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Мetrology

Мetrology

QUALIFICATION

  • Scientific and pedagogical direction - Master of Engineering Sciences

MODEL OF GRADUATING STUDENT

ОN1 demonstrate the skills of organizing and conducting scientific research in the performance of joint scientific work in professional activities;
ОN2 classify and determine the physical phenomena and their corresponding theoretical models, understand the methodology of conducting the experiment, describe the physical processes in heat power engineering, cryotechnology, ecology from the metrological point of view and formulate the problems of metrological support in the relevant field of professional activity;
ОN3 prove his point of view on a concrete physical problem in order to achieve joint goals and objectives;
ОN4 use the theory and methodology of scientific knowledge, as well as the basic methods of scientific research;
ОN5 apply research skills and abilities for the implementation of scientific research, obtaining, applying new scientific knowledge for solving urgent problems in the field of metrology;
ОN6 have the skills to analyze and write scientific articles, abstracts, and reports; to discuss problems arising in complex and unpredictable situations, to have the capacity for independent professional constant development; be able to present the obtained results in the form of reports, publications;
ОN7 carry out measurements of the main characteristics of experimental data by using technical documentation of measuring devices and original scientific literature to solve technical problems in order to reduce errors and achieve the required accuracy of measurements;
ОN8 apply the basic provisions and fundamental laws of physics, as well as their applications to specific real physical systems;
ОN9 apply the skills of choosing measuring instruments to solve specific measurement tasks, perform metrological calculations when processing the results of observations of a measurement experiment, and present measurement results;
ОN10 organize scientific research, including using the latest information and communication technologies;
ОN11 develop the necessary documentation for metrological support, metrological control and supervision aimed at maintaining the unity of measurements, high quality, and safety of products (services), high economic efficiency for producers and consumers on the basis of modern quality management methods by following the operating and safety requirements;
ОN12 to determine the basic requirements of scientific and research activities with the correlation of their own interests and the public using ethical values, as well as the interests of the team in the communicative sphere.

Program passport

Speciality Name
Мetrology
Speciality Code
7M07503
Faculty
of Physics and Technology

disciplines

Estimation of measurement uncertainty
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of skills in the use of uncertainty assessment methods in the processing of measurement results. Contents: Practical calculations of uncertainty estimation in measurements. A Monte Carlo statistical modeling method for estimating measurement uncertainty. A spreadsheet method for calculating uncertainty. Representation of uncertainty depending on the measurement result. Summation of uncertainties. Extended uncertainty.

Foreign Language (professional)
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form practical skills in various types of speech activity in a foreign language. The training course builds the ability to perceive, understand and translate information in the modern global space, participate in scientific events to test their own research. The discipline is aimed at improving competencies in accordance with international standards of foreign language education.

History and Philosophy of Science
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: studying regularities and trends in the development of special activities for the production of scientific knowledge, taken in their historical dynamics and examined in a historically changing sociocultural context. Introduces the problem of science as an object of special philosophical analysis, forms knowledge about the history and theory of science.

Metrological examination of technical documentation
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: developing skills in conducting metrological expertise of technical documentation and technological preparation of production at all stages of the product lifecycle. Content: This includes the legislative and normative framework of metrological expertise, organization of metrological expertise activities for technical documentation, and information-measurement technologies for solving tasks related to metrological expertise of technical documentation.

Modern aspects of the development of metrology
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of a holistic view of the problems and current state of metrology in the context of the development of science and technology. Contents: State policy in the field of metrology and quality management. International practice. Problems of metrology. Improvement of measurement methods and tools. The state and prospects of metrology. The development strategy for ensuring the uniformity of measurements and its implementation.

Organization and Planning of Scientific Research (in English)
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form a system of knowledge and practical skills for the organization and conduct of scientific research. The discipline is aimed at studying the process of conducting scientific research; the choice of research methods adequate to the goals and objectives; requirements for scientific documentation; trends and prospects for the use of artificial intelligence in scientific research; the process of commercialization of research results.

Pedagogy of Higher Education
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose is the formation of the ability of pedagogical activity through the knowledge of higher education didactics, theories of upbringing and education management, analysis, and self-assessment of teaching activities. The course covers the educational activity design of specialists, Bologna process implementation, acquiring a lecturer, and curatorial skills by TLA-strategies.

Psychology of management
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to provide scientific training of highly qualified specialists based on the study of fundamental concepts of management psychology, creating prerequisites for a theoretical understanding and practical application of the most important aspects of the field of management in the process of professional formation. The course is aimed at studying the patterns of development and functioning of mental processes, the basics of effective interaction and conflict resolution, self-development and self-presentation.

State metrological control
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of legal knowledge of legislative requirements for the control of objects of state metrological control. Contents: Legislative bases of the state metrological control (SMC). Rules for assessing and classifying market economy entities according to the degree of risk. Job responsibilities and rights of state inspectors. Planning the stages of the SMC. Preparation of regulations and inspection acts, imposition of administrative fines.

The algorithm for writing a scientific article
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of skills in preparing articles for publication in the Thomson Reuters, Scopus database. Content: Features of the academic scientific text. Article as a product of a research project. The problem of novelty. Features of preparation of articles based on the results of quantitative and qualitative research. The main algorithm for constructing a scientific text: thesis - argument - conclusion. Citation in scientific text. Plagiarism.

Data for 2023-2026 years

disciplines

Automation of measurements and control
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: preparing future metrology engineers to solve organizational, scientific, and technical tasks in the automation of measurements, control, and testing. Content: This includes tasks and components of measurement and control automation, basic elements of technical equipment for automatic measuring and control systems, software for automatic measuring and control systems, and metrological support for automatic measuring systems.

Electrical measurements
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of skills in conducting electrical measurements for diagnostics and technical control in metrological support of production. Contents: Electrical measuring circuits. Current and voltage converters. Electrical measuring devices and devices. Electronic, digital measuring instruments and analog-to-digital converters. Calculation and processing of measurements of various electrical characteristics.

Engineering methods for ensuring the reliability of systems
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: systematization of methodological and practical aspects of the introduction of engineering methods to ensure reliability in the quality management system of the enterprise. Contents: Basic concepts of reliability theory. Quantitative indicators of reliability and mathematical models of reliability. Applied reliability problems. Risk assessment of technical systems. Measures to ensure the reliability of engineering systems.

Environmental monitoring
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: conducting environmental monitoring as a spatial-temporal system for environmental control towards sustainable natural resource management. Content: This encompasses the scientific, legal, and organizational foundations of environmental monitoring, monitoring systems and services, the global environmental monitoring system, the national monitoring system of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and environmental modeling and forecasting.

Information support of the product life cycle
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: developing competencies in information support for the product lifecycle in the field of metrology. Content: The information environment of the metrological lifecycle support for production of products. The concept, strategy, and technologies of CALS (Computer-aided Acquisition and Logistic Support). CALS standards and basic technologies. Virtual enterprises. Information security in CALS systems. Analysis of information resource utilization in production systems.

Measurement management system
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: developing skills in analyzing parameters and characteristics of typical measuring instruments and systems to meet metrological requirements for quality control of produced goods in the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Content: The content includes metrological characteristics of measuring instruments, the state system ensuring measurement unity, metrological verification and implementation of measuring processes, measures to improve measurement management systems, and management of measurement non-conformities.

Methods of conducting energy surveys
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of skills for conducting energy surveys. Contents: Methods of energy surveys. Accounting for energy consumption in an industrial enterprise. Energy passport and energy saving program. Methods of conducting energy audits of the first and second levels. Instrumental examination. Technical support of the energy audit.

Planning a measurement experiment
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of students' skills in using experimental planning methods and statistical methods for analyzing its results on research objects. Contents: Theory of planning a measuring experiment. The influence of external factors on the objects of research. Regression analysis. The use of modern information technologies for the analysis of experimental results. Methods for processing and estimating errors in single-factor and multifactorial experiments.

Quality management of technological processes
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: to develop systematic knowledge among future specialists in the field of quality management of technological processes in modern production. Content: Includes the evolution of approaches to quality management, modern systems, methods, and tools for quality management in the energy sector, and the improvement of organizational activities in quality management of technological processes in the energy industry.

Reliability of measurements in "Green" technologies
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: developing sustainable skills in using resource-saving and environmentally friendly technologies based on principles of reliability analysis of technological processes. Content: This includes "Green" technologies in manufacturing, their implementation specifics, indicators, environmental agenda and implementation, challenges and prospects of transitioning to "Green" technologies, and evaluation of costs and reliability of project decisions.

Technical and software tools for metrological support
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of undergraduates' competencies in metrological support and the activities of metrological services of the enterprise. Contents: Scientific and technical fundamentals of metrological support. Technical and software tools for metrological support. Working and reference measuring instruments of a given accuracy. Structural and design features of measuring systems.

Theoretical and practical foundations of thermophysical measurements
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of skills for obtaining reliable information about the parameters of controlled thermophysical processes and estimating errors in physical and technical measurements and devices. Contents: Thermal engineering measurements and devices. Methods of measuring thermophysical parameters. Measurement of thermal power and flow rate. Metrological support for experimental research. Estimation and accounting of measurement errors.

Data for 2023-2026 years

INTERNSHIPS

Pedagogical
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - Formation of practical, educational-methodical skills of conducting lectures, seminars, creatively apply scientific, theoretical knowledge, practical skills in teaching activities, conduct training sessions in the disciplines of the specialty; own modern professional techniques, methods of training, use in practice the latest theoretical, methodological advances, make educational, methodological documentation.

Research
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - The purpose of the practice: gaining experience in the study of an actual scientific problem, expand the professional knowledge gained in the learning process, and developing practical skills for conducting independent scientific work. The practice is aimed at developing the skills of research, analysis and application of economic knowledge.

Data for 2023-2026 years