Courses in English

Chair of Forest Engineering

1) Forest Management in Russia

Title: Forest Management in Russia
Responsible person: Gregory Romanov (Associated Professor)
Content description:
Inventory of the natural resources and get-up the local territory; working out the plan of resources consumption; kinds of forest consumption – timber, non-wood, medicine, eatable, recreational, forests bleeding; methods of thinning, means of forest reforestation.

Chair of Pulp-and-Paper and Woodworking Industries

1) Optimization Models for Forest Operations

Title:

Optimization Models for Forest Operations (6 ECTS)
Timing: Autumn term
Responsible person: Vadim Kostujkevich (Associated Professor)
Relations to other study units: Mathematics
Objectives: The course objective is to provide the students the tools for mathematical analysis of forest operations
Content description:
Classification of mathematical models. Numerical methods of the decision: Linear programming. Nonlinear programming. Methods of polynomial approximations. Methods with use of derivatives. Nonlinear conditional optimization. Statement of a problem and application in engineering. Methods of direct search. Methods of linearization. Integer and discrete programming. Dynamic programming. Decision-making in the conditions of risk. Raising of task of the stochastic programming. Mathematical statistics.
Realization and working methods: Lectures 32, group work 28, independent study 80 hours.
Study materials and literature: Provided in the lectures
Evaluation: Exercises and course report
Other information: Lectures include written assignments and presentations on the course material

Chair of Technology and Equipment of Forest Complex

1) Forest Legislation and Forest History

Chair of Tractive Machines

1) Machinery and Logging Technology in Russia