Department of Transport Structures provides teaching of the bachelor and master study programme. Successful graduates can continue in doctoral study programme Transport Means and Infrastructure.
In the scope of the specialized subjects of the Transport Structures study programme, we share with students our knowledge about design, assessment and evaluation of transport structures, mostly bridge and tunnel structures, roads, railways (incl. urban), foundation engineering, and others. Except for vocationally focused subjects, necessary theoretically and experimentally focused subjects, like Structural Statics, Flexibility and Strength, Finite Element Method, Geotechnics, Geology, and Experimental Analysis, are an integral part of the education.
The department’s focus can be divided into the following areas:
- Highway engineering
- Railway engineering
- Bridge structures
- Geotechnics and foundation engineering
- Structural mechanics
1993 Foundation of the Department of Transport Infrastructure on the occasion of the establishment of the Faculty of Transport Engineering (FTE), originally named Jan Perner Transport Faculty.
1994 Institute of Chemical Technology, of which FTE and thus the Department of Transport Infrastructure was an integral part, adopted the new name of University of Pardubice.
1998 Split of originally one Department of Transport Infrastructure into two successor departments: Department of Transport Infrastructure and Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Signalling in Transport.
2002 Upon agreement of the Accreditation Committee of the Czech Republic, so called structured studies (bachelor and follow-up master study programme) began to come into use.
2008 Accreditation of the new study programme of Civil Engineering with the study field of Transport Structures and change of the name of the department into Department of Transport Structures.
2013 Relocation of laboratories of the Department of Transport Structures into newly opened Educational and Research Centre in Transport. This enabled their expansion, addition of specialized instruments and use of modern facilities.
2019 Accreditation of the new study programme of Transport Structures.
2023 Accreditation of the new study programme of Transport Constructions.
2025 Accreditation of the new study programme of Transport and Structural Engineering.
Studies
Studies
Goal of the bachelor studies is preparation of graduates to independently and promptly solve tasks of operational character in employment at civil engineering companies. Graduates have a good command of fundamental preparatory and specialized subjects on the required theoretical level of university studies.
Goal of the master studies is preparation of graduates for positions demanding theoretic and specialized knowledge enabling independent creative, decision-making and conceptual activities. Graduates find employment in development, design and research organizations, and in state administration. Graduates are ready to solve demanding problems of operational character independently and promptly.
Final Exams
Studies of the Transport Structures study field are concluded in complience with § 45 and § 46 of the Act No. 111/1998 Coll. on Higher Educational Institutions and Alternation of Some Other Acts (the Higher Education Act), as amended, by final exams which include defence of bachelor or diploma thesis, respectively.
Final exams at the Department of Transport Structures are held twice a year, in February and June.
Research
Scientific Activities
Creative scientific activities at the Department of Transport Structures are realized by solving problems in the scope of research grant projects, publishing new findings in scientific journals, conference papers and creation of teaching aids, textbooks and monographs. An important part of the scientific activities of the department is solving research grant projects of the Czech Science Foundation, research intents and research projects in the area transportation. Faculty of Transport Engineering, Department of Transport Structures is a member of the Interoperability of Railway Infrastructure association and the National Technology Platform for Road Transport.
Labs and PC Classrooms
In the laboratories of the Department of Transport Structures, we provide tests of building materials and soils including evaluation and processing. The laboratory facilities enable assessment and testing of materials which are used at construction sites of transport structures. Diagnostic tests of structures are provided, too. Laboratories provide space for interactive discussions in the extent of 2 to 4 hours a day. Very intensive use of the laboratories happens in the period of bachelor and diploma thesis creation, according to the topics selected by students. In 2008, new 300 t press with breaking track was acquired from HEIDF means.
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