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The third day of the 2018 Global Smart Industry scientific forum began with the ceremony of opening of Samsung IoT Academy Laboratory on the base of School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of SUSU.

Deputy Minister of Information Technologies and Communications of the Chelyabinsk Region Vasily Kokoryukin, Rector of SUSU Aleksandr Shestakov and the leading specialist of Samsung Company Tatyana Volkova, who presented the high-technology possibilities of the laboratory to the students and the guests and told about the peculiarities of the educational course, took part in the opening ceremony.

Aleksandr Shestakov noted the importance of the laboratory modern technologies use for the realization of project-oriented educational platform at the university:

“SUSU is moving towards the digital industry and the Internet of Things. Today, in the frames of the international conference, it is the second important object, which we opened. Samsung Laboratory and its programme products will be used in the project study and significantly enhance the quality of the preparation of our students as the specialists.”

The representative of the regional administration Vasily Kokoryukin underlined the significance of the event for the improvement of the city infrastructure:

“Today we consider the implementation of such modern concepts as Smart City and Smart House where the service technologies are not possible without the Internet of Things. While solving such tasks, it is important to integrate the worthy scientific society, which is presented at SUSU, the business representatives and the coordination element as well as students, who being moved by the progressive ideas can create and fulfill the scientific discoveries for the sake of society.”  

After the opening of the laboratory Tatyana Volkova, the leading specialist of the educational projects of Samsung Research Centre and author of the educational course of Samsung IoT Academy, reported on the subject of “Preparation of IoT-specialists in the Context of the Engineering Education: Peculiarities and Problems”.

“Nowadays, there is a big problem in modern engineering education, and it lays in the fact that engineers and programmers get their training separately. With the use of our possibilities, we aspire to teach students new technologies which are on the intersection of engineering and programming disciplines. If previously the sphere of Internet of Things was too expensive and unaffordable, today the situation is changing: the cost of communication is becoming cheaper, and the price of technology, sensor devices, and computational capacity is reducing as well. We would like our students to be on the frontier of science and aware of these changes; we want them to know the essence of digital industry, and not just study this theoretically but review certain cases which are already being implemented in Russia and abroad.”

On the third day of the International Conference’s operation, in the course of a plenary session, speakers thoroughly traversed various aspects of Industry 4.0: data security in the age of digitalisation; specificities and challenges of Education 3.0; correctness of changes for IoT sphere; threats for small and medium business in industrial Internet of Things, etc.

“University of the future is connected with technology and Industry 4.0. I think that such university must have technology support based on advanced Internet technologies, such as cloud computations or high-performance computer technologies. From engineering point of view, the university should be completely equipped with new-generation computational facilities. This is important for training of students majoring in both engineering and humanities as well. And this complies with requirements of the Industry 4.0,” noted Goran Putnik, who delivered a speech at the session with a report entitled “Education 3.0 and social networks-based education for efficient training and integration with the industry,” the University of Minho (Portugal).

Another important aspect, according to Professor Putnik’s opinion, is connected with relationships between students and teaching staff. If in a traditional university the prevailing position was held by professor, new technology can change that: the process of education should be a joint creative process, combining study materials, knowledge and cooperation of teaching staff and students as equal partners.

Andrei Tchernykh from Ensenada Centre for Scientific Research and Higher Education (CICESE), Mexico, shared the rules of preserving information security in the age of digitalization with his colleagues. One of the recent scientific works of the researcher was dedicated to the issue of counteracting against the conspiracy of those having legal access to information.

“Information security is such a complicated issue, and to ensure protection here is quite problematic. You can hack bank accounts, read private correspondence, etc., without even leaving your office, that is why a security ecosystem is a system that guarantees security at all levels, starting from the source of generation of this information and all through to the point when the document is being read or processed.”

Professor of the University of Oxford (Great Britain) Manus Henry delivered a presentation on checking the correctness of measurements for the Industry of Things, and stressed the efficiency of collaborating with the SUSU scientists in this field:

“My research deals with developing new techniques of signal processing, which combine powerful computing capabilities and simplicity of engineering, what is required for the future products and services under Industry 4.0. Jointly with our SUSU colleagues we are working on monitoring of the condition and checking the accuracy of those techniques.”

Today digitalization penetrates into every aspect of life and plays a huge role in development of the world’s industry. However, for small and medium-sized businesses the Industrial Internet of Things may bring along certain threats, believes Alessandro Beghi, Professor of University of Padova (Italy):

“I think that such problems include the issues of ensuring information security, rigidity of corporate values, as well as the absence of generally accepted standards in the field of IoT. The financial expenses are also a significant factor since the implementation of such technologies requires considerable investments. Such investments are seen as excessive by many companies, and the future profits might be difficult to predict. That is why small businesses often doubt whether the Industrial Internet of Things is reasonable or not.”

The day, during which many interesting presentations were delivered, closed with the discussions of the latter at topical sections and round tables.

Oksana Kuvakina, photo: Oleg Igoshin

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed on the initiative of School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) of SUSU with the University of Aalborg (Denmark), which is represented by the Center for Communications, Media and Information Technologies.

The conclusion of such an agreement became possible as a result of close cooperation between School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and the Center for Communications, Media and Information Technologies of the University of Aalborg in the international educational project Erasmus + PWs@PhD.

The goal of the present Memorandum is the co-operation in educational and scientific research areas, development of exchange of students, graduates and teaching professors. The Memorandum assists:

• the development of joint educational programs for bachelor and master degrees including the programs of double-diplomas;
• the arrangement of training for improvement of scientific skills of professors, postgraduates, graduates and masters;
• exchanging the experience of the development of the advanced methods of education;
• arranging the international forums (symposiums, workshops and conferences) including the use of distance technologies;
• arranging the joint educational and scientific projects.

The fifth international school of software engineering was held at the University of Rostock (Germany) as part of the Erasmus+ PWs@PhD project from  2 October to 13 October 2017. The school was attended by more than 30 graduate students and employees of 10 universities from 6 countries. From the South Ural state University, the school was attended by 6 representatives of School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

The delegation included the Dean of EECS Gleb Radchenko, associate professor of system programming department Pavel Kostenetskii and a senior lecturer of department of information security Vlada Zhernova, and also 3 PhD students (Ksenia Nikolskaya, Vladislav Iashin and Andrey Averin) from the department of computers and information security department.

There were leading scientists of Germany and Belgium who took a part in the school. The school was devoted to models and modelling in software engineering. The main emphasis was placed on the development of business process models and the creation of the user interface of the software.

Delegates shared by their impressions:

«The most memorable event was a visit to the educational and research laboratories at the University of Rostock. Scientific laboratories are equipped with all kinds of computer equipment and various sensors. For example,12 Kinect sensors and several high-speed cameras are mounted at different angles in a laboratory. With all of these sensors, scientists recreate the motion of video speakers in three-dimensional space and produce a change in the viewing angle of the interlocutor on a multimedia screen that occupies the entire wall. The result is a feeling that both interlocutors are in the same room», — says associate professor of system programming Pavel Kostenetskii – «Another interesting laboratory is equipped with dozens of sensors that capture the movement of people on the premises, the entire floor and ceiling in it covered with such devices. In addition, we looked at the audience, equipped with the latest technology, in which students study. We saw interesting approaches to the organization of the educational space, which can be repeated at our University».

Vladislav Yashin, PhD-student of the Department of computer, noted that the visit to the software development center in Schweirin made a great impression on him, and the report of the staff of this center was very interesting and useful.

«I expanded the idea of the user interface, its form, interesting developments because of the participation in the school» — V. Yashin says, — «Many lectures were interesting and memorable. I will apply many of the acquired knowledge in my research and work, such as the paired review and pre-implementation assessment procedures. Undoubtedly, the experience of listening to lectures in English is very valuable.»

«Another important result can be considered established scientific ties» — K. Nikolskaya says — «we met with scientists in the field of information security such as Professor Clemens H. Cap and Professor Thomas Mundt. It was interesting to look at the model of information security courses in Germany and see their projects. It was decided to create a joint study in one of the priority field — the research in the field of blockchain technologies».

The next school of software engineering within the Erasmus+ PWs@PhD project will be held in February 2018 at the University of Central Lancashire (Great Britain).

Last weekend, Global Game Jam international festival of computer games development took place at SUSU. Participants had to create a game on a given topic, which is revealed only at the beginning of the Jam, within 48 hours.

“This is the 5th year we’ve been holding Global Game Jam. This is the event where students try themselves in GameDev, which means they write games in extremely short time. Writing a game within 48 hours is a real challenge. But participants have always demonstrated good results and created worthy games which could be further developed and sold,” said Maksim Tuprikov, GGJ coordinator at SUSU.

The event is held simultaneously at 800 platforms in 109 countries of the world. In Chelyabinsk, the main organizer of the Jam is SUSU’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

“This is an incredible event which has been inspiring Chelyabinsk’s community of programmers for the fifth year; not only computer games developers but also software developers who for a weekend can put aside their routine business applications and do something really interesting,” noted Gleb Radchenko, Director of the SUSU School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

During the previous 4 Jams, 68 games have been created. This year, 23 more games joined the list. This year GGJ’s topic was intermission. Each team of developers had their own approach to implementing this concept.

“The Jam’s topic, as usual, is quite abstract,” noted Ruslan Vovchenko, one of the Festical’s participants.“You can relate it with anything, but it helps determining direction of a game. For example, our game is about a blind monk who is trying to find the way out of a labyrinth by following a ray of light. Our goal is to transmit this light to him and lead him to the exit.”

Not only programmers take part in Jams. Artists, screenwriters and even musicians can also join the competition.

“We created a game about infection. A gamer starts as an infected character and his goal is to contaminate other people. We made it just by three of us, our team had a programmer, a designer and a game designer,” said Andrey Filatov, a GGJ participant.

All participants of the Festival received certificates of participation in Global Game Jam – 2018, and the best games were awarded with diplomas and sponsor prizes.

You can review the games created at the Jam here.

The awarding ceremony for winners of a contest for data analysis, SMS Group Data Challenge, which was held from September 1st through December 1st, 2017, was held on December 14th at South Ural State University.

The goal of the contest was to develop an algorithm which would predict sticking during the metal rolling process based on analysis of big data.

SUSU Rector Aleksander Shestakov delivered a welcoming speech at the opening ceremony.

“Today, the world is changing quickly, including the technological sphere. Digital industry is the trend for development of manufacturing in Russia, Germany, the USA, and all around the world. The developmental strategy for our university is that we focus on working with companies which operate in the global market and we solve big, international-level issues together with these global companies. One of such companies is SMS Group. The second company for which this contest is of interest is the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Combine. This contest is the part of our university’s developmental strategy which is in line with the developmental strategy of industry,” said Aleksander Shestakov.

Pino Tese, Vice President of SMS Siemag Company, honorary SUSU professor, also greeted those present.

“My colleagues and I chose a very serious problem. The task that was set before participants was based on the technical realities of businesses around the world. A few months ago, when the contest was just announced, I gave the participants some parting words: whoever works on this task should forget about the traditional thought processes. The traditional finite element method will not allow for the problem to be solved in 3 months. By the results we can see that at least 3 teams listened to my parting words,” said Pino Tese.

8 teams from South Ural State University and 2 teams from Germany participated. Of the 10 teams, 8 teams prepared the solution and sent to jury review, 7 of which were from SUSU and 1 from Germany.

Dirk Liftucht, Head of the Department for development of components and casting technologies at SMS Groups, talked about the basics of projects and methods of analysis and also presented the results that the teams obtained.

The best results in terms of the accuracy of predicting products sticking were shown by three teams, two of which represented South Ural State University. Each of these teams defended their solution before the contest jury. Based on evaluations of the algorithm’s effectiveness and the possibilities of their application to manufacturing conditions, the jury chose the first and second place among the trio of teams.

The team from the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, under the guidance of Mikhail Tsymbler, which included Aleksey Porozov and Yana Kraev, were chosen as the winners. Their algorithm used machine learning based on neural networks, and was the most accurate. The winners received a cup, certificate, and a check for 4000 euros from the SMS Group company.

“This is a wonderful contest – we never solved such difficult tasks on this level. I was in doubt for a long time – is it even worth trying to do this? But thanks to the support of the leadership from the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science we decided to participate after all. We don’t know how to participate poorly – and that’s how we won,” said Mikhail Tsymbler.

“We work on informational technologies, and the task was from the sphere of metallurgy. We consulted with specialists in metallurgy who helped us understand this area. We studied a lot of data on the rolling process offered by the contest organizers and understood how to teach artificial intellect to predict sticking of workpieces, and that’s how we solved this task,” shared Aleksey Porozov.

Second place went to team from the Institute of Natural Sciences under the guidance of Tatiana Olenchikova, which included Nikita Semiklit and Stanislav Zankov. They were also awarded a certificate and a check for 1000 euros from SMS Groups.

In addition, certificates from the SMS Group were awarded to all of the teams which participated in the contest.

Master’s Student of the School of Electronics and Computer Science Ivan Volkov took third place in a prestigious all-Russian business contest “Young Russian Businessperson 2017”!

Ivan is the Head of MeteorIT company, which entered the market in 2017 with their DiaMeter application for people suffering from diabetes. The businessman proved that social projects can be profitable and, thanks to that, can be developed.

In July 2017, Ivan presented his project under the Social Business category to the Contest Commission and won the regional stage. Among two thousand applications, the top fifty from all regions of Russia were chosen in this category. The final, national stage of the contest, at which Ivan spectacularly presented his project “DiaMeter: Your Diabetes Diary”, was held in Moscow on November 30th.

By the decision of the jury he won a prize and returned to Chelyabinsk with a reward and recognition of the success of his business model at the national level.

Ivan had the following to say about the plans on developing his project and company:

“Participation in this contest gave me the chance to better form the meaning and goals of my project, gave me stimulus to develop, and gave me a lot of helpful knowledge, since besides the contest itself in Moscow I also participated in the Synergy business forum and at the congress of young businesspeople. We have huge plans for developing the application during the next year, including: functions for tracking diabetes, new capabilities for the users to communicate, integration with voice assistants, a web version, ability to send data online to your doctor and relatives, and collaboration with large companies who work in controlling diabetes.

Besides the DiaMeter project, Meteor-it is working on developing mobile apps for businesses. At present we are already working with serious clients in Chelyabinsk, and we are planning on making our portfolio larger with new and interesting projects.”

We are glad to inform you, that professor Radu Prodan (Innsbruck University, Austria)  will pay a visit to the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of South Ural State University from 18th to 21st of September, 2017.

During his visit, prof. Prodan will present an open lecture on Multi-Objective Modelling and Optimization of Scientific and Industrial Applications on Distributed Computing Infrastructures. Also, EECS SUSU organizes a seminar on the topic «Distributed and Cloud Computing. Methods of Big Data processing«, where students, graduate students, and staff of EECS SUSU will provide reports on results of their current research activities in the field of DataMining, Cloud Computing, and Big Data processing. The lecture and the seminar would be hosted in English.

Timetable

• September 19th, from 11:30 to 13:00, room 112/3g. Seminar: «Distributed and Cloud Computing. Methods of Big Data processing«.
• September 20th, from 11:30 to 13:00, room 434/3b. Open lecture: «Multi-Objective Modelling and Optimization of Scientific and Industrial Applications on Distributed Computing Infrastructures»

We invite everyone who is interested in distributed and cloud computing to visit the lecture and the seminar. Bachelor, master and Ph. D. students, lecturers and professors of EECS, who wish to present their work on the seminar (September 19th) are invited to send the topic of their report and a presentation draft (10-12 slides) until 12:00 on September 13, 2017, to the e-mail: zhernovavm@susu.ru