Intelligent Control Systems

Degree: MASTER
Duration: 2 years (4 semesters)
ECTS: 120
Fields of study: Automation and Control Systems, Intelligent Technologies
Language of instruction: Russian, English (on request)


DESCRIPTION

 

Master’s degree programme provides students with comprehensive knowledge in the following areas: engineering automation and control systems and facilities, methods and techniques of presenting and conversing information, digital processing of signals and images, mathematical methods and models in automation and control systems, methods of teaching the corresponding technical disciplines.

In the course of the programme Master’s degree students should acquire knowledge required in intelligent control systems, production management, as well as foreign language proficiency in his/her professional activity.

The graduates obtain professional skills of building automation and control systems using intelligent technologies, teaching technical disciplines, and undertaking organisational and managerial activity.

Forms of in-class activity: lectures, laboratory work, practical classes, review sessions, and students’ individual work.

 

AIMS

 

project and engineering activity:
•    to form Master’s degree students ability to analyse the state of scientific and technical problem by means of selecting, studying and assessing literary and patent sources regarding automation and control;
•    to broaden students’ skills of setting goals and design objectives, preparing technical tasks for design engineering;
•    to train students capable of engineering automation and control systems and facilities using modern software packages for computer-aided design;
•    to prepare students for elaborating design and detailed records in accordance with regulatory requirements;
research activity:
•    to instruct students to draw up work plans and programmes for research and engineering development, prepare tasks for executing;
•    to upgrade students’ ability to collect, process, analyse and organise scientific and technical data, to choose methods and means for completing tasks on research topics;
•    to teach students how to develop mathematical models of processes and facilities in automation and control systems;
•    to train students capable of developing technical, information and algorithm support for automation and control systems engineered;
•    to form students’ ability to conduct field surveys and computer-aided design of control facilities and processes using modern mathematical methods, hardware and software;
•    to prepare students for developing methods, hardware and software of modelling, identifying and technical diagnosing of dynamic objects different by their physical nature;
•    to instruct students to prepare scientific and technical reports, reviews, publications, applications for an invention and other materials following the results of research;

management activity:
•    to upgrade students’ skills required for organising teamwork;
•    to form students’ ability to maintain common information space for planning and managing the enterprise at every stage of products lifecycle;
•    to train students capable of analysing market efficiency of products using technical and economic, functional and value indicators;
•    to teach students how to prepare documents for establishing and developing enterprise system for quality management;
•    to prepare students for developing plans and programmes of innovation activity at enterprises;

scientific and teaching activity:
•    to form students’ ability to teach academic disciplines of this field of study under the supervision of a professor, associate professor or senior lecturer in specialised secondary or higher educational institutions;
•    to develop students’ ability to prepare teaching and learning materials for students in academic disciplines of this field of study;
•    to upgrade students’ ability required for modernising and developing new laboratory courses in professional disciplines.

 

LEARNING OUTCOMES

 

On successful completion of the course, the student should be able to:
•    use skills and abilities of carrying out research and project work, as well as managing a team;
•    set goals, objectives of research in the sphere of automatic control, choose methods and means for addressing the challenges;
•    apply modern theoretical and experimental methods of developing mathematical models of facilities and processes studied that are related to professional activity in the field of study;
•    organise and conduct experimental studies and computer modelling using modern methods and means;
•    use modern tools of designing hardware and software for addressing the tasks of automation and control;
•    choose methods and develop algorithms for solving control problems in technical systems;
•    apply modern technologies for processing information, control facilities, computers, technologies of computer networks and telecommunication while designing automation and control systems;
•    upgrade computer-aided document flow and set requirements for content and design of technical and managerial records;
•    organise and carry out teaching and learning process while implementing educational programmes;
•    run research, design and engineering projects in the sphere of intelligent control systems.

 

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

 

The graduates are able to work in research, design and production enterprises, taking part in engineering, producing and operating control systems and facilities in manufacturing and defence industry, transport, economy, agriculture, medicine, etc. The graduates may also choose to complete a postgraduate programme.

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