From October 30 till November 11, 2016 the delegation of students of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering of the University consisting of Roman Dmytriv, Iryna Vovk, Arsen Ivanchuk and Volodymyr Dvornyk (group NO-13-1) under the direction of teaching assistant of the Department of oil and gas equipment Yu. Mosora, on the basis of the international agreement on cooperation between higher education institutions visited University of Oil and Gas in Ploiesti (Romania) for the introductory practical training.
Our small delegation was warmly welcomed at the Faculty of mechanical and electrical engineering and personally by the Dean of the faculty, Professor Ion Popa. The hosts offered eventful educational and cultural programs. During the practice the students got acquainted with the equipped at a high technical level educational-laboratory base of the University, library, specialized laboratories, where various experiments are conducted. They also studied the structure, principles of operation of modern equipment for oil and gas production, monitoring of machinery parameters, equipment, including modern electron microscope, which provides magnification to 300,000.
In addition, the students visited the plant “UPETROM – 1 MAI”, located in Ploiesti, which produces drilling and oilfield equipment and closely cooperates with the University. Equipment of this plant is widely used in mining and processing industry of Ukraine.
Cultural program was informative as well. Our delegation got acquainted with the exemplary life and conditions of studying of Romanian students, visited the Museum of history of oil and gas in Ploiesti, the Philharmonic Society, the Romanian capital city Bucharest.
