Riga Technical University is composed of 8 faculties and 32 institutes. All faculties have the rights to confer Dr.Sc.Eng. Degrees. The University employs more than 1,000 members of academic staff, including 220 full professors and associated professors and 520 Doctors of Science. The University offers undergraduate (B.Sc.), graduate (M.Sc.) and postgraduate (Ph.D.) curricula for both full-time and part-time studies.

At present the University provides education for more than 16000 students in 28 subject areas acreditated programmes. RTU is the most active organisation in Latvia in terms of participation in 6th Framework projects.

Institute of Industrial Electronics and Electrical Engineering (IEEI) is the part of the Faculty of Power and Electrical Engineering. In IEEI most of the activities are concentrated on research and development in the area of power electronics, motion control, SCADA and special machines. Main fields of activities in the power electronics sector are: development of power electronic converter topologies, improvement of power quality, efficiency and renewable energy sources utilization. IEEI experience includes several kind of equipment in the field of power quality improvement (Active Power Filters with Matrix Converters, Unified Power Flow Controllers, Soft Starter Equipment for Transmission Line Shunt Reactors, Frequency Converters and DC Choppers for Traction Drives).
IEEI employs 23 academic 25 scientific employees. From 2007-2008, IEEI has participated in 6 European and 32 national projects. Those include research and development projects dealing with improvement of energy efficiency in power converters and electromechanical systems. IEEI organized European Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference 2004, Riga, Latvia, Sept. 2-4, 2004. From 2003-2005 IEEI elaborated development strategy of illumination system for Riga city, has worked on voltage-regulation devices for energy efficient illumination and carried out experimental tests on luminaire and power supply network.

Riga Technical University Distance Education Study Centre (DESC) was founded within the framework of the PHARE “Multi-country Co-operation in Distance Education” project. The Centre is a structural unit of RTU and was formed in May 1997. The objective of the Centre is to develop distance education in Latvia using innovative applications of IT / multimedia technologies – online, and offline.

The Centre‟s mandate is to organise the development and adoption of distance learning courses as well as the delivery of courses, involving academic staff from RTU and other Latvian higher education establishments. RTU DESC staff has already participated in more than 20 e-learning / distance education development projects, funded under the PHARE, Socrates, Leonardo EU 5th FP
(EIM-CEE, HyperKnowledge, HERN), and 6th FP NoE Kaleidoscope and STREP ELU-Enhanced Learning Unlimited. RTU DESC is participating in regional development projects that included human resource development and skills training, knowledge management solutions.