Educational and Research Institute of Technology and Сommerce

General Information

Address: 2, Viktora Novikova St, Lubny, Poltava region, 92703.

Phone: (050) 96 56 092, (050) 85 62 500

E-mail: itottstar@gmail.com

Regulations of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Technology and Commerce

Occupational Safety and Health Instructions of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Technology and Commerce

Management

Director: Eduard Volodymyrovych Potapenko, Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Professor.
Deputy Director for Academic Affairs: Nataliia Oleksiivna Bykadorova, Senior Lecturer.
Deputy Director for Social and Humanitarian Affairs: Iryna Anatoliivna Kovalenko.

Leading Specialists of the Institute:

Iryna Anatoliivna Kovalenko, tel. (050) 856-25-00

Institute Secretary: Alyona Vyacheslavivna Kristiian, tel. (095)7850816

Educational Activities

The Educational and Scientific Institute of Technology and Commerce provides training for specialists in the following fields and specialties:

Bachelor’s Degree

Hospitality and Restaurant Business;
Tourism and Recreation;
Entrepreneurship, Trade and Exchange Activities (Commodity Science and Expertise in Customs Affairs);
Vocational Education (Transportation);
Vocational Education (Agricultural Production, Processing of Agricultural Products and Food Technologies);
Secondary Education (Technologies).

Master’s Degree

Hospitality and Restaurant Business;
Tourism and Recreation;
Entrepreneurship, Trade and Exchange Activities (Commodity Science and Expertise in Customs Affairs);
Vocational Education (Transportation);
Secondary Education (Technologies).

Educational materials

The educational process is provided by:

The Department of Vocational Education, Hospitality and Tourism Management

Head of the Department – Viktor Vasylоvych Burdun, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor

The Department of Commodity Science and Trade Entrepreneurship

Head of the Department – Dmytro Yuriyovych Drozhzhyn, Candidate of Sciences in Public Administration, Associate Professor

Bases and Possibilities for Practical Training

Entrepreneurship, Trade, and Exchange Activities

Academic Program: Commodity Science and Expertise in Customs Affairs

Types of Practical Training:

Quality control at production facilities
Inspection and supervisory activities in trade
Customs brokerage
Metrology
Pre-diploma (expertise)

Practical Training Bases:

Measurement and testing laboratories
Departments of technical control, quality management, sales, and goods declaration in enterprises of various ownership types engaged in the production and sale of food and non-food products
Wholesale and retail trade enterprises, markets, warehouses, exchanges, online stores
State supervisory (control) bodies and the State Fiscal Service
Laboratories and centers of territorial state enterprises of the Department of Technical Regulation of the Ministry of Economic Development
Regional state veterinary medicine laboratories
Phytosanitary laboratories of the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection
Testing laboratories accredited in accordance with the requirements of DSTU ISO/IEC 17025
Forensic research laboratories of expert services
Laboratories for the research of materials, substances, and products of expert services
Commodity science and gemological research laboratories of expert services
Trade and manufacturing enterprises and associations of various ownership types engaged in foreign economic activity
Expert laboratories of chambers of commerce and industry and consumer protection departments
Customs clearance departments of chambers of commerce and industry
Trade and intermediary organizations
Foreign trade firms
Sales departments of large manufacturing enterprises
Customs authorities, customs laboratories
Laboratories accredited by the National Accreditation Agency, etc.

In essence, the practical training for this program provides students with hands-on experience in various aspects of quality control, trade, and customs processes. Students will have the opportunity to work in a variety of settings, including manufacturing facilities, laboratories, government agencies, and private companies.

Tourism and Recreation

Types of Practical Training:

Introductory (“Introduction to the Profession”), Technological, Production, Managerial-Organizational, Pre-diploma.

Practical Training Bases:

Travel agencies, hotels, museums, tourism planning departments in local government bodies, enterprises providing health and sports services, domestic hospitality businesses, as well as in Turkey and Georgia.

Hospitality and Restaurant Business

Types of Practical Training:

Introductory, Production, Managerial-Organizational, Pre-diploma.

Practical Training Bases:

Domestic hospitality businesses, as well as in Turkey and Georgia. Tourist complexes, trading enterprises, food industry enterprises.

Secondary Education (Technology)

Types of Practical Training:

Psychological-pedagogical (educational) practicum; Computational practicum; Technological practicum (production); Pedagogical practicum (educational); Pedagogical practicum (production); Practicum in higher education institutions (production); Pedagogical practicum in secondary schools (production); Pedagogical practicum in institutions of professional pre-higher education (production); Scientific-pedagogical practicum in higher education institutions (production).

Practical Training Bases:

Educational institutions of levels I-IV of accreditation; Educational-production complexes; Houses of technical creativity; Furniture factories.

Vocational Education (Transportation)

Types of Practical Training:

Technological practicum (production);
Pedagogical practicum in vocational schools (production
Pedagogical practicum in higher education institutions (production);
Pre-diploma practicum.

Practice Bases: automotive transport companies and enterprises, auto service providers, higher education institutions, vocational higher education institutions, vocational (vocational-technical) education institutions.

Vocational Education: Agricultural production, processing of agricultural products, and food technologies.

Types of Practical Training: technological practice (production), pedagogical practice in vocational schools (production), pedagogical practice in higher education institutions (production).

Practice Bases: educational institutions training specialists in the field of nutrition; catering companies; food production enterprises; production laboratories; vocational lyceums; farms; agro-firms; machine-tractor stations.

Potential Employment Opportunities

Entrepreneurship, Trade, and Exchange Activities

Academic Program: Commodity science and expertise in customs affairs.

General director (CEO) of an association, corporation, or consortium, company president, department head, director (head) of research, design, or project organizations, customs chief, director of a metrology and standardization center, laboratory director, branch managerm, head of a research organization, department head, head of a fund (e.g., precious metals, information), head of a production laboratory, exchange manager (e.g., timber, lumber), head of technical control department, head of production control laboratory, head of a metrology laboratory, head of a production control laboratory, manager of a retail store, head of a consumer organization, market manager, section head, head of a pawn shop, chief state inspector, senior inspector, senior consultant-inspector, head of state inspection, customs post chief, chief expert, chief inspector, chief controller, laboratory head, inspection head, head of the foreign cooperation department, head of the supply department, chief commodities expert, head of a laboratory (research, production preparation), head of a laboratory branch, head of the standardization department, head of the central factory laboratory, quality systems manager, environmental systems manager, quality engineer, standardization engineer, standardization and quality engineer, control engineer, laboratory engineer, leading engineer for objective control, non-destructive testing specialist, environmental expert, auditor, food safety auditor, quality systems auditor, environmental auditor, technical expert in industrial safety, foreign trade expert, foreign trade consultant, certification specialist, standardization specialist, standardization, certification, and quality specialist, quality specialist, state auditor, state expert, expert, technical expert, product quality control inspector, inspector for the control of quality and use of timber, inspector for the quality of grain products, fruits, vegetables, industrial crops, and livestock products, broker, authorized representative for importing livestock, appraiser, property appraiser, appraiser-expert, trade inspector, commodities inspector, commodities expert, customs clearance agent, freight forwarding agent, inventory inspector, auditor inspector, customs inspector. state inspector, state inspector for product quality and trade, state inspector for procurement and quality of agricultural products, export inspector, laboratory assistant in a scientific department, pawn shop controller, cashier-controller, controller-auditor, market controller.

Tourism

Tourism agency manager, small tourism business manager, travel (excursion) organizer, specialist in organizing mass, individual, educational, and congress tourism, specialist in organizing specialized tourism: children’s, sports, green, ecological, consultant on: safety, insurance, cross-cultural communication, standardization, licensing, and certification, tour operator, recreation specialist, incoming and international tourism guide, tour product provider, specialist in corporate tourism services, VIP service specialist, conference service organizer, organizer of tourist exhibitions and presentations, travel agent, tourism consultant in local government bodies, tourism inspector, tourism clerical specialist, tourism instructor-methodologist, tourism licensing instructor.

Hospitality and Restaurant Business

Hotel enterprise manager; hospitality specialist at accommodation facilities (hotels, tourist complexes, etc.); hotel specialist; hotel service specialist; leisure organizer; specialized services specialist; front desk administrator; duty administrator; on-duty supervisor; restaurant specialist; restaurant service specialist; manager; administrator.

Secondary Education (Technology)

Vocational training, technology, drawing, specialized training, life safety, and computer science teacher in a general education school; head of clubs (technical creativity, decorative and applied arts, modeling, etc.) in a general education school and palaces of technical creativity; production training master and lecturer of general technical and psychological-pedagogical disciplines in vocational schools; production training master and lecturer in vocational training centers; safety engineer in educational workshops; methodologist, inspector of the education department; scientist, researcher in the field of vocational and professional training; head of a general education school, gymnasium, lyceum, extracurricular educational institution, vocational school; lecturer of special and general technical disciplines in higher education institutions (after a Master’s degree).

Vocational Education (Transportation)

Engineering specialties: automotive mechanic engineer for diagnostics and operation, technological engineer for automotive repair and maintenance organization, engineer for traffic organization and safety, engineer for automotive transportation organization, occupational safety engineer, senior shop foreman, head of production department, head of technical department, chief technologist, director of auto service enterprises, research engineer in the field of automotive transportation.

Pedagogical specialties: production training master, teacher of special and general technical disciplines in vocational schools and vocational training centers, head of educational laboratory, safety engineer in training workshops, vocational training teacher (relevant profile) in high school, lecturer of special and general technical disciplines in higher education institutions (after a Master’s degree).

Vocational Education: (Agricultural Production, Agricultural Product Processing, and Food Technology)

Engineering Specialties: process engineer, production manager, director of bakeries, meat processing plants, confectionery factories, and other food production enterprises; occupational safety engineer; food technology research engineer; engineer for diagnostics and maintenance of machinery and tractor fleets; automotive and agricultural equipment repair and maintenance technologist; reclamation engineer; occupational safety engineer; engineering and technical worker of the agro-industrial complex; engineer for the provision of the agro-industrial complex; senior shop foreman, head of production department, head of technical department, chief technologist, director of agricultural enterprises and auto service enterprises; agricultural mechanization research engineer.

Pedagogical specialties: master of vocational training, teacher of special and general technical disciplines in vocational schools and vocational training centers; head of educational laboratory, safety engineer in training workshops;

vocational training teacher (relevant profile) in high school; lecturer of special and general technical disciplines in higher education institutions (after master’s degree); master of vocational training, teacher of special and general technical disciplines in vocational schools and vocational training centers; head of educational laboratory, safety engineer in training workshops; vocational training teacher (relevant profile) in high school; lecturer of special and general technical disciplines in higher education institutions (after a Master’s degree).

Curriculum and Subject Content

Entrepreneurship, Trade, and Exchange Activities

Academic Program: Commodity Science and Expertise in Customs Affairs

Ukrainian language and a foreign language for specific purposes, current issues of the history of the Ukrainian state and culture, propaedeutics and information technologies, chemistry, physics, higher and applied mathematics, law, accounting and auditing, sociology, psychology, philosophy, microbiology, the basics of security and bioprotection, consumer goods safety, materials science and the basics of goods production technology, technical regulation, theory and methods of expert activity, identification and methods of determining product falsification, commodity science and expertise of food products, expertise of services, classification and coding of goods in entrepreneurial activity, commodity nomenclature of foreign economic activity, barcoding, commodity science of packaging goods and containers, commodity science and expertise of non-food products, commercial entrepreneurship, stock market activities, ecology with the basics of environmental ethics, environmental standards and norms, customs affairs, customs payments and declarations, technical means of customs control, consumer protection, national system of state control, document examination, expert appraisal of property, combating smuggling and customs violations, identification and attribution of cultural values, logic and methodology of scientific cognition, expert evaluation of goods in export-import deliveries, customs regulation, international technical regulation, expertise in international trade, strategy for sustainable development of nature and society, intellectual property law and state regulation of technology transfer, expertise of narcotic, poisonous, and explosive substances, customs expertise, expertise of precious metals and gemstones, quality management, business foreign language in international trade.

Tourism. Information systems and technologies in tourism, economic theory, geography of tourism, foundations of scientific research or ecological tourism, recreational complexes, tourism organization, hotel management organization, restaurant management organization, statistics with elements of higher and applied mathematics, marketing, management, law, analysis, accounting, and auditing of tourism enterprise activities, occupational safety, basics of medical knowledge, and civil defense, business economics, business foreign language, law and legal regulation of tourism activities, sports tourism or museology, intercultural communication in tourism or independent tourism, business planning of a tourism enterprise or logistics in tourism, psychology, standardization and certification of tourism services or history of tourism, safety in tourism or tourism paperwork, bar business or gastronomic tourism, ethics in tourism or service in tourism enterprises.

Hospitality and Restaurant Business. Higher mathematics or statistics with elements of higher mathematics; information systems and technologies; food chemistry or chemistry in the hospitality industry; civil engineering and building engineering equipment; microbiology, hygiene, and sanitation in the industry; standardization, certification, and metrology or state regulation in tourism; occupational safety, basics of medical knowledge, and civil defense; enterprise economics or pricing in the hotel and restaurant business; accounting, accounting, and auditing in hospitality enterprises; organization of hotel management; organization of restaurant management; technology of restaurant products; management of the hotel and restaurant business; basics of the hotel and restaurant business and tourism or culture of the hotel and restaurant business; marketing of the hotel and restaurant business; equipment for hotel and restaurant establishments and design of hotel and restaurant facilities; quality management of products and services in the hotel and restaurant business; commodity science or basics of commodity expertise; fundamentals of scientific research or office work in the hotel and restaurant business; bar business and sommelier work or investment management; planning and analysis of the activities of enterprises in the hotel and restaurant business or recreation; organization of leisure in the hotel and restaurant business or technological equipment for mini-production of food products in catering establishments; intercultural communication or ethics of the hospitality industry; psychology.

Secondary Education (Technology). Higher mathematics; physics; technology of construction materials; theoretical mechanics; strength of materials; fundamentals of standardization and quality control of products; material cutting; artistic processing of materials; psychology; general pedagogy; history of pedagogy; fundamentals of pedagogical skills; theory and methodology of labor training; theory and methodology of career guidance; drawing; descriptive geometry and engineering graphics; production training; computer science; information technology; computer networks; database.

Vocational Education (Transportation). Higher mathematics; informatics; engineering graphics;theoretical mechanics; chemistry; physics; psychology; pedagogy; theory and methodology of vocational training; machine elements; electrical engineering; thermal engineering; automobile engineering; automotive repair technology; technical operation of automobiles; organization and safety of road traffic; automotive technical expertise; organization of automobile transportation; production training; fundamentals of machine-building technology; fundamentals of technical diagnostics.

Vocational Education: (Agricultural Production, Agricultural Product Processing, and Food Technology). Ukraine in the context of European history and culture, oral and written communication and rhetoric in a teacher’s professional activity, a foreign language for specific purposes, fundamentals of philosophical knowledge, health preservation, personal safety and protection, physical education, digital technologies in a teacher’s professional activity, higher mathematics, general and organic chemistry, psychology, engineering and computer graphics, occupational safety in the industry, fundamentals of legal knowledge in the industry, fundamentals of economics and entrepreneurship, pedagogy with the basics of pedagogical mastery, psychological and pedagogical technologies of inclusive education, applied mechanics, production training, design of the educational environment, fundamentals of electrical engineering, fundamentals of a teacher’s pedagogical creativity, standardization, certification, and quality management/fundamentals of standardization and quality control of food products, pedagogical process design in vocational education, communication processes in learning, modern educational technologies in vocational education, information technologies and technical teaching aids, theory and methodology of vocational education, theory and methodology of career guidance, methodology of scientific and pedagogical research, fundamentals of intercultural communication, educational process in modern vocational (vocational-technical), specialized higher, and higher education institutions: theory and practice, psychology of educational activity, methodology of teaching specialized disciplines in vocational education institutions, innovative technologies in vocational education, innovations in agricultural production, innovative technologies in agricultural product processing and food technology.

Professorial and teaching staff qualifications

The Educational and Scientific Institute of Technology and Commerce has two departments. Each department is actively working on the assigned scientific problems. The quality of the educational process is ensured by the institute’s professorial and teaching staff:

The Department of Vocational Education, Hospitality and Tourism Management

Viktor Vasyliоvych Burdun – Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of Department
Yuriy Oleksiyovych Makhortov – Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor, Honored Worker of Agriculture of Ukraine
Yuriy Volodymyrovych Bezruchenkov – Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor
Nataliia Andriivna Hryniuk – Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor
Iryna Petrivna Isaenko – Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor
Olena Oleksandrivna Karolop – Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor
Maryna Vasylivna Lutsenko – Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor
Olha Oleksandrivna Revyakina – Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor
Liudmyla Ivanivna Sienohonova – Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor
Olena Volodymyrivna Skibina – Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor
Nataliia Ihorivna Hirenko – Candidate of Technical Sciences
Nataliia Oleksiivna Bykаdоrova – Senior Lecturer
Anastasiia Yuriivna Rozhkova – Assistant

Part-time staff

Vitaliy Semenovych Kurylo – Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Honored Worker of Education of Ukraine
Eduard Volodymyrovych Potapenko – Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Professor
Oksana Vitaliivna Abramova – Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor
Kateryna Oleksandrivna Veres – Candidate of Geographical Sciences, Associate Professor
Serhiy Oleksandrovych Klyuev – Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor
Valeriy Oleksandrovych Kolesnikov – Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor
Iryna Anatoliivna Kovalenko – Assistant

The Department of Commodity Science and Trade Entrepreneurship

Dmytro Yuriyovych Drozhzhyn – Candidate of Sciences in Public Administration, Associate Professor
Natalia Volodymyrivna Omelchenko – Candidate of Technical Sciences, Professor
Iraida Oleksandrivna Dudla – Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor
Hanna Serhiivna Brailko – Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor
Viktoria Serhiivna Volodavchyk – Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor
Khmelnytska Yevheniia Viktorivna – Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor

Part-time staff

Lysenko Natalia Vyacheslavivna – Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor

Scientific Activities

Faculty members of the Department of Vocational Education, Hospitality and Tourism Management are working on the following research problems: research into the technology of manufacturing products from composite materials for special purposes, forming processes, creation and management of automated technological systems; research into the processes of separating bulk materials; quality management of products; preprocessor and postprocessor CAD of mechanical systems; development of high-load gear transmissions; increasing the technical and operational characteristics of internal combustion engines; research into the operational properties of iron-carbon alloys operating in extreme conditions; increasing the efficiency of the grain sowing process; anthropometric and methodological support for the corset design process; agricultural machinery and equipment; agricultural machinery, repair, and diagnostics of automobiles; mechanics of a deformable solid body; development and modernization of agricultural machinery; design of clothing for pregnant women; management in the field of vocational education; formation of professional competence in future engineering teachers; methods of labor and vocational training.

The scientific research of the Commodity Science and Trade Entrepreneurship is aimed at obtaining new knowledge on the problems of commodity science, quality expertise of goods, and professional education in the field of commodity science. The generalized object of the department’s research is commodity science, entrepreneurial, managerial, expert, and pedagogical activities in the field of commodity circulation, customs control, and consumer protection. The results of scientific research conducted at the departments of the Institute of Technology and Commerce are presented in monographs, scientific articles by the department’s faculty and are tested at scientific and practical conferences at the international, all-Ukrainian, and regional levels.