TOMSK, May 16 – RIA Tomsk, Evgenia Plankina. Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) and Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia launched a master program on personnel training for the space industry; will be selected the strongest guys to take part in the development of the new spaceship Federation, the deputy director general of the RSC Energia Mikhail Komarov told journalists on Tuesday.
Earlier it was reported that TPU plans in 2017 to start the first course with 10 masters on the new master's program "Technologies of Space Materials Science", created for RSC Energia. It was assumed that undergraduates will pass one year of theoretical training, one – practical at the RSC facilities.
The agreement on the launch of the program was signed on Tuesday by the deputy director on Tuesday of the RSC Energia and the vice-rector for educational activity of TPU Yury Borovikov. According to Borovikov, there are no analogues to the program in Russia, they will prepare "piece goods" there. It is planned to select for training only the strong guys who will have an examination in 10 sections of different disciplines.
"Graduates will be employed to work in our strategic projects. First of all, it is the development of the modern manned transport system, in particular, the new manned spacecraft Federation, for which crew training will begin in the very near future", – said Komarov at the press conference in the RIA Tomsk media center.
According to him, graduates will be demanded in RSC projects to create new nodes and modules for the ISS. "We support the strategic initiative of Russia to become the world technological leader by 2035. This will be exactly those graduates who will lead the country to the leaders", – he said.Komarov also emphasized that today the industry does not experience a shortage of personnel and is provided by them until 2021. According to the federal target programs, about one thousand people are trained in the best technical universities of the country in this direction. "There are not enough talented, highly gifted children, and we hope to look for such personnel in Tomsk, Samara and Kazan", – he told.