Professional knowledge
At the concept level:
1. Wishes and needs of car users.
2. Wishes and needs of the users of technological automotive equipment.
3. Standardisation of machinery components.
4. Classes of organic components and polymers.
5. Market of automotive equipment and the relevant technological equipment.
6. Regulatory framework and standards governing the traffic safety.
7. Development of related industries.
At the comprehension level:
1. Mechanics and mechanical engineering.
2. Thermodynamic processes.
3. Typical car constructions.
4. Functions and selection criteria of components for internal combustion engine cars and electric cars.
5. Technical standards, restrictions, and norms of laws and regulations for cars.
6. Functional diagrams of various mechanisms.
7. Components, operating principles, and characteristics of hydraulic and pneumatic equipment.
8. Mechanics, fluid mechanics.
9. Hydraulic and pneumatic systems. Electrical engineering.
10. Structure and operating principles of pneumatic actuators.
11. Electrical circuits with multiple voltage sources and parallel branches.
12. Properties of materials.
13. Heat treatment of metals.
14. Material processing technologies.
15. Types of loads.
16. Stresses, deformations, diagrams.
17. Material fatigue, vibrations. Mechanical properties and technological capabilities of engineering materials. Application of machinery components. Structure, properties, and applications of the principal electrical machinery.
18. Characteristics and use of the most important semiconductor devices. Significance of chemical power sources and their suitability for a given situation.
19. Importance of patents in technology implementation.
20. Mathematical foundations and solving algorithms in computer graphics. Basic concepts of computer-aided design (CAD/CAM/CAE). Optimisation algorithms.
21. Types of technical drawings and manufacturing technologies. Product development and technology transfer processes.
22. Manufacturing process.
23. Technologies for manufacturing parts.
24. Machinery assembly and installation technologies.
25. Types of material processing.
26. Regulatory framework of reconstruction processes.
27. Car reconstruction technologies.
28. Product testing technologies.
29. Material processing technologies.
30. International and local laws and regulations in the automotive sector.
31. Technical requirements for the technical condition and conformity of cars.
32. Cars as a set of multiple systems.
33. Operational safety.
34. Moral and physical depreciation of cars.
35. Reasons and patterns of gradual and sudden changes in technical parameters of automotive products.
36. Energy balance in ensuring the operation of cars.
37. Physical and chemical properties of various energy resources.
38. Energy-efficient solutions for technological processes, buildings, and equipment.
39. Energetic characteristics of car motion.
40. Basic principles of technical diagnostics.
41. Structural and diagnostic parameters.
42. Types and causes of environmental pollution.
43. Laws and regulations governing the operations of automotive companies in the field of environmental protection.
44. Technological equipment.
45. Labour protection conditions.
46. Technologies for manufacturing and repairing parts.
47. Causes of defects and fractures. Methods for identifying and rectifying defects.
48. Material technologies.
49. Mechanisation and automation elements of technological equipment.
50. Innovative car repair technologies.
51. Fundamentals of automotive business.
52. Car repair companies.
53. Material processing technologies.
54. Work environment risks and their classification by their nature, permissible limit values, and required preventive measures.
55. Laws and regulations on technological design
56. and good practice of a company.
57. Types and causes of environmental pollution.
58. Laws and regulations governing the operations of automotive companies in the field of environmental protection.
59. Set labour protection laws in the country and their application at the company or institutional level.
60. Environmentally-friendly technologies.
61. Emission-free transport solutions.
62. Fuel and energy consumption in cars.
63. Emissions from internal combustion engines.
64. Heating equipment, heat-transfer agents, and their principal parameters.
65. Constructions, operating principles, maintenance and repair technologies of cars.
66. Impact of engine and transmission on the operational indicators of a car.
67. Structure, operating principles, and adjustment of units and systems of a car.
68. Laws and regulations on automotive transportation.
69. Stages of the technical training process.
70. Required knowledge characteristic to the speciality.
71. Legal issues of automotive transportation. Planning of automotive transportation routes.
72. Principles of pricing and tariff policy.
73. Principles of cargo placement and securing, best practice.
74. Characteristics of regular and irregular passenger transportation.
75. Principles of road traffic organisation and technical means for their implementation.
76. Road traffic safety indicators.
77. Active, passive, post-collision, fire, and ecological safety systems of a car.
78. Organisational charts of a company.
79. Investment attraction process.
80. Laws and regulations governing the operation of a company.
81. Cost analysis of the company.
82. Economic and technical parameters and indicators of automotive business.
83. Characteristic fixed assets of automotive companies.
84. Lean business technologies.
At the application level:
1. Sequence of vehicle design.
2. Selection, sizing, and determination of parameters of rotational motion transmissions.
3. Use of computer-aided calculation packages for solving engineering tasks.
4. Measuring of electrical parameters.
5. Selection of materials according to the object to be designed.
6. Calculations of strength and durability of spatial structures, rotational motion transmissions, and their components. Computer graphics packages for solving engineering tasks.
7. Techniques of technological analysis.
8. Creation of mechanical engineering objects by using computer-aided design.
9. Technical writing. Technical drawing and automated design in mechanical engineering.
10. Creation of sketches and technical drawings in conformity with mechanical engineering standards.
11. Planning of the technological process.
12. Organisation of manufacturing.
13. Laws and regulations, and standards governing the reconstruction of cars.
14. Computer-aided modelling.
15. Measuring of mechanical and electrical parameters.
16. Technical writing.
17. Development of process charts.
18. Methods and technologies for organising the maintenance.
19. Laws and regulations, and standards related to the use of cars during the process of selecting and operating cars.
20. Planning of car maintenance.
21. Technologies for the technical operation of cars.
22. Energy consumption in cars.
23. Patterns of natural sciences in various engineering solutions.
24. Operating materials.
25. Diagnostic systems for vehicles: OBD, OBD2, EOBD, UDS, OTX, ODX, etc.
26. Operating materials of cars.
27. Technological planning methods for automotive companies.
28. Engineering calculations.
29. Detection of defects in automotive parts and sub-assemblies.
30. Designing of equipment.
31. Methods for evaluating the return on investment in technology implementation.
32. Technological design of companies.
33. Technical writing.
34. Development of process charts.
35. Technological design.
36. Technological design.
37. Safe work technologies.
38. Technical measurements.
39. Sustainable use of operating materials of cars.
40. Principles of analysing machinery components.
41. Measuring of the characteristic parameters of driving.
42. Technologies for assembling, disassembling, and adjusting sub-assemblies of cars.
43. Planning of road transportation.
44. Developments of schemes, sketches, and diagrams.
45. Quantitative and qualitative assessment methods.
46. Schedule diagrams.
47. Criteria for the selection of passenger vehicles.
48. Impact of driving characteristics on road traffic safety.
49. Business planning.
50. Ways of accounting assets in a company.
General knowledge
At the concept level:
1. Development of related industries.
2. Basics of civil law.
3. Basics of administrative law.
At the comprehension level:
1. Current issues of the interaction between the environment and society.
2. Civil defence system.
3. Grammar and language functions.
4. New field-specific technologies.
5. Principles of using information and communication technologies (data carriers, information systems, and equipment).
6. Security of information and communication technologies and the data.
7. Protection of business data and personal data.
8. Principles of the circulation of electronic documents.
9. Resolution of conflict situations.
10. Structure of the communication process.
11. Latest field-specific technologies. The latest and highest advances in the automotive sector.
12. Regulations governing the employment relationship.
At the application level:
1. Requirements of the laws and regulations governing the field.
2. Laws and regulations on labour protection.
3. Laws and regulations on fire safety and electrical safety.
4. Laws and regulations on the environmental protection.
5. Working conditions and human health as a condition of quality of life.
6. Conditions for a safe work environment and risk factors.
7. ABC of first aid.
8. Vocabulary.
9. Professional and scientific terminology in the official language.
10. Field-specific terminology.
11. Professional terminology.
12. Grammatical and syntactic constructions characteristic to scientific and technical language.
13. Most important automotive concepts and patterns.
14. Application of information technologies in automotive processes.
15. Selection of information, development of documents, and processing of data in conformity with the work task.
16. Work with office equipment and information and communication systems.
17. Verbal and non-verbal means of communication.
18. Co-operation principles in a group.
19. Self-assessment mechanisms.
20. Planning of education, career, and progress of work.
21. Time planning techniques.
22. Laws and regulations governing the employment relationship.
23. Content of the employment contract and collective agreement.
24. Work procedure rules and internal regulatory enactments.
25. General and professional ethics.

Professional skills and attitudes
1. To identify the needs of car users and turn them into product functions.
2. To identify the selection criteria for each specific sub-assembly of a car.
3. To identify the needs for technological equipment in the automotive sector and turn them into product functions.
4. To develop functional diagrams of mechanisms.
5. To create technically feasible connections of machinery and structural elements.
6. To perform kinematics and dynamics calculations, hydraulic, electrical, and pneumatic system calculations.
7. To analyse the application of various material and processing technologies.
8. To identify the critical loading points and types in mechanisms.
9. To calculate loads in structural sub-assemblies.
10. To perform the reverse engineering of cars and technological equipment.
11. To understand the impact of cars and technological equipment on the operational indicators of a car.
12. To create virtual three-dimensional geometric models of mechanical engineering objects.
13. To analyse and calculate the durability, wear resistance, heating, and other parameters of automotive equipment, systems, and components.
14. To develop computerised automotive design documentation.
15. To optimally select custom manufacturing technology.
16. To organise the manufacturing of automotive product prototypes.
17. To optimally select appropriate technologies for the manufacturing of parts and automotive products relevant to the manufacturing program.
18. To plan the technological processes.
19. To select technological equipment.
20. To apply the laws and regulations, and standards governing the reconstruction of cars.
21. To apply computer-aided design software to generate ideas and develop products.
22. To evaluate the operational characteristics of cars and automotive products.
23. To develop process charts for the manufacturing of parts.
24. To develop product specifications for economic calculations.
25. To apply laws and regulations, and standards related to the use of cars during the process of selecting and operating cars.
26. To determine and adjust the intervals of the scheduled maintenance of cars. To analyse and evaluate the possible reasons and causes for changes in the technical condition of automotive equipment.
27. To select technologies for the maintenance of the technical condition.
28. To develop technologies for the maintenance of the technical condition.
29. To evaluate the technical condition of the vehicle fleet and predict its operational lifespan.
30. To evaluate the physical and chemical properties of energy sources for automotive equipment.
31. To select the most appropriate energy source for various automotive purposes.
32. To independently analyse the thermodynamic and heat transfer processes and their energy effects, and compare the energy content of substances.
33. To quantitatively evaluate the energy characteristics of cars and their technological equipment.
34. To select and apply diagnostic methods, modes, parameters, and tools.
35. To develop diagnostic methods, modes, parameters, and tools.
36. To select environmentally friendly/low-hazard operating materials.
37. To organise the reuse or responsible disposal of used automotive products and materials.
38. To independently plan technological automotive processes.
39. To evaluate the technical descriptions of technological automotive equipment.
40. To determine the need for the repair of units and parts in the automotive sector and develop a repair service for them.
41. To identify defects of automotive products.
To evaluate the possible reasons and causes for permissible wear and fractures.
42. To select optimal technologies for restoring a defective automotive object.
43. To evaluate the compliance of materials and components with quality standards.
44. To independently design technological equipment for automotive repair.
45. To analyse the technological processes for the restoration of parts.
46. To analyse and improve the technological processes in business environment.
47. To develop process charts for the repair of car parts.
48. To perform the technological design responsibly.
49. To find creative solutions in changing or unclear conditions.
50. To thoroughly analyse the types of environmental pollution in automotive business.
51. To establish a labour protection monitoring system at the company.
52. To identify labour protection and fire safety risks.
53. To organise the creation of a safe work environment at an automotive company.
54. To conduct indicative measurements of the work environment.
55. To forecast the short-term and long-term environmental impact of technologies.
56. To organise the use of environmentally friendly cars and technological equipment.
57. To independently analyse various options for structural automotive components, including their advantages and disadvantages.
58. To describe the psychophysiological characteristics of drivers that influence traffic safety.
59. To analyse the dynamics of the acceleration and braking of a car.
60. To analyse fuel and energy consumption in a car.
61. To find, select, evaluate, and structure information in the automotive field and explain it to others.
62. To articulate the relevance and significance of the issues under review.
63. To speak publicly on technological issues.
64. To summarise the principles, regulations, and restrictions of automotive transportation.
65. To compile scientific-technical information from various scientific and scientific-technical sources.
66. To articulate and analytically describe information issues and solutions in the automotive sector.
67. To analyse the automotive transportation system.
68. To demonstrate a scientific approach to problem-solving.
69. To calculate the travel time in a route according to the principles of optimal route planning and the rules for recording the working and rest periods of drivers.
70. To apply the principles of organising passenger transportation.
71. To identify and analyse the subjects, objects, processes, and conditions that affect traffic safety and their specific characteristics.
72. To plan funding for starting a small automotive business.
73. To analyse the cost and revenue system of transportation companies and identify the scope of critical services.
74. To analyse various business strategies in automotive companies.
75. To select fixed assets for successful automotive business. To plan the warehouse assortment and capacity.
General skills and attitudes
1. To comply with the requirements of the laws and regulations governing the field.
2. To comply with the field-specific standards.
3. To comply with the labour protection requirements.
4. To provide first aid.
5. To organise the workplace in conformity with the labour protection requirements.
6. To identify the potential risks when completing work tasks.
7. To keep up with the changes in laws and regulations.
8. To comply with the civil defence and environmental protection requirements.
9. To clearly express own thoughts in the official language orally and in writing according to the specificity of the communication channel.
10. To correctly use and develop the terminology in the field of automotive equipment and motor-driven vehicles in the official language.
11. To use specialized professional language in discussions, dialogues, interviews, and other oral communication situations, as well as in written form in professional documents.
12. To communicate orally and in writing in various situations involving professional communication in at least one foreign language.
13. To select the most suitable information and communication technology solution to perform a task.
14. To process text, work with spreadsheets and databases, store information, and ensure the management.
15. To use information and communication technologies to communicate and search information.
16. To be aware of the strengths and weaknesses of own communication skills.
17. To formulate work tasks.
18. To assess the work results.
19. To assume responsibility and initiative.
20. To engage in high-quality communication with work colleagues.
21. To identify the future directions of professional development.
22. To independently structure the learning and improvement of own competences.
23. To analyse legal issues.
24. To observe the norms of employment relationship.
25. To adhere to the basic principles of professional and general ethics.

Professional competences
1. Ability to develop car sub-assembly design and select structural elements.
2. Ability to develop and implement the design of technological automotive equipment.
3. Ability to develop and analyse kinematic, hydraulic, electrical, and pneumatic diagrams of technological automotive equipment.
4. Ability to ensure the necessary characteristics of parts and sub-assemblies by using appropriate structural materials.
5. Ability to incorporate components with optimal strength reserves into constructions of automotive products.
6. Ability to apply proven technologies in the development of new products.
7. Ability to optimise the time and costs of introducing new products by using computer-aided design.
8. Ability to design sketches and develop the overall layout, work drawings, and automotive design documentation.
9. Ability to develop, create, and improve the prototypes of automotive products.
10. Ability to develop manufacturing technologies for automotive products suitable for implementation in business.
11. Ability to develop the technological manufacturing process.
12. Ability to develop the technological documentation for the reconstruction of cars.
13. Ability to test automotive products.
14. Ability to develop the technological documentation for the manufacturing of car parts, sub-assemblies, and technological equipment.
15. Ability to select and develop the most suitable methods for maintaining and ensuring the technical condition.
16. Ability to develop technically and economically feasible plans for the maintenance of cars.
17. Ability to apply the principal performance indicators to ensure the technical condition of the vehicle fleet and efficient operation of the company.
18. Ability to justify and select the most appropriate type of energy source and plan efficient provision thereof for the performance of the principal automotive tasks in conformity with the environmental sustainability and financial goals.
19. Ability to ensure and improve energy efficiency in automotive companies.
20. Ability to develop and employ effective methods for determining the technical condition.
21. Ability to select and use sustainable and economically feasible parts, sub-assemblies, and operating automotive materials.
22. Ability to develop a technological plan for an automotive company.
23. Ability to develop new car repair technologies.
24. Ability to decide on the restoration of automotive sub-assemblies.
25. Ability to mechanise and automate the car repair process.
26. Ability to implement economically feasible car repair technologies.
27. Ability to develop a technical proposal for an automotive repair company.
28. Ability to develop comprehensive documentation for a car repair and reconstruction project.
29. Ability to perform technological design that ensures safe working conditions in automotive companies.
30. Ability to perform technological design to ensure a sustainable environment in automotive companies.
31. Ability to mitigate work-related risks in an automotive company by understanding the impact of professional activity on the environment and society.
32. Ability to create a sustainable environment in co-operation with environmental specialists.
33. Ability to reduce energy consumption and environmental pollution of cars and technological equipment.
34. Ability to create professional and comprehensive training modules for automotive specialists on the structure, operation, maintenance, and repair of specific sub-assemblies of cars.
35. Ability to put forward and justify recommendations for safer, more economical, and sportier driving of cars.
36. Ability to provide training to improve the qualifications of the technical personnel in the automotive sector, contributing to the development of the automotive field.
37. Ability to organise seminars on automotive transportation in conformity with the laws and regulations.
38. Ability to develop comprehensive professional training materials in the automotive sector.
39. Ability to develop an automotive technological system for addressing economic, social, and sustainability issues in society.
40. Ability to organise freight transportation in a business environment.
41. Ability to organise passenger transportation in a business environment.
42. Ability to ensure the operation of automotive equipment while improving the road traffic safety.
43. Ability to start a small automotive business.
44. Ability to ensure automotive business with limited assets.
General competences
1. Ability to comply with the requirements of the laws and regulations governing the field.
2. Ability to comply with the civil defence and environmental protection requirements.
3. Ability to comply with the requirements of the laws and regulations on labour protection and fire safety.
4. Ability to communicate publicly and argue in favour of the chosen technological and business strategy in the automotive sector.
5. Ability to maintain a field-specific terminology in the official language.
6. Ability to solve professional tasks accurately by communicating in the official language.
7. Ability to responsibly apply information and communication technologies and equipment, work in the e-environment, and ensure the protection of the data of commercial activity and personal data.
8. Ability to search, collect, and process information and use it critically and systematically.
9. Ability to establish personal and collective communication.
10. Ability to select an adequate management model when working with the technical personnel.
11. Ability to improve own professional qualification independently.
12. Ability to put forward proposals for problem-solving and avoid violations in the field of labour law, civil law, and administrative law.
13. Ability to observe the norms of employment relationship.
14. Ability to adhere to the basic principles of professional and general ethics.