About study programme
Our work may be complex, but it can be easily explained. So what do graduates of Machine and Process Control do? It is behind the automation of production across a range of industries. Most automated lines can be found in the food industry. They fill your favorite lemonade, pack the addictive sweet sticks. But even such a car factory is one large automated factory. In our work, IT is linked to engineering. First we have to come up with the hardware, and then the IT part comes. The advantage of the field is the versatility with which you can be applied in a wide field of industry as a designer of control, measuring or diagnostic systems of industrial equipment. You will be well versed in related engineering fields.
Graduate's employment
Graduates have a wide range of jobs because the introduction of information technology and automation takes place in all industries, services or government. Graduates can work as:
- programmers of programmable logic controllers (PLCs)
- Software developers
- designers of measuring, diagnostic and control systems of industrial equipment
- specialists providing operation, adjustment, programming, diagnostics, maintenance and repairs of complex production-technological units.
Graduates are equipped with the skills and knowledge to enable them to grow professionally through creative involvement in the production process or by continuing their master's degree program (Automatic Control and Engineering Informatics, Mechanical Engineering Program).
Study aims
The student will gain knowledge of the following areas:
* Software
Control of technological processes, PLC programming, principles of hydraulic and pneumatic mechanisms, sensors, sensors and transducers.
* Applied Informatics
Creation of information systems, technology of data acquisition, methods of further data processing using databases, Internet of Things using Arduino, principles of current hardware of personal computers and LAN computer networks.
* Process visualization
Control room environments, sensor data collection and data visualization tools.
* Theory of automatic control
Mathematical modeling, analysis and synthesis of control circuits, modeling and simulation of mechatronic systems.
Graduate's knowledge
- methods of design and operation of measuring, diagnostic and control systems of industrial equipment
- theory and application of automation and informatics
- practical use of computers and their networks to support the management of production processes and technical-economic tasks
Graduate's skills
- practical problems in implementing computerized support for production system management
- use of industrial automation visualization software tools
- design and build web information systems applications
- Configure the operating system from the administrator's perspective
- Create computer networks and administer them
- find, organize and interpret relevant information to solve practical problems
- design and implement logic control applications, adjust PID controller parameters
Graduate's general competence
- teamwork experience
- learn to coordinate team activities
- processing projects related to the bachelor thesis
- elaboration of high-quality, sufficiently extensive and critical research of solved problems
- ability to use modern computational methods and efficiently evaluate outputs of technical measurements