Further work discussed with KAMAZ

General Director of the truck production giant Sergey Kogogin visited KFU on April 29.

He and Rector Ilshat Gafurov were joined by Deputy of the State Duma Alfiya Kogogina, Vice-Rector for Education Dmitry Tayursky, Vice-Rector for Digital Transformation and Innovation Dmitry Pashin, Director of the Institute of Engineering Nayil Kashapov, Director of the Institute of Computational Mathematics and IT Dmitry Chikrin, Director of the Naberezhnye Chelny Institute Makhmut Ganiev, Deputy General Director of KAMAZ Irek Gumerov, and others.

Currently, alumni of the Naberezhnye Chelny Institute (NCI) comprise the majority of new hires for KAMAZ. In 2016 – 2020, a total of 1,764 NCI students interned at the company, and 665 of them went on to find a job there.

“A transformation of this industry is underway. An automobile can now be an integrated project, involving infrastructure and environment. A nation cannot address challenges without its higher school,” said Kogogin.

The Rector noted, “Speaking about professional training, we decided to popularize student science clubs, first and foremost in natural sciences. We involve students into research through such clubs so that they remain to work at the university.” He mentioned that KFU plans to open a new technology park at Kazan Expo, a major expo center in the suburbs of Kazan.

Dmitry Chikrin presented cooperation between KAMAZ and KFU’s Center for Digital Transformation. He spoke about student construction bureaus and Industry 4.0 project. Among them he mentioned EXMACHINA (a virtual conveyor belt simulation for various production facilities), VeHIL (a combined virtual-physical automobile test polygon), and Resonance (a system for evaluation of effectiveness of utilization for machines and mechanisms).

Nayil Kashapov spoke about projects put forth by the Institute of Engineering. Among the discussed initiatives were digital twins of automobiles and the future of transportation.

Source text: Rufina Gimaletdinova

Photos: Kseniya Bogdanova

Translation: Yury Nurmeev