Student research work is the most important part in the process of training highly-qualified specialists, who are able to work in new economic conditions. It requires inculcation of research approach and scientific activity into teaching-and-educational process.

This year we work on inculcation of educational technologies into the process of education, which allows not only to increase the efficiency of research work, but to secure the solution of many significant goals of University, which are:

• to find new forms of scientific participation and training of students;
• to secure active students' participation in scientific-and-technical and research-and-production conferences, developing their skills to state the results of their scientific work;
• to involve students into engineering-and-design work, rationalization-and-inventive activity, work for technological progress at enterprises;
• to organize exhibitions of students' scientific-and-technical creativity;
• to develop programs on improvement of training highly-qualified specialists;
• to inculcate and widely use the newest scientific and technological equipment, inventions, rational offers and processes either of individual creators or creative youth groups;
• to accomplish multi-profile training of specialist having a rather high level of special knowledge;
• to secure 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 scientific-and-research and development projects.

Subject-matter of scientific research, carried out by students, is defined either by themes of state-budget research, carried out in University according to NAS RB, branch ministries and other establishments, organizations and enterprises, or by problem themes, proposed by students.

Forms of attracting students to scientific work are various, but the most popular and effective are:

• laboratory work with the elements of scientific research, term papers and diploma scientific-and-research works;
• participation in scientific-and-technical inter-university, republic and international conferences, exhibitions, contests and olympiads;
• scientific sections;
• scientific-and-research work during industrial training;
• scientific-and-research activity in public creative societies.

Main quantitative indices for 2007/2008 (Table 1):

Table 1