YERZHANOV
ALMAS SATYBALDYEVICH
Dean's Blog
The Faculty of Metallurgy and Mechanical Engineering was reorganized from the Faculty of Metallurgy and Construction in 2017. Training of specialists is carried out in accordance with the credit system of education. In 2010-2012, the Dean of the Faculty was Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor Tanaguzov B.T. Since January 2013, the Dean of the Faculty was Candidate of Technical Sciences Smailov S.A., since September 2014, the Dean was Associate Professor, Candidate of Technical Sciences Zhabalova G.G., since September 2017, the Faculty was headed by Associate Professor, Candidate of Technical Sciences Musin D.K., from September 2021 to August 2024, the Faculty was headed by Candidate of Technical Sciences, Professor Zhabalova G.G. Since September 2024 and up to now the faculty has been headed by PhD, Associate Professor A.S. Yerzhanov.
The faculty includes three departments:
- Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science (Head of Department – PhD Kuatbay Ye.K.);
- Department of Materials Pressure Processing (Head of Department – PhD Ainabekova S.S.);
- Department of Chemical Technology and Ecology (Head of Department – Cand. Sci. (Chem.), Associate Professor Kabieva S.K.).
Three departments – «Metallurgy and Materials Science», «Materials Processing by Pressure», «Chemical Technology and Ecology» are graduating departments. The faculty trains bachelors and masters in the areas of metallurgy, mechanical engineering, chemical technology and industrial safety, as well as PhD doctors in doctoral studies in metallurgy, materials science, nanotechnology and chemical technology of organic substances.
The faculty currently employs highly qualified faculty.
Students study both disciplines in the profile of the chosen specialty, and general professional, natural science and social and humanitarian nature. Students acquire professional skills in their specialty during industrial and research practices at enterprises of the city, the Republic and abroad. There is an opportunity to study at other universities of the Republic of Kazakhstan and outside the country (USA, Spain, Czech Republic, Poland, Bulgaria, Germany, etc.) under the academic mobility program. Foreign specialists are invited for training. Among the outstanding graduates of the faculty are the first President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Abishevich Nazarbayev, former Minister of Ferrous Metallurgy of the USSR, former Vice-Premier of the Russian Federation, now President of the Financial and Industrial Groups of Russia Oleg Nikolaevich Soskovets.