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KAZAN STATE POWER ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY
KSPEU is the educational and scientific-research centre of Tatarstan energetics.
KSPEU is a basic higher educational establishment of power specialists training in Tatarstan Republic. It occupies one of the leading positions in educational level, technical equipment and scientific work.
KSPEU has the full-time (day-time), part-time (evening-time) and distant-learning (external) education versions. It offers courses on 46 specialities and specializations. KSPEU includes 3 Institutes: Heat and Power Engineering Institute, Electrical Power Engineering Institute and Institute of Economy and Information Technologies (humanitarian specialities).
At the moment more than 10 000 students and post-graduate students from different regions of the Russian Federation, countries of CIS (The Commonwealth of Independent States) and distant foreign countries are studying at the University.
Pedagogical process and scientific work at the University are carried out by a team of highly qualified teaching staff and scientific workers. Among the University scientists there are Associate Members of RT Academy of Sciences and also academicians and Associate Members from a number of other Academies.
The University is one of the three specialized Power Engineering High Learning Institutions in Russia. It became the science and technology centre of power engineering specialists training. The University has dissertational councils on maintaining theses for a Doctor’s degree and for a Candidates and Masters degrees on directions: Thermal Power and Electrical Power Engineering, Physics, Humanitarian and Social Sciences.
The course of competitors for Doctor's degree and the post-graduate course train the scientific staff for the Volga Region enterprises and organizations.
There are the Institute preparatory centre, the faculties of additional education and post-graduate professional education, the International Relations Department in KSPEU.
The University has a publishing-polygraphic complex with modern equipment for books publishment, educational literature, scientific magazines, etc.
The KSPEU library is divided into several reading halls and owns the most complete literature fund in energetics field. The total library book fund is reflected in electronic catalogues of all-university computer network with the free access of users.
KSPEU has the aim training and work placement department for graduating students, which is purposefully occupied with the university post-graduate student’s work arrangement.
Students life.
The University Students Club organizes the students’ leasure time. Students participate in amateur art activities, sing in the choir. For several years KSPEU is a winner of Student’s festival “Student’s spring”.
Students have great opportunities for physical culture, sports activities. They have sport halls, tennis courts, playgrounds at their disposal.
Vocabulary
scientific research centre - научно-исследовательский центр
establishment - учреждение
power specialists training - подготовка специалистов в области энергетики
occupy - занимать
equipment - оборудование
full-time - дневное обучение
part-time - вечернее обучение
post-graduate students - аспиранты
to carry out - выполнять
staff - штат
council - совет
thesis (pl.theses) - диссертация
leasure time - досуг
be at smb’s disposal - быть в чьем-либо распоряжении.