Successful completion of the academic discipline program involves obtaining the following learning outcomes:

- to know the structure, purpose, principles of operation and ship power plants elements operation;

- know the purpose of a combined engine ideal cycle and to be able to compare it with other engines;

- knowledge and understanding of constructive solutions of modern low-speed, medium-speed and high-speed diesel engines;

- knowledge and understanding of gas exchange processes of four-stroke and two-stroke diesel engines;

- knowledge and understanding of the thermal balance components of a ship's diesel installation;

- knowledge and understanding of supercharging processes of four-stroke and two-stroke diesel engine plant;

- knowledge and understanding of forces and moments in the crank mechanism;

- knowledge and understanding of the critical torsional vibrations appearance in the shaft pipeline system and means of their elimination;

- knowledge and understanding of methods to improve the efficiency and economy of marine diesel engines;

- knowledge and the ability to ensure the environmental characteristics of ship diesel engines, as well as indicators of their reliability and economy;

- knowledge and understanding of organizational and technical measures to increase marine diesel plant operating efficiency ;

- understanding and ability of structural calculations of marine diesels individual elements , in particular for strength;

- the ability to use regulatory documents on the marine diesel engine plant operation and maintenance.

Section 1. Analysis of energy converting elements operation of ship power plants (SPP).

Chapter 2. Fuel operations on the board of ship

Chapter 3. Tribology of SPP elements

Chapter 4. Improvement of fuel supply, mixture formation and fuel combustion

Chapter 5. Improvement of gasous exchange and supercharging of diesel engines

Chapter 6. Development of marine diesel engine design

Chapter 7. Mechanical and thermal load of marine diesel engines

Chapter 8. Analysis of operating characteristics and modes of operation of the SPP

Section 9. Control  and diagnostics of marine diesel engines

Section 10. Increasing environmental friendliness and reliability of the SPP