The partner university of the Championship has become an innovative platform with a project to train engineers of the future

The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation has approved a list of organizations recommended for awarding the status of a federal innovation platform (FIP). Among them was Tomsk Polytechnic University with a project to train system engineers for the industry of the future.

Tomsk Polytechnic University has been a partner since 2007. The Reliable Shift Foundation. University students traditionally participate in all projects in the field of "Electric power Industry".  and since 2018 - in The International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" in the field of Petrochemistry.

In addition to TPU, the list of recommended FIP status includes leading institutes and universities in Russia, including, for example, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, MIPT, MADI, I. Kant BFU, UrFU, Innopolis University and others.

The selection in 2020 was carried out in six priority areas of innovative projects and programs: computer science, digitalization; teacher education; art and culture; engineering education; medicine; tourism. Tomsk Polytechnic University participated in the selection in the field of Engineering Education.

TPU presented the project "Cross-disciplinary training Center for system engineers for the industry of the future in the interests of petrochemical and fuel and energy complexes: Engineer 4.0". Its implementation is planned for 2021-2025. The main goal of the project is to create an open, cross—disciplinary educational platform that will ensure the formation of the competencies of the engineer of the future as a system engineer capable of working effectively in a variety of configurations of complex engineering facilities and full-life production facilities in the interests of petrochemical and fuel and energy complexes.

"Tomsk Polytechnic University participated in the FIP selection as a university capable of not only implementing breakthrough projects on its own, but also scaling them to other universities and scientific organizations. One of our ambitions is to train engineers of the future, "Engineers 4.0". These are system engineers who understand and actively use digital platforms, understand the lifecycle of production systems of various nature, build their activities using digital counterparts and artificial intelligence systems, and also possess engineering soft skills."— says the director of the TPU School of Basic Engineering Training Denis Tchaikovsky.

As part of the innovative educational project "Engineer 4.0", a number of tasks will be solved at the university. Among them are the development of a model of professional, technical and digital competencies of an engineer of the future and educational and methodological support for disciplines focused on solving applied problems for enterprises; the creation of an integrated digital model in the field of petrochemical and fuel and energy complexes; the development of a digital educational platform.

"TPU, realizing the absolute importance of current processes in the petrochemical and fuel and energy complexes, assumes the role of a university that creates an offer in the field of training engineers of the future - system engineers who not only "see" the production process as a whole, but also understand the value and interconnection of its individual blocks, realize their role in each of them. them", — notes Denis Tchaikovsky.

As a result of the project, an educational environment will be created in which systems thinking will be the main value. Future engineers will receive, on the one hand, a solid foundation for mastering a professional program, and, on the other, opportunities to form systematic ideas about multifaceted engineering activities.

At the same time, enterprises will be actively involved in the educational process. Among the partner companies of the educational project, for example, SIBUR, PJSC Inter RAO, Gazprom Neft and others. They will be accompanied by professional development of TPU staff, internships, lectures and seminars, and Career Days.

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