Suresh Valiyaveettil, Associate Professor,
Chemistry Department, National University of Singapore, Singapore

I am impressed by the enthusiasm and vision you have in transforming KBTU into a world class university. I will be happy to help you in this big challenge, whatever way I can. I believe KBTU is on the path to transform into a recognizable university with your leadership at the top. Just to start the process, let me write a few ideas for you to consider and I will be happy to elaborate on each of them.

Gerrit de Vos, MBA Professor,
European University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
KBTU represents to me the Energy University of Kazakhstan. Although we must, for growth sake, add value to the up- and down streams of the energy sectors, the fact is that energy is the life blood for diversification of the Kazakh economy. Thus KBTU, through its energy know-how, is also a multiplier of knowledge applicable to the non-traditional industries. Thus integrating forwards from cotton, agriculture and metals into food, textiles and machinery requires energy as well as management know-how.Serving KBTU as a professor of management with background in textiles and food processing allows me to play a leadership role in the diversification process of the Kazakh economy. It is thus a privelidge to train at KBTU tomorrow's managers of Kazakh's traditional and non-traditional sectors. KBTU is excelling in excellence, both as a teaching and a learning center. This is not only due to its outstanding faculty, diversified curriculum, combination of natural and social sciences, but more so because of its unique student body. The latter being highly motivated, competitive and very creative. Good students attract good faculty and rewarding future employers! One cause of the positive synergy among students, faculty and employers is the focus at KBTU to develop good leadership skills. Learning is driven through teamwork and individual competition. The required internship builds bridges between industry and academia bonding theory with practice.. Surveys conducted among the best universities in the world has brought out another factor , very much present at KBTU, i.e. the positive synergism between funded and non-funded students. Funded students have been selected primarily on merit and are highly driven to maintain their financial support. The natural interaction between funded and non-funded students is, through survival and competition, to motivate all to their highest level of competency.

Alain Perichaud, Scientific Manager of Catalyse Ltd, Marseille, France
“I am impressed by the level of spatial visualization skills demonstrated by the students and the comprehensiveness of their major projects, which covered almost the full spectrum of the professional design services. I left the review with the confidence that the graduating of 2011 was fully industry ready.”

H.K.Chang, Honorary Professor
City University of Hong Kong, Peking University, Tsinghua
Former President of the City University of Hong Kong

"From what I have learned, KBTU set a very high standard and received high-level support from the beginning.  The impressive achievements in the past ten years have of course been due to the hard work of those who have staffed the university.  For this reason I salute you and your colleagues. Wishing you more success in the future"

 
Mira Nurakhmetova, President of Chemical Engineering Alumni Club,
Executive Manager of the National Joint Chemical Company, Astana, Kazakhstan

“Excellent study, research and social activity let me get scholarship by AGIP and be amidst Top 100 students of KazMuniaGas… building my future at Cambridge University”
Meruert Nuraksmetova, KBTU Alumni-2008, from letter to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev.

  “…Representatives of the Nazarbayev University are impressed by scope of work doing KBTU on its internationalization of both education and science, as well as achievements of KBTU, which become preconditions of internationalization for the whole higher education system of the Republic of Kazakhstan.”

from letter of the Nazarbayev University to KBTU signed by Prof. K. Dairova, Vice-President of the Advisory Council

Ayzhan TOREGOZHINA, ISE student

Dear ISE/KBTU students!

First of all, thank you for offering me this great opportunity to share my impressions of my life in ISE and KBTU! I really appreciate it.

Now let my give you some background about my way at ISE and the University in general, as some of you might have never heard of it. I spotted ISE when I was at high school and I knew that I'd try to do my best to become a student of it. And from the very first day at School I felt the difference: the student body was very competitive (many times I felt that I was lagging behind), the professors were great and the management staff was very supportive. We were provided with immense resources to succeed. Believe my, when you are at ISE you have no other path but success!

I'd like to devote another paragraph to my professors as without their help I couldn't be able to transfer to the US. A profound knowledge and a solid background they cultivated in me gave me an opportunity to be competitive in another university, and the personal qualities they indirectly built in me helped me to find my place in the diverse community of the US university. I'd never forget our small discussion seminars and one-on-one basis talks during office hours. Thank you Dear Professors for everything!

I'd also like to thank the KBTU administration and ISE Dean Prof. Tuiebakhova for the opportunities they are creating at ISE and KBTU in general. It's so wonderful that I had a chance to experience that the education in Kazakhstan and the rest of the world becomes more standardized and it's easy to transfer from one system to the other. I, for example, was able to transfer most of the KBTU credits to my University. It means that Kazakhstani Higher Education System is on the track of being global! Of course there is a lot to do in this direction but with such people there at KBTU any impediment, I'm sure, will evade.

Finally, even though I'm formally no longer a student of ISE and KBTU, I'd like to find some other ways of making an impact on the University. Being a source of connections and negotiations between the US Universities and KBTU is just one of billions of ways I might be useful. Giving back to the community that fostered my growth is a must for me, and I'll try to give as much as I can in order to provide many opportunities for KBTU students to grow.

Thanks and best of luck in everything.