International Scientific Journals
of Scientific Technical Union of Mechanical Engineering "Industry 4.0"

The aim of the paper is to highlight aspects of public policies that influence the positive development of higher education in Bulgaria and to be on an equal footing within the European Educational and Scientific Research Area, as well as to outline the prospects for future optimization and effectiveness of this activity.

The paper considers the need for designing a dispenser for automated delivery of concentrated feed of small ruminants. Provides an analysis of the criteria for choosing optimal of auger conveyor parameters to ensure the required dosing accuracy for the specific purpose.

The paper describes the urban passenger transport system which is a set of interdependent subsystems: «city», «transport», «passengers». The urban passenger transport performance indicators have been determined for all system participants. The objective functions of an optimization problem of urban passenger transport are given in general terms. The optimization criterion for traffic routing of urban passenger transport has been determined, which takes account of mutual influence of the interests of all system participants has been determined. The passenger traffic flow density on the studying road section, has been suggested as such optimization criterion. The formulation of an optimization problem of urban passenger transport have been defined as well.

E-learning, seen in the ergonomic aspect, is a complex and intense human activity that is subject to investigation and analysis in order to optimize it. The quality of education is seen as a trinity of its effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction – criteria that are defined, studied and assessed using a specially developed, original methodology of the authors. These criteria were used to investigate BA, MA and Ph.D. students in two consecutive years.