SPbGASU Presented its Own Mobile Application
On 27 December, St Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering hosted a presentation of the university's mobile application. The application was developed by students of SPbGASU and Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) with the support of the Paraweb Internet agency.
Now SPbGASU students using a mobile device can easily find the class schedule, get information about the location of the audience on an interactive map and view teachers profiles posted on the official website of the university. After testing the application by SPbGASU students and its successful moderation by platforms such as Google Play and Appstore, it is available for download to all users on the websiteе app.spbgasu.ru
1. Leonid Nikolaev, chairman of the student council, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Municipal Services; Ekaterina Kholuyanova, PhD student at the Faculty of Architecture and head of the working group; Timur Sibagatov, student of the Faculty of Architecture; Rostislav Grishchenko, student of the Faculty of Civil Engineering; Lev Zadumkin, master student of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and SPbGASU leading system administrator
2. Ekaterina Kholuyanova and Lev Zadumkin presenting the project roadmap
Emil Akhtyamov
Irina Lugovskaia
During the presentation, student developers demonstrated the application to the university management. The meeting was attended by Emil Akhtyamov, head of Paraweb LLC.
Irina Lugovskaia, SPbGASU Vice-Rector for Youth Policy, opening the meeting, spoke about the university's cooperation with Paraweb. She noted that the choice was made in favor of this particular partner, since the company has established itself as a serious developer of Internet projects in the field of education.
Sergey Mikhailov, Vice-Rector for Academic Work, reminded the audience about the main stages of creating the university mobile application, mentioning those who expressed the idea and started development: these were students Roman Zhdanov, Ekaterina Kholuyanova, Anastasia Klimshina, Rostislav Grishchenko, Timur Sibagatov and Lev Zadumkin. At the initiative of Paraweb LLC, TPU students joined the project. The fact that the application was created with the active participation of students made it possible to better take into account their wishes for the product. The advantages of the application also include the ability to supplement it with new features.
Lev Zadumkin, SPbGASU leading system administrator, and Ekaterina Kholuyanova, PhD student at the Faculty of Architecture and head of the working group, spoke in detail about the application and presented a roadmap with several stages of adding new functions.
Emil Akhtyamov highly appreciated the work of the students, emphasizing that a close-knit team was the key to success. Not every university in Russia has a mobile app, he added, and the fact that our app contains a relevant class schedule adds value to it.
✔ Next year, it is planned to hold a hackathon to develop new ideas and software solutions for the application.
In addition to the mobile application, SPbGASU cooperates with Paraweb on several other projects. The developed by Paraweb website of the Olympiad in architecture for schoolchildren, held by SPbGASU, won first place in the nomination “The best website for children/teenagers/youth” at the prestigious online Tagline Awards. In the near future, a new website of the SPbGASU Institute of continuing education and professional retraining will be launched, and next year the university will officially present its updated main website.
Text: Kseniya Egorova, head of the information policy division
Photo: Ekaterina Nikiforova