Degree certificates were awarded to 2020 graduates
The awarding of degree certificates at SPbGASU is completed. What is particularly memorable about the graduation in 2020?
“Due to the non-standard situation stipulated by the pandemic, today's graduates had pretty hard times. This academic year, we were mastering distance technologies,” says Fyodor Perov, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture. “Of course, this affected the communication of students and teachers, but not catastrophically. Some remote technologies that have proven to be effective will be used in the future, when the restrictions lose their force. I want to note that in the 2019/2020 academic year, fourth and fifth- year students took active part in national and international architectural competitions with good results.”
“Every year, letting out students, we hope that our graduates will become excellent specialists, and the whole country will recognize the names of some of them, and we will proudly say, ‘I taught him or her!’ Moreover, each release differs from the previous one: students become more mobile and information literate, speak foreign languages, and at the same time, study at universities in other countries,” said Alexander Panin, Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering.
According to Inna Sukhanova, Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Urban Planning, “Our graduates are, as always, excellent; most of them already in their fourth or fifth year work in their speciality. This academic year was marked by significant successes of our senior students at city and national olympiads and competitions.”
The Faculty of Economics and Management is one of the youngest at SPbGASU. Its acting dean, Victoria Vinogradova, notes that this year’s graduates are distinguished by their determination, activity and ambitiousness.
“41 graduate students received a diploma with honors,” says the head of the faculty. “Graduates of this year have achieved impressive successes. They participated and won at the PTSience International Competition of Scientific Works, at the 3rd International Competition of Students and Teachers of Professional Educational Institutions "Professional Stars" 2019/2020. They also had achievements in extracurricular activities”.
“This year, the first graduates who graduated from the professional retraining program ‘Forensic Construction, Technical and Cost Expert Examination of Real Estate” (FCTE-860) leave the Faculty of Forensics and Law in Construction and Transport. Young professional experts are waited for at construction companies and real estate agencies,” says dean of the faculty Dmitry Ivanov.
Those who graduated from the Institute of Continuous Learning have successfully combined their studies with work in the current difficult conditions. “Everyone did manage!” says the director of the institute Elena Alexandrova. “The successes of 41 graduates of the ICL are awarded with honors.”
The dean of the Faculty of Automobile and Road Building Andrei Zazykin notes that, despite the difficulties, all graduates have successfully completed the last semester and defended their diplomas: “Not all of our graduates had access to high-quality communication; many came to study at SPbGASU from villages where there is simply no Internet. But they found a way out: they went to their friends who have the Internet, and from there they talked with graduation work supervisors, spoke on the defenses of their FQWs. All have managed; well done! I’m sure that all our graduates will have a successful careers.
But let us give the floor to those who yesterday worried about a failed test and pored over the drawings throughout the night. The best graduates of SPbGASU-2020 in the category "Science" Yuri Zgoda and Omar Shakshak say "Thank you!" to the University and all teachers.
“I would like to thank all the teachers of the university for their invaluable work, and the university administration - for supporting all students' undertakings in scientific, public and extracurricular activities,” notes Yuri Zgoda.
Omar Shakshak thanks everyone who trained him for six years, transferred his knowledge, made it possible to realize and achieve great heights in information technology.
The years of intense study are over. Yesterday's students of SPbGASU became young professionals. Now they have in their hands the future of the country.
Text: Elena Shulgina
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