September 24-25, on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Department of Aircraft Engines, the 2019 All-Russian Science and Technology Conference on Dynamics of Thermophysical Processes in Engines, Power Units and Pulse Systems was held at South Ural State University.
During day one, the conference opening ceremony was held in the SUSU Sigma academic building. Administrative and academic staff from different universities in Russia took part in the event, along with the representatives of enterprises, including: AO NPK Tekhmash, Moscow; AO NPO SPLAV, Production No.3, Chelyabinsk; OOO Stankomash, Chelyabinsk; plant AO Zavod SIGNAL, Chelyabinsk; plant AO Zavod Plastmass, Chelyabinsk; Academician V.P. Makeyev State Rocket Centre, Miass; Russian Federal Nuclear Centre – Zababakhin All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics, Snezhinsk; AO V.V. Bakhirev GosNIImash, Dzerzhinsk; Ascon, Chelyabinsk; and JSC R&DIME, Verkhnyaya Salda.
The SUSU Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs Andrey Radionov congratulated the administrative and academic staff of the Department of Aircraft Engines of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering of the SUSU Institute of Engineering and Technology on the 60th Anniversary of the Department.
“60 years is an immensely long way, which the Department’s team has covered. Each staff member has multiple achievements. Our university offers the best project-based learning. It was organized by Sergei Vaulin at his Department at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering. I would like to wish you successful work and productive communication with your colleagues and partners.”
The administrative and academic staff are the main value of South Ural State University. And today, the work by many of them has been marked by the Federation of Cosmonautics. Thus, the Sergei Korolev Medal of Merit for Cosmonautics was awarded to Head of the Department of Aircraft Engines Sergei Vaulin and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering Ekaterina Zarnitsyna. The Valentin Glushko Medal was awarded to Dean of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering Viktor Fedorov and to Director of the Aerospace Engineering Research and Education Centre Aleksey Shults. The Viktor Makeyev Medal was awarded to senior lecturer Valery Bogdanov, to Professor Valery Kirillov , and to Associate Professor Ruslan Peshkov. Letters of acknowledgment of the Rector of South Ural State University were awarded to senior lecturer Ekaterina Zarnitsyna, Professor Valery Kirillov , master of training Galina Popova , and Associate Professor Rostislav Shelkhovsky.
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Director of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, Head of the Department of Aircraft Engines, Doctor of Sciences (Engineering), Professor Sergei Vaulin delivered his report at the plenary meting. The report by Professor Vaulin was dedicated to the present and the future of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, and of course, of the Department of Aircraft Engines.
“Today, our motto is ‘From Engineering 3.0 to Industry 4.0’. We have significantly moved forward over the recent time. Science, education and commercialization are tied together in the Engineering 3.0. On the one hand, we are training staff, conducting research studies, and intend to commercialize our results. But today, this is not enough already. We have decided that we need to perform the transition towards digitalization, and namely, to Industry 4.0. This allows to implement the Internet into everyday things, and make our life more convenient and modern,” shares Sergei Vaulin.
Among the speakers at the plenary meeting also were: Deputy Director for Research & Development and Chief Designer of the Research & Development Institute of Mechanical Engineering Sergei Buldashev (the 1980 Department’s alumnus); Head of the Department of Special Mechanical Engineering of Nizhny Tagil Technological Institute, Doctor of Sciences (Engineering), Professor Evgeny Khmelnikov , and Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of Moscow Polytechnic University, Candidate of Sciences (Engineering) Evgeny Safonov (the 2000 Department’s alumnus).
The second part of day one of the All-Russian Science and Technology Conference launched a section on Weapons and Military Equipment, which was held by Associate Professor of the Department of Aircraft Engines Marina Semashko. You can read the list of the participants and titles of presentations here.
“I believe that we’ve reached the goal that we set when organizing this conference. We have exchanged the scientific achievements and practical experience with the specialists from the defence industry complex sectors, for which our university is training process engineers and designers,” says Marina Semashko.
The first conference day closed with a tour around South Ural State University for the event guests.
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September 25th, the All-Russian Science and Technology Conference on Dynamics of Thermophysical Processes in Engines, Power Units and Pulse Systems started with a section on Rocket Engines and Power Units, which was held by Professor of the Department of Aircraft Engines Valery Kirillov. In their turn, Dean of the Part-Time Studies Sergei Sapozhnikov and Marina Semashko held a closing section on New Materials and Constructions. Issues of Designing and Efficiency of Ammunition. You can also read the list of the participants and titles of presentations at this link.
“Section on Rocket Engines and Power Units was dedicated to the issues of designing low-thrust liquid-fuel rocket engines, tasks on combustion of anergolic propellant components in space, as wells as the issues of calculation of fluctuating streams in heated channels and low-temperature gas generators. The section has worked successfully,” shares Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs Ekaterina Zarnitsyna.
Following the results of the All-Russian Science and Technology Conference on Dynamics of Thermophysical Processes in Engines, Power Units and Pulse Systems, the ceremony of the forum’s closing was held. The results of the conference were summarized, and Director of the Institute of Engineering and Technology Sergei Vaulin awarded the participants with their certificates. A decision was also made to hold this conference on an annual basis.
The following members of the academic staff actively participated in the conference: Valery Kirillov, Marina Semashko, Natalya Kuvshinova, Svetlana Firstova, Pavel Chigintsev; as well as 4th- and 5th-year students under programme 17.05.01 on Ammunition and Detonators: Svetlana Vasilyeva, Gulnara Ibragimova, Alina Buranbaeva, Kseniya Zadnepryadnova, Andrey Sviderskiy, Ivan Gunyakov, Denis Babkin, Mark Levitskiy, Aleksandr Polozov, Nikita Chernev, Anastasiya Fortygina , and others.
The conference was held on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Department of Aircraft Engines and aimed at developing the scientific fields and schools of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, as well as at exchanging the scientific and practical experience with the leading scientists from the fields of aviation equipment, rocket and space equipment, weapons and armament systems.