Education at Lviv Polytechnic

Railway constructions and track management

6.J7.00.03 Railway constructions and track management

Qualification awarded: Bachelor of Railway Transport

Entry year: 2024

Mode of study: full

Program duration: 4 years

Institute: Institute of Mechanical Engineering and Transport

Number of credits: 240 ECTS credits

Level of qualification according to the National Qualification Framework and the European Qualifications Framework: NQF Level 6 (First cycle of QF-EHEA / EQF Level 6)

Specific admission requirements: Availability of a certificate of complete general secondary education.

Qualification requirements and regulations, including graduation requirements: Carrying out of the curriculum

Characteristics of the educational program: The educational program is based on regulatory provisions, modern achievements of transport science and advanced practical experience in the field of railway design and operation

Програмні результати навчання: - carry out professional activities in social interaction based on humanistic and ethical principles; - carry out professional communication with the participants of the labor process in modern Ukrainian; - use oral and written communication skills in a foreign language, analyzing specialized texts and translating foreign language information sources; - carry out professional activities using information technologies, "Information databases", navigation systems, Internet resources, software and other information and communication technologies; - use the principles of formation of labor resources; identify reserves for improving the work efficiency of employees of railway infrastructure facilities; - adhere to the norms of communication in professional interaction with colleagues, management, students, work effectively in a team; - identify future professional activity as socially significant for the effective development of the country; - use the tools of a democratic legal state in professional and public activities; - apply international and national standards and practices in professional activities; - realize the value of protecting the independence, territorial integrity and democratic system of Ukraine; - know the main historical stages of development of the subject area and be able to operate with basic categories and concepts of the specialty; - know the main provisions of the regulatory and legislative acts of Ukraine in the field of railway transport, the Rules for the technical operation of the railways of Ukraine, instructions and recommendations for the operation, repair and maintenance of railway infrastructure objects, its systems and elements; - to be able to identify and distinguish objects of the railway track and structures, their systems and elements; - organize a measuring experiment on railway infrastructure objects and to evaluate its results; - develop and implement technological processes, technological equipment and technological equipment, means of automation and mechanization during the construction, operation, repair and maintenance of railway track objects and structures, their systems and elements; - develop, draw up and introduce into production documentation on the certainty of technological processes of construction, operation, repair and maintenance of railway track objects and structures, their systems and other instructions, rules and methods; - develop technical tasks and technical conditions for the design of railway track objects and structures, their systems and individual elements; draw up plans for the placement of equipment, technical equipment and organization of workplaces, calculate the loading of mechanisms and indicators of product quality; - calculate the main characteristics and parameters of the technological processes of production and repair of railway track objects and structures in order to compare them and form management decisions regarding the further functioning of enterprises (track distances, railway machine station, railway track and construction diagnostic center) with an assessment the quality of its products; - know the structure of operation management, maintenance and repair of railway track objects and structures, their systems and individual elements; - know the purpose and specifics of the work of the structural units of linear enterprises (track distance, railway machine station, railway track and facilities diagnostic center) and factories, small groups of performers (brigades, patrols, stations), regarding the construction, operation, repair and maintenance of objects of railway transport, their systems and elements; - know the methods and to be able to use the means of technical measurements, technical regulations, standards and other normative documents during the technical diagnosis of objects of the railway infrastructure, its systems and elements; - use modern software tools for the development of design and construction and technological documentation for the creation, operation, repair and maintenance of railway track objects and structures, their systems and elements; - organize the operation of the system of reporting and accounting (management, statistical, accounting and financial) work of objects and systems of railway infrastructure; - analyze technical and economic and operational indicators of railway infrastructure objects, its systems and elements; - know the basic requirements of occupational health and safety, safety technology, fire safety and sanitary and hygienic regime when performing professional activities in the maintenance of railway infrastructure facilities.

Academic mobility: The opportunity to study at native and foreign universities

Occupational profiles of graduates: Design engineer Technical diagnostics engineer Design engineer Engineer of automated production control systems Civil engineer Engineers of private enterprises in the field of: construction, organization of operation and repair, objective control, standardization and quality Teacher of vocational training or master of industrial training of a vocational and technical educational institution

Access to further studies: Obtaining the second (master's) level

Other program features: The program has 2 professional blocks (trajectories): Block 1 "Design and construction of railways" Block 2 "Operation and maintenance of railways"