Ushchapovsky Andrew

There is nothing more planned than what happened by accident. That is how – by chance – I got to the Department of Automation of thermal energy processes.

What I liked about the department:

1. Training has aim a developing students’ technical skills, i.e. work with real equipment, application software.
2. Good technical equipment of the department. It is possible to work with real equipment.
3. Teachers of the department – engineers to the bone marrow. Many of them are involved in real projects for the development of automatic control systems. That is why students receive relevant knowledge.
4. Teachers of the department want to teach students, not shove knowledge into their heads.

Unfortunately, the curriculum built in such a way that you meet most of the teachers of the department only in the 3rd year. But it is not the department that developed the curriculum, but the Ministry of Education. Before the 3rd year it is necessary to listen to general courses, such as physics, higher mathematics (these are the main courses from the list of general), and many incomprehensible, but for some reason necessary. But I will say at once that the situation is the same in absolutely all departments of the whole university.

But starting from the 3rd, and more from the 4th year, when you begin to actively get acquainted with the teachers of the department, you begin to admire more and more what was chosen. The theory of automatic control, programming of controllers, development of dispatching systems – this is what finally fell in love with the development of automatic control systems. And not just me. Then, when I started to take part in real projects, I got such incredible feelings when I saw that the soulless irons, the control algorithm of which I programmed, started to move, I became more and more satisfied with my work. Yes, after graduation I went to work in the specialty 🙂

And I am grateful for the case that forced me in the 3rd week of receiving documents for admission to study to go and apply to the Department of Automation of thermal energy processes of the heat department!