Open Day at the Faculty of Automobile and Road Building
On April 16, an open day was held at the SPbGASU Faculty of automobile and road building.
1. Andrey Zazykin demonstrates the equipment of one of the interdepartmental laboratories, 2. Igor Chernyaev, PhD in technical sciences, Head of the Department of Transport Maintenance,during an excursion for applicants
Sergey Evtyukov, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of land transport technological machines
Schoolchildren and secondary vocational education students were told about the five departments of the faculty, its recently renovated laboratories equipped with the most modern equipment.
Dean of the Faculty of automobile and road building Andrey Zazykin, Ph.D. in technical sciences, noted that on October 7, 2022, the faculty will turn 75 years old. It was established in a difficult post-war time, when it was necessary to restore the destroyed. Among the specialists who were urgently needed for this were engineers in the field of mechanization, without which there is no modern construction. In addition, there was a growing need for specialists in the field of transport planning and traffic management. Therefore, the faculty of automobile and road building was established in the construction university.
Faculty graduates are in demand in the labour market. They work at enterprises servicing special equipment and road transport, in structures that organize traffic, in the field of ensuring technosphere safety. Most students find their future job while still studying.
Applicants visited 12 interdepartmental laboratories of the Faculty of automobile and road building and a computer class, were able to observe their equipment in action, got acquainted with the auto club, where they saw sports cars and preparations for the upcoming races.
As Andrey Zazykin noted, “the quality of education strongly depends on the material and technical support of the educational process. Therefore, after talking about the faculty, departments and areas of training, we will definitely show future applicants the laboratories, talk about the equipment, about the laboratory work that is performed there. We do this so that the children have a clearer idea of the educational process and future professional activities.”
Text: Elena Shulgina
Photo: Ekaterina Nikiforova
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