24/01/2025

KSUAE international students took part in the spring holiday "Navruz"

On March 22, 2025, Kazan hosted the Republican holiday "Navruz", which in Farsi means "new day", and symbolizes the arrival of spring and the beginning of the new year for the Turkic and Iranian peoples. Representatives of different cultures and nationalities living in Tatarstan gathered at one site to present their cultures, traditions and national dishes.

KSUAE International students from Turkey, Mauritania, Ecuador, Côte d'Ivoire, Madagascar, Turkmenistan, Tunisia took part in the festive events. During a bright multinational concert program, they listened to performances by creative groups demonstrating traditional songs, dances, outfits and costumes. They actively danced to national music, took part in interactive games, and also purchased souvenirs at a large-scale exhibition and fair of folk crafts and trades. The students were treated to one of the main dishes of the holiday - pilaf, prepared according to various recipes of the Turkic peoples, and the traditional drink "Sumalak" from ground sprouted wheat grains.

Some students are already familiar with the traditions of celebrating Navruz in their countries, for example, in Turkey and Turkmenistan, but all without exception were pleasantly surprised by the scale of the holiday in Tatarstan, the diversity and brightness of the cultures represented and expressed a great desire to participate in similar events in the future.

The News is submitted by International Relations Dept of the University.

21/03/2025

KSUAE Master student developed a program for selecting the grade of bitumen according to the PG system

Danif Samatov, a Master student of the KSUAE Department of Digital Road Technologies, has developed a program for selecting a bitumen binder grade according to PG.The BitOptima program he developed automates the process of selecting the optimal bitumen binder grade according to the PG system based on calculations of adjusted temperatures of pavement layers. It takes into account climatic data, the thickness of material layers and loads, helping engineers quickly select the appropriate material. Thanks to this, errors are eliminated and calculation time is reduced.

PG (Performance Grade) is a classification system for road bitumens based on their performance characteristics at different temperatures. Unlike previously used standards that determine the bitumen grade by viscosity or penetration, the PG system takes into account real climatic conditions and loads to which the road surface is subjected. The PG classification includes two temperature indicators: high (for example, PG 76) and low (for example, -22), which indicates the range of temperatures in which the bitumen retains its properties. This approach allows the use of materials that are resistant to deformation at high temperatures and cracking at low temperatures.

PG bitumens are widely used in road construction, especially in the design of asphalt concrete pavements for highways, airfields and other objects with high loads. They allow to extend the service life of roads, reduce repair costs and adapt the pavement to specific climatic conditions of the region.

The News is submitted by International Relations Dept of the University.

19/03/2025

KSUAE Young scientists completed a scientific internship at Northeastern University in Shenyang (China)

They visited advanced laboratories in the field of studying modern building materials, rocks and soil mechanics. They also met with leading scientists and postgraduate students of the Department of Civil Engineering. The practical part of the internship included a set of tests of reinforced concrete structures and rocks and soil materials. The theoretical and practical results obtained are of great relevance in the field of transport construction in the Republic of Tatarstan.

Northeastern University (NEU) in Shenyang is one of the leading state universities in China in the field of training civil engineering personnel. The internship under the Algarysh program will allow us to establish a dialogue between scientists from our universities and initiate fruitful cooperation.

The News is submitted by International Relations Dept of the University.

17/03/2025

KSUAE student team entered the world top 20 in cybersecurity

The KSUAE team of students on cybersecurity "BARS" took 20th place among 139 participating teams in the WatCTF world championship. Our university was represented by a team of bachelors of the Department of Digital Road Technologies: Vadim Akhmadishin, Vadim Baranov, Marat Gatin, Maxim Kotov, Ildan Khaibullin.

CTF (Capture the Flag) is an information security competition with tasks in several areas: - Cryptographic tasks (decrypting messages, cracking ciphers, creating your own cryptosystems and analyzing cryptographic protocols); - Search for vulnerabilities in software products, websites or networks (exploitation of vulnerabilities, detection of SQL injections, XSS and other types of attacks); - Reverse engineering (tasks requiring binary code analysis, program decompilation, search for hidden functions and restoration of source code from binary files); - Forensics or digital forensics (tasks related to analyzing digital traces, recovering deleted data, identifying users based on their digital footprints, and analyzing malware); - Networks and security (tasks that test skills in configuring and managing network devices, configuring firewalls, detecting and eliminating network attacks); - Penetration testing or penetration testing (tasks that simulate real attacks on information systems, including port scanning, password guessing, exploiting vulnerabilities, and analyzing network traffic); - OSINT or open source intelligence (tasks that require collecting information from open sources to solve a problem, such as determining IP addresses, domains, email addresses, and other information).

In March, the students will take part in the international open competition VOLGA CTF link https://volgactf.ru/

Information and cybersecurity skills will be useful to students of the Department of Digital Road Technologies in their future professional activities to protect intelligent transport systems (ITS).

The News is submitted by International Relations Dept of the University.