training of specialists capable of solving complex tasks and problems of the transport industry in the field of professional (scientific) activity (transport systems and technologies of railway transport) and in the process of learning, which involves conducting research and implementing innovations and is characterized by uncertainty of conditions and requirements.

The educational process and its organization are based on the principles of: respect for every person, ensuring their rights and freedoms, in particular the right to education; strict compliance with the Constitution of Ukraine, current legislation regulating educational activities; scientificity, humanism, democracy; gradualism, continuity, inseparability; organic unity of educational, methodological, scientific and research and educational work; humanization of education as an integral part of social activity; indissoluble unity of forms and content of education and the needs of professional activity; inadmissibility of interference by political parties, public and religious organizations. The educational process is carried out in the following forms: educational classes; independent work; practical training; control measures.

The results of the applicant’s studies in accordance with the «Regulations on the Organization of the Educational Process of the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University are assessed using control measures provided for by this educational program and programs of educational components: on a 100-point scale (for exams, differentiated tests, course projects/papers, practice reports) or on a two-point (»passed« – »not passed«) scale (for tests). The methodology for assessing the results of studies for certain educational components is specified in the programs of educational components and syllabi. Positive grades for all forms of control are grades from 60 to 100 points on a 100-point scale and the grade »passed” – on a two-point scale.

Doctors of Science, professors, candidates of science, associate professors, teachers, specialists in this field of knowledge who meet the current licensing conditions for conducting educational activities and have experience in scientific and pedagogical and/or practical work participate in teaching academic disciplines.

Computer and software, multimedia tools, including the Anylogic simulation modeling package and the TrainGraph program developed at the Department of Transport Technologies for building contact schedules for transport service of production units of enterprises; modern devices for controlling transportation and managing the operation of transport systems; full-scale samples and models of transport facilities.

The main sources of information support are the methodological fund of the departments, the digital institutional repository, the university library with its funds and electronic media. The university provides free access to the Internet, to the Scopus and Web of Science databases, etc.

The procedure for organizing academic mobility programs for participants in the educational process at the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University on the territory of Ukraine or outside it is determined by a separate provision.

The right to academic mobility can be implemented on the basis of agreements on cooperation in the field of education and science, educational and scientific programs and projects, agreements on cooperation between the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University or its main structural divisions and domestic higher education institutions (scientific institutions) and their main structural divisions, and can also be implemented by employees and students of the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University on their own initiative, supported by the administration of the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University, on the basis of individual invitations and other procedures.

In The university operates the ERASMUS+ program based on bilateral agreements between the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University and educational institutions of partner countries. From 2024/2025 academic year, the ERASMUS+ KA2 «ISDEGO» program will be implemented at the Department of Transport Technologies.

Possible after studying the Ukrainian language by foreign applicants.

Attestation is carried out in the form of public defense of qualification work