The Armenian Engineers and Scientists Association has long worked to connect engineers, scientists, educators, students, and industry around a common purpose: strengthening Armenia’s technical capabilities and creating opportunities for Armenian professionals to work together. In Armenia, Engineering City is pursuing many of these same objectives through a physical ecosystem built specifically for engineering, research, education, and technology development.
Located in Yerevan, Engineering City brings engineering companies, researchers, educators, and students together in an environment designed for the development of complex engineering solutions. The campus provides shared access to research and prototyping laboratories, advanced equipment, machine tooling, electronics production facilities, training and conference spaces, and other infrastructure that would be difficult for many individual companies to build independently. Resident companies can pursue their own commercial and technical objectives while benefiting from the knowledge, equipment, and engineering community around them.
This model is especially significant for Armenia. Engineering is rarely an isolated activity. Aerospace, robotics, semiconductors, communications, advanced manufacturing, electronics, and scientific instrumentation increasingly require expertise from multiple disciplines. Engineering City is creating an operational environment where those disciplines can exist in close proximity, share resources, and develop a stronger engineering ecosystem while individual companies remain free to build their own products and businesses. Engineering City currently identifies areas including aerospace, robotics, RF systems, electronics, semiconductor equipment, biomedical engineering, scientific instrumentation, manufacturing, and related technologies as part of its broader engineering focus.
That approach closely aligns with AESA’s mission. AESA brings together Armenian engineers and scientists across disciplines and across borders. Engineering City provides a physical counterpart to that network in Armenia, creating a place where engineering professionals can work, teach, conduct research, build companies, and collaborate.
One example of this alignment is Armenia’s graduate program in Aerospace Engineering. The Department of Aerospace Engineering at the International Scientific-Educational Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia was established in 2023 and is located within Engineering City. The department is headed by Dr. Andranik Armen Aghajanyan, PhD in Technical Sciences, and offers a Master’s degree program covering areas such as aerospace systems, unmanned aerial systems, satellites, embedded systems, aerospace electronics, communications, navigation, control systems, and aerospace measurements. The program was developed with active participation from industry and organizations including AESA.
AESA has supported the program financially and organizationally from its early stages. Funds raised by AESA have helped provide scholarships, laboratory equipment, and instructional support for students pursuing advanced aerospace education in Armenia. The program celebrated its first graduating class in 2025, an important milestone for a field that is still being built in Armenia.
The importance of Engineering City will also be on display during Armenia Engineering Week 2026, taking place October 2 through October 4. The Forum and Expo will begin at Engineering City in Yerevan on October 2 and 3 before moving to the Vanadzor Technology Center on October 4. This year’s theme is “Physical AI: Engineering Intelligence for the Real World,” focusing on what happens when artificial intelligence moves beyond software and becomes part of physical engineered systems.
That distinction matters. Physical AI requires more than an AI model. It requires sensors, electronics, embedded computing, mechanical engineering, control systems, testing, safety, and ultimately the ability to manufacture reliable products. These are exactly the disciplines that Engineering City was designed to bring together.
The Armenia Engineering Week program reflects that breadth. Speakers include Laith Altimime, President of SEMI Europe; Shakeel Peera, Vice President and General Manager at Microchip Technology; Professor Gregory Chirikjian, an IEEE Fellow whose work spans robotics, Physical AI, and mathematical engineering; and Dr. Oshin Peroomian, CTO of Metacomp Technologies and an expert in aerospace engineering and computational fluid dynamics. The accompanying Expo will feature work in Physical AI, robotics, automotive technology, aerospace, semiconductor testing, smart manufacturing, RF and communications, electronics, and STEM education.
It is difficult to overstate what it means for an event of this kind to take place in Armenia. Engineers working in robotics, aerospace, semiconductors, manufacturing, AI, electronics, and communications will not simply be gathering for a conference. They will be meeting inside an engineering campus built to support the development of those technologies. The Forum begins at 10:00 AM on October 2 at the Accelerator Building in Engineering City.
For AESA, this is the type of engineering ecosystem we want to see continue to grow. Our role is not to duplicate what Engineering City is building in Armenia, but to strengthen the connections around it. That means connecting Armenia with engineers and scientists in the diaspora, supporting technical education, helping develop the next generation of Armenian engineers, and creating opportunities for knowledge and experience to move in both directions.
Engineering City demonstrates what becomes possible when infrastructure, education, industry, and engineering talent are brought together in one place. AESA is proud to support initiatives within that ecosystem and looks forward to continuing to build stronger connections between Armenia’s engineering community and Armenian engineers and scientists around the world.
Join AESA and Support the Armenian Engineering Community
AESA’s work is made possible by the support of our members. Membership helps us continue organizing technical programs, supporting educational initiatives, connecting engineers and scientists across disciplines, and building stronger ties between Armenia and the Armenian professional community abroad.
By joining AESA, you become part of a network working to strengthen Armenian engineering and science through mentorship, education, collaboration, and knowledge sharing. Your support helps us create opportunities for students and professionals, support programs such as the Aerospace Engineering Master’s program, and bring together experts from Armenia and the diaspora.
If you believe in building stronger connections between Armenian engineers and scientists around the world, we encourage you to become an AESA member.
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