A woman in the man’s culture of engineering education

The study is aimed at identifying barriers to the research career of women in the academic environment of a technical university. The authors present the results of their study of the women’s status in the academic community. The study is based on a quantitative (questionnaire survey) and qualitative (biographical interviews) analysis of the opinions of students and teachers of STEM disciplines of a technical university about the features and problems of women’s professional careers. It is established that women of the same university evaluate the presence and degree of influence of barriers to the research careers differently. In some cases, women assessing their professional status note that they do not feel professional discrimination on the basis of gender. In general, the analysis revealed that women who received a STEM education use a strategy of avoiding a research career and choosing alternative career options: either outside the academic environment, or by transitioning to teaching as a way to circumvent gender barriers in grant and publication activities. © 2019 Moscow Polytechnic University. All rights reserved.Russian Foundation for Basic Research, RFBRRussian Foundation for Basic Research, RFBR: 19-011-00252in the framework of the project «Comparative analysis of social effects and the impact of institutional conditions on the professional training of engineering specialists», implemented with the support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research – RFBR (grant № 19-011-00252)

Institutional aspects of STEM-directions master training: from models to reality

В статье рассматриваются проблемы и перспективы магистерской подготовки инженерных кадров в Уральском федеральном университете. Исследуются целевые модели, значимость ключевых компетенций и индивидуальные профессиональные траектории магистров STEM-направления.The article examines the problems and prospects of master training of engineering personnel in the Ural Federal University. Researched the target model, the importance of key competencies and individual professional trajectory of STEM-direction Masters.Исследование выполнено при финансовой поддержке РФФИ-Урал в рамках проекта №13-06-96013 «Формирование современной технической элиты в условиях модернизации экономики Свердловской области: проектирование модели непрерывного инженерного образования»

System to raise professional engineering staff according to experts

The organization of system of improvement of professional skill on a number of large industrial enterprises of the region in the estimates of engineers. Designated priority measures for improving the quality of training of engineering professionals. The assumption is made that identified in the expert survey problem areas in the content of training programs can be promising areas of training of elite engineersРассматривается организация системы повышения профессионального мастерства на крупных промышленных предприятиях области в оценках инженеров-практиков. Обозначены первоочередные меры, обеспечивающие повышение качества подготовки инженерных специалистов. Сделано предположение о том, что выявленные в ходе экспертного опроса проблемные зоны в содержании программ подготовки могут стать перспективными направлениями подготовки элитных инженерных кадро

Innovative resource modern engineer

В статье исследуется одна из значимых проблем для формирования технической элиты — развитие инновационной активности инженерно-технических специалистов. В качестве эмпирического материала использованы материалы экспертного опроса инженеров-практиков (N=240) трех региональных промышленных предприятий (лето 2013 года). В опросе приняли участие как организаторы производства (линейные и функциональные руководители), так и специалисты (инженер-сметчик, инженер-конструктор, инженер-технолог и пр.).This article examines one of the most important problems for the formation of a technical elite — the development of innovative activity of engineering professionals. As the empirical material used materials expert survey practicing engineers (N = 240), three regional industrial enterprises (summer of 2013 year). The survey involved as organizers of production (linear and functional managers) and specialists (engineer quantity surveyor, engineer-designer, engineer, etc.).Статья подготовлена в рамках проекта « Новые модели инженерного образования как фактор воспроизводства технической элиты индустриального региона» № 13-06-00610, поддержанного РФФ

Socio-professional choice of youth: the reality and challenges

The article indicated by the problems and contradictions of implementing social and professional choices of young people. The analysis of the existing practices of regional programs of vocational guidance work with young students. The urgency to develop a new ideology and methods of implementation of activities for professional orientation of youth.В статье обозначены проблемы и противоречия реализации социально-профессиональных выборов молодёжи. Проводится анализ существующих практик, областных программ профориентационной работы с учащейся молодёжью. Обоснована актуальность разработки новой идеологии и методов реализации деятельности по профессиональной ориентации молодежи

A Woman in the Man’s Culture of Engineering Education

The study is aimed at identifying barriers to the research career of women in the academic environment of a technical university. The authors present the results of their study of the women’s status in the academic community. The study is based on a quantitative (questionnaire survey) and qualitative (biographical interviews) analysis of the opinions of students and teachers of STEM disciplines of a technical university about the features and problems of women’s professional careers. It is established that women of the same university evaluate the presence and degree of influence of barriers to the research careers differently. In some cases, women assessing their professional status note that they do not feel professional discrimination on the basis of gender. In general, the analysis revealed that women who received a STEM education use a strategy of avoiding a research career and choosing alternative career options: either outside the academic environment, or by transitioning to teaching as a way to circumvent gender barriers in grant and publication activities

A Dipole Vortex Model of Obscuring Tori in Active Galaxy Nuclei

The torus concept as an essential structural component of active galactic nuclei (AGN) is generally accepted. Here, the situation is discussed when the torus "twisting" by the radiation or wind transforms it into a dipole toroidal vortex which in turn can be a source of matter replenishing the accretion disk. Thus emerging instability which can be responsible for quasar radiation flares accompanied by matter outbursts is also discussed. The "Matreshka" scheme for an obscuring vortex torus structure capable of explaining the AGN variability and evolution is proposed. The model parameters estimated numerically for the luminosity close to the Eddington limit agree well with the observations.Comment: 17 pages, 11 figures, version of this paper is published in Astronomy Report

KiDS-SQuaD: The KiDS Strongly lensed Quasar Detection project

New methods have been recently developed to search for strong gravitational lenses, in particular lensed quasars, in wide-field imaging surveys. Here, we compare the performance of three different, morphology- and photometry- based methods to find lens candidates over the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) DR3 footprint (440 deg$^2$). The three methods are: i) a multiplet detection in KiDS-DR3 and/or Gaia-DR1, ii) direct modeling of KiDS cutouts and iii) positional offsets between different surveys (KiDS-vs-Gaia, Gaia-vs-2MASS), with purpose-built astrometric recalibrations. The first benchmark for the methods has been set by the recovery of known lenses. We are able to recover seven out of ten known lenses and pairs of quasars observed in the KiDS DR3 footprint, or eight out of ten with improved selection criteria and looser colour pre-selection. This success rate reflects the combination of all methods together, which, taken individually, performed significantly worse (four lenses each). One movelty of our analysis is that the comparison of the performances of the different methods has revealed the pros and cons of the approaches and, most of all, the complementarities. We finally provide a list of high-grade candidates found by one or more methods, awaiting spectroscopic follow-up for confirmation. Of these, KiDS 1042+0023 is to our knowledge the first confirmed lensed quasar from KiDS, exhibiting two quasar spectra at the same source redshift at either sides of a red galaxy, with uniform flux-ratio $f\approx1.25$ over the wavelength range $0.45\mu\mathrm{m}<\lambda<0.75\mu\mathrm{m}.$Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in MNRA

Microstructure and magnetoresistance of Co90Fe10/Cu and Co65Fe26Ni9/Cu multilayers

Investigations of the microstructure, magnetic and magnetotransport properties of the optimized [Co90Fe10/Cu]n and [Co65Fe26Ni9/Cu] n multilayers with n = 32 prepared by magnetron sputtering are performed. These nanostructures exhibit the magnetoresistance values 83 % and 36 % at room temperature, respectively. The article presents the results of the influence of Co65Fe26Ni9 alloy on the magnetoresistance values and crystal structure of multilayers. In the periodic part of the nanostructure [Co65Fe26Ni9/Cu] n based on CoFeNi ternary alloy, besides fcc the formation of a bcc phase in the continuous boundaries around crystallites is found. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd

Structure and magnetic properties of the Co2FeAl and Co2NiSi Heusler alloy films

The structural and magnetic properties (field dependences of the magnetization in magnetic fields of up to 6 kOe) of thin-film Co2FeAl, and Co2NiSi Heusler alloys grown by pulsed laser deposition on glass and a single-crystalline Al2O3 R-plane substrate at different growth temperatures (20, 280 and 420 °C) were studied. It was found that the stoichiometric composition of the films depends on the substrate temperature during growth and repeats the composition of the target for films grown at low temperatures. The films deposited on a single crystalline Al2O3 substrate have uniaxial magnetic anisotropy in the plane. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.This work was partly supported by the state assignment of Minobrnauki of Russia (themes “Spin” No. АААА-А18-118020290104-2), RFBR grants (Nos. 18-32-00686 and 18-02-00739) and the Government of the Russian Federation (state contract No. 02.A03.21.0006)