Erahtin, I. K.

Konovalov, D. A.

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69American universities is the payment for education, which exists in almost alluniversities. State universities also receive direct appropriations from the state. Callattention to itself is also a significant proportion of university income that theyreceive from the federal government. Source of funding associated with the directflow of funds in the form of grants for research work which distributed on acompetitive basis. Unlike in the U.S.A, in most Russian universities, this share isinsignificant yet and connected to, as a rule, arrival individual grants by the teachers.In the U.S.A, these grants are also obtained for specific projects of individualresearchers from a variety of independent federal authorities. So, most part of thebasic research funded by the federal government, and this item of income may also beabout a quarter of all revenues to the treasury of the University. In Russia, it is alsonecessary to significantly increase this component in the funding of universitiesrealizing research, using the mechanisms of orders from government agencies andinstitutional grants from the research funds which distributed on a competitive basis[2].Problems students faced during the realization of research work have an effecton the quality of the scientific work. Proceeding from the position that on the onehand, the students don't have unlimited free access to scientific information in theirnarrow specialization and the other hand, they not always have the opportunity toexchange experiences at the international level, we cannot avoid the idea of decreaseof the students' research work quality.References1. Mironov V.A., Maikova E.Y. Social aspects to enhance research activities of university students:Monograph. Tver: TGTU, 2004. 100 p.2. Educational services market in Russia and abroad. URL: http://www.bestreferat.ru/referat-241194.html. ( 21.04.2014).3. Sidorenko Yu.V. Students' research work during educational process // Fundamental research.2005. No. 7. P. 55-56.4. Morgenshtern M., Freymond N., Agyapong S., Greeson C. Graduate social work students'attitudes toward research: problems and prospects. // Journal of Teaching in Social Work. 2011.V. 31. No. 5. P. 552-568.5. Brazhnik E.I, Lebedev L.I. Organization of research work of master degree students in highereducation institutions in Russia and France. // The Emissia. Offline Letters: electronic scientificjournal. 2008. 292. ( 21.04.2014).Linguistic adviser: A. G. Sondor, teacher of TPUI. . Erahtin, D. . KonovalovTomsk Polytechnic UniversityProject work: designing a fish robotProject work is regarded to be one of the most interesting, challenging andcreative components of English language learning and teaching. Many researches and70teachers claim that students as active participants of the learning process get totallyinvolved in project work when studying English as a first foreign language in a hightechnical school. [1]This article aims at introducing the project designed by the second-year studentsof the Institute of Non-Destructive Testing of Tomsk Polytechnic University. Theproject is closely connected with constructing a robot for aquarium maintenance. It isimportant to note that this idea was born in our minds. Due to the high pace of life,people do not have enough time to care about their home pets, so we decided tocreate a robot which will help these busy people keep their aquarium fish and savetime simultaneously.While working over the project, various types of devices for aquariummaintenance were thoroughly considered and scrutinised. As a result, we came to amutual decision to construct a robot which could combine all useful characteristics ofthe existing devices. Thus, a robot-fish FC-1 was designed to care about aquariumfish.The FC-maintaining adequate amount of oxygen in aquarium water. To perform thesefunctions well, the robot is constructed to consist of eight basic components: a feeder,a cleaning filter, an oxygen generator, two sensors - optical and biosensor, acommunication channel with power source and air, and, a module of control which islocated inside the robot.This robot belongs to a fixed-type robot. So it can be placed in any type ofaquarium and is capable to work completely autonomously.earlier the robot has a feeder. This module throws fishfood in the aquarium water atsome certain time intervals. A food container has to be replaced once a month.To continue, we have to say that the robot has two sensors: an optical sensor anda biosensor. The optical sensor is required to determine the level of watercontamination. The working principle of this sensor is based on the measurement ofincoming intensity of light. In its turn, the biosensor determines the level of oxygenin water. The principle of this operation is based on a chemical reaction and itsconversion into an electrical signal.The next component to be described is a cleaning system. The cleaning systemis a filter which circulates water in the aquarium and thereby purifies it. The filter hasto be replaced once a month.As for the next component, the robot has a module of control which is surely tobe named the heart of the robot. Its function is to process signals received from thesensors and monitor other structural components functioning.We would also like to note that the FC-1 is a standard robot which size is lessthan a soccer ball, but the size may vary depending on the size of the aquarium. TheIn conclusion, we would like to mention that this robot is just a prototype. Thereis much to be improved in our future work yet, for example:1) the feeder needs to be modernized,2) the module of control needs special software to be designed,713) the power source for the FC-1 has to be changed for autonomous powersupply.References1. . ., . ., . . -« » // . .: 2- . . I. . 88-92.Y.D. Krasilnikova, .S. Shutova, .B. TopoevTomsk Polytechnic UniversityMain principles of designing a robot to help elderly peopleProject work is surely regardecommunicative competence when studying English as a second language. Thismethod encourages students to raise the awareness of the target language and culture,improves their communication skills, and enhances the knowledge of vocabularyitems and grammar structures while solving professional tasks in English [1].Being the second-year students of the Institute of Non-Destructive Testing ofTomsk Polytechnic University, we are greatly motivated to perform different tasksand assignments which focus on the development of creative analytical thinking andproduction of engineering ideas. The best stimulus to achieve these goals is to offerstudents to do a project work. This paper represents the outcomes of the projectconnected with designing a robot to help elderly people.We suppose that modern people spend their lives working hard for six days aweek, as a result they come home very late and tired. Their daily life rhythm preventsthem from communicating with beloved people, especially grandparents.Unfortunately, they turn to be incapable to visit them every day, therefore,communication between people fails. This is surely a significant problem which hasto be solved with the help of engineering technologies. So our project aimed atgood mood.For this project to be a success, we carefully considered all the components of-purposeparts, for example, arms, legs, a head and a trunk. Each of the mentioned componentsenables the robot to perform several basic and specific functions due to its specialsensory system.The robot is equipped with acoustic and visual sensors for informationr. Elderly people often feelsad and alone. In other words, they need someone to talk to, complain or boast of

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