Kiev Polytechnic Institute

Infobox_University
name=Kyiv Polytechnic Institute


established=1898
students=41700
staff=2500
type=National university
campus=395 acres (1.6 km²)
city=Kiev
rector=Mychailo Zgurovsky
country=Ukraine
website= [http://ntu-kpi.kiev.ua ntu-kpi.kiev.ua]

The National Technical University of Ukraine “Kiev Polytechnic Institute (KPI)” ( _uk. Національний технічний університет України “Київський політехнічний інститут”) is a major university in Kiev, Ukraine.

History

The institute was founded in 1898. At that time it had four departments: Mechanical, Chemical, Agricultural, and Civil Engineering. The first enrolment constituted 360 students. The leading Russian sci­entists Dmitri Mendeleev, Nikolai Zhukovsky and Kliment Arkadyevich Timiryazev gave substantially scientific and organisational assistance by founding the institute.

Viktor Kyrpychov was the first rector of the KPI. It’s due to him that such professors like V.P. Yermakov, S.M. Reformatsky, M.I. Konovalov or Vladimir Zworykin has been members of the first faculty.

In 1930, the Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture (KNUCA) was established on the basis of factory and communal construction branch of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute (KPI) and the Architectural faculty of the Kiev Art Institute.

Organisation

Institutes

* Institute of Applied System Analysis (IASA)
* Institute of Physics and Technology (connected with Sun Microsystems)
* Publishing and Polygraphy
* Military Institute of Telecommunication and Informatization
* Institute of Pre-admissiom education and Vocational Guidance
* Institute of Energy Saving and Energy Management
* Telecommunication Systems Institute
* Mechanical & Machine-building Institute
* Inter-branch Institute of Post-graduate Education

Departments

* Applied Mathematics [http://fpm.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua] (connected with Freescale)
* Informatics and Computational Technics [http://www.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua/fiot/] (connected with Cisco Systems)
* Physics and Mathematics
* Electronics
* Welding
* Engineering & Physics
* Engineering & Chemistry
* Chemical Engineering
* Inter-university Medical Engineering Faculty (IMEF)
* Instrument-Making
* Radioengineering
* Heat-and-power Engineering
* Aviation and Space
* Biotechnology and Biomedical Engineering
* Electricity and Energy Engineering
* Linguistics
* Management and Marketing
* Law
* Sociology
* Physical Training and Sports

Facilities

The university has three campuses the central one being located in Kyiv, and the other two in towns Slavutych, and Simferopol.

The Kiev campus of the university is located near the city centre in a park named after the university.

Here almost 9,000 of non-kyivite students are accommodated in 21 dormitories, 3 of them for married students. The life conditions at the university domes is a matter of numerous complaints of their inhabitantsusually living in a 18 square meters rooms by 4 people in the room.

The institute has an outpatient medical department for employers and students.

The Institute also considers organized leisure a very important factor in bringing up young specialists.

The Knowledge Square is the centre of the entire KPI complex, measuring approx. 105 x 100 meters. The Knowledge square is connected to one of the main city streets - Peremoha (Victory) avenue. Meetings, festivals, and graduation ceremonies take place at the square.

The University also has an assembly hall with 1,750 seats. It was opened in August 1984.

Various sport facilities also exist at the institute. There are training grounds, soccer fields, volleyball and basketball courts at student disposal. There are many nationally rated athletes among the students of our institute.

Some Institutes were organized on the KPI basis. Among them are: the Civil Engineering Institute. Technological Institute of Light and Food Industry, the Institute of civil Aviation, Automobile and Road Building Institute, Agricultural (now Agricultural Academy) and others. In 1934 - 1944 the KPI was called an Industrial Institute.

Other Labs & Organisations

* Scientific Society of Students and Post-graduates
* Scientific-industrial laboratory DIDAKTIK
* UNESCO Chair in Higher Technical Education, Applied System Analysis and Informatics
* State Polytechnic Museum
* University Interclub
* University Library

Academics

70% of the KPI teachers have scientific degrees. Among them there are Academicians and Corresponding Members of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Professors, and Merited Scientists.

tudents

At present the number of students at the KPI exceeds 40,000. Approximately 1,000 of them are international students. By this way students especially who live at hostel have an amazing social life with their foreigner friends. Also they have a great chance to know more about new cultures, new people and new ideas. Over 4,500 students graduate from the KPI every year. After graduation you can get a diploma which is accepted by European Union. The KPI has a preparatory department for foreigners. You can study English there and at the same time you can learn Russian.

Full-time students attend the school for 5 years and 6 months; part-time - 5 years and 10 months.

The school offers 68 majors and 70 minors at its 3 branches. There are 16 departments and a college, including the following:
* Department of Informatics and Computer Engineering that offer courses on Electron Instrument Engineering, Cybernetics, and Control engineering and Computer engineering, among others.
* Electric Power Engineering Automation dept that offers courses Electrical Networks and Electric Systems, Central Power Plants, High Voltage Technique, and Cybernetics of Electrical Systems.
* Electro-Acoustic Faculty offering courses in Hydroacoustics Sound Recording, Measuring Techniques, and Microprocessors.
* Faculty of Radioengineering
* Physical engineering Department offering courses on Metallurgy, Metals and Alloys, Power Metallurgy, and others.

Notable alums

A large number of prominent people worked and studied at the KPI: E.O.Paton, the inventor of electric welding; M. I. Konovalov, a well-known chemist; I. P. Bardin, Ukraine's greatest metallurgist; A. M. Lyulka, USSR's premier designer of jet engines; rocket scientist S. P. Korolyov; and Alexander Tetelbaum, Founding President of International Solomon University. President of the First Exam Board in chemistry faculty was Dmitri Mendeleev, besides the creator of Sikorsky Helicopters a well-known inventor Igor Sikorsky graduated from Kiev Polytechnic Institute.

Also must be mentioned: Stephen Timoshenko, reputed to be the father of modern engineering mechanics; Vladimir Chelomei, Soviet mechanics scientist and rocket engineer; Aleksandr Mikulin, Soviet aircraft engine designer and chief designer in the Mikulin OKB, Oleg Tozoni, the head of the Department of Electrodynamics at the Cybernetics Institute of the Academy of Science.

International relations

The Kyiv Polytechnic Institute has foreign economic relations with 45 foreign partners from 12 countries of the world. 29 agreements and 17 contracts have been concluded and 77 protocols have been signed: KPI received the certificate as a participant of foreign economic relations.

The most active international scientific and technological cooperation is carried out by the chairs of the institute with the partners from Poland, Germany, Bulgaria, Denmark and Lebanon. Lately the relations with China, USA, Italy, Vietnam and Spain have become more active.The institute carries out the exchange of students according to the agreement on operation with the University of Oregon (USA).

"KPI" was the first university of Ukraine that joined the community of the European Universities, and signed the visionary "Magna Charta of the European Universities" (“Magna Charta Universitatum”) in September 2003.

Friendly schools

Selected Co-operations
*Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg (Germany)
*University of Klagenfurt (Austria)
*University of Miskolc (Hungary)
*University of Antwerp (Belgium)
*Iowa State University (USA)
*University of Manchester (Great Britain)
*Anhui University of Technology (China)
*University of Oregon (USA)

External links

* [http://www.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua/en/ Kyiv Polytechnic Institute]
* [http://www.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in Ukrainian]