The Prydniprovska State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture (Ukrainian

Ukrainian language

Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet....

: Придніпровська державна академія будівництва та архітектури) is one of the major academic institutions of higher education

Higher education

Higher, post-secondary, tertiary, or third level education refers to the stage of learning that occurs at universities, academies, colleges, seminaries, and institutes of technology...

 in Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

, specializing in engineering

Engineering

Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...

 and economics, located in Dnipropetrovsk

Dnipropetrovsk

Dnipropetrovsk or Dnepropetrovsk formerly Yekaterinoslav is Ukraine's third largest city with one million inhabitants. It is located southeast of Ukraine's capital Kiev on the Dnieper River, in the south-central region of the country...

. Founded in 1930 as the "Dnipropetrovsk Institute of Civil Engineering", it currently has 7 faculties and 590 full-time faculty members (including 79 full professors and 266 associate professors) . It is a member of several academic co-operations, including the IAU (1997) and АUF (2006).

History

Although the PSACEA officially opened its doors in 1930, the history of what became the current institution reaches back further. In the 1921, a College of Engineering was formed on the site and run by the government. In 1930 the сollege moved to its current location and was reorganized in Dnipropetrovsk Institute of Civil Engineering. Finally, it was given its current name in 1994. The campus is believed to be the location of the Krestovozdvijensky cathedral site.

Overview

Serving approximately 9,000 students primarily from the greater Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast is an oblast of central Ukraine, the most important industrial region of the country. Its administrative center is Dnipropetrovsk....

 area, PSACEA has more than 55,000 alumni. The Prydniprovska State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture operates year round on the semesters system. Two semesters, each 22 weeks in duration.

Today, the campus of the PSACEA consists of 3 buildings, which are connected by hallways. The area includes a library with four reading halls and twelve computing centres. It also holds an indoor swimming complex, weight-training facilities, a gymnastics practice facility, a shooting-gallery, fencing rooms and a sports camp. sports grounds which includes indoors swimming-pool, seven gymnasiums, shooting-gallery and sports camp. The Gymnasium can hold about 4,000 people for the home basketball, indoor soccer, women’s gymnastics and volleyball events. Students housing is available in eight dormitories, which offer catering services, recreational facilities and other amenities. There are a variety of group fitness programs at PSACEA. These programs are open to students, faculty, staff, and community members.

Faculties

The Prydniprovska State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture offers the following graduate programs (sorted by faculty) All programs lead to B.Sc and M.Sc.

Faculty of Civil & Industrial Engineering

• Civil Engineering
  Civil engineering
  Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings...
  
  

Faculty of Architecture

• Architectural engineering
  Architectural engineering
  Architectural engineering, also known as building engineering, is the application of engineering principles and technology to building design and construction...
  
  
• Environmental design
  Environmental design
  Environmental design is the process of addressing surrounding environmental parameters when devising plans, programs, policies, buildings, or products...
  
  
• Urban Planning
  Urban planning
  Urban planning incorporates areas such as economics, design, ecology, sociology, geography, law, political science, and statistics to guide and ensure the orderly development of settlements and communities....
  
  

Faculty of Mechanics

• Automotive engineering
  Automotive engineering
  Modern automotive engineering, along with aerospace engineering and marine engineering, is a branch of vehicle engineering, incorporating elements of mechanical, electrical, electronic, software and safety engineering as applied to the design, manufacture and operation of motorcycles, automobiles,...
  
  
• Mechatronics
  Mechatronics
  Mechatronics is the combination of mechanical engineering, electronic engineering, computer engineering, software engineering, control engineering, and systems design engineering in order to design, and manufacture useful products. Mechatronics is a multidisciplinary field of engineering, that is...
  
  
• Heavy equipment

Faculty of Economics

• International economy
• Finance
  Finance
  "Finance" is often defined simply as the management of money or “funds” management Modern finance, however, is a family of business activity that includes the origination, marketing, and management of cash and money surrogates through a variety of capital accounts, instruments, and markets created...
  
  
• Management
  Management
  Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...
  
  
• Accounting and Auditing
• Corporate finance
  Corporate finance
  Corporate finance is the area of finance dealing with monetary decisions that business enterprises make and the tools and analysis used to make these decisions. The primary goal of corporate finance is to maximize shareholder value while managing the firm's financial risks...
  
  

Faculty of Construction

• Materials science
  Materials science
  Materials science is an interdisciplinary field applying the properties of matter to various areas of science and engineering. This scientific field investigates the relationship between the structure of materials at atomic or molecular scales and their macroscopic properties. It incorporates...
  
  
• Transport engineering
  Transport engineering
  Transportation engineering is the application of technology and scientific principles to the planning, functional design, operation and management of facilities for any mode of transportation in order to provide for the safe, rapid, comfortable, convenient, economical, and environmentally...
  
  
• Fluid mechanics
  Fluid mechanics
  Fluid mechanics is the study of fluids and the forces on them. Fluid mechanics can be divided into fluid statics, the study of fluids at rest; fluid kinematics, the study of fluids in motion; and fluid dynamics, the study of the effect of forces on fluid motion...
  
  
• Soil science
  Soil science
  Soil science is the study of soil as a natural resource on the surface of the earth including soil formation, classification and mapping; physical, chemical, biological, and fertility properties of soils; and these properties in relation to the use and management of soils.Sometimes terms which...
  
  
• Fluid mechanics
  Fluid mechanics
  Fluid mechanics is the study of fluids and the forces on them. Fluid mechanics can be divided into fluid statics, the study of fluids at rest; fluid kinematics, the study of fluids in motion; and fluid dynamics, the study of the effect of forces on fluid motion...
  
  

Faculty of Ecology and Environmental engineering

• Ecology and Environmental engineering
  Environmental engineering
  Environmental engineering is the application of science and engineering principles to improve the natural environment , to provide healthy water, air, and land for human habitation and for other organisms, and to remediate polluted sites...
  
  
• Fluid dynamics
  Fluid dynamics
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• Aerodynamics
  Aerodynamics
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Safety engineering

Degree program

With combination of knowledge and experience in higher education and research the Prydniprovska State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture aims to train specialists (BSc, MSc and PhD).

Bachelor's degree programmes

The Bachelor phase starts each year in September and lasts four years and successful completion of a Bachelor's program results in a BSc or BA degree.

Master's degree programmes

Program usually takes one year. Successful completion of a Master’s program is awarded with a Master’s degree, MSc.

PhD degree programmes

Most departments, research institutes and faculties offer doctorate programs or positions, leading to a PhD degree. PhD programs last between three and four years. The results of the research are written down in a PhD thesis, often including papers published in scientific journals.

International relations

For some Bachelor's and Master's programmes in Mechanics

Mechanics

Mechanics is the branch of physics concerned with the behavior of physical bodies when subjected to forces or displacements, and the subsequent effects of the bodies on their environment....

 and Economics the language of instruction is English. Programmes taught in French leading to Bachelor and Master degrees are offered at Civil Engineering

Civil engineering

Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings...

 and Architecture

Architecture

Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...

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Scientific and student exchanges are being realizing with nine foreign universities from France, Canada, China, Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

, Poland, Slovakia

Slovakia

The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...

, Macedonia

Republic of Macedonia

Macedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991...

, and Belgium. Every year over 30 students and post-graduate students are sent abroad to study there.

Library

The library is the main resource for recorded knowledge and information supporting the teaching, research, and service functions of Prydniprovska State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture. Because of its size and depth, it is an important community and regional resource and a key part of institution's role as a regional university. The library currently holds over 525 770 volumes, as well as having approximately 43 406 current subscriptions to print periodicals.

Notable alumni and faculty

• Oleksandr Garmash
  Oleksandr Garmash
  Oleksandr Andriyovych Harmash - was a Ukrainian and Soviet scientist in the field of production line methods in construction , professor of the Dnipropetrovsk Building Institute.- Life and work :...
  
   – Ukrainian Soviet scientist
• Leonid Khmara – Meritorious Inventor of Ukraine
• Ivan Kulichenko – Mayor of Dnipropetrovsk
  Dnipropetrovsk
  Dnipropetrovsk or Dnepropetrovsk formerly Yekaterinoslav is Ukraine's third largest city with one million inhabitants. It is located southeast of Ukraine's capital Kiev on the Dnieper River, in the south-central region of the country...
  
  
• Valeriy Pustovoitenko
  Valeriy Pustovoitenko
  Valery Pustovoitenko was confirmed as prime minister of Ukraine on 16 July 1997. Pustovoitenko was Ukraine's eighth prime minister. He resigned in connection with Leonid Kuchma's re-election for a new term. He is a former leader of the People's Democratic Party of Ukraine.-References:...
  
   – Prime Minister of Ukraine
  Prime Minister of Ukraine
  The Prime Minister of Ukraine is Ukraine's head of government presiding over the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, which is the highest body of the executive branch of the Ukrainian government....
  
  

External links

Prydniprovska State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture Official Website. Department of Computer Science Library of Prydniprovska State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture