General intended learning outcomes for students, expected after the completion of the Railway Mechanical Engineering specialization, include the following abilities: to explain the basic concepts of functioning of different types of rail vehicles; to apply appropriate regulations and standards in the field of railway mechanical engineering to solve different engineering problems; to use computer techniques, skills and modern engineering software and tools necessary for the development, design, production, testing, and maintenance of rail vehicles; to apply computational methods for determining the main parameters of the dynamic behaviour of the rail vehicles; to analyse and compare tractive characteristics of different types of power transmissions and calculate the key parameters; to solve practical problems of maintenance of railway vehicles related to the organization and implementation of the projected activities, as well as implementation of knowledge in the field of reliability, information and expert systems.