TOMSK, Nov 28 – RIA Tomsk. The online course of Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) "The Engineering of the Future" started on the Russian open education platform "Lektorium"; on this course were declared representatives of other countries, interested in 3D-models design of the space equipment, the press service of the university reports on Monday.
According to the press service, the online course designed for school students of the senior classes is developed by group of authors of five institutes of TPU with financial support of PJSC Gazprom. The course is free, for participation it is only necessary to be registered. Course duration – is five weeks. The school students who successfully ended a course will receive the certificate from Lektorium and additional points at receipt in TPU.
"About one and a half thousand people from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Czech Republic already signed up for this course. <…> They will be able to learn how to earn in a cyberspace and will try to design 3D-models of elements of the space equipment, having tried on themselves engineering professions of the future", – is said in the message.
It is noted that besides video lectures, traditional for such courses, and test tasks, students are expected to be in fascinating travel to the world of inventive tasks and a set of other creative tasks. And students of TPU – future engineers and participants of University team of KVN will acquaint listeners with the modern engineering world.It is added, that on the course created for school students were also registered students of different Russian higher education institutions, teachers of schools, and just people who are interested in modern engineering. Those who haven't registered yet have an opportunity to make it till December 1 on the page of the course.