The Advanced Engineering School Smart Energy Systems of Tomsk Polytechnic University opens admission to the titular master's program. The program is designed to combine academic engineering education with workshops from invited experts of the fuel and energy sector of Russia. Over the next two years, the students will master modern trends at the nexus of power engineering and IT, such as industrial internet of things, digital twins, distributed ledger, simulation modeling of power systems and other digital technologies in engineering processes and production. This year the program offers 25 state-funded slots.
The master's program Smart Energy Systems is aimed at bachelor's graduates, particularly in the fields of automation, nuclear power, oil and gas, and electric power engineering.
Today, many companies are implementing distributed process control systems that, along with direct operational functions, also offer in-depth information support at all stages and levels of production. Real-time data analysis makes it possible to see the bottlenecks and design the production process in the most efficient and rational way. In fact, enterprises are now changing the paradigm of thinking in part operation processes from analog to digital one. Technological transition to digital thinking is where we see the horizons of our future graduates. This is the demand of society for change in the next five years, and many manufacturers would agree with this statement, — comments Sergey Leonov, acting head of the Division for Smart Systems.
The educational program is designed based on the 1+1 principle. The first year of study will focus on theory complimented with workshops. Students will study applied control systems, object-oriented programming, algorithm theory, mathematical logic, industrial internet of things, simulation modeling, and work with information systems and databases. The classes will be delivered by experts from fuel and energy sector, as well as by invited experts from the country's leading universities, such as ITMO, NSTU, and Tomsk universities. The students will learn the basics of their fields by studying real cases of enterprises.
"In the first term, during two weeks students will be introduced to industry representatives, both online and offline, and then, under the supervision of their mentors, they will run a project, a real case study of a company. Starting from the second term, all students will be offered paid internships at leading companies in the industry. The program also includes group projects, so that students could try their hand in different process roles in the project," adds Tatiana Mamonova, associate professor at the Division for Information Technology of the School of Computer Science & Robotics and the program coordinator.
The second year will be fully devoted to practical training at enterprises with supervision from the university. Students will be placed with companies in the energy sector, and each will be assigned a mentor from the company, who will help the student choose his or her future professional path (industrial, technological, or research) and get engaged in the real processes. Among the partners of the TPU Advanced Engineering School are Rosseti Siberia, Gazprom Neft, System Operator of the Unified Energy System, Rosatom State Corporation, Tinkoff Bank, RusHydro, Prosoft-Systems, and many others.
One of the program highlights will be delta assessment. It assumes that students increase their level of competence over the course of their studies and, over time, can take on an expert position themselves. There will be three levels: elementary, advanced, and expert. Students who reach the latter level will assess the work of their fellow students. Basically, the program is activity-based. It is not a one-way lecture course, but an active interaction with experts and enterprises. The activity-based approach will ensure a barrier-free transition from the university to workplace environment for a graduate, — Vladislav Sherstnev, head of the program and head of the Division for Information Technology, notes.
The program starts in the fall of 2023. For more information about the program and admission, please visit the TPU Admission Website.
