The partners of the championship EVRAZ and SibGIU plan to open new educational spaces

The heads of EVRAZ visited the Siberian State Industrial University and assessed the technical equipment of the university.

EVRAZ is a partner of the Reliable Change Foundation and its flagship project, the CASE-IN International Engineering Championship. SibGIU students regularly participate in the prestigious project, demonstrating their promising solutions to the industry community.

At the meeting, Alexey Yuryev, Rector of SibGIU, Elena Samsonova, Vice President for Human Resources at EVRAZ, Alexey Pyrin, Director of Personnel and Social Affairs at the Siberia Division, and Alexey Domnyshev, Director of the EVRAZ Siberia Personnel Training Center, discussed issues of the strategic cooperation program.

There are plans to open new educational spaces. One of these is the laboratory of digital metallurgy, virtual and augmented reality. With the help of VR/AR technology, you can study production technologies, processes and technological operations, as well as take virtual walks around the enterprise and various locations, without interrupting the educational process and without violating safety regulations.

"We want to work out new educational formats, build new audiences, and the research agenda is also important. Industrial partners need a serious graduate. Not just a metallurgist. We need an interdisciplinary specialist with knowledge of economics, It, and specialized disciplines – a serious professional", - emphasized the rector of SibGIU Alexey Yuryev.

"The university and the company work closely together. We want to focus on the case study format so that the guys have the opportunity to offer their solutions right now that can affect the development of the company and even the entire industry.", - said Elena Samsonova, Vice President of Human Resources at EVRAZ.

The guests also had a guided tour of the university. They visited the Digital Competence Center, where there are 3 laboratories, each equipped with hi-tech computing equipment and software, as well as the Geoecology center, which is a laboratory for the ecology of water and air basins, a laboratory for automation and dispatching systems of technological complexes and industrial enterprises of Sibshakhtostoy.

The delegation visited the Department of metalworking by pressure, visited the lounge area of the university and visited the Kuzbass industrial art gallery, an exhibition of paintings by Kuzbass artists with industrial subjects from metallurgy, mining, and mechanical engineering, which opened on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of N.V. Tolstoguzov.

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