The supermodern, one-of-a-kind in Russia laboratory complex of the Rocket-building scientific research center consists of eight laboratories; seven of them are located at the Miass branch of SUSU and one of them, the Laboratory of Computer-Aided Design of Military and Space Rocket Systems, at the Makeev State Rocket Center. Young researchers have access to multimedia and interactive resources, a computing center, testing benches, trainers, and much more.
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“We haven’t opened such complex research centers in a long time,” said Aleksandr Shestakov, “In the laboratories of the Miass branch folks will be able to study rocket technology, from material strength to on-board computing machines, and the final area, the intellectual part, accumulates in the SRC laboratories. As a result, the material, laboratory, and academic base is a unique one and of the best in the country.”
Over the course of the 30 years of education at the Miass branch of SUSU in the major Design, Production, and Operation of Rockets and Rocket Complexes more than three-hundred specialists have been trained and in the coming academic year, the number of state-budget spaces has been increased one-and-a-half times to 15. They have all already been filled, and one more student will be studying on a contract basis.
This ambitious project was realized as part of a 50-million ruble grant from the federal budget won by SUSU in a competition by the Russian Ministry of Education and Science, New Specialists of the Military-Industrial Complex (MIC). The Makeev SRC acted as a partner, allocating 17 million rubles.
“This research center is not just for training high-class specialists who would come to replace us. Many folks complete their theses with us or come for their apprenticeships. It’s also for specialists already working in business. At the center, more than 35 percent employees who are not yet 30,” explained Vladimir Degtyar.
Today, the rocket center has orders from the Ministry of Defense, the Navy, and the Strategic Rocket Forces, and has a clear idea of the specialists it needs to complete these orders in the next 10 years. Based on this information, a program of cooperation with universities is formed. Of course, preference is given to those, who demonstrated themselves well in education.
Cooperation with SUSU shows that the SRC has a serious interest in training specialists in the areas of enterprise. Additionally, this completely matches the goals for developing the training systems for the MIC: broader participation of employers in the formation of academic infrastructure and development of joint project teams to solve current scientific and production problems for organizations of the OPK.
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The inclusion of laboratories in the academic process allows for real improvement of the quality of specialist training, enables multi-faced cooperation with enterprises of the academic and innovative spheres, and allows for the organization of scientific work.
In the future, the SRC should become a multi-functional center for collective use, which will not only allow them to bring the quality of education closer to the highest possible standards but also to work on additional training programs, organize cooperation with different universities and MIC enterprises to raise specialists’ qualification, and also lead career guidance work between school students.