Program Overview

Program Overview

The program in question is focused on the management of technical conditions of automotive vehicles and special equipment. It aims to prepare specialists for working with key infrastructure objects in the maintenance of automotive technology.

Program Description

The program educates students to organize efficient work at service stations, car dealerships, official dealer centers, as well as at transport enterprises and transport-logistic firms, and automotive divisions of industrial companies.

Direction of Training

The direction of training is Bachelor's degree, specifically in the field of "Operation of transport and technological machines and complexes" (code 23.03.03).

Program Details

• Budgetary places: 20
• Paid places: 5
• Form of education: Full-time
• Duration of study: 4 years

Advantages of the Program

• Close interaction with employers, allowing students to find work during their practice at automotive service enterprises.
• Unique competencies in the field of equipment reliability, providing a deep understanding of processes leading to wear and failure of not only automotive but also any complex equipment.
• Enables graduates to occupy both working and managerial positions in the field of automotive transport.
• The objects of professional activity can be not only private cars but also commercial vehicles.
• Graduates easily find themselves in the auto business and related fields (insurance, technical expertise, auto lawyers, logistics).
• Opportunities to reveal one's creative potential through projects such as the development of a youth sports car, work in the youth design bureau "Tankograd", and participation in research and development projects ordered by major engine and vehicle manufacturing enterprises.

Professional Activities

• Organization and execution of technical maintenance and repair of vehicles of all types.
• Business in the automotive sphere and auto sports.
• Technological and organizational design of automotive service enterprises.
• Development and manufacture of equipment for the repair and maintenance of vehicles.
• Selection of operational materials, motor oils, fuels, and spare parts.

Main Disciplines

• Design and operational properties of transport and transport-technological machines and equipment.
• Calculation of transport and transport-technological machines and equipment.
• Basics of car repair.
• Basics of reliability theory.
• Basics of production, operation, modernization, and disposal of ground transport-technological machines.
• Technological processes of maintenance and repair of transport and transport-technological machines and equipment.
• Electrical equipment of ground machines.
• Technological processes of vehicle diagnostics.
• Organization of control over the technical condition of vehicles.
• Organization of production at enterprises for the maintenance of transport and transport-technological machines and equipment.
• Certification and licensing in the automotive transport sector.
• Basics of entrepreneurship in transport.
• Digital technologies and artificial intelligence in ground transport-technological complexes.
• Basics of automated design of ground transport-technological complexes.

Career Opportunities

• Manager of an auto service enterprise.
• Master consultant of a technical center, master receiver of vehicles.
• Engineer for warranty, specialist for selection and sales of auto parts.
• Manager for vehicle sales.
• Specialist in mechatronic systems of vehicles, auto electrician-diagnostician.
• Design engineer, test engineer.
• Auto mechanic, motorist.

Program Leader

Elena Anatolyevna Zadorozhnaya

Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Professor at the South Ural State University.