The United Engine Corporation of Rostec gathered more than 100 of the best UEC target students of the second and third courses of the Wings of Rostec program, studying at the leading technical universities of the country, at the Samara enterprise UEC-Kuznetsov.
Students of the program "Wings of Rostec", who are trained under a special program at the leading technical universities of the country: the Moscow Aviation Institute, the universities of Rybinsk, Ufa, St. Petersburg Voenmekh and Samara University had the opportunity to see the full cycle of engine production in the workshops of the largest engine building enterprise UEC-Kuznetsov, and also visited serial and pilot production sites, a unique test stand and witnessed the firing test of the RD-107A rocket engine.
Future aircraft engine designers became participants of the interactive project "Questions to the General designer", where the most authoritative industry experts spoke: Deputy General Director — General Designer of JSC "UEC" Yuri Shmotin and Deputy General Director of JSC "UEC" for the management of the scientific and production complex "Perm Motors" Alexander Inozemtsev General Designer of PJSC "UEC-Kuznetsov" Pavel Chupin and many others.
"Today, more than 90,000 people work at UEC enterprises, 30,000 of them are employed in the engineering and technical sphere. Every year, the corporation's need for new designers is 300 people. Our goal is that in 5-6 years today's students will be not only knowledgeable young specialists, but engineers, at least of the 3rd category. So that they can come to enterprises with both knowledge and skills. At the senior courses, starting from the third, students will gain skills in additive technologies and engine testing, learn how to perform simple strength calculations, flow calculations of blade crowns, solve optimization problems and manage the configuration of engines," said Yuri Shmotin, Deputy General Director —General Designer of JSC UEC.
In order to strengthen the human potential of the UEC, the Wings of Rostec program is being implemented for talented and ambitious school graduates entering educational organizations in engineering and technical profiles.
"The program "Wings of Rostec" is specially designed to synchronize the educational programs of higher education and the request of the employer. Within the framework of this program, we are making efforts to ensure that a young specialist has a zero period of adaptation after graduation from the institute. The project immerses students in the process of creating aircraft engines from the first days of their studies. The individual educational trajectory involves mastering the main profession, but also acquiring working skills, for example, milling and turning, is an important condition in order to comprehend the logic of the path of parts from the drawing to the engine," said Natalia Surkova, Deputy General Director of JSC UEC for Personnel.
"Wings of Rostec" is a training program for new generation engineers for the domestic aircraft industry, implemented by Rostec State Corporation.
The program is designed for capable school graduates. Within the framework of the program, students master an enhanced educational program, including the study of foreign languages and design IT competencies, as well as from the 1st year they are employed at Rostec aircraft manufacturing enterprises.
In 2022, the State Corporation sent 350 school graduates for targeted training within the framework of the educational project "Wings of Rostec". The recruitment has been expanded almost 1.5 times due to the high demand for personnel for the aircraft industry.
The aim of the project is to train multidisciplinary engineering and technical specialists for aircraft manufacturing enterprises. Along with theory, students from the first year receive practical production skills at the enterprises of the Rostec aviation cluster. The project "Wings of Rostec" involves 10 specialized universities in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rybinsk, Kazan, Samara, Ufa, Perm, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude.
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