In the spring of 1938, new faculties "E" and "H" were formed at the MKMMI to train specialists in artillery equipment and ammunition. In parallel, a training program for engineers in the field of tracked vehicles was formed at the Faculty of Transport Engineering . The formation of new faculties was entrusted to the newly appointed deans: according to Rumyantsev Ya.I., Kartashov L.V., Velikonsky L.N.
The Faculty of SM currently conducts activities in the following research areas:

rocket and space technology and technologies;
autonomous information and control systems;
armament, military and special equipment;
robotic complexes;
transport systems and deep-sea vehicles.

Students and graduates of the faculty work in research centers and enterprises engaged in the development and production of rocket, space and defense equipment, design of transport and robotic systems.

Today NUC "Special Engineering" lives an active scientific and educational life and includes:

13 departments;
Educational and Scientific Youth Space Center;
Educational and scientific Youth Center "Gidronavtika";
Youth Robotics Center;
"Composites of Russia";
Scientific Research Institute "Special Mechanical Engineering";
Research and Production Center "Special Mechanical Engineering";
Scientific Engineering and Educational Center "Transport and robots";
Dmitrov branch.

At the moment, work is underway on the construction of the MSTU campus, a number of areas of which will be allocated for new research centers of the Faculty of SM.

Among the graduates of the SM faculty are 10 cosmonaut pilots of the USSR and Russia. For the entire 85-year history of the Faculty of "Special Mechanical Engineering" of Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 29 people who graduated or work at the Faculty of SM have been awarded the highest titles of our State: Heroes of the Soviet Union, Heroes of Socialist Labor and Heroes of Russia. Many of them have organized scientific schools, which are now actively developing.

But their main achievement is that they have made an invaluable contribution to the defense capability of our Motherland and the development of cosmonautics, namely: Barmin V.P., Grabin V.G., Isakov P.P., Kashin V.M., Korolev S.P., Krasnoshchekov Yu.I., Kuznetsov V.I., Lagutin B.N., Modestov V.A., Invincible S.P., Savvin A.I., Satel E.A., Fedosov E.A., Feodosiev V.I. Tsyrkov G.A., Chelomey V.N., Shamshev K.N., Shaposhnik B.L., Shumilov I.M., Krasnov N.F., Chudakov E.A., Christie M.K. and others.