During the existence of the Joint Ukrainian-German Faculty of Engineering, the Faculty of Physical Engineering, headed by a corresponding member of the NAS of Ukraine, Prof., DEng. P.I. Loboda, established close collaboration with scientists from the relevant departments of the Otto von Guericke University (Magdeburg, Germany). Leading experts and post-graduate students of this university regularly visited the Faculty of Physical Engineering, and the history of close inter-university relations in the educational and scientific fields extends back over 10 years.
24-26 May 2016 The Faculty of Physical Engineering hosted a delegation from the Department of Foundry Engineering and Pressure Metal Treatment of the Otto von Guericke University, consisted of Dr.Ingolf Martin Boehm and doctoral student Martin Lipe.
From the Ukrainian side there were Prof. P.I. Loboda, the Dean of the Faculty of Physical Engineering, corresponding member of the NAS of Ukraine, As. Prof. O.I. Dudka, vice dean, PhD. in Eng., chairman of the Department of Ferrous and Non-ferrous metal Foundry, PhD.in Eng., As. Prof. A.S. Kocheshkov and a number of co-workers of the department.
The guests familiarized themselves with the equipment and capabilities of the faculty and the Department of Foundry Engineering, with the latest scientific developments and the results of defended theses for the last two years. They also visited the methodical room of the 9th academic building, where a collection of Professor S.P. Doroshenko artistic casting was exhibited. The sound of the bells of gray and high-strength cast iron, made at the department, reminded doctoral student Martin Lipe of his previous research for the world's oldest company manufacturing unique grand pianos "Stainway". The Delegation of German foundrymen also saw a presentation of educational and scientific center of electron microscopy at the Faculty of Physical Engineering and just opened within the TEMPUS project laboratory of computer modeling.
The sides discussed actual issues of obtaining composite cast parts for various branches of engineering with the given structure and properties. In particular, researchers from Ukraine and Germany found a common scientific interest in the topic which Martin Lipe has been dealing with in Magdeburg University:
the technology of bimetal parts centrifugal casting and computer modeling of the processes of obtaining double-layer iron-carbon alloy casts by centrifugal casting. In his turn, the young researcher Associate Professor M. A. Fesenko, the author of 44 patents of Ukraine in technologies of composite cast iron parts moulding, shared his experience and demonstrated to guests the results of developments. The joint laboratory melting operation with filling a technological alloy by centrifugal casting method was conducted.
For 3, 5 and 6-year students of the Department of Foundry Engineering and also for teachers Martin Lipe read a lecture in English and introduced the actual topics of the Department of Foundry Engineering and Pressure Metal Treatment of the Otto von Guericke University and his own scientific achievements. The Lecture provoked a great interest among Ukrainian students who asked a number of questions. The students have made an important conclusion that it is vital to learn English for a better understanding and integration into the European scientific environment.
The parties discussed the possibility of future scientific cooperation in the foundry. So, the next meeting is not far off.