Head of the Chair: Valentin S. Tomasov
Tel.: +7(812) 233-8336
Website - http://ets.ifmo.ru
197101, Russia, Saint Petersburg,
Kronverkskiy pr., 49

This Chair is one of the oldest at NRU ITMO.
Prof. Yury A. Sabinin, one of the members of the Chair, is an Honored Worker of the Science and Technology of the Russian Federation and a member of the International Energy Academy. He is one of the founders of the Leningrad electro-mechanics school.
This famous scientist initiated the electrical-mechanics scientific school of our university. The Chair provides general education and special courses for students of most electronically and electrical engineering disciplines in our university. In total, the Chair`s staff teach more than 35 disciplines and about 80 students groups annually are trained in the laboratories of the Chair.
Furthermore, the Chair prepares specialists in the electrical engineering, electro-mechanics and electrical technologies, electro-mechanics and electric drive and automated systems. The students gain here greater preparation in automated electric drive, power electronics, microprocessor technology, circuit technology and in other disciplines being basic ones for the modern control systems construction and production.
Our training Area for Bachelors and Masters is “Electrical Power Industry and Electrical Engineering” (140400).
Our main research directions are focused on our following key subjects:

• Mathematical models and computer simulations;
• Electric drives & automation for industrial & technological systems;
• High-precision electrical motor control.

Apart from the in depth study of the general training and specialist disciplines, the students gain skills in the practical operation of modern electro-mechanical systems and its component base in the student laboratories of the Chair such as:

• Electrical circuits. (http://www.ets.ifmo.ru/laboratory564.text)
• Electronic machines. (http://www.ets.ifmo.ru/laboratory571.text)
• Electronic measurements. (http://www.ets.ifmo.ru/laboratory566.text)
• Principles of electronics. (http://www.ets.ifmo.ru/laboratory566.text)
• Electrical drives supplied with the semiconductor converters.(http://www.ets.ifmo.ru/laboratory325.text)
• Programmed controllers. (http://www.ets.ifmo.ru/laboratory326.text)
• Precision electric quantum-optical systems (http://www.ets.ifmo.ru/laboratory552.text)
• The Chair has at its disposal two specialized computer classrooms.

Within the framework of courses for post-graduate and doctoral studies, the Chair prepares Doctors and Candidates of Science in Technology in the specialties of: power electronics, electrical complexes and systems including its monitoring and adjustment. The chair has overseen five doctorates of Science and more than forty candidates. Education and scientific work of our undergraduate and graduate students are based on the newest modern laboratory of Precision electric quantum-optical systems.
Traditionally, the Chair carries out the projects on development and testing the electrical complexes and systems on the basis of highly effective semiconductor converters and microprocessor control systems. These are systems for controlling precision quantum- optical devices. They are used in the atmosphere and technological media monitoring systems, in tracing the space objects, trajectory measurements and testing areas for aircraft. The chair is also involved in developing and researching intelligence programmed power supplies used for controlling the technological processes of the layer deposition with use of the non-stationary electrolysis techniques, various charging devices etc.
The automated electric drives developed by the Chair are used in the quantum-optical complexes tracing satellites in the Caucasus, Moscow suburbs and in the Altai. Taking into account our positive experience in developing such systems, NRU ITMO has been assigned by the Russian Aerospace Agency as a leading institution in the following areas: developing power electrical drives based on torque motors and on the highly effective, converters controlled by computers for next generation systems.