National Research Nuclear University
“MEPhI”: Collaboration with Maryland
Consortium
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History
MEPhI was founded during World War II in 1942 initially
as Moscow Mechanical Institute of Ammunition by Stalin’s
personal order.
The main goal of its foundation was to collect brilliant
minds together, train them and urgently start research in
creation of nuclear weapon.
Since the end of 50-th the main goal of Moscow
Engineering Physics Institute is the peopleware for safety
developing of nuclear industry (research, engineering,
technologies)
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WHO WAS AT THE ORIGIN
Academicians
I.V. Kurchatov
L.A. Artsimovich
He was the “father”
of the Soviet atomic
project.
He worked in the field of
nuclear fusion and plasma
physics. He was known as
“the father of the Tokamak”.
I.K. Kikoin
He made prominent achievements
in research in the field of atomic
technologies and solid state
physics.
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WHO WAS AT THE ORIGIN
The Nobel Prize Winners
P.A. Cherenkov
I.M. Frank
I.E. Tamm
N.N. Semenov
N.G. Basov
A.D. Saharov
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NRNU “MEPhI” nowdays
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National Research Nuclear University «MEPhI» - territorially dispersed scientific and educational
holding, uniting educational institutions, training personnel for nuclear sector of Russian
Federation
Decree of the President of Russian Federation on the 7th October 2008 №1448
Government of Russian Federation Edict on the 8th of April 2009 №480-р
NRNU MEPhI unites 10 Higher Education Institutions and 15
colleges:
about 34 thousand student; over 2000 people – teacher staff;
over 1500 professors and associated professors,
educational area – more then 500 000 square kilometers ;
Priority of NRNU MEPhI: personnel
60 specialties of Higher Professional Education
scientific-innovational provision
45 specialties of Secondary Professional Education
North Eastern Federal District
Central Federal District
Volga Federal District
Urals Federal District
Southern Federal District
and
•Nuclear energy complex (10 NPP, 24 facilities),
•Nuclear arms complex (RFNC-VNIIEF, RFNCVNIITF, 19 facilities and Scientific Research
Institutes)
•Scientific-technical complex (NRC «Kurchatov
Insitute», 46 Scientific Research Institutes)
•Nuclear and radiation safety complex
(Production Association «Mayak», Siberian
Chemical Plant, 17 facilities).
Siberian Federal District
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Steering Committee of the Program approved educational and scientific
projects of first-priority to be carried out in the years 2010-2012 according to
the following fundamental criteria:
• project compliance with the priority lines of Russian economy
development approved by President of Russian Federation Dmitry
Medvedev;
• integration component of the projects (integration of education, science
and industry; integration of education with leading manufacturers).
Priority line of development:
Nuclear technologies
National Research Nuclear
University educational projects
National Research Nuclear University
scientific innovative projects
New technology platform: closed nuclear Specialist training for new
fuel cycle and fast neutron reactors.
technology platform.
Physics and technology of fast neutron reactors
and closed nuclear fuel cycle.
Controlled nuclear fusion.
Controlled nuclear fusion. Technical
superconductivity.
Specialist training for controlled
nuclear fusion.
Design project development of optimized Specialist training for NPP.
Technologies and materials of NPP. Security
computerized power unit LWR
and efficiency of LWR.
technologies.
Fundamental research of material
Specialist training for Research and Research of material properties in critical
property.
Development Center “Kurchatov conditions. Advanced material and unit
Research Institute” . Specialist
development based on laser and plasma
training for federal nuclear centers. beaming sources.
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MEPhI Nuclear Material Non-Proliferation Activity
• MEPhI widely cooperates with
many domestic and foreign
institutions. Among the basic
foreign partners are NRC,
PNNL, SNL, LANL, ORNL, BNL,
Monterey
Institute
for
International Studies and Texas
A&M University.
• Cooperation is carried out in
the framework of the agreement
between the U.S. Department of
Energy and Russian State
Corporation for Atomic Energy
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NRNU – the Russian center for international
cooperation in nuclear education
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Education of foreign students.
Cooperation with nuclear educational
networks (MEPhI has agreement with
ENEN and ANENT).
Cooperation with foreign nuclear
universities (development common master
of science programs, postgraduate training,
curricula analysis).
Participation at the IAEA activity and
representation of the Russian Federation
at the World Nuclear University.
Cooperation with nuclear centers all over
the world.
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International Educational
and Scientific Projects of
MEPhI in Cooperation with
Universities of the USA
New Stage of Collaboration Development in
Higher Education
• Memorandum of mutual understanding between the Ministry of
Education and Science of Russian Federation and Department of
Education of USA, 31.05.06
• New commonly funding Russian-American program “Perfection of
Scientific and Educational Activity in the Field of Higher Education”,
2007-2008
The Goals of the Program:
• Integration of scientific research into education process
• Expanding of the students, post-graduates, young scientists and faculty
mobility
• Developing of scientific and educational links of Russian Universities
with U.S. Universities
• Perfection of educational activity (common educational-methodical
work, training courses and manuals preparation, creation of joint
training plans and programs, teaching experience exchange)
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The USA-Russian University Consortium
University of Maryland
Lehigh University
NRNU MEPhI
Oregon State University
University of Tennessee
Texas A&M University
U.S. National Laboratories
In Argonne and Oakridge
The main Goal: enhancement of the quality of
education in the field of nuclear physics and nuclear
engineering.
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Agreement between the University of Maryland
and MEPhI
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Development of collaboration between the
University of Maryland and MEPhI faculties
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In-depth study of the training programs
compliance for highest level specialists teaching
in the University of Maryland and MEPhI
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Formation of joint post-graduate study courses
for experts training highly required by Russian
federal nuclear centers and USA national
laboratories
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Exchange of the graduate students specializing
in the field of physical and mathematical
sciences and their appendices
In 2010 the first graduate student
from NRNU “MEPhI” Aleksey
Karavaev has defended PhD thesis
at the University of Maryland.
Defence of the thesis in MEPhI is
scheduled this autumn
( Supervisors: Prof. V. Simonenko
and Prof. D. Papadopulos)
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The First Stage of the Project
2006 - 2007
26th V.M. Galitskiy International School on
Theoretical Physics
• 26th V.M. Galitskiy International School on Theoretical
Physics for graduate students and young scientists was
organized by MEPhI and the University of Maryland. The
session had been devoted to the urgent problems of
modern quantum physics
• Leading Russian scientists, scientists from the University
of Maryland (MD, USA) and the California Institute of
Technology (CA, USA) were the lecturers
• Many young scientists and graduate students from
leading Russian universities, federal nuclear centers and
institutes of the Russian Academy of Science, as well as
from the universities of Germany, Canada, Mexica, and
Ukraine were among participants.
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Workshop
«Collaboration between Universities of Russian Federation and
USA in the field of science and education»
MEPhI, October 23, 2007
The Participants of the Workshop:
86 professors, scientists and students
from 4 Russian Universities and 4 scientific institutes
Moscow, MEPHI, October 23, 2007
Rector of Mephi, prof. M.N.Strikhanov
and prof. N.B.Narozhny
Participants
Participants
Participants
Proceedings of the Workshop
Development of lecture courses and training
programs
• the educational programs of MEPhI have been adapted for two-level
educational system “bachelor-master of science”
• 7 new lecture courses in nuclear science and engineering have
been developed and 13 educational programs modernized
• sets of test tasks for these courses have been developed
The Second Stage of the
Project 2008 - 2009
The State Contract
№ П-330, 4 July 2008
Devepopment of master educational programs
• 3 master educational programs have been developed
«Mathematical physics and mathematical modeling» 010652
«Problems of theoretical physics of elementary particles» 010612
«Problems of theoretical physics» 010613
• The new achievements of nuclear science have been taken into
account.
• The experience of the universities of the Maryland Consortium was
used
• The programs have been endorsed by scientific institutions of
atomic brunch
Training and mentoring packages have been developed
for the courses:
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Quantum mechanics (for bachelors)
Condensed matter physics (for bachelors)
Statistical physics (for bachelors)
Lasers and their applications (for masters)
Integrability and stochasticity of dynamical systems(for masters)
Testing of educational programs, lecture courses and
text books developed with account of the teaching
experience in the US universities
• Testing of the developed educational programs and
lecture corses was organized
• About 300 students of the department of Experimental
and theoretical physics of NRNU “MMEPhI” were tested
Workshop
«Bilateral Collaboration between NNRU
“MEPhI” and US Universities in the field of
science and education»
MEPhI, May 23, 2008
The Participants of the Workshop:
7 invited professors from US universities
101professors, scientists and students
from 7 Russian Universities
Some talks:
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Overview of BS, MS, and PhD Requirements in Nuclear Engineering at U. of
Tennessee H. L. Dodds Ph.D., P.E. IBM Professor of Engineering and Head of
Nuclear Engineering Department University of Tennessee
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U. of Tennessee Nuclear Engineering Department Overview H. L. Dodds Ph.D., P.E.
IBM Professor of Engineering and Head of Nuclear Engineering Department University of
Tennessee
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Distance Education at the U. of Tennessee (with Emphasis on Nuclear
Engineering) H. L. Dodds
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Nuclear Engineering Education at Texas A&M University W. Charlton Associate
Professor, Nuclear Engineering Department Director, Nuclear Security Science &
Policy Institute Texas A&M University
• Proceedings of the Workshop have been published
• Proceedings have been sent to 101 universities in 5
Federal Districts
• The concept of part-time and distance learning for NRNU
“MEPhI” was discussed.
Workshop: “A New Model for U.S.-Russian
Nonproliferation and Antiterrorism Cooperation: The
Next Generation of Advances in Safeguards and
Verification Technologies” (15-16 December, 2008).
Moscow Center Carnegie Endowment,
National Research Nuclear University
“MEPhI”
Main goal: to discuss a
“revolutionary technologies” that
will change the way in which we
think about safeguards: new
methods and approaches to
nuclear material control,
accounting and detection.
33 participants (12 from USA
and 21 from Russia) from 16
institutionsions.
Rose Gottemoeller – U.S. Department of State,
Assistant Secretary for Verification, Compliance,
and Implementation
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Scientific Journal
Nuclear Physics and Engineering
was established
5 American scientists are members of the Editorial board:
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Lee Dodds, prof., Univ. of Tennessee, USA
Sig Hecker, prof., Stanford Univ., USA
Mujid Kazimi, prof., MIT, USA
Roald S. Sagdeev, prof., Univ. of Maryland, USA
Tom Ward, prof., TechSource-Inc., USA
The 1st issue will be available this week!
Educational materials developed in
the framework of the project are
available at the webcite of NRNU
“MEPhI”
www.mephi-usa.mephi.ru
Thank you!
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