The program in 5B072900 Construction (Образовательная программа) has the following subprograms (specializations) available:

• Technology of Industrial and Civil Construction;

• Engineering and Design of Buildings and Structures.

The University has been training students in 5B072900 Construction.

The Department provides training for students in accordance with the requirements of the State Educational Standard of the RK. Students acquire professional knowledge related to the design, construction, maintenance and renovation of buildings and structures.

The educational program includes courses providing both professional knowledge and fundamentals of market economy and computer literacy using the latest teaching methods and most up-to-date equipment.

The academic staff of the Department had advanced training courses in Germany and Hungary and are now engaged in research activities with students. The results of this work are tested in construction companies.

The graduates can work in R&D and hydrogeological organizations, as well as companies engaged in construction and renovation of buildings and structures.

Duration of study: 4 years for full-time studies and either 3 years (previous studies required: secondary vocational education or higher vocational education) or 5 years (previous studies required: general secondary education) for part-time studies.

Qualification: Bachelor of Construction.

The program in 5B074500 Transport Construction (Образовательная программа) has the following subprograms (specializations) available:

• Railways Construction;

• Roads and Airfields Construction;

• Construction of Oil and Gas Pipelines and Storage Tanks.

Development of transport networks is among the priorities of the Government and the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In the short term, it is planned to build new roads, railways, oil and gas pipelines and storage tanks and repair the existing ones thus joining the industrial production economic zones and strategic areas. In order to achieve this goal, the Republic needs highly qualified specialists in this area.

The educational process is carried out in accordance with the State Educational Standard of the RK. Students acquire professional knowledge in the field of production, which includes a range of tools, methods and techniques of design, construction, maintenance and reconstruction of roads, airports, railways, oil and gas pipelines and storage tanks, as well as other facilities of the transport complex. The educational program includes courses providing professional knowledge, the basics of market economy, computer skills training using modern educational facilities and resources. The academic staff, who completed professional advancement courses in Germany, Hungary and Czech Republic, work on the research projects with students. Testing of all research results is carried out in transport industry companies.

The alumni can work in the field of production of road-building materials, development of project, planning and surveying, design and estimate documentation, construction of motor roads, urban roads and streets, airfields, railways, oil and gas pipelines and storage tanks and other transportation facilities, utilities, and operational sections.

Duration of study: 4 years for full-time studies and either 3 years (previous studies required: secondary vocational education or higher vocational education) or 5 years (previous studies required: general secondary education) for part-time studies.

Qualification: Bachelor of Construction.

“Constructional materials, products and constructions production” 5B073000 

Modern buildings and constructions causing joy with the variety of colors and forms can be constructed only in the presence of constructional products and material. Production of such products is possible if the latest achievements in the field of constructional products are used. 

Only an industrial engineer is capable to meet the challenges of top-quality effective, reliable and durable material production. The present specialist is responsible for the manufacture he produces. 

At present building area can concurrently be the place of production. Plasticity, remolding effort of concrete mix and solution construction usage can be conducted in a cast-in-block variant producing not only walling and laster constructions, but also the whole object in general.  

 The wide store of knowledge guaranteed by the whole educational process will allow the specialist to professionally assess used material when projecting artificial conglomerate with a definite group of characteristics, to soundly choose the scheme and constructional production techniques.

 Graduates are trained to carry out work related to constructional materials, products and constructions production. They are able to provide resource saving when using man-caused waste material to get the latest low-waste, ecologically safe technologies when constructing residential, public and production buildings as well as private and low-rise apartment buildings.

 Training:

on basis of state educational grants or contract with flexible allowances and benefits 

 Qualification is a bachelor of engineering and technology

 Educational period: on basis of secondary education: educational period lasts 4 years;

 on basis of secondary professional education: educational period lasts 3 years (full-time, by correspondance);

on basis of higher professional education: educational process lasts 3 years (after an interview) 

 Standardization, metrology and certification in construction” 5B073200

Field of activity: organization of activities connected with improving the quality in the field of constructional production; quality system elaboration and introduction, analysis and detection of flaw causes and violation of constructional material production technology; introduction of up-to-date measuring procedures and quality control of standardized common constructional material and products production and test, etc. 

 Professional activity objects are manufactured goods and services, processing; enterprise and testing laboratory equipment; testing, measuring and control methods and means; metrology provision of scientific, production, social and ecological activity.

 Types of professional activity:

Administrative-organizational: organization of activity elaboration concerning quality control in production; production, testing and operation metrological provision.

 industrial-engineering: provision of task fulfillment concerning with product quality increase, metrological provision improvement, elaboration of new standards and revision of the operative ones, technical conditions and other documents of standardization and certification; introduction of quality management system, and optimal norms of precision of control measurements, reliability, choice of testing, measuring and control means, elaboration of metering, testing and control methods.

 design activity: project objectives forming in development of new or modernization of operative quality management methods and means; elaboration of design and processing decisions in quality provision field;

research: state and product quality dynamics analysis, metrological provision of production, standardization and certification; 

 inspection-auditing: realization of product and service quality audit; realization of process quality audit; supplier assessment; verification for fulfillment of established regulations; audit documentation compounding.

 Qualification is a bachelor of standardization, metrology and certification in construction

 Educational period: full-time education lasts 4 years

Master’s degree programs:

• 6М072900 Construction;

The University has been training Master’s students since 2001. During this period of time 35 Master’s students have graduated from PSU, many of them work in various structural units of the University, continuing their research and pedagogical work. The University provides two educational Master’s Programs: professional and scientific-pedagogic one. Educational period lasts from 1 to 2 years.

• The program in 6М074500Transport Construction has the following subprograms (specializations) available:

- Railways Construction;

- Roads and Airfields Construction.

The University has been training Master’s students since 2001 according two directions:

The University provides two educational Master’s Programs: professional and scientific-pedagogic one. Educational period lasts from 1 to 2 years.

Highly qualified engineering-pedagogic workers of the Faculty, the University, and specialists of enterprises and organizations of both the region and the republic are attracted to teaching disciplines of Master’s programs.

- “Constructional materials, products and constructions production” 6М073000 The University has been training Master’s students since 2001. During this period of time over 10 Master’s students have graduated from PSU with this degree, many of them work in various structural units of the University, continuing their research and pedagogical work. The University provides two educational Master’s Programs:

- Scientific-pedagogical direction: 

Academic degree: Master of Engineering Sciences 

Educational period: 2 years 

- Profession oriented direction: 

 Academic degree: Master of Equipment and Technology.

Educational period: 1 year 

 - “Standardization and certification in construction” 6М073200

The University has been training Master’s students since 2010. 

 The University provides two educational Master’s Programs:

- Scientific-pedagogical direction: 

Academic degree: Master of Engineering Sciences 

 Educational period: 2 years

- Profession oriented direction: 

Academic degree: Master of Equipment and Technology. 

Educational period: 1,5 years. 

 Highly qualified engineering-pedagogic workers of the Faculty, the University, and specialists of enterprises and organizations of both the region and the republic are attracted to teaching disciplines of Master’s programs.

Master’s students have scientific internships in countries of the former Soviet Union (Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Russia) and beyond FSU. In the 2013-2014 academic year a Master’s student A. Katenbayeva passed a scientific internship in Italy, Bologna, and in the 2014-2015 academic year 2 people (A. Abdrazakov, R. Nurtazin) studied one semester under the Academic Mobility Program and had an internship at Brno University of Technology, all other Master’s students had a scientific internship in St. Petersburg, Omsk (The Siberian Automobile and Highway Academy (SIBADI)).