The Department of Control and Information Systems (further referred to as the DCIS) guarantees the study branch Automation – study programme Automation in bachelor degree, study branch Automation – study programme Process Control Engineering in MSc.y degree and study branch Automation – study programme Process Control Engineering in PhD. degree at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the University of Žilina. The students of the Process Control Engineering study programme can focus the area of transport systems, primarily railway interlocking systems and intelligent transport systems in road transport or the area of industrial process control.
Research activities of the DCIS are directed at the sphere of information and safety-related system analysis and synthesis ranging from solution of theoretical models to practical projects of operation including implementation. There are many sectors of activities in which the DCIS has an exclusive position in the Slovak Republic, especially in expertise processing in the field of analysis and synthesis of railway interlocking systems.
The sphere of reliable and secure information transmission and processing in control of selected critical processes both in safety-related systems for all kinds of transport, complex technologies and in security systems for protection of humans and property provides dynamic incentive for all the staff. Realization of information services for operative control supported by automation and computer technology is applicable in decisive branches of the national economy.
Activities performed at the DCIS are integrated to the national and international co-operation with academic and industry sphere and realized through various forms - from research projects to exchanges of students and experts.
The staff of the DCIS consists of 15 pedagogical workers, 2 technicians and administrative support, 2 researchers and 12 full-time postgraduate students. The pedagogical staff consisted of 1 professor, 1 associate professor holding a professor position, 1 guest professor, 4 associate professors, 5 senior lecturers with an academic degree PhD, 3 senior lecturers without this degree.
