Lifting and transporting, road-building, construction, and melioration machines and equipment

Information on «Lifting and transporting, road-building, construction, and melioration machines and equipment» speciality

Since 1888 at Kharkov Technological Institute Professor Tyr V.E. started delivering the course of “Theory and construction of hoisting machines”. At present, training is carried on in the branch of knowledge 13.Mechanical engineering

133.Industrial machinery engineering speciality

“Lifting and transporting, road-building, construction, and melioration machines and equipment” specialization

Training is maintained by the department of “Lifting and Transporting Machines and Equipment”.

The educational-and-qualification levels (education levels) of graduates are bachelor, specialist, master.

Graduates are granted qualification:

at the bachelor’s level:
bachelor in machinery engineering; 
at the master’s level (professional):
machinery engineering engineer; 
at the master’s level (scientific):
professional in machinery engineering. 

Main special courses: “Load Lifting Machines”, “Construction, Road-building and Melioration Machines”,  “Special Cranes”, “Computer-aided Design of Lifting and Transport Machines”, “Production Organization and Marketing of Lifting and Transport Machines”, “Mechatronics”, “Logistics of Lifting and Transporting Systems”.

Speciality’s brief characteristic. “Lifting and transport, road-building, construction, and melioration machines and equipment” speciality  is aimed at professional training which is related to priority directions of technology development and enables, depending on qualification level obtained, to carry out scientific, engineering, technical, technological, control, educational work in the sphere of development, testing and exploitation, as well as certifying and introduction of new equipment, hoisting and transportation, road, construction, land reclamation, and other transport systems and equipment.

Employment possibilities. Specialists in these branches work in various organizations where they design or operate: cranes, road, construction, and land reclamation machine, loaders, moving staircases, roller systems, lifts, transporters, and other modern equipment for technologic logistics.

Four specialists work at engineer positions at FAM (Magdeburg, Germany), two graduates have presented dissertation theses for scientific degree of doctor-engineer at Magdeburg University, one graduate heads joint Ukrainian-German company installing hoisting and lifting equipment.