Specialty: ELECTRIC POWER ENGINEERING AND ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT ЕCТS code : ЕPР Qualification awarded: Bachelor and Master Education forms: regular and tuition by correspondence Term of education: Full-time 4 years for Bachelor degree and 1.5 years for Master degree after Bachelor degree. Part-time The term is increased with 1 year for Bachelor degree. Final examination: diploma work for all training ways and degrees. Admission requirements: For Bachelor degree are accepted persons that are finished secondary education and are taken examination in corresponding with the rules in Technical University Sofia. For Master degree are accepted Bachelors from specialty “Electric Power Engineering and Electrical Equipment” or Bachelor from other specialties that are pass preliminary training in the specialty. Access to further studies: The persons that are finished Bachelor degree may continue their education in Master degree. The persons that are finished Master degree may continue their education in PhD degree. Programme importance: The progress of the Electric Power Engineering and the industry and tendency for electrical energy losses reduction necessitate using of new technologies for generation, transfer, distribution and consumption of electrical energy. This may achieve from engineers with high qualification and new knowledge that are obtained in Technical University at Sofia in specialty “Electric Power Engineering and Electrical Equipment” General characteristics of the education: In the Bachelor degree programme are studied: General education subjects - economic, history of the techniques, protection of environmental, foreign languages. Fundamental subjects – mathematics, physics, electrical engineering, electronics, digital and microprocessor technique, computer programming. General technical subjects - mechanics, chemistry, knowledge for materials, technical drawing, technical safety, electrical engineering materials. General professional objects – electrical measurements, electrical machines, electrical apparatus, technique of high voltages, bases of automation, automatically electrical drive, currents of short circuit, electrical part of electric power stations, electric nets and systems, electrical equipment, lighting and installation technology, heat power engineering and heat technique, hydraulic machines and pneumatics, elements and mechanisms for machines. Special professional objects in four groups Group А Group B Group C Group D Stability of Power Systems Stability of Power Systems Electric Part of Robots Automation of Power Systems Automation of Power Systems Electric Equipment of the Electric Transports Vehicles Electric Power Supply of the Electric Transport Control and Automation of the Electric Transports Vehicles Traction Substations and Overhead Contact Nets Designing of the Electrical Part of Electrical Rolling Stock Practical Schematic Design in Electric Transport Electric Power Supply Systems Automation in Industry Design of Electric Power Stations Mechanical Part of Power lines Electromagnetic Compatibility in and Substations Electric Supply Systems Control of Electrical Distribution Electrical Nets for Towns and Electrical Equipment of Installations Villages Manufacturing Processes Regimes and Exploitation of Regimes of Power Systems Lighting Systems Electric Power Stations Electrical Equipment Testing Assembling and Exploitation of Technical Exploitation of Electric electrical nets Installations in Industry Devices for Relay Protections and Design and Exploitation of Energetic Technology and Automation Relay Protections Ecology Electric Power Supply The students work out and defend diploma work at the end of the training. The persons that are finished Bachelor degree may continue their education in Master degree. In the Master degree programme are studied: mathematics, information technologies, analyze and synthesis of complex power systems; theoretical bases on objects in the field of the electrical engineering and electronics; optional objects in the field of electric power stations, electrical nets and systems, automation of power systems, electric power supply and electrical equipment, electrical transport, lighting technique. The students work out and defend a diploma work at the end of the training. Educational and professional goals: The aim of training is to be gain knowledge and experience in the field of production, transfer, distribution and utilization of the electrical energy. The Bachelor degree for specialty “Electric Power Engineering and Electric Equipment” is connected with preparation of competent leading, designer’s and executive personnel. The engineers with Master degree are prepared for research, designer’s, constructor’s, technological, production, managing activities. Employment of the graduates: The engineer with Bachelor degree is prepared to work as: leader, specialist and organizer in companies for production or distribution of electrical energy, in repair depot for power equipment; dispatcher in companies for production or distribution of electrical energy; power engineer of industrial, transport, mining and agricultural enterprises and companies; designer, industrial engineer and collaborator in companies and research centers; technical supervisor in assembly and building enterprises and companies; collaborator in scientific groups; manager, expert, consultant and specialist in state and public institution, commercial companies, private business. The MEng is prepared to work in all posts that require MEng in the specialty “Electric Power Engineering and Electric Equipment” in electric power stations, power system, all industrial enterprises, electrical transport, scientific and research companies, designer’s, constructor’s and commercial companies, institutes etc.