Mechanical Engineers and Their Job

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MY UNIVERSITY

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I'm a student of the Ufa State Petroleum Technological University. It is one of the largest educational institutions in the Russian Federation. It was founded in 1948 as the Ufa Oil Institute and in 1993 it was elevated to university status. But it should be noted that the institute was formed not at once. It has an interesting and instructive historical background typical of many institutes born in the eastern parts of our country during the post-war time.

In severe years of 1941 all Moscow institutes were being evacuated to the Urals, Siberia and Central Asia. The Moscow Oil Institute was evacuated to Bashkiria. By January 1942, students and their professors in small groups reached at last Chernikovka where the Institute was evacuated. It was housed in a two-storied building in Ulyanov Street, 45. They lived in terrible living conditions but in spite of all these hardships the institute continued its functioning, the lectures being delivered for ten hours a day.

In November 1943 the Institute returned to Moscow leaving its branch in Ufa. There were 150 students left in Ufa. They studied here for two years and then were transferred to Moscow to complete their education.

The Ufa branch of the Moscow Oil Institute existed from 1943 to 1948. There were only three faculties at that time.

In autumn, 1948 it became independent and was named the Ufa Oil Institute.

Nowadays it trains above 14000 students not only from Russia but also from the Independent States of the former Soviet Union, Asia, Latin America and Africa. Training of foreign students at USPTU is carried out since 1986. During this period more than 300 specialists from more than 30 countries of the world received diplomas of USPTU.

The University has seven faculties which train highly-skilled specialists. They are:

1. Oil and Gas Mining;

2. Pipeline Transportation;

3. Economics and Management;

4. Chemical Technology and Biotechnology;

5. Architecture and Building Engineering;

6. Geology and Geophysics;

7. Humanities;

8. Automation.

The academic year at the University is subdivided into a winter semester (from September to January) and a summer one (from February to June). Each semester ends with examinations. There are many well-equipped laboratories and workshops with modern apparatus and instruments in the University to provide high level of training. Here students carry out investigations, make experiments and develop devices. The experienced teachers help them in their research. Students have a large well-stocked library and reading halls at their disposal.

The University is in close connection with oil industry and students have practical training at the refineries, oil fields and other industrial enterprises of our country. On graduating from the University some of the best students remain for 3 years more to do post­graduate work but the rest are assigned to jobs at the research institutes, pipe-line construction sites, refineries, oil fields and other places.

Social life of the University is characterized by the existence of a large number of students' societies and clubs.

Our university has 3 branches in Oktyabrsk, Salavat and Sterlitamak.

(Mechanical Faculty)

I am a student of the Mechanical Faculty of the Ufa State Petroleum Technological University. Seven faculties of our University train engineers in various fields of study, such as oil-well drilling, oil and gas transportation, oil field development and exploita­tion, automation and remote control of industrial processes and others. It also trains mechanical (petroleum) engineers to work in oil processing and oil extracting industry. Within the spe­ciality of the mechanical engineer students entering our University may specialize in the following branches:

1. Mechanisms and equipment of oil and gas fields.

2. Mechanisms and apparatus of chemical enterprises.

3. Chemical resistance of materials and corrosion protection.

The ever developing drilling technique calls for new drilling equipment and tools. Our engineers have designed and develo­ped a great number of new drilling devices and tools, improved the drilling equipment. All these instruments made it possible to increase the depth of drilling, productivity and ensure gre­ater safety of the drilling process. The students specializing in mechanisms and equipment of oil and gas fields are to cope with these tasks. They will have to design and develop new ty­pes of pumps, draw-works, hoisting equipment, compressors and many other items of equipment.

Machinery and apparatus of chemical enterprises is a speciality that trains engineers for refineries and petrochemical plants. The future specialists will have to solve many enginee­ring problems such as:

1. Exploitation and maintenance of plant machinery.

2. Calculating and designing machines and instruments.

3. Technology of manufacturing equipment.

4. Mantling metal structures and equipment.

5. Researches dealing with strength, long life and intensi­fication of machinery operation as well as maintenance and installation.

Modern refineries and petrochemical plants are equipped with dif­ferent machinery and in order to solve many engineering prob­lems mechanical engineers must have good training. The students specializing in chemical resistance of mate­rials and corrosion protection receive very good training in chemistry, physics, mathematics and many other subjects. As a result of the training engineers of this speciality can work not only at the refineries and petrochemical plants but almost at any kind of enterprise.

Demand for qualified mechanical engineers is high. Mechanical engineers have a wide range of job opportunities. They may be management, sales, development, research, design or production engineers in such industries as food, steel, che­mical, heavy and light engineering. They also can work in ser­vice industries such as transport and gas, water and electricity. Mechanical engineers are vital to the running of plants. With­out them production would be impossible. Each plant is likely to be different. Some are large, some are small and most of them are complex. The main operational objectives of safety, efficiency and profi­tability are common to them all and demand a range of technical and personal skills from the engineers.

Mechanical engineers are concerned with machines, mechanisms and energy conversion. Mechanical equipment is at the core of the plants. Each plant is different from the next: the machines are particular to the process involved in making the end product and mechanical engineers are involved in their design, building and operation.

Mechanical engineers ^′ jobs are demanding and exciting. Technical and managerial skills of mechanical engineers are used to the fullest. They keep the plant running and stimulate the team to make better use of equipment and improve performance.

Mechanical engineers are at the core of production: they manage plant and equipment, they manage people. In fact, they manage our future.

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