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All-Russian competition in optics and optical engineering has been carrying out for several years. Leading Russian universities and institutes that teach in different areas of optics take part in this event. One of the main features of this event is that participants may be students of all years (except postgraduate students), and the exercises of the competition include many tasks involving different optical disciplines (applied optics, lasers, optical devices and instruments, geometric optics, etc.). One of the main requirements of the Education Ministry to such events is that the competition must include both practical and theoretical parts. Practical part usually includes several tasks, and each task is a demonstration of an optical phenomenon or an optical instrument or device and involves questions concerning the demonstrated experiment. Theoretical part is a set of tasks and questions that should be solved and answered in written form. Organization committee and judges which are the members of teaching staff of different universities prepare complex theoretical tasks and arrange a set of practical questions. Nevertheless the set of task may include simple questions which can be solved using basic knowledge of optics, observation and erudition. Thus, such competitions help to discover the most talented and motivated students which have great potential. In the report the problems of organization and carrying out of such competition in optics are discussed. Examples of tasks which were used in different years and also retrospective of the competition are presented.

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The paper presents the concept, structure and features ofITMOUniversity’s independently established educational standard of a new generation. The standard has been developed on the basis of Federal State Educational Standard of Higher Education 3++, professional and international standards of engineering education, foresight forecasts of world scientific and technological development. The harmonious intellectual, cultural and moral development, as well as the formation of a professionally competitive personality is ensured by the implementation in the educational programs of the ITMO Code. TheITMOUniversityhas created mechanisms for the formation of actual requirements for the preparation of competitive professionals demanded at an international level. The authors propose the design and implementation system of the educational programs based on integration of the fundamental classical technical education, enhanced development of the universal, common and professional competencies, and extended implementation of the modern theoretical and applied practice-oriented researches, which are supported an active participation of industrial companies and research organizations in educational activities. An interdisciplinary content of educational programs together with orientation to individualization of education and introduction of advanced educational technologies including design, digital, network etc. provides a stable technology platform to achieve the standard requirements for learning outcomes.

The article presents an algorithm for the synthesis of cemented and air-spaced doublets. A description of the doublets design computer tool from materials of a user-defined catalog is presented. Features of doublets design automation are considered. An approach for ranking of the generated variants of the doublets according to the preliminary evaluation criterion determined with the main parameters within the framework of the theory of third-order aberrations is proposed. The developed computer tool will help an optical engineer to calculate quickly cemented and air-spaced doublets with the required characteristics.