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Transportation Equipment and Technologies

The specialty prepares engineering personnel in the field of design and construction, production, technical maintenance, and operation of modern transport equipment, including cars, tractors, and forklifts in all categories of their classification, in accordance with international regulatory documents.

Classes for the specialization "Transport Engineering and Technologies" are conducted at a modern European level.

Lectures are held in rooms equipped with multimedia tools, audio-video systems, and OhP projectors for training.

The rooms where laboratory exercises are held are equipped with training stands for various functional systems and aggregates of vehicles, measuring equipment for road measurements; equipment for static loading of a wheel with a pneumatic tire; equipment for studying the statics of a chain drive mechanism; equipment for testing a brake system regulator, etc.; models of front and rear axles, gearboxes, vehicle engines, clutches, various vehicle parts and assembled units. The department has a pneumatics laboratory, created with the material support of SMC Industrial Automation EOOD - Sofia, which is equipped with a pneumatics trainer.

During their training, students will have access to a computer class equipped with licensed software products: Microsoft Office-MSDN package for designing mechanical engineering products, CAD/CAM systems - NX 4, Solid Edge, Solid Works, Autocad, and MATLAB.

Practical training is widely represented in the study programs. It is provided through:

- specialized internships at companies with which contracts have been signed, "Balkankar-Record" - Plovdiv, "BALKAN" AD - Lovech, specialized service centers for maintaining transport equipment, and other companies in the field of production, maintenance (currently in Bulgaria there are over 3 million vehicles), marketing, and management of transport equipment, both in the country and abroad;

- the diploma internship at TUS - Sofia, Plovdiv branch, is conducted at the department or at companies, depending on the topic and the applicant for the diploma thesis;

- students also receive practical training through laboratory exercises, the development of course assignments and course projects, as well as diploma theses.

For the needs of student training in the Department of TAT, an information center has been established, equipped with educational and specialized materials in both paper and electronic formats. This center is connected to the university network with high-speed internet access.

The application and admission to the specialty are regulated by the Regulation on Admission of Students at the Technical University – Sofia. The admission process corresponds to the announced one, and the specific requirements are announced together with the general conditions.

The training in the specialty "Transport Engineering and Technologies" at the educational and qualification level "master" provides in-depth fundamental and specialized preparation, combined with specialization in the field of transport and transport machinery. The training in the specialty includes the following disciplines: structural strength, automatic transmissions in wheeled and tracked vehicles (WTV), hydraulic and pneumatic systems in WTV, modeling and testing of WTV, suspension and comfort in automotive engineering, control systems for internal combustion engines. Part of the mandatory elective disciplines form three master's programs: Wheeled and Tracked Vehicles, Automobiles, Tractors and Carts, and Computer Modeling of Transport Engineering.

Engineers who have graduated with a specialization in "Transport Engineering and Technologies" find employment in companies engaged in the design, production, and operation of transport equipment, as well as in repair companies and enterprises in the automotive industry (plants for the production and recycling of light and heavy trucks, buses, electric and forklifts, tractors, agricultural transport machinery, as well as electric vehicles). The engineer-magister can also find employment in transport companies and enterprises as a designer and researcher in design and research laboratories, as well as in the management structures and services of companies and agencies.

Students from the specialization "Transport Engineering and Technologies" who have completed a master's degree can continue their studies to obtain a doctoral degree.

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