On April 20, the two-day IX International Technological Forum “Innovations. Technologies. Production" has opened. A large place on the agenda of the event is the discussion of the project "Advanced Engineering Schools". Rector of the MEPhI Vladimir Shevchenko takes part in the forum.

The topic of the forum this year was cooperation between high-tech business and universities. The forum is organized by the United Engine Corporation, the Government of the Yaroslavl Region and the administration of the city of Rybinsk. MEPhI is one of the co-organizers of the event, which is attended by over 1000 leading technical specialists and heads of high-tech enterprises, academic and university science, small and medium-sized businesses.

Speaking at the plenary discussion, Vladimir Shevchenko spoke in detail about the Advanced Engineering Schools project. The rector of MEPhI stressed that the project's most important task is to create the country's engineering elite. In 15-20 years, students who have gone through the project will become chief engineers and general designers who, in the words of Vladimir Shevchenko, like Atlanteans, will hold the technosphere of the country on their shoulders.

The difficulty of this project, according to the head of the nuclear university, lies in the fact that there is no single model of engineering education that could be scaled. Every university and every industrial partner has their own ideas of what the next generation engineer looks like. The goal of the project is to identify best practices and package them into educational products that can be translated as quickly as possible to the entire education system.

Vladimir Shevchenko expressed confidence that the Advanced Engineering Schools project has great potential and called on all those present to cooperate with it in one form or another.

MEPhI is the operator of the Advanced Engineering Schools project, responsible for its methodological and methodological support.