Education
SpecialtyHighways and airfieldsQualificationRailway engineer (Leningrad Civil Engineering Institute, 1959)
Teaching
- Organization, planning and management of construction of highways
- Fundamentals of architecture and building structures
- Safety of functioning of transport structures
- Special courses for students of the Institute for Continuing Education
Professional interests
- Scientific research
- Expert and consulting work
- Curriculum development
- Editorial and publishing activities
Research interests
- Research in the field of precast road surface theory, quality management systems, and safety of transport facilities. Personally developed the first technical project for a pedestrian zone in St Petersburg (Malaya Konyushennaya St.), a light embankment project on the Ring Road, and currently completed research on a new road surface design for heavy and intensive traffic, reducing rutting and cracking.
Scientific conferences
Boris Karpov participates in up to three conferences annually.Awards
- Medal for the development of virgin and fallow lands of Kazakhstan (1956)
- Honorary Road Builder of Russia (1999)
- Honorary Worker of Higher Education (2003)