Научная электронная библиотека
Монографии, изданные в издательстве Российской Академии Естествознания
Unit 8. Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics
Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics is an engineering university in Tomsk, Russia. TUSUR education is highly appreciated both in Russia and abroad.
It was founded as Tomsk Institute of Radioelctronics and Electrotechnology (TIRET) in April 1962. The Institute was organized with three primary academic units: the Faculty of Radio Engineering, the Faculty of Radio Control Systems and the Faculty of Electrotechnology. The Institute also had an evening school and a correspondence school. Back then, the Soviet Union was exploring outer space83 and needed highly qualified engineers to create the best missile and space complex in the world. TUSUR made a crucial84 contribution to the achievement of this ambitious goal. Since then it has always been one of the best engineering universities in Russia.
TUSUR is distinguished by its strong entrepreneurial spirit. TUSUR Alumni85 Association expands up to 500 members and unites heads of successful hi-tech companies. It also contributes to the development and promotion of entrepreneurial culture at the university. At least one third of students and faculty members of TUSUR have found their own successful businesses on concepts and technologies developed at their Alma Mater86.
Adherence87 to the highest research standards and advanced entrepreneurial culture has enabled TUSUR to become an institution of state-of-the-art88 education where students are able to participate in innovations and creation of new knowledge having a real impact upon science.
The mission of TUSUR is to generate knowledge and technologies of global importance, to propagate research culture and advance entrepreneurship89 by supporting students, employees and alumni of the university who start their own hi-tech business.
The strategic objective is to develop TUSUR as a world-level research university with high degree of entrepreneurial activities.
TUSUR has identified the following priority lines of research for the next decade: «Nanotechnology», «Radio Engineering and Telecommunication systems», «Intelligent Power Electronics», «Intelligent Information Technologies and Control Systems», «Information Security», «Innovations».
Professor Yury Shurygin. Yury A. Shurygin is the sixth rector of the university. He has served in this role since 2009.
TUSUR is distinguished from other technical universities of Tomsk and Russia by the close connection of its fundamental research with technical applications. TUSUR engineers never hesitate to take up90 ambitious and complex tasks.
Engineering solutions for intelligent power electronics developed by its faculty and staff are applied in space vehicles at launch sites all over the world. Its electronics is used in fifth-generation fighter aircrafts. Methods of coding and information protection developed at TUSUR are considered among the best in Russia.
TUSUR faculty comprises highly experienced and qualified professionals, professors, and doctors of sciences (PhD). TUSUR has also got excellent research laboratories and design offices for each priority line of research.
TUSUR pursues91 international cooperation with numerous European, North American and Asian universities and research centers in various research areas. Joint projects are financed by Russian and foreign grants, ensuring exchange of students and faculty members and sharing knowledge and experience. As a result, the number of international students attending TUSUR increases every year. Traditionally a lot of students from neighboring Asian countries and Eastern Europe come to study at TUSUR.
Over the recent years, the university has been implementing92 its development strategy focusing on innovative economy. Student Business Incubator, R&D Commercialization Office93, Technology Transfer Centre94, and Institute of Innovation, established at TUSUR, are all successfully functioning today. This infrastructure supports research and development jointly carried out by TUSUR students and university researchers and allows turning research results into commercially successful products. TUSUR is proud of its alumni, many of whom create their own hi-tech companies and promote their products in the Russian and world markets.
13 thousand students study at 13 departments. TUSUR offers excellent education in a wide range of disciplines, namely: Radio Technology, Telecommunication, Information Protection, Radioelectronic Equipment Design, Computer Science, Computer Networks, Automation and Programming, Electronics and Microelectronics, Photonics and Optoinformatics, Industrial Electronics. In addition to that, its curriculum comprises courses in economics, management and finance, law, intellectual property rights protection and legal support of information protection, social work and youth outreach95, as well as methods of innovative business launch and development.
Notes to the text:
83. outer space – космическое пространство, космос;
84. crucial- решающий;
85. alumni – [ә’lΛmnai] мн.ч. от alumnus – выпускник, бывший учащийся школы, университета;
86. Alma Mater – зд. университет;
87. adherence – приверженность;
88. state-of-the-art – новейший, передовой;
89. to advance entrepreneurship – способствовать развитию предпринимательства;
90. take up – зд. браться за что-либо;
91. to pursue – следовать чему- либо;
92. to implement – проводить, осуществлять;
93. R&D (Research and Development) Commercialization Office –- центр исследования и развития коммерциализации новых технологий;
94. Technology Transfer Centre – центр технологического обмена;
95. youth outreach – пропаганда среди молодёжи.
Tasks for the text:
1. Fill in the gaps in these sentences using the words from the box below:
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Comprises pursues contributes hesitate proud distinguished |
1. TUSUR is … of its alumni.
2. TUSUR … excellent education.
3. TUSUR is … from other technical universities of Tomsk and Russia by the close connection of its fundamental research with technical applications.
4. TUSUR engineers never … to take up ambitious and complex tasks.
5. Methods of coding and information protection developed at TUSUR are … among the best in Russia.
6. TUSUR faculty … highly experienced and qualified professionals, professors, and doctors of sciences.
7. TUSUR … international cooperation with numerous European, North American and Asian universities and research centers in various research areas.
8. TUSUR Alumni Association … to the development and promotion of entrepreneurial culture at the university.
2. Match the words with their definitions:
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Word |
Definition |
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nanotechnology |
The desired or needed result to be achieved by a specific time. |
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electronics |
Systematic investigative process to increase or revise current knowledge by discovering new facts. |
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objective |
the science and technology of building devices such as electronic circuits, from single atoms and molecules |
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photonics |
A general, undetailed plan of an action to achieve a complicated goal |
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strategy |
the science and technology concerned with the development, behavior, and applications of electronic devices and circuits |
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application |
a research field whose goal is to use light to perform functions |
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research |
the act of putting something to a special use or purpose |
3. Form collocations from the given words, translate them into Russian:
Develop; create; generate; take up; accept, offer, implement, propagate, provide, make promote.
Tasks, students, products, strategy, education, contribution, support, laboratories, entrepreneurship, knowledge, companies.
4. Do the questionnaire putting a tick where necessary. Make up 5 additional general questions to know about someone’s attitude to the study at TUSUR.
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Number |
Question |
Yes |
No |
Don’t know |
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1. |
Do you like studying at TUSUR? |
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2. |
Do you visit lectures and seminars regularly? |
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3. |
Do you have many double-lessons every day? |
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4. |
Does a double-lesson last long? |
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5. |
Have you already passed any exams or credits? |
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5. Write your time-table of this week. Use the given table as an example:
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day of the week |
09.00–10.30 |
10.40–12.10 |
14.00–15.30 |
15.40–16.10 |
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Mon |
Self-study |
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Tues |
Chemistry R 543 |
Program planning R 218 |
PE R 314 |
Tutorial R 110 |
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Wed |
Computer operating systems R 111 |
Networks R 222 |
Maths R 110 |
Foreign language R 338 |
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Thur |
Structured programming R 110 |
IT applications R 110 |
Communication skills R 415 |
Philosophy R 99 |
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Fri |
Computer architecture R 110 |
Hardware installation & maintenance R 110 |
Maths R 314 |
Physics R 567 |
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Sat |
Free |
Communication skills R 110 |
Client operating systems R 118 |
PE R 314 |
6. Fill in the graph of changing the number of TUSUR students during years and explain the progress/ regress of it in 7–10 sentences using expressions below:
Number of TUSUR students
The graph shows (disdplays)…
The graph provides information about …
You can see here that…
This happened / occurred because…
Although there was a fall / rise…
This led to…
This resulted in …
This was due to…
This happened as a result of…
This happened because of…
The horizontal (vertical) axis represents …
To describe the graph use the following chart:
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To show the process |
To show the period of time |
To show the reason of growth (fall) |
To show the nature of the process |
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to decrease |
over this period |
due to (eg.:the crisis) |
unchanged |
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to drop |
during this time |
because |
gradually |
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to increase |
in the following (five) years |
as a result of |
moderately |
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to rise |
between 2009 and 2012 |
since (так как) |
slowly |
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to reach a peak |
from 2009 to 2012 |
so that |
sharply |
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to start to slow down |
in 2013 |
because of |
rapidly |
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to tend to dip |
at the present time |
that is why |
constantly |
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to remain |
this year |
for |
regularly |
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to fall |
for a long time |
as |
annually (every year) |
Example:
The graph of changing the size of scholarship over time
The graph shows how the size of scholarship has changed from 2008 to 2013.The horizontal axis represents years of study, the vertical scale – the size of scholarship. We can see that over this specified period the amount of scholarship first increased sharply, and then remained stable for 3 years before rising rapidly to reach 2000 roubles in 2013. Therefore, the highest value of scholarship was recorded at the beginning of this year (2013). The growth of the amount of scholarship is probably because of the university budget development, introduction of innovation projects etc.
7. Express your own ideas about your students’ life betterment. Use modal verbs to say how things can (could) change.
E.g. Every student could get a scholarship weekly.