 STUDENT RESEARCH WORK
Student research work is an important part of training of highly-qualified specialists able to work in new economic conditions.
The university carries out task-oriented work in order to implement in the educational process instructional technologies realizing the research principle of education and allowing not only to improve student research work efficiency, but also to solve a range of important university goals. The main goals are the following ones:
- to find new forms of participation and training of students in creative research;
- to ensure active students' participation in scientific-and-technical and scientific-and-industrial conferences;
- to involve students in engineering and designing work, innovatory and inventive activity;
- to organize regular exhibitions of scientific-and-technical student creativity;
- to contribute to introduction and wide use of the new scientific and technical achievements, inventions, rational offers either of individual creators or creative youth groups;
- to perform diversified professional training with a high level of special knowledge;
- to provide a high level of fundamental knowledge, obtained by students in the process of research work;
- to train highly-qualified staff for own educational and scientific subdivisions;
- to decrease expenses for research and experimental-design projects.
Subject-matter of scientific research, carried out by students, is defined either by themes of state-budget research, conducted at the university on instructions of NAS of Belarus, sectoral ministries and other establishments, or by themes, proposed by the Book of Baranovichi region industrial enterprises composed at the university.
Forms of attracting students to scientific work are various, but the most popular and effective are:
- laboratory practical work with the elements of scientific research, yearly and graduate research projects;
- participation in inter-university, national and international theoretical-and-practical conferences, exhibitions, contests and olympiads;
- research work during practical training;
- research activity in student creative societies.
Young researchers have the opportunity to present the obtained results and to get the approval for their researches by means of participating in seminars, conferences, forums and exhibitions of various levels.
The main quantitative indices for 2010 are given in the table 1.
Table 1.
Indices of student research work for 2010
№ |
Index |
Total |
including in subdivisions |
FP |
FE |
FEL |
FFL |
Common Departments |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
1. |
Quantity of full-time students |
4246 |
1082 |
939 |
1432 |
793 |
|
2. |
Quantity of students involved in all forms of research work beyond class time (every student is calculated only once)
- % of the total quantity of full-time students
including :
- working on planned state-budget and contract-based research and development projects
- working at student research laboratories, the creative workshop and etc.
|
707
16,6
|
207
19%
|
121
13%
|
245
17,1%
|
81
10,1%
|
53 |
3. |
Quantity of reports, presented by students at research conferences,
including:
- international
- national
- inter-university
- university
|
493
259
123
42
69
|
184
66
82
36
|
46
46
|
164
97
29
37
1
|
59
27
3
29
|
40
23
12
2
3
|
4. |
Quantity of student research works, presented at review-contest,
including:
- international
- national
- university
|
60
56
4 |
15
15 |
16
16 |
14
14 |
10
10 |
5
1
4 |
5. |
Quantity of exhibits, made with the assistance of students and presented at exhibitions, including:
- international
- national
- university
- municipal
|
131
10
70
50 |
130
10
70
50 |
1
1
|
- |
- |
- |
6. |
Quantity of published papers whose authors (co-authors) are students |
16 |
10 |
4 |
- |
2 |
- |
7 |
Quantity of published thesis reports, whose authors (co-authors) are students |
365 |
121 |
56 |
67 |
101 |
20 |
8. |
Quantity of positive decisions on applications for industrial property objects obtained by students themselves or in co-authorship |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
|
9. |
Quantity of student scientific works and exhibits, awarded at contests and exhibitions,
including:
- international
- national
- inter-university
- university
contests and exhibitions |
30
30 |
11
11 |
8
8 |
6
6 |
5
5 |
- |
10. |
Quantity of scientific and pedagogical staff, supervisors of student research work beyond class time
- % of the total quantity of scientific and pedagogical staff
|
225
52%
|
64
57%
|
39
45%
|
42
39%
|
36
45%
|
44
42%
|
11. |
Quantity of students getting a personal grant |
4 |
2 |
- |
- |
3 |
- |
|
