At the end of September, a delegation from the Ural Civil Aviation Plant (UZGA) visited the South Ural State University (SUSU). They discussed the possibilities of training and advanced training of plant workers on the basis of laboratories and equipment of SUSU, according to the website of the university.
“The guests of the Ural Civil Aviation Plant from the city of Aramil came to us. They have mastered and actively use the technologies of aircraft manufacturing from composite materials. Such an example is the two-engine training aircraft “Diamond”, completely built from composites. They need specialists who would work at the newly opened production facilities, the plant also needs rejuvenation of personnel. They are interested in us because our university has aerospace direction, in particular, aviation profile, including unmanned aerial vehicles. One of the topics of today’s negotiations is the formation of a programme of additional retraining, additional education for plant workers. A significant component of it concerns technologies, i.e. not so much design and engineering, but design and technology”, – noted Viktor Fedorov, Head of the Makeev Centre for Rocket and Space Technology, Deputy Head of the Aircraft Department at SUSU.
The delegation visited the training class of flight simulators, scientific laboratories “Rocket Carriers and Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles”, “Propulsion and Power Plants of Reusable Launch Vehicles”, the Aerospace Engineering Training Laboratory and the Military Training Centre at the University. Also the representatives of UZGA got acquainted with the computing power of the supercomputer “Tornado”, with the development of innovative composite materials, with the modelling of thermomechanical processes, visited the centres of mechanical engineering and experimental mechanics.
According to Vilena Antonovich, a representative of the plant’s personnel service, SUSU has equipment that not every university has. “We are interested in the issues of personnel training by the university – both advanced training and training of bachelors and masters. For example, we are expanding our foundry, so we are paying attention to casting laboratories, electric motor testing – this is what is interesting and important for us,” she said.
Mikhail Spitsyn, Deputy Technical Director of UZGA, added that first of all the plant plans to solve the personnel problem with the help of SUSU. The enterprise needs designers, technologists, assemblers of small-size gas turbine engines. “It will be interesting to discuss aviation electrical units, starters, generators, engine control units,” he explained.
