Problems of Modern Management in Transport

Published: 22 April 2016

Major – Technology of Transport Facilities

Qualification (degree) – Master

Course modules (units, topics):

The course consists of the following units and topics:

1. Introduction.

Topics: General characteristics of transport management types.

2. Transport production management.

Topics: Methodological framework and peculiarities of transport management framing. Peculiarities of transport as an object of management. Main stages of the development of Russian transport management system and its modern state. Organisational structures of management, their design and development in transport. Management of the development and usage of transport production facilities. Transportation process management. Principles and methods of improvement of managerial decisions. Information support of transport management processes.

3. Strategic, tactical and operational management in transport.

Topics: Scientific-and-methodical framework of strategic management. Environment analysis. Defining the mission and goals. Choosing strategies. Execution of a strategy.

4. Innovative management in transport.

Topics: Innovations as an object of transport management. Innovative management and manager’s functions in the field of transport innovative activities. Development trends of transport science and transport production. Display of innovations in transport and their evaluation. Innovative management framing. Innovative management and strategic management in transport.

5. HR management in transport.

Topics: HR management methodology. Recruitment services, their structures and functions. HR management of a transportation company.

6. Environmental management in transport.

Topics: Environmental management concept. Functions and methods of environmental management. Transport environmental improvement management.

7. International management in transport

Topics: Transport management in developed countries. State regulation in transport.

8. Transport risk management.

Topics: Risks in management. Risk management and reduction.

9. Transport marketing-management.

Topics: Passenger and cargo transportation market. Marketing research system. Transport marketing management.

Activities:

1. Teacher-led group activities in a classroom;
2. Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (obligatory);
3. Tutorials.

Total – 108 hours

Total credit points – 3

Lectures – 18

Practicals – 18/4И

Midterm assessment – pass/fail examination

Methodology of Scientific Creativity

Published: 22 April 2016

Major – Technology of Transport Facilities

Qualification (degree) – Master

Course modules (units, topics):

The course consists of the following units and topics:

1. Introduction.

Topics: Organization of academic research work in the Russian Federation. National policy in the scientific area. System of training and employment of scientific-and-technological human resources. Role of a scientific school and academic advising. Organization of academic research work at industrial enterprises and higher educational institutions.

2. Scientific knowledge structure.

Topics: Conceptual and operational approach to creative work; interrelation of the value and scientific technique of spiritual creation of the world.  Classification and structure of scientific papers.  Choosing a research area. Relevancy criteria of scientific papers. Main stages of academic research work.

3. Structure of creative work

Topics: Motivation and methodology of creative work. Methods used at theoretical and empirical research levels. Analysis and synthesis. Abstraction. Ranking. Idealization. Formal characterization. Experiment and experimental-analytical method. Stages of defining a working hypothesis. Use of modern methods to improve a research plan.

4. Creative work as a process

Topics: Academic and creative tasks and their use for the development of creativity in a personality.  Strategy and tactics of an experiment. Classification of scientific-and-technological experiments. Information technologies in research. Automated research systems (ARS, experiment automation system).

5. Implementation forms of the results of creative work

Topics: Rational form of representation of the research results. Scientific report. Research article. Report and scientific statement. Display material and equipment. Reviewing and opponency of a scientific paper. Patentability assessment of research work. Formula of invention. State system and implementation forms. Estimation methods of research work effectiveness.

Activities:

1. Teacher-led group activities in a classroom;
2. Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (obligatory);
3. Tutorials.

Total – 108 hours

Total credit points – 3

Lectures – 18

Practicals – 36/8И

Midterm assessment – pass/fail examination

Macroeconomics and Foreign Economic Activities

Published: 22 April 2016

Major – Technology of Transport Facilities

Qualification (degree) – Master

Course modules (units, topics):

The course consists of the following units and topics:

1. Macroeconomics.

Topics: Introduction. General principles of functioning of national economy. Place and purpose of transport. Problems of transport system development. Impact of business globalization. Global logistic systems.

2. Fundamentals of foreign economic activities.

Topics: Legal and regulatory framework of foreign economic activities. Object of global logistics. Global communications.

Activities:

1. Teacher-led group activities in a classroom;
2. Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (obligatory);
3. Tutorials.

Total – 180 hours

Total credit points – 5

Practicals – 54/30И

Midterm assessment – examination

Intellectual Property

Published: 22 April 2016

Major – Technology of Transport Facilities

Qualification (degree) – Master

Course modules (units, topics):

The course consists of the following units and topics:

1. Intellectual property as an object of legal protection.

2. Main definitions of author’s right and forms of its protection.

3. Associated author’s rights.

4. Patent law.

5. Legal protection of identification means of civil commerce participants and products produced by them (works, services).

6. Legal protection of inventions and innovation proposals.

7. Legal protection of other objects of intellectual property.

Activities:

1. Teacher-led group activities in a classroom;
2. Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (obligatory);
3. Tutorials.

Total – 72 hours

Total credit points – 2

Lectures - 18

Practicals – 18/4И

Midterm assessment – pass/fail examination