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A famous Dutch scientist, emeritus professor at Delft University of Technology and the head of the Energy Process Modeling Laboratory at NSU Kemal Hanjalic has shared his vision of NSU.

The professor鈥檚 position is quite unique - being a foreign scientist he has been working in collaboration with the Kutateladze Institute of Thermophysics, SB RAS, and the NSU Lab for a few years according to a Russian government megagrant agreement. His experience makes it possible for Professor Kemal Hanjalic to evaluate the university progress both as an insider and an outsider.

鈥楢lthough I haven鈥檛 learnt much about the university yet, I can say that as one of the leading research universities in Siberia you are to be represented on the international arena much wider. You are to be more noticeable since people just don鈥檛 know much about you, which is unfortunate. You can achieve it by working in English. I mean, for example, supporting the English version of the site and inviting students not only fr om CIS, but also from Europe, Asia and other regions of the world. It will be more effective. I鈥檇 like to point out that it is not only foreign students who are interested in your English programs. Your students can also greatly benefit from them when English blocks are integrated into Russian lectures so that your students could gradually adapt to listening lectures in English. Of course, I am speaking about science students only and cannot say much about the art students.

Another difficulty is in your system of inviting foreign students and professors. It is highly bureaucratic here, with a lot of papers and permissions required. If the system could be simplified in some way, you would be able to attract and invite many more people. Moreover, all the universities give grants to their foreign students and cover the cost of some legal paperwork. I didn鈥檛 notice that you have it, which holds students off when they choose wh ere to study.鈥�

鈥榊ou (I mean Akadevgorodok and the university) can attract students back with your high level of research. It can be compared with football 鈥� invite a mercenary and he will do first-rate work. It works in the same way but is much less expensive in your case,鈥� smiles Prof. Hanjalic.

鈥業n general, it is possible, I think. However, the universities from the rating have done stupendous work, built perfect strategies, and you cannot just appear in the rating by saying your wish. It is impossible to achieve by your efforts only, believe me. To begin with, you should invite foreign experts. If you analyze the sites of, say, Stanford University or MIT, you will easily find in their staff professors from Asia, Europe, Russia and other countries. Should you decide to open a new direction, seek for a foreign scientist familiar with the field. This is the way science is done at universities all over the world. For instance, I come from Bosnia but have already worked in Michigan (US), Delft (the Netherlands), Darmstadt (Germany) and Erlangen (Germany).鈥�

鈥楾he ratings are based on many factors including people鈥檚 appraisal. For example, the questionnaires I received as a professor, one out of five thousand, included a question, 鈥淚f you have a child, which university would you choose for him or her?鈥� And there are many more questions of this kind. Top managers of leading international companies are asked about graduates, e.g., 鈥淎 graduate of what university would you prefer to hire?鈥� Some other factors are also important for the ratings (the journal impact-factor, citation index, etc.), but you should be open to the world. Thus, in my critical opinion, you need to change something here.鈥�