Wednesday, 03 February 2010 12:08 Written by Irina

III SPBSTU Local Engineering Competition “Be creative!”

March 19, 2010 the third Local Engineering Competition “Be Creative!” was held at the Resource Center for international scientific and educational activities. Unlike the previous events there were held two types of competition: Team Design and Case Study.

Team Design is a task, which requires theoretical solution for the problem and its practical implementation using pre-specified materials. Jury evaluates teams on different criteria by results of performed tasks. The winning team is the one that scored the maximum in total.

Case Study is a task that uses the description of the real technical challenges, economic and social situations. Participants should analyze the situation, understand the nature of the problem, suggest possible solutions and choose the best one. Teams should present their results, on the basis of which teams will be evaluated and the winner chosen.

“Team design” winners:

I – Galkov Mikhail, Nozdin Gergei, Rumin Nikita, Tarasov Alexandr

II – Golubev Ivan, Sovgira Sergei, Timofeev Viktor, Shutov Danil

“Case Study” winners:

I – Mareev Dmitrii, Bobinin Alexandr, Permyakova Eliaveta, Safronov Alexandr

II – Velichenko Ekaterina, Guchkova Elena, Kizko Boris, Selezneva Ekaterina

II SPBSTU Local Engineering Competition “Case of technology”

November 12, 2009 a long-awaited second Local Engineering Competition BEST "Case of Technology" was held in Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnic University!

Teams of 4 people competed in doing the task, which required not only logical thinking and engineering skills, but also imagination and inventiveness!

Winners of the Local Engineering Competition are going in April to the Baltic Engineering Competition in Tallinn! There they will compete with teams of top engineers from the Baltic states for the right to go on a European level of competition in August 2010 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. We wish good luck to our engineers!

I team: Radislav Marjuhin, Mikhail Kornil'ev, Kirill Homenko, Vyachrslav Gubarev

II team: Stanislav Ivanov, Dmitrii Safronov, Aleksandr Starovoytov, Olga Rozhkova

V International Student Forum on Engineering Education «GloCal Engineer: Qualities and Competencies»

May 15-23, 2009 V International Student Forum on Engineering Education was held in St. Petersburg. It united about  100 student leaders from all over the world, who visited russian cultural capital to discuss ways of development of current engineering education.

Organizers of the Forum were: labor union organization STU students, local group BEST Saint Petersburg, student organization SPEED (Student Platform for Engineering Education Development) in collaboration with the International Federation of Engineering Education (IFEES) and Russian Association for Engineering Education (RAEE).

Program of the Forum was aimed at stimulating the students' development in the field of global way of thinking and development, and at the same time, in implementing their professional skills at the local level. The discussion focused on issues of competence and knowledge, which the engineer must have to enter the world level, the possibility of transforming the existing curriculum to improve engineering education in accordance with the needs of society.

Local Engineering Competition “Construct your future”

March 14, 2009 Local Engineering Competition  “Contruct your future” was held in SPBSTU for the first time. What is Local Engineering Competition? It gives students the opportunity:

·         to apply the knowledge gained during training at the University

·         to demonstrate creativity, technical, but at the same time nonstandart thinking

·         to try their hand at solving real problems for real businesses

·         to develop or gain team working skills ,communication skills and inventiveness

·         to get presentation and project defence skills

After the engineering competition there were selected two winners, who at the end of April 2009 went to Riga, Latvia:

I team: Lokshin Roman, Novokshenov Alexey, Rambonen Sergei, Smirnov Mikhail

II team: Arsenyev Ilya, Kiseleva Olga, Hromov Oleg, Shamkin Artemii

They worthily represented St. Petersburg in the regional level of the competition - the Baltic Engineering competition by demonstrating the engineering inventiveness and Petersburg savvy! One team went to the next level of competition in the category Case Study and went to Ghent, Belgium to the European BEST Engineering Competition, where it competed with the best engineers from all over the Europe!