Engineering and Intellectual Property Protection
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Published: 14 October 2016
Appendix 1
Course: Engineering and Intellectual Property Protection
Programme Summary
Major: 13.04.01 Thermal Power Engineering and Thermal Technology
Degree: Master
Course units:
- Unit 1. Introduction. General concepts. The role of engineering and innovations in investment business.
- Unit 2. Solution of engineering problems.
- Unit 3. Intellectual property protection.
- Unit 4. Patent science.
Course contents:
Unit 1. Introduction. General concepts. The role of engineering and innovations in investment business.
The role and place of engineering in investment practice: Engineering, approval, and investment justification; participants of the investment business and issues addressed; designer – investor – governing agencies, expert groups, national regulators, engineering and consulting companies, tender boards. Development, presentation and management of design documentation: Preliminary and project documentation development stages; investment design, declaration of intention, commercial proposals, preparation of quotations; design bureaus specializing in thermal power plants and industrial systems.
CAD programmes for industrial thermal power systems: Mathware; CAD & industrial thermal power circuits; design model; application software packages. Basics of standardization: ISO 9000; quality management; basic quality management models; legislation, arbitration and regulatory documentation defining the level of design solutions. Basics of design certification: Generation and verification of a certification system.
Unit 2. Solution of engineering problems.
Basics of innovative thinking and performance: Creativity as an ability to generate new ideas; strategy as an identification of a feasible idea for successful business; implementation or business model as a transition from the idea to implementation of products and services; profitability as a financial or another benefit. Non-algorithmic methods of solving engineering problems: Trial and error; brainstorming; morphological analysis; synectics. Theory of Inventive Problem Solving: Levels of problems; material & field analysis; an inventive situation, a problem and its model; technical contradictions and how to eliminate them.
Standard techniques for solving inventive problems in thermal power engineering: Pool of techniques for searching new solutions; rules on how to apply transformation techniques; levels of techniques. Application of physical, chemical and geometrical effects and resources when solving inventive thermal power problems: Application features and rules; the database of effects, phenomena and material & field resources. Application of inventive problem resolution standards and the laws of engineering system evolution: Definition and types of standards; the database of standards; the laws of engineering system evolution.
Unit 3. Intellectual property protection.
The legal and economical aspects of the regulation and assessment of industrial & intellectual property in Russia: Patent Law; regulations; scope of protection and the legal framework; priority, authorship, exclusive right to utilization, reversal of the burden of proof. The role and the place of inventions in the investment business: Commercial implementation of inventions; licencing; know-how.
Intellectual property protection: Copyright protection – patents and certificates; the drafting algorithm for intellectual property agreements. Industrial property: Inventions, utility models, prototypes; inventions – mechanisms, devices, substances, new applications of existing objects; International Patent Classification.
Unit 4. Patent science.
The algorithms of writing applications for utility models and inventions: The purpose of invention and utility models; patentability – originality, inventive level, applicability; writing formulas of inventions; search for information based on the application; unity of invention.
The algorithms of filing and examining applications for utility models and inventions: The applicant, the author, the patent owner; application requirements; application submission and registration; formal examination; dealing with the Patent Office; substantial examination.
Activities:
- Teacher-led group activities in a classroom;
- Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (obligatory);
- Office-hours.
Total hours – 144.
Total points – 4.
Classroom hours – 32.
Unsupervised hours – 76.
Midterm assessment – Examination.
Efficient Process Control Principles in Heat-and-Power Engineering
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Published: 14 October 2016
Appendix 1
Course: Efficient Process Control Principles in Heat-and-Power Engineering
Programme Summary
Major: 13.04.01 Thermal Power Engineering and Thermal Technology
Degree: Master
Course units:
- Unit 1. Methods and tools of automated process control systems.
- Unit 2. Combined control of objects and processes in thermal power industry.
- Unit 3. Automated process control systems.
Course contents:
Unit 1. Methods and tools of automated process control systems.
- Theory and patterns of control. The structure of a process control system. Instrument designations in automation diagrams.
- Control circuit structure. Creating control responses.
- Process modelling principles. Classification of models. Building dynamic system models.
Unit 2. Combined control of objects and processes in thermal power industry.
- Standard links in a process control system. Mathematical models of control objects and systems, combined control systems.
- Control laws. Quality control criteria. Main type of industrial control systems; selecting efficient control systems; control systems and transient processes.
- Dynamic properties of control systems identified through calculation and experiment.
- Software for designing and analyzing process automation systems.
- Quality control indicators. Methods for setting up standard controls.
Unit 3. Automated process control systems.
- General structure of a process control system, including different levels and their functions.
- Examples of different industrial applications of process control systems. Operation of real-life process control systems.
Activities:
- Teacher-led group activities in a classroom;
- Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (obligatory);
- Office-hours.
Total hours – 72.
Total points – 2.
Classroom hours – 36.
Unsupervised hours – 36.
Midterm assessment – Pass/fail examination.
