The Department of Urban Construction and Management was founded in 1995. It trains specialists for the “Bachelor” and “Master” educational and qualification levels in specialty G19 “Building and Civil Engineering”, under the educational program “Urban Construction and Management” for full-time and part-time forms of study. The Head of the Department is Kaints Diana Ivanivna, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Associate Professor, and member of the Union of Designers of Ukraine.

According to the curriculum, the responsibility for training specialists in specialty G19 Building and Civil Engineering within the cycle of professional and practical training disciplines lies with the Department of Urban Construction and Management of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology. 

The main areas of training at the Department of Urban Construction and Management are: urban planning systems taking into account modern urbanization processes, development, reconstruction, and improvement of territories; processes of construction, operation, repair, and reconstruction of buildings and structures; ensuring occupational safety, environmental protection, and fire safety. Special attention is paid to orienting future specialists toward recreational facilities. 

In total, during the years of existence of the Department of Urban Construction and Management at Uzhhorod National University, over 1,000 specialists for the construction industry have been trained in full-time and part-time departments. 

The material resources of the university are sufficient for conducting the educational and upbringing process. In accordance with the curriculum, there are equipped workshops, classrooms, and laboratories. There are reading rooms in all academic buildings and university dormitories. The collection and reading rooms of the regional scientific and technical library are at the service of students. 

The university cooperates with the Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture, Lviv Polytechnic National University, National University of Water and Environmental Engineering, Lutsk National Technical University, and closely collaborates with the Scientific and Educational Institute of Interdisciplinary Research “Smart City” and other construction universities and institutes of Ukraine to improve the scientific-methodological, personnel, and scientific-technical level of the educational process. Connections have been established with Oregon State University (OSU, Corvallis, USA), Technical University of Denmark (DTU, Copenhagen, Denmark), Technocal University of Košice (Slovakia), and Rzeszow University of Technology (Poland). Teachers and students of the department visit these universities to familiarize themselves with the system and content of modern European education. Also, based on this cooperation, a series of seminars were held at Uzhhorod National University at the Department of Urban Construction and Management, where well-known Western European companies introduced students to modern European construction technologies. Students of the department participate in Erasmus+ programs (Rzeszow, Krakow, Poland), undergo internships at the “School of Urbanism”, and participate in Olympiads, scientific seminars, forums, competitions, and conferences. Thus, the internships of the teachers and students of specialty G19 Building and Civil Engineering at UzhNU are also closely linked to European technologies.   

Employment Prospects

The primary areas of training for future specialists are: urban planning systems taking into account modern urbanization processes, development, reconstruction and landscaping of territories, processes of construction, operation, repair and reconstruction of buildings and development, statics of buildings and structures, ensuring occupational safety, environmental protection, and fire safety. Particular attention, based on the prospects for the development of Zakarpattia as a recreational and resort region, is drawn to the orientation of future specialists toward such objects as buildings and structures for recreational purposes, engineering and technical maintenance of buildings and structures of the sanatorium-resort industry, hotels, motels, engineering-ecological and treatment systems of the recreational industry infrastructure.

Upon graduation, a civil engineer may hold various engineering and technical positions within construction and installation organizations performing general construction or specialized work. They may also work in architectural and planning departments of local government, environmental protection agencies, research institutions or design organizations, and units of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, fire services, and others. Graduates of the department can work as teachers of specialized subjects in vocational educational institutions, as well as marketing specialists and advertising agents in consulting, trust, investment, and other market structures whose activities are related to construction.