First SUSU students who received employer-sponsored education have taken on their jobs at Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant (part of the “Mechel” Group). 26 students completed studies in various specialist fields under the Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant’s program “Employer-sponsored Student”.
Young specialists received higher technical education in the fields of pyrometallurgical processes, metal treatment under pressure, metallurgical science and heat treatment of metals. They did very well both during studies and in the course of internship at Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant. Employment assistance was guaranteed to them under the program.
Let us recall that cooperation between the plant and our University started five years ago. Pupils from the schools of Metallurgicheskiy District are selected by the representatives of a special committee. They award the best pupils of senior high school the grants for the employer-sponsored education. Also, the plant adds certain monthly bonuses to the scholarships, assigns a mentor for studies, and provides help in research and production activity.
Today, more than 60 other employer-sponsored students are receiving education at SUSU. Only this year the committee has awarded grants to 14 former pupils. They entered 4 faculties: Material Sciences and Metallurgical Technologies, Aerospace Engineering, Power Engineering, and the Faculty of Computer Technologies, Control and Radio Engineering.
Denis Sazontov, Manager for Employees and Social Programs at PAO “ChMK” explains that these conditions are a great inducement for the employer-sponsored students.
“The future steel workers get to know the plant and the chosen profession from the first year of studies, and have an opportunity to take internship namely in those fields of specialization under which they are studying,” says Denis Sazontov.