HISTORY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Since the 2001 academic year, students began to be admitted to the specialties "Engineering Communications Construction" and "Ecology and Nature Use" under the Department of "Labor and Environmental Protection", and in 2005, students graduated for the first time in these specialties. The Department of "Ecology and Environmental Protection" began operating as a new department in July 2012. Since 2012, the department has been training qualified personnel in the specialty 5630100- Ecology and Environmental Protection, and since 2019, 5640200- Occupational Health and Safety. The department has been headed by Tirkasheva Muqaddas Bakhromovna since 2025.
BACHELOR'S DEGREE.
The department trains bachelor's degree specialists in the direction 60710400-"Ecology and Environmental Protection". The direction is included in the State Educational Standards of Uzbekistan, the State Educational Standard of Higher Education, the Classifier of Higher Education Directions and Specialties. The duration of full-time education is 4 years. Academic degree - "Bachelor" Objects where students work in the direction 60710400-Ecology and Environmental Protection (in industry): - All branch enterprises of the Ministry of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Climate Change - purification of atmospheric air from dust and toxic gases, wastewater treatment; processes and devices for the preparation of drinking water; solid waste processing facilities; - design organizations for environmental protection systems; - industrial and manufacturing enterprises. - professional educational institutions. - enterprises for the installation and adjustment of equipment and their structures used in the environmental protection system; - organizations for the inventory of environmental pollution sources. Training of bachelors in the field of education 61020200- Occupational health and safety (by industry) is carried out in full-time, evening, part-time and distance learning forms. Training in all forms of education is organized on the basis of a credit-module system. The standard duration of a bachelor's program in full-time education is 4 years, in evening education - 4.5, and in part-time and distance learning forms - 5 years. Academic degree - "Bachelor" 61020200 - Occupational safety and technical safety (by industry) - a direction in the field of science and technology, which covers a set of tools, methods, techniques and styles of human activity aimed at developing, implementing, controlling and using a system of legal, socio-economic, organizational, technical, sanitary-hygienic, treatment-preventive, rehabilitation measures and tools to ensure human safety, life and health, and preservation of working capacity in the labor process, determining the prospects of the industry, professional skills, and leadership abilities. Objects of professional activity of bachelors in the field of education 61020200- Occupational safety and technical safety (by industry): - structures and centers of the Ministry of Poverty Reduction and Employment of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Ministry of Emergency Situations, as well as life safety training centers; - state and non-state organizations, enterprises and institutions, companies (firms), production associations; - state administration bodies, property, industrial and business organizations of various forms, regardless of the form of ownership; - industrial and manufacturing enterprises; - professional educational institutions; - enterprises for the installation and adjustment of equipment and their structures used in the labor protection system; - means of technical support of scientific and production activities; educational process in vocational educational institutions
SCIENTIFIC WORKS UNDERTAKEN IN THE DEPARTMENT
During 2022-2024, professor-teacher M.Kholkoziyeva received the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Biological Sciences, A.Taylakov received the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Technical Sciences, Z.Bobomurodov received the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Biological Sciences, G.Karayev received the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Agricultural Sciences, and N.Achilova received the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Biological Sciences. In addition, I.Toynazarova, B.Kholmatov, and D.Berdiyeva are also scheduled to complete their scientific work and defend their dissertations by the end of 2024. In addition, in the 2023-2024 academic year, the professors and teachers of our department, Kh.Qiryigitov, M.Kholkoziyeva, N.Achilova, received the academic title of Associate Professor. In 2023-2024, 7 textbooks, 6 study guides, and 8 monographs were published by the professors and teachers of the department. Odilov Sarvar Akromovich, a student of the department, received a scholarship named after "Beruniy"In 2020, two students, Usmonova Bahora Komiljon kizi, took the honorable 3rd place in the subject "Ecology and Environmental Protection", and Abdug'afforov Muzaffar Abduhalil oglu took the honorable 3rd place in the subject "Industrial Waste Treatment" at the Republican Science Olympiad. In order to provide students with meaningful leisure time, the "Young Ecologists" scientific and creative circle was organized at the department, in which 24 talented students participate. In 2025, the teachers of the department, led by Associate Professor M. Kholkoziyeva, won a voucher of 841 million soums for the project “Organization of plantations in the arable lands of Jizzakh region from seedlings planted from seeds of the Ferula tadshikorum Pimenov variety” at the “Women Scientists-2024” practical project competition, which was held on the basis of a state order for scientific research work of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovations of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Currently, research work is being carried out. Also, 6 professors and teachers of the department are participants in the ERASMUS + program project 101179013-GREENDT (Implementation of a master's degree in environmental engineering through sustainable transition and social change / GREENDT) and are currently conducting a report on the project. The amount of this project is 200 thousand euros