OUR FACULTY

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In 1993, "under the wing" of The Aircraft Engineering Faculty, the first ever enrolment of 22 students in a course titled "Chemical technology and bio-technology" took place. Bachelor students did their degrees at the Department of Chemistry.
The Faculty of Natural Sciences (FNS) was opened on March 1st, 1994, according to a decision by the University's Academic Board dated April 21st, 1994; the Faculty included three departments: Chemistry, General Physics and Theory of Mechanics.
In 1955 the Chemistry Department was renamed "Chemistry and Chemistry Technologies (CCT) and was awarded the status of a degree-granting department.
By the Rector's order №31-О of February 22nd, 1995, the FNS was renamed the Faculty of Oil and Chemistry (FOC). On March 1st,1995, to its structure was added another degree-granting department "Design engineering of production machines and equipment" (DEPME) with program No. 551800 "Production machines and equipment"; the latter in four years' time grew into a discipline/profession No. 170500 "Chemical/construction materials' production machinery and equipment".
In 1997 subject area No. 240100 gave basis for a new discipline: No. 240502 "Plastics and elastoplastics processing technologies". The opening of this discipline was deemed expedient because the production volumes of polymeric materials and goods made of them had by that time risen significantly in the country and in the Far East in particular, while there were no universities or colleges around that could supply engineering personnel with a higher education degree in this discipline.
In 2000 the No. 170500 discipline and the DEPME department were made part of the Faculty of Mechanics, due to a major restructuring of the University.
In 1990 a new course called "Health and Safety Studies" was for the first time introduced into the system of higher engineering education in Russia. In 1994 it was given the status of a discipline/profession – again for the first time since the beginning of university education in this country. In 1996 the Department of Health and Safety Studies (DHSS) was first in the Far East of Russia to start teaching engineers specialized in "Health and safety in the techno sphere" (discipline/profession No. 280101) This was dictated by the realities of today's world: threat levels have increased drastically, and to tackle the multiple problems of human health and safety we need professional skills and scientific approaches. Russia was first in the whole world to start teaching professional engineers in this area. Originally departments and courses of health&safety studies were opened in Moscow and St.Petersburg in 1994.  
The necessity to set up a faculty where environmental and chemical studies would be united under one major discipline/profession was caused by the fact that both disciplines used similar methods to solve similar issues, and that both departments had much in common in what regards education and research. The Rector's order No. 88 dated April 18th, 2000, demanded that the Faculty of Environmental Studies and Chemical Technologies should be set up, including three departments: 

• degree-granting Department of Chemistry and Chemical Technologies (DCCT)
• degree-granting Department of Environment, Health and Safety (DEHS)
• interdisciplinary Department of General Physics (DGF)

Taking into consideration the high demand for petroleum engineers existing in the Far East of Russia, in 2004 the Faculty also started teaching engineers in the discipline/profession called "Chemical technology of natural energy resources and carbon materials", and in 2007 a new degree-granting Department of Oil&gas Processing Technologies was established.
Today the two degree-granting departments of the Faculty are teaching students in two subject areas and three disciplines/professions.
The Department of Chemistry and Chemical Technologies:

• Bachelors, subject area No.240100: Chemical technology and bio-technology
• engineers, discipline No.240502: Plastic and elastoplastic processing technologies.
• engineers, discipline No.240403: Chemical technology of natural energy resources and carbon materials (part time/external, departmental project)

The Department of Environment, Health and Safety Studies:

• Bachelor, subject area No. 280200: Environment protection
• engineers, discipline/profession No. 280101: Health and safety in the techno sphere

The Department of Oil&gas Processing Technologies teaches engineers in discipline No.240403: Chemical technology of natural energy resources and carbon materials.
The Faculty's personnel consist of 51 people. Professors and teachers are 35, among them: 2 Doctors/Professors, 14 PhD Associate Professors, 16 senior lecturers and 3 assistant lecturers.
From 1993 till 2009, 295 Bachelors and 438 specialists have graduated from the Faculty.
Today all our graduates are employed according to their degrees at local Komsomolsk-on-Amur companies and organizations: JSC KnAAPO, JCS Neftyanaya kompaniya Rosneft-KNPZ, OJSC ASZ, OJSC Akkumulyatorny zavod, Mostootryad, Hab-Energo Holding, KnASTU, at environmental control bodies, in the City Administration, etc.
During the same period, the Faculty's departments have built up the methodological basis, the information framework and the facilitiess necessary for the education process; a computing centre has also been organized. The Department of Environment, Health and Safety now has a post-graduate division where PhD candidates do their degrees in "Occupational Health and Safety" and in "Environmental geology". The Department of Chemistry and Chemical Technologies offers post-graduate PhD courses in discipline No. 05.17.06: Technology and processing of polymers and composites. 
In the field of post-graduate studies/research, over the period of 1998 – 2009 our professors and candidates have written and defended:
3 Doctoral theses (I.P.Stepanov, E.I.Yefimova, V.S.Zavyalov),
9 PhD theses (A.V.Sui, O.V.Kravchenko, D.S.Resnyansky, V.V.Anisimov, O.G.Shakirova, Yu.I.Tkachova, T.A.Mladova, O.V.Zaitchenko, V.V.Voronova).
Qualification index of the Faculty's personnel as of September 1st, 2009, was 43%, see per-department indexes below:
DCCT – 43%
DEHS – 46%
DGP – 54%
DOGPT – 25%
The departmental personnel are also involved in various research activities, and successfully indeed. In the DCCT they have founded a research school of chemistry and technology of polymers and composites (head of the school – PhD in Chemistry, Associate Professor V.V.Telesh).      This school laid the cornerstone of the Department's partnership with the Yury Gagarin Aviation Plant (Komsomolsk-on-Amur); today the total annual price of commercial contracts with the plant is 150 - 200 thousand roubles.  
All researches at the DEHS are done in the subject area of "Development of the theory of modern management technology for environmental tasks and for the problems of health and safety in the Far East of Russia" (head of research – Prof. I.P.Stepanova, principal investigators – the Department's post-graduate students). A study into the problem of "Analysis of trauma/injury risk rates in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur" is included in the regional Health and Safety Program with a planned funding of up to 250 000 roubles. Investigations of the problem of the development of methods and measures for evaluation of how woodland fires impact the air of inhabited areas are done within the regional program "Naukograd" (Rus. for City of Research).
The DEHS's personnel have carried out more than 70 applied health, safety and environment protection researches on a paid basis for companies and organizations of the city. The fact that professors and lecturers at the Department do a lot of applied research ensures their high level of professionalism.
In 2001 Prof.I.P.Stepanova, Head of the Department, was elected Actual Fellow of the International Academy of Environmental, Health and Safety Studies (the Academy is the UN associated member); in 2004 Ms.Stepanova was awarded an "Honoured Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation" pin.  
The infrastructure and facilities of the Faculty's departments are truly state-of-the-art, which allows us to conduct/offer high quality research and education. The DCCT department has at its disposal research laboratories of spectrometry and of polymer composites/corrosion; all labs are excellently equipped: they have mass-spectrometers, ultraviolet and infra-red spectrophotometers, derivatographs, potentiostats, etc. At the DEHS they have modern electromagnetic field/noise/vibration/illumination/microclimate monitors; also at hand are state-of-the-art specialized "environment, health and safety" software packages.
The education process at the Faculty's Department takes place in excellently equipped specialized laboratories; students have access to computers, to the "Internet" system (что это за "система "Интернет""?)) and to the software package "Konsultant+", etc. To do their production-technological/pre-graduation practices and graduation work our students are usually placed at Komsomolsk-on-Amur plants and organizations.
Outstanding academic progress of many of FESCE's students has been more than once acknowledged by personal scholarships awarded to them (Muravyev-Amursky, George Soros, and University's Board).  Every year 20% to 45 % of our graduates get their degrees "with distinction". Undergraduate students' theses done within their respective major/home departments/programs are always very topical and practically oriented. The results of their research are presented at students' scientific and technical conferences. The EHS Department holds an annual scientific and technical conference for its undergraduate/post-graduate students and specialists in the subject area of "environment, health and safety".
As part of the two-level education for specialists in other chemical subject areas, the DCCT has working partnerships with Texas Technical University (Lubbock, USA), with Ufa State Petroleum Technical University (city of Ufa), with the Siberian State Technological University (city of Krasnoyarsk), with St.Petersburg State University and St.Petersburg State Technological Institute.
If we are to talk about who out of all our professors and lecturers made the most valuable contribution to the life and work of the Faculty, we have to mention the names of V.V.Telesh, I.P.Stepanova, M.S.Greenkrug, V.S.Zavyalov, V.V.Sazonov, S.V.Degtyareva, V.I.Senina, and others. Among younger lecturers and PhD candidates we probably should pick out the most energetic and creative ones like V.V.Voronova and E.I.Gorelikova.

DEPARTMENTS

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Departments of the Faculty:

• Department of Environmental, Health and Safety Studies
• Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
• Department of Oil&Gas Processing Technologies
• Department of General Physics

SUBJECT AREAS AND DISCIPLINES

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

PARTNERSHIPS

As part of the two-level education for specialists in other chemical subject areas, the DCCT has working partnerships with Texas Technical University (Lubbock, USA), with Ufa State Petroleum Technical University (city of Ufa), with the Siberian State Technological University (city of Krasnoyarsk).