Vladimir Potanin Foundation has summed up the results of the competition professors who teach master’s degree courses. 767 applications were submitted for the 2020/21 grant competition, 697 of which were admitted to peer review after checking for compliance with formal requirements, including checking for plagiarism. According to the results of the competition, 150 winning projects were chosen.

Among them are the authors of two scientific projects of Saratov University – Associate Professor of the Department of Nonlinear Physics Andrei Rozhnev and Associate Professor of the Department of Civil Law and Process Julia Ilyukhina.

The project Computer modeling of electromagnetic fields in devices and devices of microwave vacuum electronics and microelectronics became the winner in the nomination New training course. A team of teachers from the Department of Nonlinear Physics will work on its implementation as part of Assistant of the department, Responsible for Educational and Organisational Work of the Institute of Physics Asel Adilova and Assistant of the department, junior researcher of the Siberian Branch of the IRE RAS Roman Torgashov under the guidance of Associate Professor Andrei Rozhnev.

The aim of the work is to create and implement a new course in educational programs for the preparation of masters in the areas of Applied Mathematics and Physics (profile Nonlinear phenomena in microwave electronics) and Radiophysics (profile Physics of Microwaves), implemented at the Institute of Physics of SSU. The course is focused on the study of methods for modeling physical fields of various nature, primarily electromagnetic. During the training, undergraduates will master the modern software package COMSOL Multiphysics, which includes a wide range of possibilities for solving problems of this kind. The project partner is KOMSOL LLC, which is the only distributor of the Comsol Multiphysics program in Russia.

In the process of preparing a new educational program, the opinions of specialists are taken into account, first of all, university graduates who represent potential employers. Mastering the course will help graduates of the magistracy to acquire the skills and knowledge that are necessary to carry out research work, prepare a master's thesis, as well as in the course of further scientific research in the case of postgraduate studies. In addition, the competencies formed as a result of completing this course will allow masters to be competitive in the labor market.

Project of Associate Professor of the Department of Civil Law and Process Julia Ilyukhina, Online course Actual problems of civil law won in the nomination New online training course.

It is aimed at the development and implementation of online components for an academic discipline read offline in the implementation of the Master's degree program Law. The result will be an electronic resource that will include sections on various types of educational activities: lectures, practical exercises, laboratory work, assignments for independent work, control of independent work.

Different types of activities will be combined into a single accessible source, which will allow students to effectively carry out educational activities on their own, the teacher to optimize efforts for scientific leadership, control, monitoring of the student's work. A variety of educational activities in a single resource will make it possible to achieve high-quality mastering of all the competencies of the magistracy: the development of skills and abilities of expert consulting and research.

The created resource will expand the university's tools used in solving the tasks set for the master's degree in the context of the inevitable introduction of the blended learning format. Today, the use of innovative teaching technologies that develop the skills of consulting work and decision-making is a mandatory requirement of the Federal State Educational Standard.