The department was founded in 1930. For all the time, the department has trained more than 3,000 engineers, 120 candidates and 20 doctors of technical sciences.

The department teaches:

evaluate the effectiveness of existing technological processes of mechanical assembly production, identify potential reasons for the release of low-quality products;
develop new and improve existing technological processes for machining parts and assembling products;
to select modern equipment, machine tools, cutting and measuring tools;
design new technological equipment using CAD and CAE systems;
prepare control programs for CNC machines, both in manual mode and using CAM systems;
determine the amount of materials and time required for production;
calculate the required production capacity and number of personnel;
make plans for the placement of equipment and organization of workplaces;
simulate the production activities of workshops and sections of mechanical assembly production;
to draw up design and technological documentation.

Graduates work as:

production directors;
chief technologists;
heads of departments of technological preparation and organization of production;
engineers-technologists of the leading machine-building enterprises of the country.

Among the graduates of the department:

USSR Ministers Afanasyev S.A., Akopov S.A., Goreglyad A.A.;
Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Larionov V.P.;
general directors of the country's leading enterprises Zhuravlev V.K., Ivanov K.P.