NEWS
On September 14, 2019, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan hosted the meetings of the Selection Committee for the Republic’s Engineer of the Year Contest under the chairmanship of Ibragim Khisameyev, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Head of the Department for Refrigerating Machines and Technologies of the KNRTU, former Director General of Kazancompressormash. Experts in 12 areas were representatives of key enterprises and educational institutions of the republic.
Within the framework of the meetings, the Committee considered all applications submitted for participation in the contest, as well as evaluation criteria. Following the scoring system, the members of the Committee selected 108 winners of the first, correspondence, phase of the contest who will be invited to participate in the second, on-site phase, which is scheduled for September 25-27, 2019.
The list of Phase 1 winners of the republic’s Engineer of the Year contest was published at the link (in Russian).
Today, a press conference was held dedicated to the first ever republic’s engineering skills contest titled “Engineer of the Year”. It was attended by Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Almaz Khusainov, Principal of the Kazan National Research Technological University Sergey Yushko, Chairman of the Youth Union of Tatarstan’s Enterprises and Organisations Aydar Sagetdinov, Deputy Director General of the Tatarstan Association of Enterprises and Industrialists Igor Rassman.
The republic’s Engineer of the Year contest is designed to promote the development of engineering workforce in the region, to raise public awareness about the achievements of the best republic’s engineers and increase the attractiveness of engineering thinking in manufacturing process and the professionalism of white-collar occupations. As a result of the contest, a database of the best Tatarstan engineers will be compiled to be used for promising developments in the future.
The contest is held in 3 age-based divisions and 12 categories broken down by republic’s industries. The Organising Committee invites to participation a wide range of professionals, namely: university students receiving an engineering degree, engineers already working at Tatarstan enterprises: design engineers, production engineers contributing to the development of production processes, lines, etc.
The contest winners will be awarded during a solemn ceremony with the participation of the Tatarstan President; additionally, a handing over of certificates is expected for a training at any Russian or foreign engineering university.