The Profession of an Engineer

If you enjoy working with tools, machines, technical systems, computer programs, and enjoy applying your knowledge and skills in inventing, con­structing, repairing or problem solving, and if you enjoy discovering how this or that automatic system works, you may want to become an engineer.

Intellectual curiosity and skills in mathematics and science are essential for an engineer. Skills in these areas plus the ability to work hard, to communicate and work in harmony with people, to accept responsibility, and a desire to serve humanity will mean success for you.

As an engineer, one of your major goals is to help your enterprise or com­pany meet a production schedule with a high quality, greater accuracy and operational precision, low-cost products or service.

To have a productive working environment you, as an engineer, must work in harmony with the employees you supervise that encourages them to perform well. You will need to know production methods and control systems, manufac­turing processes and computer science.

To ensure that you have the right quantity and quality of product or service: at the right time, you, as an engineer, must coordinate people, machines, infor­mation, and materials.

These aims for an engineer may be achieved by higher education in all its forms: full-time, part-time, and correspondence or extra-mural.

The system of correspondence education remains an important way to re­ceive higher education.

Vladimir State University, which is over 40 years old, offers a correspon­dence course with a variety of interesting career areas. Among them are: Civil Engineering, Radio Engineering, Engineering Technology, Automotive Tech­nology and others.

The Department of Civil Engineering provides students with an opportunity to obtain a solid foundation of knowledge and skills that assist and will assist in their job.

The Department has modern laboratories in all of the major areas of civil engineering, a design office with the CAD facilities and computer rooms.

We needn't say how important the profession of a civil engineer is. Civil engineers plan, design, supervise and construct facilities essential to modern life such as: buildings and bridges, highways and tunnels, dams and water facilities, wastewater facilities and others.

Civil engineers solve problems resulting from: pollution, urban develop­ment, traffic congestion, energy needs and others.

Men and women entering civil engineering today can look forward to unlimited range of career opportunities. They include design, construction, re­search, teaching, sales and management.

The Department of Radio Engineering provides training radio engineers in the following areas: radio communication, radio location and radio navigation, automation of radio measurements, electronic systems of control, television.

Radio engineering is one of the most rapidly developing and expanding of the modern technologies. This rapid development has created a great demand for radio engineers capable to serve as technicians in technical control departments of the industrial enterprises, design offices, computing centres, research insti­tutes.

Fundamental concepts of radio engineering circuits and signals, micro­processors, analogue and digital devices, antennas and ultra-high frequency devices, computing technique. Fundamentals of the circuit theory are empha­sized in lectures and reinforced with practical laboratory activities.

The facilities of the Department include laboratories with testing equipment and computer rooms. Besides the Department offers extensive CAD and analy­sis of circuits and control systems.

The Department of Engineering Technology trains mechanical engineers. The program of the Department provides students with an opportunity to obtain basic engineering knowledge in different spheres of machine elements, machine tool designing, automation of manufacturing processes, metal cutting, etc. The program starts with the basics, with lectures that give the theory and laboratories where you use that theory practically.

The facilities of the Department include laboratories in all the major areas of engineering technology, testing equipment, computer rooms.

Despite the transition period, in which Russia is at present, there is a grow­ing need for mechanical engineers that are familiar with new technological methods, new tools, machines and new materials.

The Department of Automotive Technology offers an opportunity to be­come a highly skilled automotive engineer in the following areas: engine opera­tion and maintenance, engine repair and engine rebuilding, production techno­logy and text equipment.

Current automotive trends indicate that the automobile will continue to ex­perience changes that include expanded use of electronics and computerized controls for improving engine performance, fuel efficiency, exhaust emissions, and passenger comfort and safety. These changes will require service techni­cians who are knowledgeable and highly skilled in specialized areas of automo­tive technology.

Rapid growth in the number of vehicles operating in our country demands corresponding increase in the number of automotive engineers and mechanics to maintain and repair them.

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