The goal of the doctoral training for PhD students in the doctoral program "Electrical Drives" in the Department of "Automation of Electrical Drives" (AED, FT) is aimed at:

a) improving the qualifications of the enrolled PhD students;

b) forming them as highly qualified teachers for the Technical University - Sofia;

c) developing them into competent, knowledgeable, and capable scientists ready to meet the challenges of modern industry and technology.

Achieving the set goal is associated with the fulfillment of the following tasks:

a) compliance with legal requirements in the training of PhD students;

b) the training and consulting of doctoral students shall be carried out by highly qualified habilitated teachers;

c) continuous improvement and modernization of the material base to meet global standards in the scientific field;

d) application of modern achievements in the field of information and communication technologies for research and development, analysis, and processing of information and data;

e) maintaining continuous contact, close interaction, and responding to the growing interest of companies in the field in scientific and applied research related to the topic of the doctoral program.

At the Faculty of Automation, as the training unit, there are seven specialized laboratories in "Electric Drives", equipped with specific measuring equipment and specialized testers where doctoral students can be successfully trained in the doctoral program "Electric Drives". The material base of the Department of AEZ provides good opportunities for training at the educational-scientific level of "doctor". Doctoral students have free access to all laboratories and the entire available material base and the Internet. All doctoral students in the department are provided with the opportunity to work with a personal computer.

Technical University - Sofia, Faculty of Automation (specifically the Department of AEZ) is the educational institution in Bulgaria that can provide training for doctoral students in the doctoral program "Electrical Drives", which should be in accordance with European requirements regarding the type of research:

● theoretical and experimental;

● of an engineering nature.

The topics on which doctoral students are trained under this program are current and are determined by national priorities in the specific scientific research field, namely: development of methods and tools for research and improvement of electrical drives in accordance with modern standards.