State Scientific Institution “Joint Institute of Mechanical Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus” (hereinafter referred to as the JIME of the NAS of Belarus) was established by Resolution dated May 17, 2006 No. 45 of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, as a result of the reorganization of the Institute of Mechanics and Reliability of Machines of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus through the merger with the Scientific and Engineering Republican Unitary Enterprise “Belavtotraktorostroenie”.
August 17, 1957 is considered to be the day of establishment of the JIME of the NAS of Belarus when the Institute of Machine Study of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR was founded by decision of the Council of Ministers of the BSSR.
The JIME of the NAS of Belarus is the leading research center in the field of mechanics and mechanical engineering.
The Institute has 6 R&D centers:
- Republican Computer Center of Mechanical Engineering
- R&D Center “Agricultural Engineering”
- R&D Center “Mining Machinery”
- R&D Center “Mechanical Engineering Technologies and Processing Equipment”
- R&D Center “Republican Proving Ground for Mobile Machines Testing”
- R&D Center “Electromechanical and Hybrid Power Units of Mobile Machines”
2 applied research laboratories:
- or research and testing of automotive components and mobile machines;
- for research, design and testing of electric vehicles and basic electric drive components
Certification Authority “ACADEM-SERT”.
The JIME of the NAS of Belarus is a leading scientific center for machine science and a resource for interaction between science and practice.
