The mission of the faculty is to promote the training and education of competitive, highly qualified specialists with not only a set of engineering/linguistic knowledge, but also a set of "soft" skills, emotional intelligence: creativity, ability to adapt to different conditions, sociability, ability to work in a team, ability to convince, leadership qualities; training of specialists for effective communication at the international level, which is based on professional knowledge in the field of academic and business communication and implies a high level of proficiency in Russian and English.

L for students

more than 200 teachers of four departments of the faculty teach students of all faculties English (departments L-2 "English for Instrument-making specialties" and L-3 "English for engineering specialties"), German, French, Spanish, Italian, Serbian, Chinese (Department L-4 "Romano-Germanic languages) and Russian Russian as a foreign language (department L-1 "Russian language"). The main forms of
training are interactive seminars, practical classes, imitation of real situations of everyday and professional communication;
two departments are producing:

— L-4, Bachelor's degree, areas of study: 45.03.02 "Linguistics" and 45.03.03 "Fundamental and applied Linguistics";

— L-2, Master's degree, direction of training: 45.04.02 "Linguistics".

students of technical and linguistic specialties take part in the work of language clubs, international and interuniversity conferences and internships;
annual conference "Student Scientific Spring";
annual interuniversity conference of young scientists "Engineering, Science and Business";
annual All-Russian Olympiad in English for technical universities;
Linguist students studying Chinese participate in full-time and online programs of Chinese universities;
Two semester internships of Chinese linguists of Taiyuan University have been held at the faculty, the third one is being prepared;
additional education programs are offered, in particular, "Translator in the field of scientific and technical communication".

L for teachers

FPC courses for teachers of foreign languages developed by faculty teachers;
Every two years, the Faculty holds an international scientific and practical conference "Problems of Linguistics and Linguodidactics in a non-linguistic university" (International Research to Practice
Conference on Issues of Linguistics and Linguodidactics at Technical Universities);
the issues of linguistics and linguodidactics are discussed at the regularly held scientific and methodological seminar (NMS) of the faculty;
pressing issues related to educational and methodological and scientific work are discussed at the weekly educational and methodological commission (UMC) of the faculty.

«Knowledge of foreign languages alone can give a person the opportunity for complete independent and not one-sided development, and without this, the direct and broad path of science will always be closed to him»(K. D. Ushinsky)