Peculiarities of teaching translation of scientific and technical papers to engineering students

The article deals with the issues and methods of teaching translation and interpretation of scientific and technical papers to engineering students from a linguistic point of view. The authors describe the concept and special features of technical translation as a professional activity compared to different kinds of translation. The paper analyzes stylistic, lexical and phraseological, and grammatical peculiarities of scientific and technical papers. Moreover, the authors suggest the main techniques of translating scientific and technical papers such as direct and indirect translation methods

Estimation of energy efficiency of residential buildings

Increasing energy performance of the residential buildings by means of reducing heat consumption on the heating and ventilation is the last segment in the system of energy resources saving. The first segments in the energy saving process are heat producing and transportation over the main lines and outside distribution networks. In the period from 2006 to 2013. by means of the heat-supply schemes optimization and modernization of the heating systems. using expensive (200-30

Energy Resources Consumption Minimization in Housing Construction

The article deals with the energy savings analysis during operation of buildings, provides the heat balance of residential premises, considers options for energy-efficient solutions for hot water supply systems in buildings. As technical facilities that allow the use of secondary heat sources and solar energy, there are also considered the systems with heat recovery of "gray" wastewater, heat pumps, solar collectors and photoelectric converters

Solar energy for self-contained power supply

Solar energy relevance in self-contained utility system as well as economic feasibility for each class of consumers considered. The article will outline utilising features of self-contained photovoltaic stations in Middle East and Northern Africa

Determination of acceptable limits of adjustment of heat consumption loading

The article describes the numerical study of the temperature fields in the living quarters of an apartment building, which made it possible to evaluate the dynamics of the air temperature changes in unsteady conditions as a result of an increase or decrease in the capacity of heating appliances in relation to the standardized value. The permissible limit for adjusting the heat consumption for panel houses is determined, where the permissible period of power variation is not more than 6 hours. The range of power change in this case reaches 40%. The obtained results can find its practical application in intelligent heat supply systems to minimize consumption of fuel and energy resources

Developing Translation Competence in Thermal Power Engineering Students

An engineering graduate today should be able to apply a variety of professional and the so-called deep learning competences including communication and translation competence. The paper gives a review of the notion of translation competence and presents key pre-requisites and creative tasks that enable thermal power engineering students of the National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia, develop and master translation competence

Socially Centred Fiscal Policy and its Role in Implementing the Idea of Society

The issues of social policy reforming in the Russian Federation at the present stage of development have been considered. The basic elements of the social policy of any state have been noted. Social policy in Russia in the last twenty years has been investigated

The Idea of Subsidies in the New Russian State Policy

The main goals of social and economic modernization, manifested by the Russian government in social policy have been studied. The basic cause of Russia losing its advantages in the social policy implementation is outlined. The Federal Law on the reform in the public sector has been analyzed. The shortcomings and problems affecting the introduction of this law into effect have been detected

Sociocultural Component in the Content of Teaching Foreign Languages to Pre-school Children

The paper is aimed at studying efficiency of learning languages by pre-school children. Different types of memory that are at high level of its development at this age promote children's abilities to acquire languages. Also psychologically, pre-school children are fit to develop speech and communication skills by using adequate materials and tasks. A set of criteria are evaluated to introduce socio-cultural content for promoting effective language learning