Department of Heat Power Engineering

Heat power engineering is a special scope of activity that ensures the strategic and socio-economic development of the regions and the state as a whole. At the same time, heat power engineers make our lives comfortable by providing homes with heat and light. They are required to acquire universal competencies to design, create and maintain the smooth, safe operation of energy production, transformation and distribution systems, taking into account environmental requirements. Since 1971, the Department of Heat Power Engineering at Irkutsk Polytechnic University has been training highly qualified specialists capable of working in various fields of industry. The Department makes a significant contribution to the development of the energy industry and housing and communal services not only in our region. Over 50 years we've trained about 5000 engineers working in Russia, as well as in neighboring and distant foreign countries. Not only successful power engineers, but also top managers of large companies, designers, ecologists, politicians and businessmen are among the graduates of the department.