Continuing Education

Duration - 80 hours

The course is intended for a wide range of attendees willing to level up their qualification in computer networks. Efficiency in technical English and skills of working in the Internet are obligatory.

The course curriculum includes:

Computer networks building: Network devices, network elements. Computer network mathematics, decimal, sexagesimal calculations. OSI and TC/IP net models.

Transmission media: copper cable, optical cable, wireless communication. LAN cabling.

Ethernet basics. Net functioning, commutation, architecture of 10, 100Mbit/sec, 1 and 10 Gbit/sec networks.

TCP/IP protocol stacks. Addressing according to IPv4 and v6 protocols. The basics of routing and network division with the help of subnets masks.

Duration - 80 hours.

The applicants are supposed to have done a CCNA1 course first. Efficiency in technical English and the Internet skills are obligatory.

The course curriculum includes:

The main characteristics of routers and their place in global computer networks. CISCO’s routers. Software operating system IOS.

Router configuring. User interface, command modes of operation. Router loading. Access to a router via a console port, local port, telnet. Interface setting. Access Control List (ACL).

Routers’ protocols review. Static and dynamic routing. RIP protocol, its setting and use. Protocol IGRP, its setting and use.

The applicants are supposed to have done a CCNA2 course first. Efficiency in technical English and the Internet skills are obligatory.

The course curriculum includes:

Introduction to the "classless" routing.

Application of variable length subnet masks (VLSM). Protocol RIP v2, its setting and use. Protocol OSPF, its setting and use. Protocol IGRP, its setting and use.

Concept of network segmentation with the help of a commutator. Commutators of the 2nd and 3d level. Commutator setting up and configuring. CISCO’s Commutators Catalyst.

The use of SPT (Spanning Tree Protocol). Virtual LANs. The use and configuring VTP (Virtual Trunking Protocol).

Duration - 80 hours.

The applicants are supposed to have done a CCNA3 course first. Efficiency in technical English and the Internet skills are obligatory.

The course curriculum includes:

IP-addresses scaling. Address translation, NAT and PAT procedures. Protocol DHCP, its setting and use.

Global networks technologies. ISDN, X25, FR, ATM, DSL and others. The use of protocol IPP, its capabilities, configuration, functions.

Introduction to networks administering. Networks operating systems. Networks management. Standards SNMP and CMIP.

Duration - 36 hours.

The present course is intended for wide-profile specialists in programming, adjusting and use of modern microprocessor control systems and automation of production process in general. The classes are oriented at the use of Siemens’s (Germany) equipment.

Having studied the course, specialists will be able to independently program modern logical controllers, design and use control systems of different levels.

Family SIMATICS7. SIMATICS survey. Modules S7-200. Modules S7-400. Programmator and installation STEP7.

Training stand. Working place S7-300. Working place S7-400.

Installation and maintenance of controllers SIMATIC. Components for configuration S7-300. Assembling S7-300. Preparation of S7-300 for work. Assembling and maintaining of controllers S7-400.

SIMATIC Manager. The structure of SIMATIC Manager. Developing of STEP 7 project.

Hardware configuring. Hardware configuring and setting parameters. Loading of configuration into a module and reading it into a programmator. CPU properties.

Putting hardware into operation. LEDs on the CPUS7-400. Table of variables.

Editing of blocks. Programme structure. Programming in STEP7. Programme adjusting.

Symbols. Table of symbols. Symbol information in LAD/STL/FBD.

Binary operations. Binary logical operations. Production line modes of operation.

Work at numbers. Types of data. Loading and transmission of data. Counters and timers in STEP 7.

Introduction to HMI and ProfibusDP. Rearrangement with the help of SIMATIC Manager. Rearrangement in LAD/STL/FBD.

Introduction to transformers Micromaster. The principle of operation of a transformer. A basic operator’s board.

Documenting, saving, archiving. Means of archiving. Saving of users’ data. Project Archiving.

Duration - 36 hours

Applicants are supposed to have passed the basic course "Automation and programmable logical controllers".

The present course is intended for wide-profile specialists in programming, adjusting and using of modern microprocessor control systems and automating of production process in general. The classes are oriented at the use of Siemens’s (Germany) equipment.

Having studied the course, the specialists will be able to independently program modern logical controllers, design and use control systems of different levels.

The course curriculum includes:

Training stand. Training stand on the base of S7 -300. Training stand on the base of S7 -400.

Putting hardware into operation. LEDs of modules. PG/PC interface. ProfibusDPMaster-system configuring.

Data blocks. Types of data in STEP 7. Creation of data blocks.

Functions and functional blocks. Survey of variables. Parametrizable blocks. Functional blocks.

Organizational blocks. Review of organizational blocks. Interruption of cyclic programmes.

Analogue signals processing. The use of analogue modules. Analogue values.

Error fixing. Categories of errors. Diagnosing using stacks. Table of variables.

System information. Review of system information. Information of a module.

Tags and HMI reports. System of developing WinCCflexible. System of reports.

Data exchange with MM420 via Profibus. System ProfibusDP. MM420 configuring.

Sequential control system. The notion of a sequential control system. Sequensor.

Duration - 36 hours.

The objective of the course is to get acquainted with the medium LabVIEW, its particularities, programming of data streams and standard architectures of LabVIEW. The course helps to quickly acquire the skills of effective work in LabVIEW medium, prepares for developing of applications that perform testing and measuring, data receiving, device controlling, data archiving and processing of measurements using LabVIEW technology.

The course curriculum includes:

Software developing strategy for solving measuring and analytical problems.

Methods and stages of software development. Task setting. Creation of an algorithm, a block diagram or a transition diagram.

Introduction to LabVIEW

Virtual devices and their components. Front panel and block-diagrams of a virtual device. Integrated medium LabVIEW. LabVIEW projects. Project Explorer. Reference means of LabVIEW. LabVIEW tools. Seearch for control elements, virtual devices and functions. Model of stream data programming.

Making and adjusting of virtual devices

Designing user interface and block-diagrams. Terminals. Code documenting. Cycles (while and or). Dater transfer between iterations. Virtual device synchronization. Graphic data presentation. Case choice structure. Formula node. Methods of adjusting. Fixing faulty virtual Devices. Indefinite or unpredictable data. Error correction. Arrays, clusters, type definition.

Developing of module applications

The basics of module programming. An icon and a connecting panel. The use of virtual devices as a sub virtual device.

The basics of measuring, data gathering, analyzing, and results saving.

Computer measuring systems. Principles of measurements. Improvements of measurements quality. Data gathering. The main characteristics of equipment and software architecture. Modelling of a DAQ-device. Analogue and digital input/output. Counters. Analysis and processing of digital data. Reading and saving into a file.

Standard methods and design patterns.

Sequential programming. Programming of states. Final automata. Parallelism.

Duration - 36 hours.

The objective of the course is to study the principles of operation of data gathering systems formed on the base of a PC. The course helps to get the experience of working with measuring equipment and learn to use the function LabView.

The course curriculum includes:

Review of gauges, signals and signals coordination. Guages (measuring transformers). Signals. General conception on signals coordination.

Review of data gathering equipment. Components and parameters of data gathering equipment. Earthing of signal sources. Types of measuring systems. Measuring signals from different sources. Software for data gathering systems. Tools driver NI-DAQ. Measuring and Automation Explorer (MAX). Review of virtual Device NI-DAQmx. Execution of algorithm NI-DAQmx Read: model of a task state. Triggers.

Analog and digital input/output

Input of analog data. Filters protecting frequencies overlapping. The use of virtual device DAQmx Read. Architectures of data gathering devices. The use of virtual device DaQmx Write. Buffered analogue output. Buffered generation of signals of finite length. Continuous buffered generating of signals. Discrete input/output.

Signal processing

Fourier descrete (and quick transformation (FDT/FQT). FDT/FQT frequency interval and synnetry. Power spectrum. Spectral power losses and smoothing windows. Characteristics of various types of spectral and temporary windows. Criteria of window type choice. Ideal and real filters. Advantages of digital filters in comparison with analogue ones. IIR and FIR filters. Filters with infinite impulse characteristics. Comparison of IIR filters. Transient characteristics of IIR filters. Filters with finite impulse response (FIR).

Infinite impulse response/finite impulse response

Counters and synchronizing

Counting signals. Microcircuits - signal counters. Operations with counters. Counting of impulse fronts. Supplementary opportunities of signals counting. Impulses generating. Measuring of impulses’ parameters. Measuring of frequency. Measuring of position. Explicit control of task execution sequence in NI-DAQmx. Synchronization inside the data-gathering device. Synchronization of a few data gathering devices.

Duration - 36 hours.

This course is intended for getting skills of developing complete, independent applications LabVIEW. The course is a continuation of the course "LabVIEW Basics. Part 1".
The necessary knowledge: experience of working in Microsoft Windows, completed course of studies "LabVIEW Basics. Part 1" or possessing of equivalent work experience in the sphere of developing.

Products NI, employed during the course: LabView Professional Development System Version 8, NI Data acquisition devices, DAQ Signal Accessory.

Having done the course students will be able:
− to develop, implement and spread independent applications LabVIEW;
− to use single and multiloop schemes of applications organizing;
− to make designed applications having professional design and functionality;
− to control the objects of user interface at software level;
− to use methods of data control during engineering;
− to improve iterative use of programme code in projects;
− to use LabView Application Builder in order to make executable and installable modules for spreading applications.

The course curriculum includes:

General methods of designing

Single loop architectures - examples of simple virtual devices, main virtual devices and final automata. Mulultiloop architectures - virtual devices with parallel loops, examples of organization of leading/led and producer/consumer application types. Parallelism. Insertion of synchronization into an application.

Interface between many loops.

The use of local and global variables. The use of global variables from functions. Spotting and control of phenomena signal race - semaphors. Synchronization of data transfer - notifications and ques.

Development of the existing virtual device

Optimization of the existing code. The main things in optimization.

User interface control

Architecture VIServer. Nodes of properties. Links with control elements. Nodes of enquiries.

Special operation of file input/output

File format. Binary files. Test Data Management (TDM).

Development and spreading of applications

Particularities of LabVIEW making project development easier. Engineering of applications. Compiling of applications and installation modules.

The course Equal Skills will help students get acquainted with computers and Internet if they have no such experience. The course enables beginners to get basic information about computers, become confident and get skills necessary for independent work.

The course E-Citizen explaining the basics of work at computers and exchange information on the Internet, helps to learn to use effectively Internet services, including e-mail. Such course is useful to everyone who lack skills necessary for Internet use and enables them to become full right members of the information community.

ECDL/ICDL is a certification course for those who would like to master computer and the most popular applications. Each of the seven modules of the course ends with a test. ECDL/ICDL certificate is an objective assessment of competence in IT sphere showing the level of user’s skills in accordance with the acknowledged international standard.

ECDL/ICDL Advanced is an advanced certification course dedicated to complicated computer applications. It is intended for those who have already acquired basic ECDL/ICDL skills and would like to widen their knowledge on one of four types of applied programmes: word processing, work with spreadsheets, SUBD, means for preparing presentations.

Duration - 3 weeks. Certificate AIMTRIZ Junior.

The course is intended for students of technical higher education institutions, colleges and senior forms of schools and gymnasia. It makes them acquainted with primary models of theory of inventive tasks solutions (TRIZ), contains the examples of creating new technical objects and reference materials for practical work, independent learning and teaching MTRIZ.

Course curriculum

Problem. Quality of thinking. Growing complexity of a task - transition to problem. Ordinary thinking. Vector of psychological inertia. Inventive problem. Thinking according to TRIZ.

Contradiction. Origin of contradictions. Main contradictions: general, standard and radical. Features of standard contradictions - one thing becomes better, another one becomes worse! Features of radical contradictions - something should be high and low! Standard and radical contradictions as models of problem situation.

Transformations. Problem solution. Examples. Where the inventive techniques - models of transformation come?

Theory of invention. TRIZ. What is an invention? Definition of TRIZ. How do we solve problems: concept of noospheric modeling in TRIZ. To know + to be able + to want!

Meta-algorithm of invention T-R-I-Z. Algorithm of solving inventive problems (ARIZ). Is there the most common algorithm - Meta_Algorithm of Invention (MAI)? Formation of MAI TRIZ. Definition of MAI TRIZ.

Problem solution on the base of START TRIZ. Is there the simplest MAI TRIZ? SART - the most typical algorithm of work according to TRIZ. Scheme and stages of START TRIZ.

Duration - 4 weeks. Certificate AIMTRIZ Practitioner

The course is intended for students of senior undergraduates of technical higher education institutions, engineers and scientists who have done the course AIMTRIZ JUNIOR and willing to apply MRIZ methods in their practical activities. Efficient technical English and skills of work in the Internet are obligatory.

Course’s curriculum:

Extraction of special transformations and standard contradictions. To see "non-evident". Effective models - in each artifact! Extraction - a fundamental method of teaching and training in MTRIZ. Extraction -1C - the experience of successful solutions. Contradictions are eliminated with techniques Extraction - 2C!

Extraction of fundamental transformations and radical contradictions. To combine incompatible. Extraction-1F - fundamental transformations for solution of radical contradictions. The solution seems to be impossible: extraction 2S - solution of radical contradictions in different resources.

Method BICO (Binary In Cluster Cut): solutions of standard contradictions. Transition from a real problem to conflict modeling in the form of a standard contradiction. Choosing of special navigators according to A - matrix. Primary Af-catalog - 40 main special navigators, with sub techniques - 107 models. The route of implementing the method BICO (Binary In Cluster Cut) according to START TRIZ.

Metod RICO: solution of standard contradictions. Why in Altshupler ‘s matrix there are no models for radical contradictions? Transition to the catalogue - fundamental Af- navigators. Everything changes in space, time, structure and material. Changing resources with the help of special models. Combining an Ac-catalogue with an Af-catalogue gives an Afc-catalogue. The route of implementing the method RICO (Radical in Cluster Out) according to START TRIZ.

Operation zone. The "epicenter" and "hypercentre" of a problem. The structure of the Operation zone. Materials for making solutions. An ideal modelling of the objective.

Reinventing. Reconstructing of creative thinking of geniuses. "reinventing" - the main fundamental method of teaching and training in MTRIZ. From reinventing to inventing . The road from an artifact-prototype to an artifact-result. Standard structures for modeling the process of inventing: accumulation of skills and experience.

General method of generating ideas on the base of MAI TRIZ. Non algorithmic methods of activating creative thinking. Verbal, colour and audio activation. General scheme based on MAI TRIZ for generating ideas while solving new problems. Recommendations for independent work.