Bachelor's programme
Process automation engineeringCareer paths
Graduate career paths
The fields and roles graduates of this programme go on to work in.
Oil extraction
Automation engineers can work in the field of oil and gas well drilling, operation, and remote monitoring of downhole technological equipment, real-time data collection, and construction of well productivity optimization systems.
Energy
Graduates can work in the field of synchronizing the operation modes of generators and turbines in power plants, relay protection and automation of substations, as well as in the application of intelligent grid (smart grid) systems in renewable energy sources.
Machine building
Specialists can work in the machinery industry in programming conveyor lines, robotic arms, and computer numerical control (cnc) machines, mechanizing manufacturing processes, and assembling plc-based control cabinets.
Aviation
Engineers can operate in the field of technical review of internal navigation and control systems (avionics) of aircraft in air transport, as well as management of airport logistics, baggage sorting and microclimate control (bms) systems.
Transportation
Graduates can work in the field of automated traffic management of metro trains, building intelligent traffic light networks in urban infrastructure, and programming of automated guided vehicles (agv) in large logistics centers.
Communication
Specialists can operate in the field of automatic management of uninterruptible power and cooling systems of data centers, application of industrial network protocols (modbus, profibus) and integration of internet of things (iot) devices into a single network.
Military
Engineers can work in the field of development of trajectory algorithms of unmanned aerial vehicles (uav) and remotely controlled military complexes, tuning of target tracking systems and high-precision motion control (motion control) mechanisms.
Scientific research
Graduates can work in universities and r&d centers in the field of mathematical modeling of modern control theories (adaptive, optimal and fuzzy control), simulation in the matlab/simulink environment and testing prototypes of new automatic devices, as well as teachers or laboratory assistants in educational and scientific institutions.
Constructor-project
Specialists can work in the field of drawing automation schemes (p&id), functional and principle electrical schemes in autocad/eplan environment and preparation of automation equipment specifications during the design of industrial enterprises.
Finance
Engineers can work in banking and finance writing robotic process automation (rpa) software to perform repetitive transactions without human intervention and developing algorithmic trading systems for stock trading.
Discrete technologies
Graduates can operate in the field of setting up automatic assembly lines of components on boards in microelectronics production, building automated test stands that control quality in the process of mass production of sensors and controllers.
Food and agriculture
Engineers can operate in the field of accurate maintenance of temperature and humidity regimes in pasteurization, packaging and sterilization processes in food plants, as well as writing software for "smart greenhouse" and automatic irrigation systems.
Primary processing, storage and transportation of oil and gas
Specialists can operate in the field of regulation of pressure, temperature and consumption indicators in main pipelines, intelligent detection of leaks, as well as operation and tuning of automatic systems that control the level of raw materials in tank parks.
Oil and gas refining (petrochemicals)
Engineers can work in the field of programming, monitoring of distributed control systems (dcs) for continuous control of technological processes in oil refineries, and debugging of emergency block systems (esd) that stop production in critical cases.