In the memory of Andrea Töppe
Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University regrets to inform about the sudden loss of one of the long-time and reliable partners, Doctor Honoris Causa of ISTU, Prof. Andrea Töppe. Prof. Töppe contributed much to the development and cooperation strengthening between Kalashnikov ISTU and Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences. Prof. Töppe made a lot for joint research, academic exchanges and students’ training in double degree programs. We highly appreciate and respect everything that Prof. Töppe did for international cooperation of two Universities. She will stay in our memories forever.
We extend our sincere condolences to the family and colleagues of Andrea Töppe.
Rectorate of Kalashnikov ISTU
ERU Students in Kalashnikov ISTU
Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University is hosting students from Egyptian-Russian University (ERU) not for the first time. Current academic year is no exception. In October 2013, two groups of ERU students (in total 13 people) came to our university for semester. In their home University they study Mechatronics. Teaching is traditionally held in English language.
Senior student studied such subjects like Fluid machinery, Computer aided design, Programmable logic controllers, Computer aided manufacturing, Mechanical systems laboratory, Maintenance.
"Theory and Practice of Gearing – 2014": post factum
On January 23 the International Symposium “Theory and Practice of Gearing – 2014” hosted by Kalashnikov ISTU concluded its work.
In the framework of the symposium the regular meeting of the Technical Committee on Gearing of IFToMM was held under the direction of the Chairman of this committee professor Daisong Su from the UK; they discussed the current problems and also the continuation of publishing the scientific journal “Gearing and Transmissions” which was issued under the editorship of Prof. Goldfarb twice a year from 1991 to 2004.
“Theory and Practice of Gearing – 2014”: day-by-day
On 21 January the opening ceremony of the International Symposium “Theory and Practice of Gearing – 2014” took place at Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University.
We can rightly say that the tradition of conferences of the leading experts in the field of gearing with an international participation was born at Izhevsk Technical University in the last millennium. However, this year the Symposium (the eighth) has obtained the respectable status of an International Forum, held under the aegis of the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science (IFToMM), Gearing and Transmissions Technical Committee and Russian National Committee on TMM.
Sponsors of this event were JSC “Reduktor” (Izhevsk), JSC “Izhevsk Motozavod “Aksion-Holding”, Technology Research Institute “Progress”, “Mechanic” Ltd.; the exhibition of “Reductor” products worked during the symposium, poster presentations were demonstrated, the Publishing House of Kalashnikov ISTU published the symposium proceedings.
In the memory of Mikhail Kalashnikov
With great sadness the administration of Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University informs of the passing of Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov, the Honorary Professor of ISTU, Doctor of Technical Sciences.
The name of the remarkable gun-maker Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov is well-known both in Russia and abroad. The veteran of the Great Patriotic War, General Lieutenant, the President of the Union of Russian Rifle-Makers, Hero of the Russian Federation, Double Hero of Socialist Labor, Honored Worker of Industry of the USSR, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the Udmurt Republic and city of Izhevsk... One can enumerate honorary titles and awards of this remarkable man for a long time, but for students and teachers of Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University he will always remain an example of a Man and a Teacher, having dedicated his life to the protection of his Motherland. According to experts’ assessment, the automatic gun AK-47 created by him has become one of the most used in the world. By the beginning of 1996, 70 to 100 million of guns bearing his name were produced around the world. It is used in 55 countries.
International Symposium “Theory and Practice of Gearing”
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to take part in the International Symposium “Theory and Practice of Gearing” traditionally held since 1981 in Izhevsk State Technical University with the support of a number of authoritative Russian and International Organizations.
International Symposium “Theory and Practice of Gearing - 2014” will take place in Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University on January 21-23, 2014 supported by International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science (IFToMM), Russian National Committee on TMM and is devoted to the centenary of Prof. Faydor L’vovich LITVIN, the founder of the modern science of gearing.
Away from the native land
On 26 November Prof. Boris Yakimovich, Rector of Kalashnikov ISTU met with foreign teachers and exchange students studying at our university.
For the meeting participants, gathered for a ‘round table’ discussion at the Department of International Education and Cooperation, their work and studies at ISTU have become a part of their biography already, for some of them quite an important part. For instance, for Dr. Aiman AlAkkada, an Assoc.Prof. of the English Department, who came to Izhevsk from Syria several years ago. Or for the Nigerian master student Abdullahi Yakubu, or the Egyptian master student Mostafa Mansour, as well as the Syrian master student Bashar Salama, who have been studying at ISTU for some years already and have learnt to speak Russian quite well in the meantime.
ISTU and Aalen University signed the agreement on double degrees
In October 2013 the delegation of Kalashnikov ISTU represented by the Rector Prof. Boris Yakimovich and Dr. Alexander Elensky, the Vice-Rector for International Relations and Accreditation visited Aalen University in Germany.
- Aalen University is our comparatively new partner, Alexander Elensky said reviewing the results of the visit. It is a small close-packed university with 5 faculties, whose majority of departments correspond to those of our university.
The cooperation with Aalen University started several years ago with a realistic step – the establishment of International Shared Research Center “Center of Surface Processing Technology” opened in the year 2012. This year in October Aalen University celebrated its 50th anniversary and we were invited as the representatives of Russian partner university. During the visit Prof. Gerhard Schneider, Rector of Aalen University and Prof. Boris Yakimovich, Rector Kalashnikov ISTU signed the agreement on double degrees in the field of mechanical engineering. Now joint curricula are being developed. Already in autumn 2014 our two master students will go to Germany for study placement and will eventually get two diplomas: of ISTU and Aalen University each.
Master students of ISTU travelled by “Friendship Train” through China
“Friendship Train” is a project of Association of Sino-Russian Technical Universities (ASRTU) composed of the leading universities of these two countries.
Last year the Chinese delegation visited Russia to give concert tours in four cities of our country. This year Russian students went to win “The Celestial Empire”. For two weeks the students were performing concerts and sharing experience with each other.
Dinara Mirzakhmetova and Ruslan Krysov, 2-year master students of Kalashnikov ISTU, got a unique opportunity to participate in this project. They have already approved themselves as highly professional dancers in our university (and not only in this field).
This autumn is very fruitful for our university
This academic year started with the arrival of Martin Horn, a teacher of Czech language from South Moravian Centre for International Mobility in Brno. Martin teaches Czech language in the Institute of Translators of our university. Classes are held both for beginners and for those who continue study of this language. Also there are classes for pupils.
ISTU in GWC rating
Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University is reckoned among the top universities in information and communication capabilities of home web-pages of universities. And now it takes the 174th position in the world classification carried out in the framework of the First International Program “Global World Communicator (GWC): Education and Science”.
Teams of Kalashnikov ISTU reached the semifinal of World Championship in programming
In Yekaterinburg the first quarterfinal of student teams World Championship in programming (ACM ICPC) in East sub-region NEERC finished. For teams, presenting our city, this selection round has been taking place in Ural Federal University named after B.N. Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg for years.
42 teams participated in the competition, including 5 teams from Izhevsk: four from Kalashnikov ISTU, one from Udmurt State University.
Results of programmers of our university can be considered as successful: they took places in the first half of standings. The result of the first team (Burlakov, Smirnov, Sutygin) inspires respect – they took the second place, being surrounded by representatives of the hosts.
2nd Students International Olympiad in MMS
On October 12-13 the second Students International Olympiad in Mechanism and Machine Science (SIOMMS – 2013) took place in Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
SIOMMS is held by the decision of Executive Board of the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Sciences – IFToMM. The first Student International Olympiad in Mechanism and Machine Science took place in April 2011 in Izhevsk State Technical University with the support of IFToMM, which brings together scientists from 48 countries around the world. Eight Russian and nine foreign teams participated there.
Participants of SIOMMS-2013 were 15 teams from the universities of 7 countries: six teams from China, three teams from Russia (Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University, Chuvash State University n.a. I.N. Ulyanov, Samara State Aerospace university n.a. S.P. Korolev), two teams from Japan and by one team from Taiwan, Malaysia, South Korea, Spain. 47 students carried out competitive tasks.
Susan Dugdale, New Zealand: "To Russia with Love"
Learn English with Susan Dugdale.
Susan Dugdale from Wellington (New Zealand) taught courses of English language training in the Institute of Translators of our university. Susan Dugdale is the E-connections manager of Thomson Reuters New Zealand, the author of original methods of professional diction and phonetics training, as well as speechwriter, producer of Drama Theatre, anchorwoman of announcer courses on the national TV and so on.
On October 9, 2013 Susan Dugdale and her husband Murray John Dugdale, the owner of the construction company “Strait Building Projects”, met with Vladimir Khvorenkov, Vice-Rector for Education and representatives of Kalashnikov ISTU administration.
The vice-rector thanked the guests for their visit and noted that Kalashnikov ISTU is actively developing international relations, it has long-term partners from Eastern Europe and Africa, and “undoubtedly we are happy to expand our contacts to New Zealand”.
Competition in programming starts at ISTU
On September 11, 2013 XII Sport Intelligent Competition on Programming starts at Kalashnikov ISTU.
The program includes game rounds, problem analysis, lectures of scientists, presentations of sponsors and cultural program. According to the results, the winners will be traditionally determined not only in overall ranking, but in individual categories and tournaments: sponsors’ prizes (NPO “Computer” and SKB Kontur), and the holders of the Cup of the President of Udmurt Republic which will take place for the third time).
A cool program!
This summer 4 brave students from the Faculty of Heat Engineering successfully defended bachelor graduation projects at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences (Suderburg, Germany) on the double degree program.
Alena Tcyplenkova, Nikita Aimashev, Artur Cherepanov and Konstantin Lozin having studied at Kalashnikov ISTU on the program “Water and power supply for populated areas” for 6 semesters, continued their education for 2 semesters in Ostfalia on the program “Water supply and hydraulic engineering construction” and successfully defended bachelor graduation projects.
Summer school for Egyptian students
Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University is hosting students from our partner university in Badr City – Egyptian-Russian University. At the moment, 6 students in mechatronics and 2 students in civil engineering are taking courses at Kalashnikov ISTU. During the summer semester (or a so-called “summer school”) the Egyptian students will attend 2 courses in English during 6 weeks and take the exams afterwards.
Moreover, other 6 students will come to us in the beginning of August to take the course “Cisco – CCNA Discovery”.
Russian Engineer – a Graduate of Slovak University
Alexander Mokrushin, a MSc of Kalashnikov ISTU has become the first graduate of the master program at Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín (Slovak Republic).
Denis Arsentyev, the Cultural Attaché of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Slovak Republic participated in the graduation ceremony. He congratulated the university in the person of its Rector doc. Ing. Jozef Habánik with this event and expressed the confidence in further successful development of international cooperation between Russian and Slovak universities.
National Scholarship Program of the Slovak Republic
The results of the National Scholarship Program of the Slovak Republic for the academic year 2013-2014 have been published. Among the holders of the scholarships funded by the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic are three representatives of Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University.
Universology: Definitions, Issues and Concepts
On June 27, 2013, the First Conference "Universology: Definitions, Issues and Concepts" was held at the Institute of Professional Translation of Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University (Kalashnikov ISTU).