The Faculty is the synthesis of the University legendary traditions and new opportunities, it unites the best creative and production forces of logging and woodworking industries and is the only faculty in the country, where training of industrial engineers, mechanics engineers and energy management engineers is carried out to cater the needs of the logging and woodworking enterprises of the Republic of Belarus.
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The Faculty of today has a 90-year history and was formed as a result of the merger of two oldest faculties: forest Engineering and mechanical wood technology, founded in 1930. Since then, more than 17,000 engineers have been trained for the country’s logging and woodworking industries. The faculty trains engineering personnel at the first and second stages of higher education in 8 specialties and 8 specializations, and also trains highly qualified personnel through postgraduate studies. The laboratories of the departments and the technopark of the Negorelsky Educational and Experimental Forestry are equipped with high-tech multi-operational logging machines, simulators for studying the work of forest machines and modeling technological processes, unique woodworking equipment and devices with numerical software modules and computers. At the departments of the faculty, training is carried out at a modern level using innovative educational technologies, including computer modeling, geoinformation systems, problem lectures, theory of inventive problem solving, etc. The educational process involves full-scale samples of modern logging machines of Belarusian and foreign production.
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RESEARCH
The faculty staff, students and PhD students take an active part in implementation of the national scientific and technical programs and in solving scientific problems of the timber industry complex. Based on the research results over the recent 5 years the faculty members have developed and introduced into industry:
? a family of forest machines based on the MTZ tractor;
? technology and equipment for biofuel production from low-grade wood and wood waste;
? energy-saving modes at high-speed processing of wood materials by edge tools;
? techniques and impregnating compounds for wood preservation, etc.
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INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
The faculty departments maintain international cooperation with Stuttgart University, German companies Leuco, Unimat, Weinig, Moehringer producing wood-cutting tools, sawing and woodworking equipment; SCM (Italy), producer of woodworking equipment; producers of logging equipment Valmet and Ponsse (Finland); producer of geo-implants LLC “Dupont Science and Technology (Luxemburg); TurboSonicTechnologies inc. company designing and producing systems of aspiration and cleaning (USA); National Museum of Denmark (Lingby); LLC “NPP Rogneda”, Russian producer of antiseptic and impregnating materials for wood preservation; JSC “Latvian State Forests”; Bialystok University of Technology (Poland), Warsaw University of Life Sciences (Poland), Latvian Agricultural University (Jelgava), Moscow State Forest University (Russia), St. Petersburg State Forestry Engineering University named after S.M. Kirov (Russia), Ural State Forestry Engineering University (Russia), Volga State Technological University (Russia), etc.
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TEACHING STRATEGY
The highest quality of professional training is ensured by innovation educational technologies including computer modeling, geo-information systems, problem lectures, theory of inventive problems solving, etc. Modular approach is used to carry out laboratory training at Negoreloe Forestry Experimental Station where students are trained to operate hi-tech multipurpose logging machinery and simulators.