16:51, July 29, 2019
The projects were from the following areas: Mechanics, Water Management, Energy, Robotics and Civil Engineering
Annual Summer University Program at UrFU for foreign students ended last week. For the past 6 weeks 85 students from 4 partner universities: Vishwaniketan, A. P. Shah Institute of Technology, BVM Engineering College and Bharat Institute of Engineering and Technology had have been working on their projects. The participants arrived as part of 6-week, 4-week and 2-week programmes.
The projects were performed in several areas: Mechanics, Water Management, Energy, Robotics and Civil Engineering under the guidance of Professors from UrFU. Students in groups of 5-6 people worked on pre-selected topic, the best teams performed at the final defence of the projects. Each area had the best project and the winner-team. Some projects were recommended for further development by the expert commission. In the end, all students received Certificates of completion and Letters of Recommendation.
The participants of Summer University also participated in “Ideaton” event that was organized by the Department of International Educational Programs for the first time. The main purpose was to solve the problem of the customer in limited time. Among the partners of this event were Ural Polytechnic College – Interregional Centre of Competences, Technopark Universitetskiy, Chelpipe and SVEL company.
According to Mrs. Yana Vysotskaya - head of the Department of International Educational Programs, in addition to project works, students also got acquainted with UrFU in general, the University where you can get a high-quality education and perform high-level science tasks.
“During Summer University Program, we always make special emphasis on the opportunities that our University has to offer — teachers, scientists, educational programs, infrastructure, and scientific equipment,” said Mrs. Vysotskaya. “Students got a unique chance to experience multicultural environment and students` life at one of the leading universities of Russia. Students can communicate with the professors and experts from partner-companies and discuss further option about studies, research or internship. We also organized various cultural activities for the participants so they could see Ekaterinburg, learn more about Russian culture and lifestyle. Apart of the Industry visits we also took students to INNOPROM, maybe in future some of the students will visit it again as exhibitors. Students were satisfied with their projects` outcome and most of them want to come back.”
Together with Summer University the Department of International Educational Programmes continued Spring University – 3 months internship program, that was organized for students from Graduate School in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Communications Networks. During the Internship, ten students together with the professors from UrFU have been working on data analysis projects for Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant and “Knopka” Company.
From 2014, Summer University welcomes hundreds of students at UrFU every year. The Program is based on collaboration of the Department of International Educational Programs and Educational Institutes of Ural Federal University.
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