ENGENERATION 2014

On May 10 – 11 a grand event will take place at the Novosibirsk Expo Centre International Exhibition Complex – Technical Creativity Festival Engeneration-2014. Engeneration-2014 will become the united communicative, business, education and competition platform of technical engineering activities for Siberia and the Far East.

The Festival unites and demonstrates all facets of engineering and technical creative work presented in the following sections:

Robotronics Contests

Robotronics contests including the regional selective stage of WRO-2014 (students of schools and higher education institutions can participate in the contest in certain age categories). The contest part of Engeneration will be held for 2 days. May 10 is the preparation and training day.

Exponenta — Engineering Creativity Exhibition

The exhibition part of the Festival will be held on May 11. Education institutions are invited to take part in the event. Admittance to the Exhibition is free of charge.

Panel Discussion ‘Engineering Education. Problems and Prospects’

The program of Engeneration-2014 includes a panel discussion entitled ‘Engineering Education. Problems and Prospects’. The list of speakers includes leading Russian engineers and specialists in the sphere of innovative methods of technical education.

• Developing education robotronics in Russia. Report delivered by the President of the Russian Association of Education Robotronics M.V. Vasilyev.
• Sports and technical events as a talent foundry in the sphere of technical engineering. Report delivered by Research Advisor of the Program ‘Robotronics. Engineers and Technical Specialists of Innovative Russia’ A.V. Kornilov. 
• Engineering creative activities in schools and higher education institutions. Recreating the ‘School – Higher Education Institution – Enterprise’ chain. Report delivered by the Head of the Open Association of Robotic Engineers ‘League of Robots’, coach of the Russian Robotronics Team N. Yu. Pak. 

Open lab — Open Engineering Laboratory

The Festival also includes a creative engineering platform – Open Lab created by the specialists of the League of Robots Association whose functioning is based on the FabLab and HackerSpace principles, when anyone is able to freely join the engineering community. In the future such open workshops may become the missing link of the inter-disciplinary course that will bring together higher education institutions, organize their work, and allow training high-level multi-skilled specialists.