Chemical competence and its role in formation professionalism of construction engineer

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between the chemical competence and professional skills for students of the national Kharkov University of civil engineering and architecture. Assessment of the role and importance of chemistry as a normative discipline in the process of interdisciplinary integration was carried out through questionnaires administered to students 3 year, who is the purpose enrolled in the direction of «Civil engineering» of specialist «Heating and gas supply and ventilation». In questions of designed questionnaire reflected interdisciplinary communications of examined 17 disciplines of professional orientation with chemistry. We found during the study found that about one-third of all the disciplines аre closely related to chemical knowledge. This is disciplines with a high level of interdisciplinary links: chemistry of natural gas (85 %), chemistry of the atmosphere (84 %), ecology (72 %), construction materials (62 %), geology of oil and gas (58 %). There is integration potential with chemistry from 30 to 45 %. According to the results of questionnaires we can argue that chemistry, аs a normative discipline of a natural-science cycle, is the main factor of development of chemical competence of students-builders and very important for the successful mastering of more than half of all disciplines of professional orientation.