Published on: 2026-09-29
Source: Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University –
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At the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, with the support of JSC “Silovyye Mashiny”, a renovated laboratory of electric machines was opened. The educational space underwent major repairs and the equipment was modernized to study all types of electric machines.
The renovated laboratory will allow students to gain practical experience with complex engineering equipment right at the university, which is an integral part of practice-oriented training for the subjects “Electric Machines,” “Basics of Electric Drives,” and “Power Supply Systems.” It is equipped with installations for testing DC generators with a capacity of up to 4.5 kW, DC motors up to 6 kW, and asynchronous motors up to 5.5 kW.
The modernized laboratory will serve as a base for the implementation of a new educational program and will provide students with access to modern equipment and advanced experimental research methods. Each semester, more than 150 bachelor’s and master’s students of the Energy Institute at SPbPU in the field of “Electric Power Engineering and Electrical Engineering” will carry out cycles of laboratory work.
“The Electric Machines Laboratory is historic. It was founded literally from the first days of the university’s existence. We purposely kept electric motors from the 20th century — students need to see what came before. This allows them to learn the very basics of electric machine control; students’ practical learning journey begins here. We renovated it together with our long-time partner — JSC ‘Power Machines’. This year, as part of our cooperation, a new master’s program ‘Electric Machine Engineering’ was also launched, because training high-level engineers needs to be done without disconnecting from the real economy sector.”— noted the rector of SPbPU, Andrey Rudskoy.
The new master’s program “Electrical Machines Engineering” is designed for two years of study and provides for interaction between the university and the company at all stages of education. Students will undergo industrial and pre-graduation internships at “Power Machines,” participate in real projects of the company’s specialized departments, and work in the student design bureau “Power Machines – Polytech.” Graduates will receive guaranteed employment in the company’s engineering and production divisions.
“Polytech is one of our oldest partners in training engineers for the ‘Power Machines’ factories. Together with the university, we share a common understanding of the great importance of practical training in the educational process. In the new laboratory, students will work with real energy equipment — generators and engines that produce electricity at energy facilities. Here, in safe conditions with numerous protections, future engineers will be able to test the theory they study in practice, so that later they can ensure the reliable operation of equipment under real conditions at power plants.”— emphasized Alexey Podkolzin, CEO of Power Machines.
Previously, the Polytechnic University and JSC “Power Machines” have already implemented a whole range of various formats for training future engineers: they organized the comprehensive educational project “Power Machines Trajectory,” hold the Youth Days of “Power Machines,” and the scientific-practical conference “Energy of Youth.”
“It is especially important for us that this historical laboratory is filled with students and is a living part of the educational process. We have preserved the unique equipment on which generations of polytechnic students have studied, but have supplemented it with modern control and measurement systems. Now, more than 150 students will study here each semester — not only learning the theory of electrical machines, but researching them, experimenting, and seeing firsthand how real equipment works. And it is very symbolic that the laboratory received new life together with “Power Machines” — our longtime partner, leader in domestic power engineering manufacturing.” — emphasized the importance of opening the laboratory, the director of the Energy Institute at SPbPU, Viktor Barskov.
Today, 146 students are enrolled in the university’s joint educational programs with the enterprise. The practice-oriented approach significantly reduces the period of professional adaptation for beginner specialists at the enterprise, as well as allows them to obtain positions higher than those of graduates without specialized training.
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