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Alina Ilyasova was born in 1972. She received the specialist degree from the Institute of Management and Territorial Development, Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, Kazan, Russia in 2014. She is a postgraduate student of the Department of Engineering Pedagogy and Psychology of the Kazan National Research Technological University, Kazan, Russia.

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Dr. Mansur Galikhanov is vice-director of the Institute of Additional Professional Education at Kazan National Research Technological University in Kazan, Russia. Born in born in Kazan in 1972, he received the specialist degree from the Institute of Polymers, Kazan State Technological
University, Kazan, Russia in 1995, a Ph.D. degree from the Kazan State Technological University in 1999 and Doctor of Technical Sciences degree (the highest research degree in the country) from the KSTU in 2010. He has been a full professor in the Department of Processing Technology of Polymers and Composite Materials of the Kazan National Research Technological University, Kazan, Russia since 2009.
His scientific interests include properties and structure investigation of electrets based on such polymer compositions as filled polymers, polymer blends, multilayer and sandwiched materials; processing of polymer electret materials; utilization of electrets materials as an active packaging that extends shelf life of food products.

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Vasily Ivanov graduated from Kazan State Chemical and Technological Institute (today Kazan National Research Technological University, KNRTU) in 1976. He continued his research and obtained a Ph.D. in Engineering in 1986. At the same time, he held the administrative positions in the regional system of education management. He received the position of the First Vice-Rector of KNRTU for Academic Affairs in 1989, which he has held since then. He received the degree of Doctor of Science in Education for his dissertation “Designing the Contents of Professional Pedagogical Training for Faculty of Technical Universities” in 1996. Professor Ivanov enhanced the development of engineering pedagogy at KNRTU as a separate subject and a research discipline. He investigates the problems of engineering pedagogy in the following areas: continuing psychological and pedagogical education in an engineering university; teaching methods for engineering disciplines in an engineering university; innovative engineering education; continuing professional development programs.
Vasily Ivanov chairs the Academic Council for Defense of Ph.D. and Doctorate Thesis in Engineering Pedagogy at KNRTU for degrees in “Theory and Methods of Teaching Chemistry in Schools and Universities” and “Theory and Methods of Professional Education”. Under his supervision, 11 Ph.D. dissertations and 3 doctorate dissertations in engineering pedagogy were defended.
Since 2012, Vasily Ivanov has been a member of American Society for Engineering Education, and has participated in ASEE Annual Conferences and International Forums. Professor Ivanov has been an active member of IGIP Russian Monitoring Committee since the day of its foundation in 1995. Under his leadership, in 1997, a Center of Engineering Pedagogy was founded at KNRTU with an accredited European Engineering Educator program. He was the key driver of the 42d IGIP International Conference “Global Challenges in Engineering Education” held in Kazan in 2013. Vasily Ivanov has published over 400 research and methodology works, including 20 monographs, 38 textbooks and study guides, 92 papers in the leading peer-reviewed journals, 35 papers in international journals.

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Doctor of Education, Professor of the department of Engineering Education and Psychology, Dean of the Faculty of Additional Education at the Kazan National Research Technological University. Scientific interests: educational technologies, innovations in educational practice.

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Inna M. Gorodetskaya is associate professor at the Department of Engineering Education and Psychology of the Kazan National Research Technological University (Russia). She has Ph.D. in Social Psychology and also works as head of the minor degree program in Psychology at the university. Scientific interests: motivation, value system of a person, self-development, diversity issues.

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