News 2015

Much has been talked about Industry 4.0. All over the world companies have started to work on modular, networked machines, which can connect and communicate with each other, exchanging information and forming complex systems, which are more than the sum of their parts.

Four leading higher education institutions in the Russian Federation, including Perm National Research Polytechnic University, have realized the potential of this idea for study programs and formed a project consortium together with industry and universities from the European Union, to realize an ambitious project: Transferring the main ideas of industry 4.0 to education.

Collective of Perm National Research Polytechnic University in the person of the Rector Anatoly Alexandrovich Tashkinov is awarded by the Diploma of the Perm Kray Ministry of Education and Science for the greatest amount of science publications in special rating science magazines Web of Science and Scopus in 2014

21-22 September PNRPU had a visit from Armin Grunwald, German professor, Head of Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (Karlsruhe, Germany), Head of the Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag, Professor of Philosophy of Technology at the institute of philosophy, KIT. The purpose of the visit was taking part in a series of technology assessment events.

Under the realization of the agreement about collaboration between PNRPU and East China Jiao Tong University (Nanchang) (ECU), rector of PNRPU Anatoly Alexandrovich Tashkinov welcomed official delegation of ECU led by Head of Department «Marketing» Shen Pengyi in the university on September 1, 2015

Webometrics Ranking of World`s Universities has released the rating of world universities that shows the level of its online activity as of July 2015. The results of Webometrics research are published twice a year and include more than twenty thousand universities from all over the world.

Entrants of Perm State Polytechnic University have a great opportunity to get traineeships and study abroad.

On 30 June master theses defenses took place in English at the Automation microprocessors department of the Electrical engineering faculty of PNRPU for the third time under the Dual diploma program with the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences on the course 220700.68 – «Automation of technological processes and production» under the master program «Integrated processes of the production management»

On 7 July the international architecture school opened in Usolie on the Stroganov island. The director of this school was Sandro Parrinello, Doctor of Architecture, professor of Italian University of Pavia. Co-director from the Russian side was Svetlana Maximova, Doctor of Technical Sciences, professor of PNRPU

From 1 till 3 of July Innorobo 2015, the greatest Europe international exhibition-conference of achievements in the area of robotics, took place in Lyons. Two robots participated in the conference opening. While the mayor of the city was cutting the tape, Japanese well-known «emotional» robot Pepepr and Russian Promobot held its borders

An associate professor of Philosophy and Law of the Perm National Research Polytechnic University Faculty of Humanities, Head of the scientific and research laboratory RRI_Lab Elena Seredkina has recently returned from Beijing (China).

In September 2015 International MA Course "Ensuring of product life cycle technological processes efficiency" («SUCCESS - International MA Course "Ensuring of product life cycle technological processes efficiency" at Russian Universities») starts on the base of the Department «Innovative Engineering Technologies » of the Car and Road Building Faculty of PNRPU

PNRPU has been included into the top 100 universities in the ARES-2014 academic rankings (Academic Ranking of World universities-European standard ARES-2014, ARES-2014 Russian Federation) produced by the European Scientific-Industrial Chamber.

PNRPU joined the Memorandum of Understanding regarding the creation of an international association of technology infusion centers.

Start of the International student exchange programme Global UGRAD competition 2015-2016 has been announced. The deadline for applications is 16 February 2015.

The Teacher’s House of the Ural federal district invites all students of the Russian language to take part in the Olympiad and test knowledge of the Russian language and culture. To take part in the first round you need to log on the website www.rki-urfodu.ru, pay your participation fee (100 rubles) and complete the tasks (you can choose the difficulty mode individually).

PNRPU Electrical Engineering Faculty together with Computer Science and Languages, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Engineering faculties of Anhalt University of Applied Sciences (Germany) invite PNRPU staff to take part in the III International conference on “Applied innovations in IT” on 19 March 2015 in Köthen, Germany.

At the end of last year the Russian Startup Rating (RSP) published a list of 50 most advanced Russian startups in 2014. A panel of experts chose the best startups. The jury (50 people in total) included experts, senior managers and founders of largest successful companies such as Kaspersky Lab Russia, Intel, Microsoft, Helsinki Ventures, PwC, RUSNANO etc.

Imagine Cup is one of the largest yearly technology competition carried out with the support of the Microsoft Corporation since 2003. The aim of the competition is to create new and original projects and apps. Competition lasts for one year and it will be concluded at the international finale in the summer of 2015 in Seattle.

The Master programme “Underground and Civil Engineering” (Head - Prof. A.B. Ponomaryov) of PNRPU Department “Construction operations and geotechnical engineering” obtained a certificate of conformity and certificate of conformity and has obtained an European accreditation of Engineering Programmes (EUR-ACE Master) in Brussel (Belgium) as a European engineering master educational program.

National Mineral Resources University and Perm National Research Polytechnic University invite you and your colleagues to take part in I International Research and Practice Conference "ROCK MECHANICS IN PETROLEUM INDUSTRY" on 26-27 May 2015.

In 2014 Perm scientist were published (according to preliminary data) in 463 articles in top-rated editions going into international scientific quotation systems Web of Science and Scopus.