Dr. of Engineering, Professor, Academician of RAO, expert of the National Training Foundation

E-mail: zhurakovsky@ntf.ru,

webpages: http://mggu-sh.ru/zhurakovskiy-vasiliy-maksimilianovich

http://www.ntf.ru/content/жураковский-василий-максимилианович

Education

1962 - Rostov-on-the-Don Institute of Agricultural Engineering

1965 - Postgraduate studies at Rostov-on-the-Don Institute of Agricultural Engineering.

Professional activities

-       1962–1980  - Assistant lecturer, Assoc. Prof., Head of the Department, the Dean, Rostov-on-the-Don Institute of Agricultural Engineering,

-       1980–1990 – Rector of the “Rosselmash” factory-university,

-       1990–1992 – Deputy Chairman of the State Committee on Science and Higher School of the Russian Federation

-       1992–1993– Deputy Minister of Science, Higher School and Technical Policy of the Russian Federation

-       1993–2002 – The Vice-Minister of Education of the Russian Federation

-       2003–2005 – Secretary of the Department of vocational education of the Russian Academy of Education

-       Since 2000 - Head of the Department of Engineering Pedagogy of Moscow Automobile and Road Construction State Technical University(MADI)

-       Since 2002 - Expert of the National Training Foundation.

Expert Work

• Expert work in the IGIP project on the creation and international accreditation of the centres for engineering pedagogy and engineering teachers’ certification;
• International program for the support of the joint Master’s programs BRIDGE and Eurasia programs;
• projects of the World Bank;
• federal targeted programs for education development in 2006-2010 and 2011-2015;
• federal target program “Scientific and teaching personnel of innovative Russia” 2009-2013;
• priority national project for education development.

Membership

• Member of the IGIP Monitoring Committee;
• Vice-President of the Russian Union of scientific and engineering orfanizations;
• Member of the National Accreditation Agency;
• Member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Education;
• Member of the Editorial Board of the journal “Vysshee obrazovanie v Rossii (Higher Education in Russia)”.

Publications

The total number of publications exceeds 200 including monographs and textbooks for higher school.

• Methodology of Engineering Pedagogy (2007). Moscow: MADI Publ., Kazan: KSTU Publ. 213 p.
• Didactic Aspects of Teaching Engineering Disciplines (2006). Moscow: MADI Publ., Kharkov, 150 p.
• Foundations of Engineering Pedagogy (2007). Moscow: MADI Publ., Kazan: KSTU Publ. 498 p.
• Software, Methodical and Organizational Provision of the Russian System of Engineering Teachers’ Professional Training and Advanced Development (2007). Moscow: RMC IGIP, MADI Publ., 409 p.
• Engineering Teacher Training: Theory, Practice, Electronic Resources (2009). Moscow: MADI Publ., 163 p.
• Training of Engineers in Real and Virtual Environment of Advanced Learning (2010). Kazan: KSTU Publ., 404 p.