On November 8, the Forum of Rectors of Russian and Kazakhstan Universities was held at South Ural State University within the frameworks of the 14th Russia-Kazakhstan Interregional Cooperation Forum. Rectors of the leading universities gathered to discuss problems and prospects of modern education and sign agreements on cooperation. During the event, guests of the Forum were given the opportunity to get a closer look at South Ural State University by visiting various excursions, and assess scientific and engineering achievements of the university’s scientists.
On November 7th an art exhibition was held in the Arts Hall of South Ural State University to celebrate the 95thanniversary of the birth of architect Maria Mochalova.
The exhibition was organized by the Director of the SUSU Art Museum Galina Trifonova, who shared memories of the artist.
One of the largest Eurasian universities gathers leaders of the leading universities and Ministers of education and science of two countries.
The 14th Russia-Kazakhstan Interregional Cooperation Forum is to be held in Chelyabinsk on November 8 through 9. Its main topic is Human Capital Development. According to organizers, the strategically important investments in human capital are embedded, among all, at the stage of education. The first day of the Forum will be dedicated to this precise topic.
The Legal Clinic at South Ural State University is part of the Institute of Law and offers free legal help to the city’s population, most importantly to disadvantaged groups, and allows students to understand all the subtleties of legal processes in practice. Alexandra Kosmynina, Head of the Legal Clinic, and Anna Vidergold, Senior Inspector of the Clinic, told us about the Clinic’s fields of activity and new introductions to their work.
A series of educational workshops on “International Scientific and Educational Collaboration: Grants, Financing and Projects” has completed at SUSU.
In the course of the workshops the University’s professors and employees were provided with information on the possibilities and open applications to international financing organizations.
Vyacheslav Shestopalov graduated from the CPI’s Faculty of Metallurgy on the specialty “Corrosion and protection of metals” in 1985. During this time, he passed the uneasy road from postgraduate student to Director General of the company he had been dreaming to establish for many years. Director General of the RB-Composite Scientific and Production Company, advisor of the Carbon and Composite Materials Plant Limited Company of the Rosatom Corporation, Vyacheslav Shestopalov recalls how the CPI turned him into a top-class specialist.
Starting from 2013 an all-Russian program on developing infrastructure for electric vehicles for their wide-scale implementation is being realized. The scientists of South Ural State University are working on creating innovative solutions which will facilitate the fulfillment of this program. One of such solutions is a propulsion unit for electric vehicles based on separately excited field reluctance machine.
On November 4, the Association of International Students supported by the International Affairs Division is going to hold the already-traditional Mini-Football Championship among international students; winners will get the Champions’ Cup. This year, students from Arabic countries, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Jordan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kirgizia will take part in the event.
October 02 through October 13, 2017 the Fifth International School on Software Engineering was held under Erasmus+ PWs@PhD Project in the University of Rostock (Germany). More than 30 postgraduates and employees of 10 universities from 6 countries took part in this school. Sixrepresentatives of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of South Ural State University were among the school attendees.
Presentation of just-issued edition – the second volume of the SUSU Art Museum’s Collection Catalog which included masterpieces of South Ural’s artists from the 20th and the beginning of the 21th centuries given as a gift to the university’s museum in 2013-2017 is to be held at South Ural State University.
From October 30 through November 5, the International Festival of Contemporary Choreography called “Meteorite Dance Festival2017”, in which dancers from different cities of Russia and the world are to take part, will be held in Chelyabinsk.
Recently, it became popular to study several specialties at once: complete bachelor’s or specialist studies in one sphere, and then apply for master’s degree studies in another one. The third-year postgraduate student of the SUSU Power Engineering Faculty Evgeniy Sirotkin told us about how he transferred from the sphere of metallurgy to power engineering, and what large scientific project is now taking the bigger part of his time.
− Why did you decide to enroll to the Metallurgical Faculty?
A theme-based event “Russian Response to Halloween” has been held at South Ural State University. Students of the Institute of Linguistics and International Communication and pupils of the Chelyabinsk schools took part in it.
A joint project realized in collaboration with the Perm Engines UEC is nearing its completion. The project started in August and is dedicated to developing a method of choosing optimal geometric parameters which ensure longevity of combustion chamber casing of an aircraft gas-turbine engine. And this means that flights of Russian aviation will become safer.
Amazing people, who are able to open the world of wizardry and mysteries to other people, are working at the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities. On the eve of the most mystical holiday – Halloween – research fellow of the Laboratory of Psychology and Psychophysiology of Stress Resistance and Creativity Evgeniy Koltuniv shared his knowledge about the world of Russian tale and the symbolism of its characters.
The development of student Anastasia Fedosova from the Institute of Natural Sciences of South Ural State University has already been patented and implemented at the enterprise. Her idea allows solving an important problem of the environment’s pollution with industrial galvanic wastes.
A project by the South Ural State University scientists aims at elaborating a physical-and-chemical background for production of barium-hexaferrite-based single crystals to be further adapted to designation and characteristics of certain microwave electronics devices.
It is fashionable today to have a start-up. But a good idea is not enough for the viability of a start-up! Even the most well-thought-out innovative project needs consistent funding. The majority of young people who work on finding unique, innovative solutions don’t have time and energy to also search for investors. This is where the university helps. Within the 5-100 Project which has been in force at SUSU for a couple years now, young researchers, postgraduates, and students gain financing for realization of the most unexpected and ambitious ideas.
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