The Irkutsk Aviation Plant team was the best at the Second International Youth Industrial Forum Engineers of the Future, and its representative Antonida Druzhinina also won the individual ranking among 1500 participants. KAMAZ and AVTOVAZ also ranked among the top three teams, and IAZ participants took four of the top ten individual places. The forum, which brought together young engineers, scientists and specialists from more than 50 regions and several countries, again confirmed the high level of the Irkutsk team.
The team of the Irkutsk Aviation Plant became the winner of the team ranking of the Second International Youth Industrial Forum “Engineers of the Future,” that is, it was recognized as the best at the Forum. The winners were announced at the official closing ceremony of the Forum, which took place in the settlement of Bolshoye Goloustnoye on July 28.The closing ceremony of the Forum was attended by the First Vice President of the Union of Machine Builders of Russia, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Industry Vladimir Gutenev, First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Irkutsk Region Nikolai Slobodchikov, State Duma deputies of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Sergey Ten, Valery Omelchenko and Vasily Zhurko; member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation Iosif Diskin, etc. The announcement of the Forum leaders became the key event of the occasion. Along with the IAP team, the top three in the team ranking also included the teams of OJSC KAMAZ and OJSC AVTOVAZ, which took 2nd and 3rd places respectively.
The winner of the individual ranking among 1,500 Forum participants was Antonida Druzhinina, a representative of the Irkutsk Aviation Plant. 2nd place went to young engineer Alexey Martynyuk from the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Production Association. 3rd place went to Alexander Kadukhin, a representative of the OJSC AVTOVAZ team. As a reminder, during the educational and business programs of the Forum, its organizers kept both team and individual rankings of the participants. Four of the top 10 positions in the individual ranking this year were taken by representatives of the Irkutsk Aviation Plant.
The Forum “Engineers of the Future-2012” was held in the Irkutsk Region, in the settlement of Bolshoye Goloustnoye, for the second time already. The event was organized by the Union of Machine Builders of Russia, the Government of the Irkutsk Region, and the Rostec State Corporation. The Bauman Moscow State Technical University (MSTU) took an active part in developing and implementing the Forum’s educational program. The Forum was attended by 1,500 people from more than 50 Russian regions (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Udmurtia, Krasnodar Krai, Tatarstan, Primorsky Krai, Arkhangelsk Region, Dagestan, Omsk and Tomsk regions, Buryatia, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Karelia, etc.) – students and graduate students of universities, young scientists, and specialists from machine-building enterprises.
The Irkutsk Region was represented at the Forum by 100 people from Irkutsk and Bratsk, including from NII ISTU, the Irkutsk Aviation Plant, the Irkutsk Heavy Machinery Plant, the Irkutsk Relay Plant, Bratsk State University, etc.
In 2012, 355 industrial enterprises took part in the Forum (the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Production Enterprise, AvtoVAZ, KAMAZ, Russian Helicopters, the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant, etc.) and more than 50 leading technical universities of the country. The Forum’s international status was confirmed by delegations from Iran, the Czech Republic, Armenia, and China.