Power stations

Students receive knowledge in information technologies in electric power systems, administration of different types of power stations, networks and systems, power engineering economy, manufacture occupational adaptation.

Power supply

Students of this specialty study mathematical modeling in power supply systems, use of computer engineering, energy savings, economics, marketing. Our engineers know the present state and solution methods of all problems in power economy.

Thermal power stations

The main fie d the specialists work in is power stations, power engineering administration and industrial plants. Students receive grounding in heating engineering equipment operation, study water and fuel preparation technology; assembling, repair and setting up of heat power stations thermal equipment.

Heat power engineering

Provides engineers for work in industrial plants, especially of power-consuming ones - in metallurgy, petrochemistry and timber industry; in energy plants, conservancies, planning and research institutes. Students get training in the following specializations: industrial heat-and- power plants and heat supply systems, energy savings and engineering ecology.

Electric drive and automation of industrial installations and technological complexes

Engineers of this specialty are specialists in the field of automated electric drive and industrial plant automation systems. They solve problems of research, design, assembling, and setting up and operation of electric drives and administration systems based on electromechanic facilities, power and microelectronics, conversion and measuring equipment and information processing in modern information technologies.

Electric transport

Provides engineers for work in industrial plants, scientific and design organizations in the field of operation, setting up, assembling, planning, elaboration and examination of electric transport facilities. The engineers work with different types of municipal electric transport and means of maintenance of transport systems perfect functioning.

Insulation, cable and capacitor engineering

Prepares engineers for work in the sphere of designing and making cable wares for modern communication channels and multi-channel control systems, medical equipment, production administration systems where fiberoptic, miniature and subminiature conductors, wave guides, surface wave lines and radiant cables are used.

Radio engineering

Students study socio-economic sciences, ethic and ecological disciplines, principles of production group administration. Engineers work in tie field of elaboration and operation of computer techniques, receiving and transmitting deuces, radio systems of different function-radar aid radio navigational systems, systems of receiving information from artificial satellites.

The Departmert has been training engineers since 1963. Chairs of the Department have prepared a! most a thousand of engineers. Students are provided with good facilities for studying, research and other activities. In order to make academic process successful libraries of the Department ate supplied with modern equipment and new computer techniques. Apart from the academic staff, top-level practitioners are involved as trainers as well.

Students of the Power Engineering Department can participate in research work on chairs end continue their education in postgraduate programs at our university, institutions of the Academy of Sciences and other academies. Our graduates work successfully in many branches of national economy verifying their professional skills; they are ii great request in the labor market.

Lesson 8.1.2. New Education Concept

Ex 1. Read the following summary, then listen to the tape and fill in the gaps.

The idea remains that students are 1) …….. containers which a teacher fills with knowledge. However, this approach no longer works. The teacher's role is no longer simply to feed information to students. Facts are available in 2) ……… on CD ROMS and on the 3) …….. What students need are the 4) …….to find this information. Cooperative learning encourages 5) , tolerance and helpfulness towards others. Students work in pairs, in threes and in 6) ….. of four. The teacher is the 7) …… , not the master. Brett Melville, a pupil, says: "In our class, we have time to discuss issues and 8) …….. in detail. "Lynne Gedye, a teacher says "The children's response was 9) ……. "Cooperative learning turns the classroom from a competitive arena into a place where learning facts and life skills is 10) … and effective.

Reading

Ex 2. You are going to read a text about a new teaching method. Seven sentences have been removed from the article. Choose from the sentences A-H the one which fits each gap (1-6). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use. There is an example at the beginning (0).