Dnipro National University of Railway Transport (DIIT)
Dnipro National University of Railway Transport named after Academician V.Lazaryan (DIIT) is a higher educational institution of the 4th (maximum) level of state accreditation in Ukraine. It was founded in 1930 as the Institute of Railway Transport Engineering. There academic buildings and R&D laboratories, a library with more than 810 thousand volumes, the teaching staff residential houses, 6 students hostels, a canteen, a policlinic, a Palace of Culture, a stadium and other social and life facilities are located on 30 hectares of the University campus. Studies and research activities are being carried out in two academic buildings with a total area of 55,000 sq.m. Moreover here there are structures with laboratories of various profiles including the following: the Centrifugal Simulation Lab with unique equipment in Ukraine, the Soil Mechanics Lab, the Lab of Heat Engines, the Electric Rolling Stock Lab; industrial training workshops, a sports building, an outdoor swimming pool, etc. are also placed in the campus. This area equals to 8,787 sq. m. The University Computing Center equipped with advanced computer facilities occupies the territory of 1,222 sq. m. DIIT has 10,000 students in 18 professional areas covering 24 specialties. All the University graduates are provided with job appointments on the Ukraine Railways, at industrial and other enterprises as well as in research institutions. In the University the studies are provided by 550-people academic staff including 12 Academy Fellows, 10 Associate Members of branch academies, 50 Professors, Candidates of Sciences. 52 of them are Laureates of the State and Personal Prizes or have the Titles of Honorary Researchers, Transport and Higher School Workers. The agreements on cooperation between DIIT and number of enterprises and institutions of Poland (DES, CNTK, Chem Trans Logistic, KAMAX), Iran (the Presidency Technological Cooperation Office-TCO, the Iranian Railways Research Center, the Iran University of Science & Technology) and France (the Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Nantes and St. Nazaire) have been concluded. The DIIT scholars are trained in well-known transnational corporations-the A.R.S., Inc. and the Water Works Global Inc. Every year the Canadian instructors from the School of Business, the University of Wester Ontario conduct lectures on business administration at our University. Lectures on the Market Economy and its Basic Components are delivered by French Professor Jean-Pierre Prost, the State Counselor on Foreign Trade. The programs of regular student and post-graduate exchange between the University and the Atlantic School of Commerce (Saint Nazaire,France), the Warsaw,Cracow, and Silesian Universities of Technology (Poland) as the Dresden Technical University (Germany) are under realization. Foreign specialists, students and post-graduates from Europe, Asia and Africa are trained and upgraded their qualification here. The groups of engineers from the Iranian and Tunisian Railways have passed the course on repair and operation of Ukrainian freight cars. The University takes part in the European Programs TEMPUS TASIC and EUREKA. The DIIT researchers have won a few grants awarded by the INTAS (Euro Union), the German Academic Exchange Agency DAAD, two American foundation - the STCU (Science and Technology Center in Ukrainian) and the CRDF (Civilian Research and Development Foundation). The University organizes regularly on its own bases international conferences, symposium, and seminars on the key problems of transport, economics and other fields of human knowledge. The academic and research staff of our University participates permanently in activities of conferences and exhibition held in Russia, USA, Germany, France, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Greece, Poland, Slovakia, former Yugoslavia, Turkey, Estonia, Latvia and so on.
The tuition is done in the following specialties:
- Bridges and transportation tunnels
- Electro-technical systems of the electricity use
- Electric and mechanical systems in the automation and electric drive
- Electrical transportation
- Heat engineering
- Rolling stock and the special-purpose machinery for the railway transportation
- Lift-transportation, building, railway and reclamation machines and equipment
- Management of the transportation in the railway transport
- Automation and automatisation in the transport
- Transportation system
- Railway buildings and tracks
- Industrial and civil building
- Water supply and drainage
- Ecology and environmental protection
- Auditing and accounting
- Management of the organizations
- Computer software for the automated systems
- Computing systems and networks
- Cybernetics in economy
- Applied mathematics
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