General Information

Head of the Department
Hambartsoum Armenak Hovsepyan

The department of Power Engineering(1994) was founded in 1972 as the Faculty of Power Engineering being separated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. The first Dean of the Faculty was Liparit Ghuloyan. His successors were Gurgen Hairapetyan(1978-81), Mamikon Bubushyan(1981-86), Hrant Burnachyan(1986-87), Vostanik Maroukyan(1987-90), Laert Hovhannisyan(1990-93). Hambartsoum Hovsepyan has been the Head of the Department since 1993.

A prominent Armenian scientist, Member of NAS RA Hrant Adonts was in academic staff of this Department.

The Department has 4 Chairs: Thermal Power Engineering, Electrical Power Engineering, Economics, Organization and Planning of Energetic Industry, Environmental Engineering. The SEUA Honorary Professor L. Ghuloyan, 6 Professors, 29 Associate Professors, 19 Assistant Professors and Lecturers are on the staff of the Department, 39 of the 55 faculty (71%) have scientific degrees. At present 577 Undergraduate, 36 Master and 23 Postgraduate students study here in 8 specialties of 5 degree programs.

The main research directions of the Department are: Improvement of Technological Schemes for Thermal and Nuclear Power Plants, Optimization of the Operation Regimes of Power Plants, Problems of Stabilized and Optimum Regimes and Energy Saving in Power Systems. Elaboration of Measures for Engineering Protection of Environment from Harmful Exhaustions, Energy and Resource-Saving Technologies and Equipment. The graduates of the Department work in different enterprises of the energy sector, in R&D centers or in different government entities.

The main partners of the Department are: Armenian Nuclear Power Plant, Hrazdan Thermal Power Plant, the Natural Monopoly Regulation Committee of RA, SRI "Armatom", the enterprises "Armenergo" and "Electric Networks of Armenia", HPPs of "Sevan-Hrazdan" Cascade. The Department cooperates with the Moscow Institute of Energetics, Royal University in Stockholm, Technical University of Belorus, the Institute of Nuclear Technology in France and other organizations abroad.

Bachelor of Engineering Programs(4- year training )in specialties:

10.07 Industrial Thermal Power Engineering
10.02 Electric Power Systems and Networks
06.08 Economics and Management of Enterprises (Power Engineering)
33.02 Environmental Engineering

Diplomaed Engineer Programs on the Specialties:

10.01 Power Plants
10.04 Power Supply
10.05 Thermal Power Plants
10.10 Nuclear Power Engineering

Master(Graduate) Programs(2-year training) after being awarded the Bachelor’s Degree in specialties:

550900 Thermal Power Engineering
551700 Electrical Power Engineering
553500 Engineering Ecology (Power Engineering)
521500 Engineering Management

Research-Engineer Program (post-graduate courses)(3-year training) after getting a Master’s Degree in specialties:

05.14.01 Power systems, complexes and their management
05.14.03 Thermal power engineering

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The Department has the following Chairs:

Thermal Power Engineering
Electrical Power Engineering
Economics, Organization and Planning of Energetic Industry
Environmental Engineering

The Number of the Students
Bachelors-577
Graduates-36
Postgraduates-23

The Professorial Staff
7 Professors
29 Associate Professors
13 Senior Lectures
6 Assistant Lecturers are involved in the educational process

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