Mikhalenko Fedor Pavlovich (born February 23, 1922) — professor of the "Machine-Building Technological Complexes and Metal Forming" department at Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University n.a. R.E. Alekseev named after R.E. Alekseev, Doctor of Technical Sciences, professor. Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation.
Education
Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (1948), plastic and heat treatment of metals and metal science.
Previous places of work
1948-1950 — Podolsk Mechanical Plant named after M. I. Kalinin (Moscow Region); from 1945 — senior lecturer, associate professor at Gorky Industrial Institute; 1962-1968 — deputy chairman of the Volga-Vyatka Council for the Coordination and Planning of Research Work in Technical and Natural Sciences.
Field of scientific, production, and creative interests
Theory of separating processes in sheet stamping; methods for increasing the durability of separating dies; study of the regularities of combined loading methods underlying resource-saving metal-forming technologies.
Key facts of his activity
3 monographs published by the central publishing house "Mashinostroenie" ("Mechanical Engineering"), more than 130 scientific articles, 20 author's certificates and patents for inventions.
Developments
A new method of combined extrusion of hollow parts (protected by a patent); an installation for combined loading in technological processes of metal pressure treatment (protected by a patent); die tooling for implementing the new method of combined extrusion of hollow parts (protected by a patent). Participant in many international scientific and technical conferences.
Awards
Medal "For Valiant Diligent Labor" (1985), medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War" (2005).
Membership in public, scientific, and other organizations
Member of the Dissertation Council for the defense of doctoral and candidate dissertations, member of the Council of the Faculty of Automation and Mechanical Engineering Technology, head of the correspondent bureau of the journal "Kuznechno-shtampovochnoe proizvodstvo. Obrabotka metallov davleniem" ("Forging and Stamping Production. Metal Pressure Treatment") for the Nizhny Novgorod Region.
Charity
Additional free consultations for students of all forms of study in the course "Physical and Mathematical Foundations of Shape-Changing Processes" and for degree candidates on the methodology of thesis design.
Foreign language
German.
Hobbies
Reading fiction and memoir literature, classical music, working in the garden.