My specialty

The demand for engineers graduating from our faculty is dictated by time. In the region today engineers specialized in municipal cadastre are lacking in numbers, so it is no surprise that 100 % of our graduates are employed. Many of them get a job as engineers already on 4 year of their studies and after graduation the same company or plant hire them full time.

The choice of the future profession is one of the most important decisions in a person’s life. It is especially important nowadays, when the life has become very active and dynamic, so that it is impossible to waste your time on things you have no interest in. The person entering this honorable profession must have a scientific attitude, imagination, initiative and good judgment obtained by experience and serious work. Future specialists obtain general and deep knowledge in human sciences and technology, they have a chance to get more knowledge/skills in such areas as expert evaluation and management of property, computer graphic design and others. Beginning from the first course, the faculty students have practical assignments in information science, soil science, geodesy, photogrammetry by doing this our students can considerably improve their future employment opportunities. Laboratories and studying rooms of the chair are fitted with modern computers, advanced apparatuses and instruments including unique laboratory complexes of digital cartography and photogrammetry. Also students of our faculty take an active part in sporting and culture events.

Our graduates can work in any design and exploration organizations, scientific and research establishments, architecture and town-planning departments, cadastre bureaus, property committees, technical inspection bureaus, realtor companies, real-estate banks and other organizations connected with municipal and real estate management, economics and transactions.

The engineers specialized in Municipal Cadastre are trained to keep stage land and town-planning cadastre for developed areas, to register rights to real estates, to ensure governmental control over utilization and preservation of land in inhabited places, to exercise land and real estate transactions.

Read the text again and find out if the following statements are true or false

1 The demand for engineers specialized in Municipal Cadastre is not great.

2 Many of our students get a job as engineers already on year 4 or 5 of their studies.

3 Our graduates can work only in scientific and research establishments.

4 Beginning from the first course, the faculty students have practical assignments in information science, soil science, geodesy, photogrammetry.

5 The engineers specialized in Municipal Cadastre are trained to only to exercise land and real estate transactions.

Complete the sentences

1 In the region today engineers specialized in municipal cadastre are

a) unemployed; b) lacking in number; c) unclaimed.

2 The person entering this honorable profession must have

a) aim; b) attitude; c)demand.

3 Future specialists obtain general and deep knowledge in…………. a) human sciences; b) technology; c)human sciences and technology.

4 Laboratories and studying rooms of the chair are fitted with ……..

a) advanced apparatuses and instruments; b) old instruments; c) different devices.

Answer the following questions in written form

1 Why does the profession of an engineer specialized in Municipal Cadastre is so popular nowadays?

2 What qualities must a person entering this profession possesses?

3 What kind of training must future engineer receive?

4. Where engineers specialized in municipal cadastre can work?

Find in the text and put down key words that can be used to speak about the profession of an engineer specialized in municipal cadastre

Speak on the topic: “I’ve chosen engineering as a career because…”

Lesson 8

Read the following words. Mind their meaning:

abundantly– обильно, в изобилии,

accommodation – согласование, жильё, помещение, удобство, приспособление,

apply– применять,

commitment– обязательство,

compel– вынуждать, заставлять,

сcomprehensive – всесторонний,

conviction– убеждение,

creditworthiness– кредитоспособность,

depend on, upon– зависеть от,

income– доход,

manage– регулировать, управлять, организовывать,

merchandising– коммерческое планирование производства,

neglect– упускать, не обращать внимания,

overgrazing– чрезмерный выпас,

prerequisite– предварительное условие, предпосылка,

prosperous– процветающий,

prove– подтвердить, доказать,

request– просьба,

sequence– последовательность,

solve– решать,

substantiation– обоснование,

sustain– поддерживать.

Find synonyms

Skill, trucks, land use planning, make, a land surveyor, community, compel, society, automobiles, a land use planner, land surveying, level, knowledge, standard.

Find antonyms

Capable, independence, possible, easy, directly, impossible, large, incapable, difficult, dependence, small, indirectly.

Choose the proper English word:

1. поддерживать a) suspect; b) sustain; c)respect;

2. просьба a) value; b) request; c) wish;

3. процветающий a) beautiful; b) gorgeous; c) prosperous;

4. убеждение a) decision; b) conviction; c) edition;

5. всесторонний a) comprehensive; b) all-gifted; c) modern;

6. обязательство a) commitment; b) committee; c) commit;

7. согласование a) resolution; b) classification; c) accommodation;

8. решать a) neglect; b) pose; c) solve.

Read the following word-combinations and translate them into Russian:

break-even-point; delivery service; land tenure; in a sustainable way; land use planning; inventory valuation method; land resources capacity; means of survival; land use; outside assistance; land use planner; render assistance.

Read and translate the text “The individual and society” and be ready to do exercises that follow it