oybek" and next to the "State Museum of Arts" of Uzbekistan. Tashkent Institute of Design, Construction and Maintanace of Automobile Roads is well known as one of the leading universities of Central Asia in fields of auto-constructing, automobile transports, road and airport construction. The campus of the institute is fully supplied with modern rooms to hold classes, with rooms for experimental subjects and a techno park.
There are 3 academicians from "Uzbek Academy of Sciences", 4 representatives of Uzbek sciences, 38 doctors of sciences, who give their lectures at the university.
There are four faculties at the university and till 2006 the Tashkent Automobile and Road Construction Institute had a special faculty for gifted students. However, nowadays this faculty is closed, meanwhile gifted students are having the chance of studying at the libraries and scientific centers under the institute's administration. Lectures at the institute are mainly given in Uzbek and Russian languages, but gifted students are given chance to have lectures in English language. There are 4000 students who enter the institute every year, to obtain their bachelor's and master's degrees.
The campus of the institute also consists of big library with the 400 thousand books, scientific and literal materials. TIDCMAR has its own polygraphing center and complex of dormitories. TIDCMAR has created big scientific schools for its students which are created by the representative of science in Uzbekistan.
The main role in development of the TIDCMAR plays cooperation with many international universities, local and global corporations. 450 successful graduates from TARCI, who graduated from TIDCMAR between 1978 and 2004, are currently emplo in 25 foreign countries.[citation needed] Nowadays, TIDCMAR is training specialists in 11 branches of bachelor's degree and 17 branches for master's degree. 57 percent of all the teachers at institute have their scientific degrees.[1] Faculties[edit]
There are 2 big faculties currently acting at TIDCMAR and they are: “Automobile Roads and Artificial structures faculty”, “Maintenance of road building machines and automobile transport Faculty”. All of the faculties are based on automobile and road constructing.[2]