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Improving the quality of educational services is impossible without a detailed analysis of student satisfaction. Identifying weaknesses in the educational process and socio-cultural environment, as well as evaluating the dynamics of satisfaction in recent years will help to formulate a roadmap for managing the quality of education. The research was conducted at Perm Polytechnic University which is typical, therefore the findings of the research can be considered as representative.The article analyzes the results of a survey of 1126 full-time students, which was about 12% of the contingent (full-time). The sample is presented for all structural divisions: faculties and branches, as well as the content of questionnaires on blocks of questions. The results of the level of satisfaction with the quality of educational activities are analyzed, in particular: the content of educational programs, the implementation of educational programs, the conditions for ensuring the educational process, the quality of teaching, knowledge control and training. Positive assessment (satisfaction is more than 50%) deserve: the organization and conditions of the educational process, the content of academic disciplines in all cycles, the quality of teaching, the volume and quality of the library fund. However, some comments revealed dissatisfaction with the technical means, the quality of the content audiences, the organization of pedagogic assistance and students’ self-directed learning, schedule of classes, quality of teaching materials, organization of traineeships, quality control test, availability of laboratories and computer classes outside the classroom.The assessment of the socio-cultural environment considered aspects of the organization of students’ extracurricular work, the socio-psychological climate; the conditions of life support of the educational process (sanitary and social); socio-cultural activities related to the satisfaction of spiritual and physical needs of an individual; socio-cultural fostering. The main comments are related to the quality of social and living conditions (catering, living conditions in a hostel).The results of the survey showed the need for further research in order to form a generalized (complex) model for assessing the quality of the University activities.

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On 29 September 2003, "La Sapienza" University of Rome bestowed the "laurea" degree "honoris causa" in electronic engineering on Prof. Arthur A. Oliner for "outstanding pioneering contributions to the theory of guidance and radiation of electromagnetic waves." Prof. Oliner has been an outstanding personality in the electromagnetics world for more than 50 years. He has been one of the principal leaders of the great development of the theory and the applications of microwaves that occurred during the years soon after WWII. Prof. Oliner has carried out his scientific and teaching activity at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, now Polytechnic University, where he is currently Emeritus Professor. At the same time, however, he has visited many universities all over the world, including many visits to "La Sapienza" University of Rome. He obtained many memorable results in the various fields of electromagnetic theory and applications: it is enough to recall his innovative research on guided propagation, radiation phenomena, and methods of circuit representation. For such studies, and for his brilliant teaching, he has received numerous awards and international recognition. Also of particular relevance are his reflections and his contributions as a witness to the history of scientific events in the field of electromagnetics over the last half century. For the many of us who know and admire Prof. Oliner, this was a wonderful opportunity to celebrate him and his work. What follows is the lecture he presented on this occasion. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]