MISIS university of science and technology and OMK open joint MBA program

At the request of the United Metallurgical Company (AO OMK, Moscow), the MISiS Technical University has developed an MBA Program with a concentration in industrial facility management. It is designed for OMK line managers able to initiate improvements in effective production management.

The program has a two-year curriculum. Managers with an engineering university degree will be able to study advanced production management practices subsequently to be able to apply them to their jobs. The curriculum includes 240 hours of instruction. The program also includes student internships at a leading Russian manufacturer.

“The program is very important both for the participating employees and for the company in general. The curriculum was developed by the MISiS Technical University, one of the best technical universities in the world. Working through the program will help employees develop the leadership and management qualities they will need to operate in the present-day competitive environment. As far as the company is concerned, it will make it even more efficient and stable in the long term”, commented OMK Deputy Board Chair Natalia Eremina.

“The United Metallurgical Company will become one of the University’s key strategic partners. We have been developing educational programs together for a few years already combining instruction in theory with internships at manufacturing facilities. Students enrolled in the Industrial Facility Management Program will get a unique opportunity to study under leading Russian researchers, work in the University’s labs with cutting-edge equipment, find out about the latest advances in metallurgy and material science made by domestic researchers”, noted MISiS Technical University Rector Alevtina Chernikova.

BACKGROUND

This is not the first program developed together by the MISiS Technical University and OMK. Between 2009 and 2014, the University ran the special OMK Campus Program at the request of Vyksa Steel Works (AO VSW, Nizhniy Novgorod Region, an OMK Company). The program’s objective was to train professionals to operate a high-tech facility. Knowledge of metallurgy was supplemented by knowledge from other fields (systems analysis for analysts and leaders), etc.