About the program
Faculty: Faculty of Mechanics and Technology
Department: Department of Automobiles
Study program: Vehicle Maintenance
The course trains students to ensure car maintenance and repair works, to monitor car technical state and arrange auto transportations. Besides, this sphere is very significant in the Belarusian industrial system. We develop the core competencies needed for student successful employability.
Assigned qualification: Mechanical Engineer
Study period:
- Full-time – 4 years
- Part-time shortened program – 4 years
Career
I can work as:
- Engineer
- Research engineer
- Inspection engineer
- Assistant engineer
- Mechanical engineer
- Technology innovation engineer
- Equipment engineer
- Mechanical automation engineer
- Test repair engineer
- Maintenance engineer
- University Lecturer
I can work at:
- Vehicle maintenance and repair service
- Automotive repair industry
- Construction technologies and scientific organizations
- Marketing and automotive services
- Technology and materials supply industry
- Vehicle testing and repair station
- National Vehicle Inspection
Professional activities:
1. Vehicle maintenance and repair service:
- Vehicle and equipment operation according to the technical regulations and stan-dards
- Vehicle and equipment testing.
2. Organization and management:
- Selection, grounding and realization activities for managerial decision, accounting and document management.
3. Project and construction:
- Profile objects development considering mechanical engineering, aesthetical, environmental and economic standards.
4. Industry and technology:
- Industrial design and technology programs development for vehicle maintenance, repair and modernization
- Industrial design and technology programs development for automotive manufacturing equipment
- Effective engineering solutions implementation for automotive assembly and applications and vehicle maintenance inspection.
5. Scientific research:
- Vehicle maintenance and repair technologies implementation
- Safety and energy efficiency strategy
- Trucking service safety and management .
Courses
Humanities:
- Philosophy
- Economics
- Political science
- History
- Specialized modules: Bases of Law / History of political parties and movements
- Specialized modules: Ethics / Labour and management psychology
Sciences:
- Mathematics
- Physics
- Chemistry
- Computer science
- Bases of energy efficiency
- Electrical and electronic engineering
Special courses:
- Mechanism and machine theory
- Mechanics of materials
- Engineering graphics
- Labour protection
- Rating and measurement
- Machine elements
- Bases of intellectual property management
- Social protection of population for emergency situations, radiation protection
- Car engines
- Vehicle maintenance
- Vehicle electrical accessories
- Maintenance and mechanization
- Transport economics
- Transport system and trucking service safety
- Automobiles
- Ecology and energy consumption for transport
- Transport organization and projecting
- Transport management
- Scientific and technical translation
- Quality management, certification and licensing
- Thermodynamics and heat transfer
- Hydraulics and pneumatics
- Materials science and engineering
- Engineering equipment and materials
- Theoretical mechanics
- Vehicle design and valuation
- Transport electronic management systems
- Vehicle repair and manufacturing
- Vehicle diagnostics
- Automotive software
- Automobile maintenance and repair
- Bases of scientific research and innovation
Training
Driving and operation (Academic Year 1, Term 2, 4 weeks). Introduction. Students visit to automobile industries. During the first week students attend the course «Road traffic regulations». The rest of the days dedicated to driving on the vehicle test track.
Automobile construction (Academic Year 3, Term 6, 4 weeks). The goal is to give automobile manufacturing, preforming, operation and assembling procedures review.
The main objectives:
- Automotive manufacturing procedures for vehicle maintenance and repair services
- Automotive assembly and sections manufacturing
- Manufacturing equipment, mechanical and automation appliances review
- Metalworking operations and automotive assembly review
- Automobile industry management and organization review
Technological (Academic Year 4, Term 8, 5 weeks). The training aims at industry management and organization, vehicle maintenance and repair services, vehicle diagnostics and operations review.
The main objectives:
- Automobile industry management and organization review
- Skills and knowledge for vehicle diagnostics, maintenance and repair
- Theoretical and practical grounding of basics of operational planning for vehicle repair and maintenance services
- Vehicle maintenance and repair services technical procedures considering health and safety regulations and their improvement
- Working practices and industry organization improvement for vehicle maintenance and repair
- Practice automotive operation and health and safety regulations for technological maintenance and repair services and their elements
Pre-graduation (Academic Year 5, Term 9, 4 weeks). A preparatory stage before presenting a Diploma paper.
Reviews/references/responses
«Five years of my student life at Polotsk State University is over… I’m leaving my alma mater with a feeling of confidence in the future. I’ve a good qualification at the University. It will help me to have a good job and a high salary. Apart from my study program I’ve got great experience of social activities. At the University every student has an opportunity to demonstrate the potential in different spheres. I have taken an active part in university life. I worked at Student Centre, which gave me many interesting acquaintances, and positive emotions, helped me to develop and improve my interpersonal skills. PSU has become a good and strong base on the way to my successful future!»
Vyacheslav Biley, graduate 2017
Study program «Technical operation of vehicles»
