DEPARTMENT OF AUTOMATIC SYSTEMS OF POWER PLANTS OF SAMARA UNIVERSITY - FROM FOUNDERS TO THE PRESENT DAYS. TO THE FORTY ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEPARTMENT

Created in 1982, the Department of Automatic Power Plant Systems by the efforts of Professor Shorin Vladimir Pavlovich, now a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, has now turned into a powerful educational and scientific center, in which the educational process is combined with significant scientific research, not only bachelors, masters, specialists are trained, but also highly qualified personnel. In 2010, the leadership of the department passed to Professor Shakhmatov Evgeny Vladimirovich, now an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and since 2019 the scientific director of Samara University. The department has a powerful educational laboratory and research base. For forty years, 62 candidates of technical sciences and 18 doctors of technical sciences have been trained. Teachers of the department actively participate in scientific conferences and publish articles in scientific journals. At the initiative of the department, since 2012, six scientific conferences on the dynamics and vibration acoustics of machines with international participation have been held. The scientific journal "Dynamics and Vibroacoustics" was created. Intensive career guidance work is being carried out with applicants and schoolchildren. The department forms new educational programs and modernizes curricula. Thus, the activities of the department make it possible to train young personnel not only for the needs of the Samara region, but also for scientific centers and enterprises of the country as a whole.