My speciality

(Mechanical Faculty)

I am a student of the Mechanical Faculty of the Ufa State Petroleum Technological University. Seven faculties of our University train engineers in various fields of study, such as oil-well drilling, oil and gas transportation, oil field development and exploita­tion, automation and remote control of industrial processes and others. It also trains mechanical (petroleum) engineers to work in oil processing and oil extracting industry. Within the spe­ciality of the mechanical engineer students entering our University may specialize in the following branches:

1. Mechanisms and equipment of oil and gas fields.

2. Mechanisms and apparatus of chemical enterprises.

3. Chemical resistance of materials and corrosion protection.

The ever developing drilling technique calls for new drilling equipment and tools. Our engineers have designed and develo­ped a great number of new drilling devices and tools, improved the drilling equipment. All these instruments made it possible to increase the depth of drilling, productivity and ensure gre­ater safety of the drilling process. The students specializing in mechanisms and equipment of oil and gas fields are to cope with these tasks. They will have to design and develop new ty­pes of pumps, draw-works, hoisting equipment, compressors and many other items of equipment.

Machinery and apparatus of chemical enterprises is a speciality that trains engineers for refineries and petrochemical plants. The future specialists will have to solve many enginee­ring problems such as:

1. Exploitation and maintenance of plant machinery.

2. Calculating and designing machines and instruments.

3. Technology of manufacturing equipment.

4. Mantling metal structures and equipment.

5. Researches dealing with strength, long life and intensi­fication of machinery operation as well as maintenance and installation.

Modern refineries and petrochemical plants are equipped with dif­ferent machinery and in order to solve many engineering prob­lems mechanical engineers must have good training. The students specializing in chemical resistance of mate­rials and corrosion protection receive very good training in chemistry, physics, mathematics and many other subjects. As a result of the training engineers of this speciality can work not only at the refineries and petrochemical plants but almost at any kind of enterprise.

Mechanical Engineers and Their Job

Demand for qualified mechanical engineers is high. Mechanical engineers have a wide range of job opportunities. They may be management, sales, development, research, design or production engineers in such industries as food, steel, che­mical, heavy and light engineering. They also can work in ser­vice industries such as transport and gas, water and electricity. Mechanical engineers are vital to the running of plants. With­out them production would be impossible. Each plant is likely to be different. Some are large, some are small and most of them are complex. The main operational objectives of safety, efficiency and profi­tability are common to them all and demand a range of technical and personal skills from the engineers.

Mechanical engineers are concerned with machines, mechanisms and energy conversion. Mechanical equipment is at the core of the plants. Each plant is different from the next: the machines are particular to the process involved in making the end product and mechanical engineers are involved in their design, building and operation.

Mechanical engineers^′ jobs are demanding and exciting. Technical and managerial skills of mechanical engineers are used to the fullest. They keep the plant running and stimulate the team to make better use of equipment and improve performance.

Mechanical engineers are at the core of production: they manage plant and equipment, they manage people. In fact, they manage our future.