- knowledge of important processes and operating principles the basic units of nuclear power plants (NPP), the foundations of the theory of automation and optimization;
- ability to analyse processes of NPP and substantiate advisability and the volume of automation;
-ability to develop functional scheme of automation of important technological processes of NPP and realize them separate the contours of regulation/control/alarm system;
- ability to choose the means of automation, taking into account the technological features and functional features of the process automation systems NPP.

1. Automatic Control Theory.
2. Automation Devices.
3. Technological Measurements and Devices.
4. Automation and Optimization of Technological Processes at Nuclear Power Plants.

Selection and description of technological processes NPP as an object of control; justification parameters of technological processes NPP and their nominal values in terms of task automation; compiling block diagram of interconnections between technological parameters control object; comparative analysis of existing schemes automate the process and synthesis optimal systems for specified conditions of control object; development of general functional scheme of automation and specifications for means of automation; development configuration given automation systems and algorithms primary of information processing; software description automation system; optimization of the automation system according to chosen criteria.

1. Methods of modern control theory. Volume 3. Synthesis of regulators of automatic control systems (Metody sovremennoj teorii avtomaticheskogo upravlenija. Tom 3. Sintez reguljatorov sistem avtomaticheskogo upravlenija) / Edited by K.A. Pupkova, N.D. Egupova. – M. : Bauman Moscow State Technical University Publ., 2004. – 616 p. (in Russian).
2. Automation and modeling processes the NPPs and TPPs (Avtomatizacija i modelirovanie tehnologicheskih processov AJeS i TJeS) / V.A. Demchenko. – Odessa : ‘Astroprint’ Publ., 2001. – 305 p. (in Russian).
3. Automatic control and protection of heat power installations NPPs. Textbook for technical schools (Avtomaticheskoe upravlenie i zashhita teplojenergeticheskih ustanovok AJeS. Uchebnik dlja tehnikumov) / V.I. Pljutinskij, V.I. Pogorelov. – M. : ‘Jenergoatomizdat’ Publ., 1983. – 296 p. (in Russian).

- final control (control measure – differentiated test): oral form, 100 %