Dr.Sc.Tech., Professor A.A. Lapidus¹
PhD, Associate Professor N.N. Bumarskova^1
1Moscow State University of Civil Engineering, Moscow

Keywords: education levels, applied professional physical training, bachelor, master, specialist, postgraduate, professionally important mental and physical qualities.

Background. Presently the national construction industry is considered one of the vital sectors of the national economy. Highly knowledgeable and skilled professionals with construction background are always in demand both on construction project sites and in headquarters, and their responsibilities are getting more and more demanding and challenging. They may include top management, business planning and forecasts; project designs; financial service, supply and sales; production processes; production management; and commissioning of finished construction projects.

The professional education quality in the modern conditions is ranked among the key criteria of the national higher school competitiveness. Special attention is to be given to the vocational identification of the education system graduates of different levels particularly since the national education system made a transition to the three-level higher education model i.e. trains bachelors, masters and post-graduates. The national higher education system on the whole and construction universities in particular design their education policies based on the following questions: who of the school graduates are going to enter a construction university; who of the bachelors plans to take a master course; what construction disciplines are preferred by the future bachelors and masters; who of the masters is going to take a post-graduate course etc.

Practical experience and special study reports demonstrate that students of higher education establishments willing to make a career of a professional construction specialist need to have a variety of profession-specific individual, psychophysical and physical qualities that are increasingly appreciated in the modern economic conditions: see Table 1 hereunder [1].

Table 1. Professionally valuable psychophysical and physical qualities of the national construction sector specialists

To correctly assess professional competences of the sector specialists and select the most skilled and competitive on the labour market, persistent efforts need to be taken to rate the educational progress and adjust the psychophysical training process.

Physical culture and sports are considered among the key methods to improve the economic efficiency of a modern production business and this is the reason why a modern construction specialist is required to be highly knowledgeable and skilful in applying the relevant physical culture and sporting methods for the benefit of social policies and construction projects [2].

Objective of the study was to provide theoretical grounds for a would-be construction specialist vocational identification model based on analyses of their sporting cultures and experiences.  

Study results and discussion. Given hereunder on Figure 1 is the vocational identification test design diagram.

Figure 1. Test field for the would-be construction specialist’s vocational identification using the sport preferences and experience analysing model.  

The would-be construction specialist’s vocational identification model based on the sport preferences and experience analysis was built using the following design methods:

- Systems engineering methods with the statistical data arrays being put into system with the relevant subsystems for the educational levels;

- Statistical analyses of the subject data arrays; and

- Correlation/ mathematical analyses giving the means to build mathematical models of the study parameters.

The studies to rate the sport preferences and experiences of construction university graduates of different specialties were designed using the following algorithm:

- Statistical data analysis to profile sport preferences of university entrants, bachelors, masters and specialists;

- Finding logics in the output statistical data presented on bar charts with the relevant descriptive mathematical correlations; and

- Designing a mathematical model based on the above outcome statistical data.

The above logics and correlations, when found, will make it possible to identify the top priority sport disciplines a in the bachelor/ master/ specialist/ post-graduate education systems applicable at construction universities. The obligatory and elective physical education and sporting practices of the construction university bachelor/ master/ specialist/ post-graduate are to be designed with a special emphasis on the above priority educational components.

Conclusion. The article presents findings of the practical study viewed as the first development stage in the fundamental research thrust geared to secure due applied professional physical fitness based on a new sports-prioritizing model. In practical terms, the study offers an efficient sports-prioritizing vocational identification model applicable in the physical education courses of construction universities to facilitate training in specific specialities of highest demand in the national construction sector.  

References

1. Bumarskova N.N. Professionalno-prikladnaya podgotovka inzhenera-stroitelya [Practical vocational training of civil engineer]. Mater. mezhdunar. nauch-prakt. konf "Problemy sovershenstvovaniya fizicheskogo vospitaniya studentov" [Proc. Intern. res.-pract. conf. "Problems of improvement of university physical education"]. Moscow, 2012, pp. 239-241.
2. Bumarskova N.N. Uroven sformirovannosti fizicheskoy kultury u studentov [Physical culture competency levels of students]. Sb. mater. nauch-prakt. konf. "Innovatsionnye aspekty fizicheskoy kultury i sporta" [Proc. res.-pract. conf. "Innovative aspects of physical culture and sports"]. MSSU publ., Moscow, 2013, pp. 7-8.

Corresponding author: pr-azdnik@yandex.ru

Abstract

Management of the Physical Education and Sport Department of National Research Moscow State University of Civil Engineering (NRMSUCE) takes persistent efforts to facilitate the construction sector specialists’ vocational identification at the University using a variety of modern educational, practical, research and process design tools to help the graduates take full advantage of the academic knowledge and competences in their professional careers based on good health and high workability rates attained in the academic physical culture and sport system of the Physical Education and Sport Department of NRMSUCE.

The article presents findings of the practical study viewed as the first development stage in the fundamental research thrust geared to secure due applied professional physical fitness based on a new sports-prioritizing model. In practical terms, the study offers an efficient sports-prioritizing model applicable in the physical education courses of construction universities to facilitate training in specific specialities of highest demand by the national construction sector.