Participants of final events of the Russian Engineering Competition have shared their impressions about the competition, the University and about engineering education in general.

The winner of the Russian engineering competition, postgraduate student of the Tomsk Polytechnic University Gleb Apalkov:

Russian engineering competition is a necessary, informative and very useful event. And not only because you can present your project, but here you can also see solutions and ideas of other participants, find some ideas for your further work. In addition, this event is a great platform to exchange ideas and communicate with representatives of various companies, experts, students fr om other universities. It is very important.

The winner of the Russian engineering competition, postgraduate student of the Lomonosov Moscow State University Maria Efremova:

It was interesting for me to present my project once again, as well as to meet other participants, to establish new useful contacts. I believe that it’s important to hold such contests because discussion with experts makes my project better; they give a lot of practical advices.

The representative of the Russian Helicopters Company Ruslan Tarasichev:

We know MEPhI for a very long time. It is a serious physical University with very strong students. Still we have few representatives of the University in our company, but that's the reason why we participate in Career Day, which is combined with the final of the Engineering competition. We tell young people about the company, perform professional orientation. I hope that we will manage to arouse the desire of students to work in the “Russian Helicopters” in future.

The representative of the United Aircraft Corporation Kristina Avraamova:

Now representatives of government agencies, educational institutions and businesses put a great effort and invest a lot of funds in the process of revival and development of the engineering profession. For example, our Corporation is here today to show future professionals that the profession of engineer is not a routine, but the true art.

Olga Bobrysheva, MEPhI student:

Today I participated in large-scale events, devoted to the final of the Russian engineering competition, namely I worked in the Factory of processes. Its participants became employees who faced a task to simulate a complete production cycle and then to improve it. We created a company, which produced cakes. For this purpose we distributed the duties: someone was a doughmixer, someone put dough into shape, someone was responsible for chocolate. I chopped cookies and it was quite an important link, because the whole further process depended on us.

So, we organized three assembly lines and began factory’s work. After the first hour we had a planning meeting wh ere we received a task to increase performance six-fold. Of course, it seemed impossible, but after discussing of all the identified flaws, we modernized the factory and even exceeded the plan. It is worth noting that we were helped by representatives of the State Corporation “Rosatom”, who are workers of the nuclear industry and tried to transfer their knowledge and skills in the food industry.

Maria Istomina, a student of the 9th grade of the Lyceum №1511:

Today in MEPhI I had an opportunity to take the test for career guidance, which revealed my propensity for technical sciences. It was an expected result, since I am planning to go into the engineering profession. And results only confirmed my choice.