The department trains students in the field of "Power Engineering and Electrical Engineering" for the bachelor's degree program "Electrical Supply and Automation of Buildings" and the master's degree program "Electrical Equipment and Automation Systems for Urban Infrastructure".
The Department of Structural Physics, Power Engineering and Electrical Engineering trains first- to fourth-year students of almost all fields of study at SPbGASU in general education disciplines:
- physics;
- concepts of modern natural science;
- structural physics;
- construction thermal physics;
- thermal physics and energy saving;
- fundamentals of climatology, lighting and heat engineering;
- acoustics.
Students in the "Power Engineering and Electrical Engineering" program - in special disciplines:
- theoretical foundations of electrical engineering;
- electrodynamics;
- electronics;
- electrical engineering;
- electrical machines;
- modeling of electrical circuits;
- modern equipment for construction projects;
- information control systems;
- electrical engineering and power supply;
- theory of automatic control.
The faculty of the department includes three doctors and 13 candidates of science. Among the teachers are experts in the field of construction and employees of the SPbGASU Test Center.
To train highly qualified specialists, the department's teachers constantly undergo advanced training in their specialty and study modern technologies in education. The department has eight laboratories and two multimedia computer classes. The laboratory equipment is constantly being modernized and supplemented with new equipment and software.
Every year, first-year students participate in regional and all-Russian physics olympiads. The department holds an olympiad in construction physics, first- and second-year students win prizes in regional and all-Russian olympiads in the disciplines of construction thermal physics and physics. Students majoring in "Power Engineering and Electrical Engineering" take part in and win TIM championships, international engineering championships CASE-IN, and interuniversity competitions in effective design.
The main partners of the department in the specialty "Power Engineering and Electrical Engineering" are: PJSC "Rosseti Lenenergo", St Petersburg State Budgetary Institution "Lensvet", ETM iPRO, GORELTEKH Plant, LLC "NPP "EPRO".