There are 12 new Master’s studies programmes taught in English launched at South Ural State University from September of 2019. How did SUSU’s teaching staff get ready to deliver lectures and hold workshop classes in English?
South Ural State University has successfully completed enrolment for international students to Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes taught in English. As of today, the university has 17 programmes taught in English. Every year students from Iraq, China, Pakistan, Egypt, Bangladesh, India and other countries come to study to SUSU.
В Южно-Уральском государственном университете успешно прошел набор иностранных студентов на англоязычные программы бакалавриата и магистратуры. На сегодняшний день в университете есть 17 программ, реализуемых на английском языке. Ежегодно учиться в ЮУрГУ приезжают абитуриенты из Ирака, КНР, Пакистана, Египта, Бангладеш, Индии.
На площадке Южно-Уральского государственного университета состоялась пятая координационная встреча в рамках проекта Erasmus+ ASIAXIS («Усовершенствование университетского обучения в теплоэнергетических системах для более чистой среды с параллельным повышением квалификации PhD»), в которой приняли участие представители университетов России, Европы, Казахстана и Китая.
Team Head
Dmitrii Drozdin
Associate Professor of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Programming
drozinda@susu.ru
Project aims at developing the Ecomonitor system that would allow to monitor the spread of pollutants on the premises of industrial enterprises in a real time and simulate scenarios of the spread of pollutants according to weather forecasts.
Problems:
Today the problem of clean air is especially relevant. There is a separate paragraph in the Ecology National Project devoted to the task of implementation of a road map for reducing pollutant emissions into the air in large industrial centres. The revision of old federal laws and the emergence of new ones ("On Protection of Environment", "On Setting Quotas on Emission", and "On Environmental Information") aims at improving the real environmental situation and ensuring the emission reduction at the facilities of industrial enterprises. It should be noted that all this happens under close attention of the populace.
The problem of manufacturing enterprises is to fit quickly and efficiently into the new environmental trend, which involves the minimization of pollutant concentration on the premises of enterprises and/or within the limits of the city, without reducing the economic effect of production.
The proposed Ecomonitor system is a tool designed to solve this problem. The system allows for a real-time monitoring of the exceeding in the pollutant concentrations, which makes it possible to immediately respond to this problem, optimizing the volume of emissions of priority pollutants.
The spread of pollutants in the air directly depends on the state of the atmosphere (wind strength and direction, solar radiation, etc.). The Ecomonitor system allows to simulate various scenarios of the future spread of pollutants based on the weather forecast and to develop the appropriate necessary measures to reduce the pollutant concentration.
Opportunities:
At present, the project partners are the Federal Supervisory Natural Resources Management Service (Rosprirodnadzor) of the Chelyabinsk Region and OOO Emerson, a sensors manufacturing company.
The project team is cross-disciplinary and includes highly qualified specialists: ecologists, mathematicians, chemists, programmers, and economists with engineering background.
№
First Name & Surname
Department / Institute
Competence
Dmitrii Drozdin, C.Sc. (Economics)
Applied Mathematics and Programming
Project Head
Business competencies
Vyacheslav Avdin, D.Sc. (Chemistry)
Faculty of Chemistry; Ecology and Chemical Engineering
Academic advisor
Chemist, ecologist
Alena Zamyshlyaeva, D.Sc. (Physics and Mathematics)
Applied Mathematics and Programming
Mathematician
Arkadii Gerenshtein, C.Sc. (Physics and Mathematics)
Applied Mathematics and Programming
Mathematician, programmer
Alevtina Keller, D.Sc. (Physics and Mathematics)
Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Mathematician, economist, marketing specialist
Sergei Elsakov, C.Sc. (Physics and Mathematics)
Applied Mathematics and Programming
Mathematician, programmer
Tatiana Krupnova, C.Sc. (Chemistry)
Ecology and Chemical Engineering
Ecologist
Tatiana Makarovskikh, C.Sc. (Physics and Mathematics)
Mathematical and Computer Modelling
Mathematician, programmer
Svetlana Nitskaia, C.Sc. (Engineering)
Town Planning, Engineering Networks and Systems; Ecology and Chemical Engineering
Ecologist
Tatiana Olenchikova, C.Sc. (Engineering)
Applied Mathematics and Programming
Programmer
The project team has access to the university's Supercomputer Centre and computer laboratories equipped with all the software necessary for the project. Such software, for example, include MS Visual Studio2017, Matlab2017, etc.
In addition, in accordance with the agreement on cooperation between South Ural State University and the Office of the Federal Supervisory Natural Resources Management Service in the Chelyabinsk Region, the project team is able to conduct field research on the distribution of pollutant concentration.
Product
Ecomonitor Hardware and Software System
Product Consumers
The main consumers of the product are Russian manufacturing enterprises. At present, the potential customer is Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works. It is assumed that the Ecomonitor system should first of all be implemented at manufacturing enterprises of the Chelyabinsk Region. This complies with paragraph 1 of the Clean Air federal project, where Chelyabinsk and Magnitogorsk are mentioned among the applicable cities. Then the system can be scaled to other industrial enterprises in our country.
Project Basis
Within the frameworks of the Ecology strategic field (South Ural State University, the city of Chelyabinsk), the Ecomonitor hardware and software system has been developed.
The following functions are included in the system:
Real-time visualization of the spread of pollutant concentrations
Information on different emissions (for example, chimney emissions) is collected and transmitted to the Ecomonitor system. According to the received data, the dispersion of pollutant concentrations across (enterprise and/or urban) premises is calculated. As a result, it becomes possible to track the ecological state of the air atmosphere in the area of interest;
It should be noted that the Ecomonitor system is based on the principle of setting quotas on emissions, what corresponds to the current trend of environmental regulation.
Simulation of various scenarios of the spread of pollutants depending on weather forecasts and planned emissions
This function allows enterprises to plan various emission control measures based on weather forecasts.
Vidio: https://www.loom.com/share/d1b068f3942f45fe9b500c7cf2463345
Presentation: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1F1IMytnRqJfLBaukIIfng3kDHi3q3eBA
Example of functioning: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11mdaLHV5SGu5m8U0LWWehV3SQzY-9Pn2/view
Project Costs
Investors (including federal regional programs, grants, etc.):
Required project funding, mln. RUR
2019
2020
…
2025
–
–
–
–
–
Project Period (July 1, 2019 - January 1, 2021)
July 1, 2019 - January 1, 2020: Ecomonitor system debugging;
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2021: Promotion on the market.
Project Key Milestones
July 1, 2019 - October 1, 2019: Development of a mathematical model of pollution;
Ecomonitor system testing.
Project Target Indicators
Indicator
Unit of measurement
Target indicator value
2019
2020
2021
2025
number of patents for inventions in the fields determined by the priorities of scientific and technological development of the Russian Federation, registered in the Russian Federation and (or) those with foreign protection
pieces
-
-
1
-
scope of work and services completed, resulting in the manufacture, preliminary and acceptance tests of a prototype (experimental batch)
thous. RUR
3000
5000
7000
45000
number of competitive technologies and high-tech products developed and transferred for implementation in production in organizations operating in a real sector of the economy
pieces
1
5
7
15
percentage of new and advanced high-tech products in the total volume of products shipped
%
100
100
100
100
number of articles in the fields determined by the priorities of scientific and technological development of the Russian Federation, in scientific publications indexed in such international databases as Scopus and (or) Web of Sciences (for federal state educational institutions of higher education and scientific organizations)
pieces
-
1
3
5
percentage of researchers under the age of 39 in the total number of researchers
%
30
30
30
30
percentage of employees who work for organizations involved in the creation of the centre and who have been trained in additional professional programs in accordance with the centre’s fields of concern
-
-
-
-
-
number of students enrolled in higher education programs who arrived from the constituent entities of the Russian Federation not participating in the creation of the centre, as well as of the international students
-
-
-
-
-
number of new high-tech jobs
-
-
-
-
-
Key Project Partners
Name of project participants
Key role in the project
1. Federal Supervisory Natural Resources Management Service of the Chelyabinsk Region (Rosprirodnadzor)
Assistance in conducting field research (testing) into emission sources;
Identification of the main trends in environmental legislation;
Identification of the needs of manufacturing enterprises on ecological monitoring (control) matters.
2. OOO Emerson
Deployment and interfacing of the emission source sensor system with the software part of the Ecomonitor system
Number of agreements signed with key industry partners (protocols of intent)
Cooperation agreement with the Federal Supervisory Natural Resources Management Service of the Chelyabinsk Region (Rosprirodnadzor)
Coordination of the science project with the events of national projects and state programs
Ecology National Project
The project level assessment at the moment of the research in terms of indicators: "Research", "Innovation", "Production", and "Market"
10-point scale (0 – minimum, 10 – maximum)
Indicators:
Research – 9;
Innovation – 10;
Production – 7;
Market – 3.
Team Head,
Director of the SUSU Institute of Engineering and Technology
Sergei Vaulin
Doctor of Sciences (Engineering), Professor
vaulinsd@susu.ru
The project aims at increasing the share of the Russian Federation on the space service market by means of creating competitive advantages, which are based on the ability to offer high quality and reliability at an affordable price.
Stages
Elaboration of an investment project (including the feasibility evaluation);
Development of a sketch design;
Development of a technical project (working design documentation, process documentation, programs and techniques of testing);
Experimental testing (holding all types of testing);
Production of an experimental prototype;
Forming the order book and signing contracts with customers;
Production of flight models, and beginning of pilot operation; and
Fulfilment of orders.
Competitive Advantages
Reusable;
Reduction of costs on injecting of 1 kg of a spacecraft weight;
Reduction of the number of launch vehicles and space platforms being manufactured; and
Reduction of the terms of putting the product (space service) on the market, what will shorten the pay-off period.
Project’s Key Partners
Academician V.P. Makeyev State Rocket Centre, Miass;
Scientific and Production Association of Automatics, Ekaterinburg;
Zlatoust Mechanical Engineering Plant;
Krasnoyarsk Machine-Building Plant;
Miass Mechanical Engineering Plant;
R&DIME, Nizhnyaya Salda; and
A.M. Isaev Design Bureau of Chemical Mechanical Engineering, Korolyov, the Moscow Region.
С 15 по 17 октября 2019 года прошел всероссийский VIII Съезд Ассоциации иностранных студентов России. В мероприятии приняли участие 30 государственных вузов России.
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يتم فتح «نقاط الغليان» بدعم من منظمة مستقلة للمبادرة التكنولوجية الوطنية «منصة المبادرة الوطنية للتكنولوجيا». تم تنفيذ هذا العمل نيابة عن وكالة المبادرات الاستراتيجية في إطار المبادرة الوطنية للتكنولوجيا منذ عام 2014. المساحات مخصصة لممثلي جميع مجالات النشاط التي تؤثر على تطور المجتمع. في «نقاط الغليان» ، يمكنهم تبادل الخبرات والعمل المشترك على وضع مشاريع جديدة ونماذج تطوير لمنطقة تشيليابينسك.
Доцент кафедры журналистики и массовой коммуникации ЮУрГУ Ольга Харитонова приняла участие в XI международных научных чтениях «СМИ и массовые коммуникации – 2019», которые прошли на факультете журналистики Московского государственного университета имени М. В. Ломоносова при поддержке Федерального агентства по печати и массовым коммуникациям. В конференции приняли участие представители передовых научных школ в области коммуникации и массмедиа – медиаисследователи из стран Европы, Азии, Северной и Южной Америки, СНГ, России.