The System of Distance Learning in the Scientific and Engineering Staff Training

The proposed computer system implements a scheme of joint-classroom and distance learning, scientific and exploratory research in order to motivate and stimulate students' independent work in acquiring professional competencies. The developed system reflects both the traditional structure of education in universities using groups of students, specialties and curricula, as well as modern trends in the transition to distance learning, i.e. the opportunity to study at any time and in any place, according to individual plans and schedules. The presented development can be used by students to acquire and develop competencies in the field of improving and managing technological processes for the production of metal products, including the design of machines and metal structures for additive technologies. This is ensured both by the created (and permanently updated) database of mechanical and technological characteristics of steels and alloys used in the production of materials for special purposes, including for the nuclear power industry and the chemical industry, product quality and environmental safety, and by programs developed on based on author's methods and implemented in the system of distance education, in particular, for calculating the modes of shaping and energy-power parameters in the formation of metal products. [For the complete proceedings, see ED655360.]