Contemporary Issues of Metallurgy and Materials Science

Published: 01 October 2015

Major – Metallurgy

Specialisation – Ferrous metallurgy

Degree – Master

Course units:

• Up-to-date world and Russian metallurgy. Main trends in its development. Metallurgy in the Ural region.  
• State of iron ore and fuel and energy sectors in world and Russian metallurgy. Modern refractory materials.
• Modern blast-furnace process. Main directions in coke consumption reduction.  Alternative processing of  iron ore raw materials.
• Problems and prospects in using unconventional iron crude ore and new fuel types in metallurgical enterprises of the South Ural region. 
• New steel grades: high-strength steels, specialty steels. Up-to-date requirements for harmful ingredients contents.
• Achievements and main problems of the metallurgical science.
• Up-to-date continuous steel casting and main directions in its development. Casting and rolling plants.
• Issues of production of ferroalloys and key non-ferrous metals in Russian metallurgy.
• Major issues of basic oxygen and arc-furnace steelmaking processes. Ladle treatment of steel.

Activities:

• Teacher-led group activities in a classroom;
• Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (obligatory);
• Office-hours.

Total – 108 hours

Total points – 3

Laboratory classes – none

Midterm assessment – pass/fail examination

Metallurgical facilities design

Published: 01 October 2015

Major – Metallurgy

Specialisation – Ferrous metallurgy

Degree – Master

Course units:

• Plant and equipment of steel-melting shops. Basic oxygen furnace shops.
• Plant and equipment of steel-melting shops. Arc-furnace melting shops.
• Design basics of new steel-melting shops.

Course contents:

• Goals and objectives of the course. Achievements, weaknesses and prospects in development in the matters of structure, equipment, and design of steel-melting shops.
• History of creation, state-of-the-art and prospects. Generations of basic oxygen furnace shops, their general description.
• Representative design of the first Russian basic oxygen furnace shop, its structure and equipment. Critical overview of the representative design. General description and evolution of representative design shops.
• Structure (departments) and layout (general plan) of a modern basic oxygen furnace shop. Supplementary shops (production units, facilities) of the converter-melting complex.
• Converter section of a basic oxygen furnace shop. Structural, equipment and logistics features of shops of different generations.  
• Continuous steel casting department with linear and multi-row arrangement of machinery.
• Other departments of basic oxygen furnace shops: scrap department, mixer department, cast iron overflow department, department of primary treatment of slag, bulky materials and ferroalloys.
• Introduction, development, state-of-the-art, and prospects of construction of arc-furnace melting shops. Design of a modern arc-furnace melting shop. Structure, equipment, and logistics of arc-furnace melting shops.
• Creation and development of open-hearth shops. Shops of the 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd representative designs, their general description. Types of open-hearth shops. State-of-the-art and prospects. Design (departments), structure, equipment, and logistics of an open-hearth shop.  
• General principles: Design (project) description, definitions of project facilities, engineering, procurement, construction contractor and subcontractor, chief project engineer, design and construction (reconstruction) sequence of shops.
• Design technology: design goals and objectives, main stages and levels; set of construction documentation, purpose and general description; construction (reconstruction) feasibility criteria.
• General description of design engineering and project of a new steel-melting shop.  Steel-melting shop as a design object.
• General principles of a steel-melting shop design and their rationale.
• Types of melting unit structures. Capacity of a melting unit, number of melting units in a shop; Secondary metallurgy methods and units; types of a continuous steel casting machine, its size and optimum number.  
• Reconstruction, expansion, and upgrading of steel-melting shops. Reconstruction efficiency of operating steel-melting shops, options and prospects. Reconstruction of basic oxygen furnace shops. Grouping of operating open-hearth shops as reconstruction objects, their general description and prospects. Major directions and organisational and technical solutions of reconstruction of basic oxygen furnace shops. Reconstruction of open-hearth shops.

Activities:

• Teacher-led group activities in a classroom;
• Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (obligatory);
• Office-hours.

Total – 252 hours

Total points – 7

Laboratory classes – none

Midterm assessment – pass/fail examination

Technological innovations in scientific research and education

Published: 01 October 2015

Major – Metallurgy

Specialisation – Ferrous metallurgy

Degree – Master

Course units:

• Self-study
• Curriculum. Research work plan
• Educational technologies
• Lecture
• Workshop
• Interactive learning

Course contents:

• Introductory lecture. Informational lecture. Integrative (review) lecture. Problem-solving lecture. Lecture-visualisation. Lecture delivered by two teachers (lecture-in-pair). Lecture with pre-planned errors. Lecture as a conference. Lecture-consultation. Lecture as a press conference.
• Proseminar. Conventional seminar. Special seminar. Seminar-conversation. Seminar as a report discussion.  Seminar-discussion.
• IT techniques.  Teamwork. Case-study. Role-playing. Problem-based learning. Contextual learning. Discovery conversation. Brainstorming.     

Activities:

• Teacher-led group activities in a classroom;
• Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (obligatory);
• Office-hours.

Total – 252 hours

Total points – 7

Laboratory classes – none

Midterm assessment – pass/fail examination

Innovation Management

Published: 01 October 2015

Major – Metallurgy

Specialisation – Ferrous metallurgy

Degree – Master

Course units:

• Introduction. Range and subject-matter of the innovation science
• Innovations as the key factor of competitiveness
• Innovation process
• Innovation strategy
• Innovation management specifics
• Innovation structures and organisations

Activities:

• Teacher-led group activities in a classroom;
• Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (obligatory);
• Office-hours

Total – 108 hours

Total points – 3

Laboratory classes– none

Midterm assessment – pass/fail examination

Intellectual Property Protection

Published: 01 October 2015

Major – Metallurgy

Specialisation – Ferrous metallurgy

Degree – Master

Course units:

• Introduction
• Patent law. Invention
• Patent law. Utility model and industrial design
• Rights to means of individualization
• Copyright and associated rights
• Non-traditional objects of intellectual property
• Sources of information, information search techniques and means
• Unfair competition. Patent and license activity

Course contents:

• Definition of intellectual property. Industrial property. Objects of intellectual property. Patent law of the Russian Federation.
• Patent law. Sources of the patent law. Subjects and objects of the patent law. Invention (definition). Patentability requirements and objects of invention. Inventors’ rights and legal protection. Invention identification procedure. Application for an invention and its examining operation. Employee’s invention.
• Utility model (definition). Registrability requirements. Legal protection of a utility model. Application for a utility model and its examining operation. Industrial design. Types of industrial design, patentability requirements.
• Trademarks (TM), service mark (SM) (definition). Types of TM and SM. Non-protectable designations. Ownership rights and legal protection of trademarks. Application for a trademark, service mark and its examining operation.
• Definition of copyright. Copyright subjects and objects. Legal protection requirements. Authors’ rights. Works for hire. Copyright validity.  Copyright protection. Legal protection of computer software and data bases.
• Specifics of non-traditional objects of intellectual property. Production secrets (know-how) as objects of exclusive rights: definition and legal nature of production secrets (know-how).
• Patent documentation in the USSR, Russian Federation and CIS. Patent information of the leading foreign countries. Patent search with the international patent classification. Reference and search aids.
• Unfair competition. Infringement of patent rights, copyright and associated rights. Protection against unfair competition.

Activities:

• Teacher-led group activities in a classroom;
• Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (obligatory);
• Office-hours.

Total – 108 hours

Total points – 3

Laboratory classes – none

Midterm assessment – pass/fail examination

Quality Management

Published: 01 October 2015

Major – Metallurgy

Specialisation – Ferrous metallurgy

Degree – Master

Course units:

• Definition of quality, its subject matter and stages of development
• Quality policy
• Quality strategy and concept
• Definition and characteristics of ISO 9000:2000 standards
• Quality management system documentation
• Organisation pattern of quality management system
• Quality management system implementation
• Quality indices and tools
• Quality costs and determination of cost effectiveness considering products quality growth  

Activities:

• Teacher-led group activities in a classroom;
• Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (obligatory);
• Office-hours.

Total – 144 hours

Total points – 4

Laboratory classes – none

Midterm assessment – examination

Business Foreign Language

Published: 01 October 2015

Major – Metallurgy

Specialisation - Ferrous metallurgy

Degree – Master

Course units:

• Science and technology
• Sciences and technology branches of the specialisation

Course contents:

• Basic and applied research
• Influence of innovations on technological process
• Specifics of a formal register: grammar specific for the register; technical terms vocabulary
• Methodological basis of the scientific research
• Scientific research hypothesis

Activities:

• Teacher-led group activities in a classroom;
• Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (obligatory);
• Office-hours.

Total – 144 hours

Total points – 4

Laboratory classes – none

Midterm assessment – examination

Research Methodology

Published: 01 October 2015

Major – Metallurgy

Specialisation – Ferrous metallurgy

Degree – Master

Course units:

• Introduction
• Development of the working hypothesis
• Specifics of the industrial experimentation
• Processing and analysis of experiment results. Drawing conclusions

Course contents:

Necessity of the scientific experimentation learning. Main stages of the scientific research. Consideration of a problem.

Assessment of the problem maturity (review of literature:

• filing of writings;
• defining of more important sources;
• note-taking;
• summerising).

Experiment planning and management:

• selection of optimisation parameters;
• factor selection;
• factor down-selection;
• search for an optimal region

Reporting:

• a report on a scientific research work;
• conference reports;
• article writing;
• an invention application.

Activities:

• Teacher-led group activities in a classroom;
• Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (obligatory);
• Office-hours.

Total – 72 hours

Total points – 2

Laboratory classes – none

Midterm assessment – pass/fail examination