The program is aimed at training specialists - future leaders of the energy industry, capable of making well-grounded effective organizational and technological decisions.
The training is carried out by highly qualified teaching staff from among the professors and associate professors of the Department of Heat Power Engineering in cooperation with the Institute of Energy Systems of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences (ISEM SB RAS) and leading energy enterprises. Students gain knowledge, as well as practical skills through research and design activities in the field of operation, management and improvement of the efficiency of heat and power systems, the fuel and energy complex, modern methods of designing thermal power plants, optimization of operating modes and effective methods of improving the environmental safety of energy enterprises , improvement of diagnostic methods and extension of the resource of heat and power equipment.
For training, the equipment of laboratories is used: "Mathematical modeling in an engineering experiment", "Laboratory for diagnostics and control of metals", "Laboratory for research of operating modes of heat and power equipment" and others.

The program is in demand among graduates of bachelors in the field of "Heat power engineering and heat engineering", as well as employees of energy enterprises wishing to continue their studies at the next level of education with the prospect of career growth. Graduates of the master's program are in demand in engineering and managerial positions in energy enterprises engaged in the production, transmission and distribution of heat and electric energy, in large industrial enterprises, in design and commissioning organizations. Also, graduates of the program are in demand in research institutes to continue their studies in postgraduate studies in heat and power engineering.
Students successfully combine their studies with work at heat and power plants.