Kiev Polytechnic Institute

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Kyiv Polytechnic Institute


Established	1898
Type	National university
Rector	Mychailo Zgurovsky
Staff	2500
Students	41700
Location	Kiev, Ukraine
Campus	395 acres (1.6 km²)
Website	ntu-kpi.kiev.ua

The National Technical University "Kiev Polytechnic Institute (KPI)" (Ukrainian: Національний технічний університет України "Київський політехнічний інститут") is a major university in Kiev, Ukraine.

1 History
2 Organisation
3 Academics
4 Students
5 Notable alums
6 International relations
- 6.1 Friendly schools
7 External links

[edit] 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.

First director of the KPI was Viktor Kyrpychov. 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 on the basis of factory and communal construction branch of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute (KPI) and the Architectural faculty of the Kiev Art Institute had established the Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture (KNUCA).

[edit] Organisation

[edit] 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

[edit] Departments

Applied Mathematics [1] (connected with Freescale)
Informatics and Computational Technics [2] (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

KPI - Building №1.

[edit] Facilities

The institute has three branches in the towns of Zhytomyr, Chernihiv and Cherkasy.

The Institute's Kiev branch is located near the city centre in a park, at which almost 9,000 of the University's students are accommodated in 21 dormitories (because there are a lot of students that are not from Kiev usually they live in a 18 square meters rooms by 4 people in the room), 3 of them for married students.

The institute has a disease prevention center for employers and students.

KPI - Technical Library.

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 connects to one of the main city streets - Peremoha (Victory) avenue. Meeting, 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 of 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.

[edit] 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

[edit] 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.

KPI - The Square of Knowledge

[edit] Students

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 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.

The student Sikorsky I.I. in the plane of his own design.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.