Our Institute

Khakassky Technical Institute is a branch of Krasnoyarsk State Technical University. KhTI was founded in 1968. There are the following chairs :

Machine Building Technology

Technology of Casting Production

Power Supply of Industrial Enterprises

Industrial and Civil Engineering

Automobile Vehicles and Tech Management

Economics and Management

Mathematics and Natural Science

Informatics

Electrical Engineering

Applied Mechanics

Realty Management

KhTI comprises: Machine-Building Department

Civil Engineering Department

Electrical Engineering Deparytment

Economics Department

Correspondence Study Department

Realty Management Department

Additional Education Centre

New Informational Technologies Centre

Applicant Training Department

Nowadays there are about 4,000 students. About 3,000 are full-time students, others are of distant education. The teaching staff constantly increases their level of education. The scientific fields of our institute are the following:

• New construction Materials Research

• Mechanical Treatment Quality and Efficiency Improvement

• Line –Technological and Mechanical Properties of Casting Alloys Study

• Complex Automatization of Electro-supplying Systems in Exploitation Process

• Micro Mezo- and Macro – systems Economic Steadiness Problems

Our institute is not large. It consists of three buildings: administrative, laboratory and the building of economic faculty.

The institute has three buildings, a gymnasium-hall, an assembly-hall, various laboratories, subjects rooms, reading-rooms and a library well-stocked with books in various subjects. Students can find all the books necessary for their studies. It has also two hostels, a medical room, a students canteen and a refreshment room. The majority of students are accommodated in hostels for a token rent. They are offered medical services. Those who have passed all credit-tests and examinations successfully get a grant. Those who make good progress in their studies get an increase in their grants. The course of study lasts five years in our institute.An academic year is divided into two terms. Each term ends in an examination session.

On graduating, the students receive diplomas, which give them the right to work in all kinds of industries which are developed in our republic.

Exercise 4. Learn the vocabulary

branch филиал, отрасль

chair кафедра

education образование

teаching staff преподавательский состав

grant стипендия

rent плата (арендная)

assembly-hall зал для собраний, концертов

gymnasium-hall гимнастический зал

canteen столовая

laboratory лаборатория

library библиотека

refreshment room буфет

full-time student студенты дневного отделения

token символический

student of distant education студент «заочник»

course of studies курс обучения

machine building technology технология машиностроения

technology of casting production технология литейного производство

power supply of industrial enterprises электроснабжение промышленных предприятий

industrial and civil Engineering промышленное и гражданское строительство

automobile vehicles and Tech management автомобили и автомобильное хозяйство

Economics and Management экономика и менеджмент

Electrical Engineering электротехника

Applied Mechanics прикладная механика

Machine-building department машиностроительный факультет

Civil engineering department строительный факультет

Electrical engineering department электротехнический факультет

Correspondence–study department заочный факультет

new construction materials research исследование новых строительных материалов

mechanical treatment quality and efficiency improvement повышение качества и производительности механической обработки

Line-technological and mechanical properties of casting alloys study

изучение литейно-технологических и механических свойств сплавов

Complex automatization of electro-supplying systems in exploitation process комплексная автоматизация систем электроснабжения в процессе эксплуатации

Micro-, mezо and macro-systems economic steadiness problems проблемы экономической устойчивости микро-, мезо и макро систем

Dean декан

Exercise 5. Master the pronunciation of the following words and word combinations.

Technical, assembly hall, laboratory, refreshment room, machine building, technology, course of studies, applied mechanics

Exercise 6. Give English equivalents to :

Студент-первокурсник, студент заочного отделения, дневное отделение, подготовительное отделение, курс обучения, стипендия, получать диплом, общежитие, символическая плата, зачеты

Exercise 7. Answer the following questions.

1. Where do you study?

2. What profession will you go into after graduating from the institute?

3. When was your Institute founded?

4. How many and what departments are there at our institute?

5. Do most of your group-mates live in the hostel or rent a room in town?

6. How many people study at our Institute?

7. What degree or document is given to those who graduate from the institute?

8. How many buildings are there at our institute?

9. Are there reading-rooms at our institute?

10. How long does the course of studies last?

Exercise 8. Read and retell the texts.

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Metallurgy is one of the oldest arts but one of the youngest sciences. Many of the metals were known in ancient times, but only in the last century the knowledge of the metal properties has made it possible to apply them for industrial purpose.

Metallurgy falls into 3 parts: chemical (extractive), physical and mechanical. Chemical metallurgy includes the metallurgical processes involving change and methods of production and refining.

Physical metallurgy deals with the nature, structure and physical properties of metals and alloys. Mechanical metallurgy includes many processes of working and shaping metals.

The science of metal-casting industry includes many subjects to be learned. At the institute students as future engineers have to master these subjects successfully in order to be qualified specialists.

Metal-casting industry is a well-equipped one. It includes complex process and has complex equipment. A modern foundry is like a giant factory with different and complex equipment. Many kinds of processes take place at the metallurgical plants: Bessemer, open-hearth, electrical, cupola processes, alloy production, heat treatment of steel, molding, melting, etc.

Modern metallurgical enterprises are supplied with new machinery, blast, open-hearth, cupola, electrical furnaces, molding machines, die-casting machines, charging devices and so on.

Modern industrial engineering is one of the most important parts of metal working industry. Measurement and control are the important parts of industrial engineering. The scope of industrial engineering is broadening to assist management in optimizing the gains and minimizing the looses of the enterprises.

The students, who study at the metallurgical faculty, will have 2 trades: that of a mechanical engineer of iron and –steel plants equipment and that of a process engineer casting. The engineers will work either in the foundry or in the steel making plants, in the departments of chief metallurgist, chief mechanical engineer, as well as at the research and designing institutes of corresponding profile. As graduates of a metallurgical faculty can continue their education in post-graduate course. The profession of a metallurgist is a very important and necessary one, as the power of our country depends upon the development of heavy industry. Every year on the 20^th of July people celebrate the professional holiday of the metallurgist.

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