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.
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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.
On October 25 of 2017, in the conference hall of South Ural State University’s Sigma academic building, the annual information day was held in three languages: Arabic, Chinese and English. The event was organizedspecially for international students and postgraduates of visa countries. The meeting was held by Head of the International Affairs Division Olga Yaroshenko.
On the 31st of October in many countries of the world people celebrate Halloween. Russia is already getting used to this tradition as well, but surely Russian folklore has enough of its own remarkable and vibrant characters representing the so-called evil creatures. That is why the slogan of the October 31st celebrations at South Ural State University will sound like “Russian Response to Halloween”.
South Ural State University is successfully implementing modern academic techniques, among which is online education. The SUSU Institute of Open and Distance Education, formed in 2004, helps in forming the university’s online academic space and integrate distance technologies into the activities of all of the university’s divisions.
A postgraduate student of the Faculty of Psychology Svetlana Korobova was awarded a prize at the Prospects of Science 2016 contest. Svetlana came up with a mathematical model allowing to predict stress response in case of information exposure, based on personality traits data.
It’s difficult for us to imagine our lives today without vehicles, and every year, they become faster, safer, and even more ecological. The Head of the Ural Drifting League and the Assistant Dean of the SUSU Automobile and Tractor Faculty Sergey Ankudinov told us about his passion for cars and the secret to success in competitions.
South Ural State University makes a sizable contribution to protecting nature by solving serious ecological problems. Here, 20 years ago, doctor of technical sciences, professor Gennady Mikhailov and doctor of technical sciences, associate professor Igor Pashkeev developed a truly unique material able to solve global ecological issues – a sorbent with active nanocenters. The sorbent blocks the spread of radioactive materials and cations of heavy metals in open and underground water horizons.
On October 19th and 20th 2017 a first meeting of the scientists of the Institute of Law of South Ural State University and the Law Faculty of Kostanay State University A. Baitursynov was held on the KSU territory (Republic of Kazakhstan).