Department of Diesel Engines and Diesel Power Plants

3 Lotsmanskaya St.
190008, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Tel.: (812) 113-8409, extension 358

e-mail: dvs@smtu.ru

The Department provides specialization for regular education students and those attending evening classes and taught by correspondence. It prepares the following categories of graduates:
engineers in internal combustion engines;
marine engineers in "Marine Power Plants" speciality;
bachelors and holders of a master's degree in shipbuilding and oceanology;

Philosophy Doctors in specialties "Heat Engines" and "Ship Power Plants and Their Components (Main & Auxiliary)";
engine operators.

The Department provides education on commercial basis for students and post-graduates, including foreign nationals. Comfortable hostel accommodations are available for nonresident students.

Over 2000 engineers, several thousand of Philosophy Doctors and Doctors of Science who graduated from the Department are now employed in various sectors of shipbuilding and engine building industries, including most renowned organizations such as CNIDI, A. Krylov National Shipbuilding R&D Center, JSC ZVEZDA, JSC KOLOMNA WORKS, etc. A number of our graduates joined such worldwide industry leaders as MAN, МАК, etc. There are quite a lot of our graduates among leading specialists, engineers, top managers, university professors and widely known scholars.
Well-balanced curriculum ensures high educational level. It includes a number of special, obligatory and optional disciplines.

The Department has unique library of special literature and tutorials, technical archive, computers, TV sets, and films. Dedicated lecture-rooms are equipped with teaching aids such as dummy engines and their
components. There is "cold engine" classroom where students are studying basics of engine design and repair. The course includes obligatory practical training on modern marine and locomotive engines. Upper division course includes lectures and practical training at the Department's division affiliated with JSC ZVEZDA.

The Department leads research work in the following areas:
fuel injection, carburetion, combustion process, combustion chambers, and air pollution performance;
propeller shaft vibrations: torque, axial, bending, accidental, impact-induced, and related waveforms;
external combustion (Stirling) engines;
closed-loop piston engines and power units;
diesel power units: shock-, vibration-, and noise-protection aspects;
longevity of engines and their components in applications involving protracted operation at varying load and speed.

Numerous results of our research work are implemented in technologies or included into guides and regulatory codes related to marine engines.