Scientific activity in the Rostov State Transport University

 

The scientific activity in the University is carried out under the guidance of an Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, an Honoured Man of Science of the Russian Federation, the Rector of the Rostov State Transport University Vladimir Ivanovitch Kolesnikov. Over 40 academicians and corresponding members of different academies, over 70 doctors of Sciences, professors and over 300 candidates of Sciences, associate professors, as well as researchers and engineers perform fundamental and scientific research work in RSTU. There are also a number of centers in the University: the research and experimental centre «Kriotransenergo» , the research laboratory «The Systems of dispatcher control», the innovation and research center «Safety on transport», a scientific and the research laboratory «Electromotor», the scientific and research center «Transport tribotechnics», the branch scientific and research laboratory «Regional transport progammes».

The University collaborates with the institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences in many scientific areas: theoretical physics, tribotechnics, the problems of technogenic safety, superconductive technologies for the railway transport and others. The collective of scientists have proven their ability to carry out scientific work from fundamental research to the finished model. The high level of research is proved by the fact that the scientists of the University have repeatedly received the competitive grants from the Russian fund of fundamental research, the ministries and departments with budgetary funding.

In the recent years the University has continued the development of existing and new scientific schools. Some of them are known not only in our country but also abroad. The school of tribology is the most venerable in our University. The practical result of the research work is the creation of composite materials preventing hard deterioration and new technologies for lubricating the friction pair.

The collective of scientists perform research work aimed at solving the integrated problems: optimizing the reference terminal (station) technology, developing the united technology of moving, accumulating and forming cargo shipload lots.

The outcomes of the research work are published in the collections of scientific papers and monographies. They develop in the patents and copyrights for inventions, result in defending doctoral dissertations. Since October 1999 the scientific journal «Vestnic RGUPS» has been published in RSTU. It highlights the actual and topical problems of the field and the research work of the Russian scientists and their foreign colleagues.

 

Vocabulary:

to collaborate –сотрудничать;

tribotechnics –триботехника;

superconductive –сверхпроводниковый;

a finished model –готовая разработка;

venerable –маститый;

deterioration –износ;

a friction pair –пара трения;

reference terminal (station) technology –технология опорных станций;

cargo shipload lots –судовые партии грузов;

an outcome –результат;

a collection of scientific papers –сборник научных трудов;

actual and topical – текущий и актуальный.

Questions to the text:

1 How large is the scientific staff of the RSTU?

2 What scientific centers and laboratories are there in the University?

3 What are the main scientific problems studied at the University?

4 What scientific school of the University is the most famous?

5 Are the developments of the University scientists implemented?