NOVOSIBIRSK STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY
This new rapidly developing field needs more centers and professional specialists. According to the UAV development program in Russia until 2035, UAV centers should be created throughout the country and more UAV engineers should be trained. Therefore, the country also needs more teachers to train these specialists.
NSPU began working with drones a long time ago: the first quadcopter was purchased for the university back in the mid-2010s, at the Faculty of Technology and Entrepreneurship. Then, the NSPU Technopark of Universal Pedagogical Competencies was opened in 2021 and it created drive and ambition in this technical area.
- The Technopark purchased two DJI Air 2 quadcopters. Because these devices have special stabilizers they can be controlled in different modes by both a person with experience and a beginner in working with UAVs. We also purchased a so-called swarm of quadcopters that are capable of interacting with each other in performing various tasks, for example, constructing figures. Now the Institute of Physics, Mathematics, Information and Technology Education has a number of academic disciplines which include both theory and practice of working with these devices, - said the director of the NSPU Technopark of Universal Pedagogical Competencies named after Yu.V. Kondratyuk Alexander Vladimirovich Malkov.
In May 2023, NSPU students participated in “PioneerSlet” drone tournament in Tomsk, they demonstrated excellent skills in using UAVs at the open Russian robotics championship “RoboCap-2023”. All the prizes of this tournament went to NSPU students who also work for NSPU Technopark and Quantorium.
Now UAS technologies (Unmanned Autonomous Systems Technologies) are widely used in various fields from aerial photography to cargo delivery. There are many requests from school administrators to train teachers with the appropriate competencies in designing drones, their programming and piloting in automatic and manual modes.
- For these reasons, a new UAV laboratory in a pedagogical university is highly welcomed. Nowadays, a variety of drone types are used for different purposes, so the task of the laboratory is to teach students general principles of operation of these devices. Future teachers will be taught to program UAVs and work with them, regardless of their purpose. Therefore, when they come to work at school in the future, these new specialists will give their knowledge to other students, - said the director of the Quantorium Technopark named after Yu.B. Rumera NSPU Sergey Vladimirovich Starkov.
