Akylbayev trains specialists in the field of energy and environmental protection, implements bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs.

Students of the department have the opportunity to study along the following trajectories: Industrial heat power engineering, Heat power plants, Life Safety, Environmental Ecology. The training program includes such relevant disciplines as Boiler installations and steam generators, Superchargers and heat engines, Turbine installations of thermal power plants, Heating and Heating Networks, Fundamentals of Radiation Safety, Technical regulation of industrial safety, Fire safety of residential and public buildings, Safety of rescue operations.

Graduates of the educational program can work at heat and power enterprises, environmental organizations, emergency and labor protection bodies.

The scientific interests of the department are related to the study of a number of problems: the development of an effective technology for heat removal from heat pump wells based on electrohydroimpulse technology, methods for replenishing water resources, electric discharge cleaning and activation technologies with a positive effect on the life of plants and living organisms, complex development, creation of technologies, manufacturing, theoretical and experimental studies of experimental samples of small wind power plants, electrohydroimpulse technology for processing oil sludge and oil-containing technogenic raw materials, alternative energy sources.