TOMSK, Oct 2 – RIA Tomsk. Tomsk Polytechnic (TPU) and Polytechnic University of Milan launched program of professional retraining "Chemical Engineering" for PJSC "SIBUR Holding" specialists, chemists-technologists from different cities of Russia solve cases for enterprises, head of work with youth of SIBUR's Corporate University Julia Vorotnikova told at program presentation.
According to the press service of TPU, "Chemical Engineering" is a modular program, in which there will be sections on lean manufacturing, information technologies and large data in addition to chemical technology. The program will also include a soft skills module, which will be carried out by specialists of the Sirius University of Science and Technology (Sochi), where the final protection of cases will take place at the end of the program. On Wednesday, TPU hosted a presentation of the program.
"For the first time in TPU we are launching a program of retraining and advanced training of employees of the main industries of SIBUR Group of Companies, it is presented in cooperation with Polytechnic University of Milan, which is one of the key partners in training chemical engineers abroad... 15 employees from Tobolsk, Perm, Voronezh and Tomsk are the first listeners of the program" – said Vorotnikova.
She noted that the participants of the program, for example, will solve cases to reduce energy costs and heat loss in the production process. "It is important for SIBUR that engineers of the company enter the market at the level of bachelor's degree with those competences that go beyond the scope of Russian education in the field of engineering" – she added.
According to her, the key focus in the program is on such disciplines as project management, process modeling, business planning and production optimization.As the deputy director of the Research School of TPU Marina Trusova told journalists, one of the main goals of the educational component of the program is that the specialist, having the corresponding competence, can feel free in any situation at work.
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Tomsk Polytechnic University is the leading technical university of the country. It's founded in 1896 as Tomsk Technological Institute of Practical Engineers of Emperor Nicholas II. It became the first engineering university in the Asian part of the country. Today TPU enters the top 10 universities of Russia and the top 400 universities of the world. Since 2013 it has participated in the program "5-100" to increase competitiveness in the world.