National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” — is one of the oldest and biggest worldwide famous technical universities, it was founded in 1898.
Concept of KPI development
The concept of KPI development is based on the principle of a research university, where education and science are inherently united. Another important feature of a research institute it its close connection with industry and business. For support and business-realization of the innovative ideas, which are being arisen in the laboratories of the university, Technopark “Kyivska Polytechnica” has been founded.
Thus an integration of science, education and industry make it possible to train a new generation of successful scientists, managers, and organizers of the science intensive companies.
Research in KPI
NTUU “KPI” – is a most powerful, scientific leading centre in Ukraine, in which scientific and research works are held in different directions.
In year 2008 a number of the first-priority scientific areas was defined. There are: sustainable development, energetics of sustainable development , technologies of information society, new materials, special technologies of communication.
KPI departments
Nowadays in 20 university departments and 9 scientific-educational institutes of NTUU “KPI” highly qualified specialists are being prepared specializing in various technical spheres.
At present the number of students at the KPI exceeds 40,000, and approximately 1,000 of them are international students. Over 4,500 students graduate KPI every year.
There are numerous departments in the university, with various subject directions, where one may receive proper education at the number of contemporary technical specialties. Among the departments of KPI there are following: Institute of Applied System Analysis (IASA), Institute of Physics and Technology, Publishing and Polygraph, Military Institute of Telecommunication and Informatization, Institute of Energy Saving and Energy Management, Mechanical & Machine-building Institute, Biotechnology and Biomedical Engineering, Aviation and Space, Electricity and Energy Engineering, Physics and Mathematics, Engineering & Chemistry , Inter-university Medical Engineering Faculty, Radioengineering and other.
In the KPI University, along with traditionally working technical departments, a range of
the humanities and economical departments was founded. It gives an opportunity to young people, in addition to a technical specialty, get a second higher education in the humanities or economic sphere. That is to strengthen professional mobility by becoming a skilled manager, sociologist or an interpreter in technical sphere.
Personalities
D. I. Mendeleev (1834-1907)
He was the chairperson of the KPI examination committee in 1903. During the first years of university establishing and work he gave the considerable scientific-methodological support to the newly opened educational establishment.
Mendeleev was a Russian chemist and inventor. He is widely known as the creator of the first version of the periodic table of elements. Using the table, he predicted the properties of elements yet to be discovered.
S. P. Tymoshenko (1878-1972)
From 1907 to 1911 he was the professor of Kyiv polytechnic institute. In 1909 he was elected as a dean of construction engineering department of KPI.
He is considered to be the father of modern engineering mechanics. Tymoshenko wrote many the seminal works in the sphere of engineering mechanics, elasticity and strength of materials, many of them are still widely used.
E. O. Paton (1870-1953)
Paton was the chief of bridge engineering department (1904-1929), and a dean of an engeneering department (from 1906). In 1935 as the part of mechanical department of KPI he organized the subdepartment of electric welding, whose head he was till 1939.
Paton is an outstanding scientist in the fields of welding and bridge engineering. He was a head of Institute of welding in Kyiv, that was named after him. He was the main engineer of more than 50 projects of iron riveted bridges.
I. I. Sikorsky (1889-1972)
From 1908 to 1912 he was studying in Kyiv polytechnic institute, where he designed and built several helicopters and biplanes.
Sikorsky was a pioneer of aviation who designed and launched the world's first multi-engine fixed-wing aircraft, developed the first of Pan American Airways' ocean-conquering flying boats in the 1930s. Sikorsky was highly influential in the development of helicopters and in 1925 he founded the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, that is one of today's leading helicopter manufacturers. In 1942, R-4, created by this eminent scientist, became the world's first mass production helicopter, pioneering a rotor layout used by most helicopters today.
M. Ph. Kravchuk (1892-1942)
Kravchuk was a head of mathematics department in Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in 1921-1938.
He is a world-known Ukrainian mathematician who, despite his early death, was the author of about 180 articles on mathematics. Primarily he wrote papers on differential equations and integral equations, studying both - their theory and applications. His two-volume monograph on the solution of linear differential and integral equations by the method of moments was translated circa 1938-1942 by John Vincent Atanasoff who found this work useful in his computer-project (Atanasoff–Berry Computer). He is the eponym of the Kravchuk polynomials and Kravchuk matrix.
S. P. Korolev (1906-1966)
In autumn 1924 he became a student of mechanical department of KPI. In 1926 he transferred to aerospace department of Bauman Moscow State Technical University.
Korolev was a soviet scientist, constructor and organizer of rocket-space equipment and rocket weapon production in USSR. He was a creator of the soviet strategic rocket weapon with medium-range and intercontinental missiles. Finally, he is a founder of practical cosmonautics.
