On September 10, 2019 ХХІV International Scientific and Technical Conference «Problems of the automated electric drive. Theory and practice» (PAED-2019) was held at National University «Odessa Maritime Academy» with the participation of the following educational establishments: Ukrainian Association of Electrical Engineers, National Technical University “Kharkov Polytechnic Institute”, the Institute of Electrodynamics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the Academic Council of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine “Scientific foundations of the electric power industry”, Georgian Technical University, the Fraunhofer Institute,  Magdeburg (Fraunhofer IFF), the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. 

The conference opened with welcoming remarks made by Mykhaylo Valentinovich Miyusov, the Rector of NU «ОМА», Chairman of the Organizing Committee, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor and Kyrylenko Oleksandr Vasilyevich, Chairman of the conference, Academic Secretary of the FTPE Department, Director of the Institute of Electrodynamics of NASU. The responsible secretary of the conference was Mykhaylo Mukha, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor of NU «ОМА». The following issues were discussed during the event: implementation of European Higher Education Area standards: status and prospects; analytical review of traditional and modern son-thesis methods of automated electromechanical systems; training of specialists in automated electric drive, mechatronics and robotics; system technologies for the development of asynchronous electric drives; control system of the device of limiting of the higher harmonics created by the three-phase electric arc furnace, etc.

Besides, the conference approved membership and young scientists’ reports of the competition to be supported by the Ukrainian Association of Electrical Engineers.

The visitors were given an excursion around the training complexes and electrotechnical laboratories of National University «Odessa Maritime Academy».