MAI Winter International Aerospace School is over
On January 21-28, Moscow Aviation Institute conducted the first Winter International Aerospace School for more than 250 foreign students from four major Chinese universities: Jiaxing University, Central South University, Beijing University of Aviation and Cosmonautics and Zhejiang University. The project turned out to be one of the largest MAI additional education projects for students.
MAI Directorate for Advanced Scientific Programs held summer educational intensives for students from foreign universities regularly during the five past years. It is traditionally one of the largest international summer events. This year the organizers decided to hold a Winter School too. The event was conducted online with daily live broadcasts and Q&A sessions, at which students could get feedback, ask questions and chat with teachers.
The main topic of the School was additive technologies in the aerospace industry. The students attended the lecture and practical course on additive technologies, 3D modeling in CAD systems, design for the given cost. The topics of student projects were functional robots created using additive technologies. At the end of the program, students defended their developments in terms of production and economics in front of an expert jury, one of its members was the project manager Alexander Khvan.
The academic component of the Winter School was provided by the laboratory of additive technologies of MAI Institute No. 9 "General Engineering Training", headed by Andrey Ripetsky, Associate Professor of Department 904, Veniamin Brykin, laboratory engineer and MAI postgraduate student, Veniamin Brykin, assistant to Veniamin and junior teacher of the school, laboratory employee Konstantin Korobov. The program created by the laboratory specialists consists of more than 10 lectures and workshops on the topic of additive technologies and their application for industrial aviation.
In addition to the academic component, the Winter School also had entertaining and ethnographic block, which was dedicated to Russian history, literature, the sights of Moscow and St. Petersburg and, most importantly, the Russian New Year. Expert of the Directorate of Advanced Scientific Programs Ekaterina Rybakova conducted a tour of festive Moscow for students and showed them to the best traditions of the Russian New Year, and Ilya Konstantinov, the member of Department 101, gave foreign guests the opportunity to get acquainted with Father Frost.
Feedback from participants of the Winter International Aerospace School:
“I really love the educational programs of Moscow Aviation Institute and I hope that in future I will be able to enroll here for one of the master's degree programs,” said Qin Jihan from Beijing University of Aviation and Cosmonautics.
“The organization of the School was at the highest level. MAI professors are very passionate about their work, workshops and lectures are interesting and understandable, it is a pleasure to watch them — you learn and relax at the same time. I hope to take part in this project again,” says Li Haohao from Zhejiang University.
