Has trained engineers in machine-building and instrumentation for armored vehicles, tanks, artillery and ammunition since 1938, and in rocketry since 1948; conducts courses in casting technology, metal pressing and forging engineering, welding technology, bioengineering, optoelectronic equipment, automatic information processing and control systems, gyroscopic instruments and orientation, navigation and stabilization systems, robot engineering, space vehicles and acceleration blocks; conducts courses and research in applied mathematics, rocket engines, engines and power installations in spacecrafts, rocket engineering, safety and protection of spaceships, flight dynamics, rocket and space vehicles movement control, and nuclear reactors and nuclear power plants.

Reportedly helping Iran to build Shahab long-range missiles.

Overseen by the Ministry of Education and Science; began teaching international students in 1991; known as the Bauman Moscow Higher Technical School until 1989; established 1830.