Ternopil Ivan Pul'uj National Technical University

Ternopil Ivan Pului National Technical University (Ukrainian: Тернопільський національний технічний університет імені Івана Пулюя) is a university in Ternopil, Ukraine.

Ternopil Ivan Pul'uj National Technical University (abbreviated TNTU) - the leading higher technical educational institution in Western Ukraine, founded in 1960.

Today it is the only higher technical educational institution that provides training of all academic levels, DScs and PhDs for such regions as Ternopil, Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne and Khmelnitsky.

The History of the University

The origins of the university reach 1960, when Ternopil All-technical Department of the Lviv Polytechnic Institute with the extra-mural and part-time study forms was organized on the 11th of March. Stolyarchuk V.P., Ph.D. was appointed the Head of the Department; and the training was conducted by 12 teachers. In February 1962 Shcherbakov A.O., Ph.D. started working as the Head of the Department. At the same time full-time specialist training was opened.

On May 15, 1964 the Department was reorganized into Ternopil affiliate of Lviv Polytechnic University with the first chairs of higher mathematics, drawing geometry and graphics, technical mechanics, physics and energetics. Shcherbakov A.O., Ph.D. became director of the affiliate. In 1964-1968 new chairs were formed: the Chair of social and political sciences, theoretical mechanics, foreign languages, metal technologies, machine tools and instruments, physics, general and theoretical electrics and physical education. At that time the affiliate trained specialists in the following specialties: mechanical engineering, metal-cutting machine tools and instruments, electrical measuring equipment and radio equipment.

In March 1968 Polishchuk A.G., Ph.D. became director of the affiliate. The intense work on the necessary instrumentation of teaching rooms and laboratories, expansion of the teaching areas, replenishment of the teaching staff with Candidates and Doctors of Science, organization of the Extra-Mural Studies Department and creation of the chair affiliates at production was being conducted.

In October 1985 Shabliy O.M., Sc.D was appointed director of the Ternopil affiliate of Lviv Polytechnic University. He initiated the opening of new specialties: technology and equipment of the welding production, automation of the technological processes and productions, instrumentation, biotechnical and medical apparatuses and systems; construction of the new teaching building was conducted. Due to the active and effective work of the headsand staff on the 27th of February 1991, Ternopil InstrumentationInstitute was created on the basis of the Ternopil affiliate of Lviv Polytechnic University, being the second higher educational institution of this directionin Ukraine. The first rector chosen by the staff was Shabliy O.M., Sc.D. At that time the Institute comprised 3 departments integrating 13 chairs. The general quantity of students was 2420. 150 teachers worked at the Institute, 76 of them being Candidates and Doctors of Science. Since April 1995 the educational institution has carried the name of the outstanding Ukrainian scientist and public man Ivan Pul'uj. In accordance with the decision of the InterbranchAccreditation Commission, in 1994 the Institute was accredited as a IV level educational institution.

The creation of the Institute was a powerful impetus to the new quality changes and further growth. The restructuring of the economy of the region and the necessity of providing staff for overcoming the crisis helped change the orientation of the Institute and carry out its considerable structural reconstruction. The Institute has practically lost its narrow applied line gradually transforming into the multibranch higher technical educational institution.

Considering the real developments and achievements of the staff, the Regulation of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine № 1536 from the 30th of December 1996 approved the creation of Ternopil Ivan Pul'uj State Technical University on the basis of Ternopil InstrumentationInstitute. Academician Shabliy O.M. became the rector of the university.

University is an educational, scientific, engineering and cultural centre of the western region of Ukraine. Nowadays it is the only higher technical educational institution of the region providing the training of specialists of all qualification levels, Doctors and Candidates of Science for the region comprising also Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Khmelnytskyy and Rivne.

Since 1999 the university has been a full member of the European University Association - an organization uniting more than 600 European universities, it also holds membership in the national association of rectors from 43 countries which is the main representative organ for the higher educational institutions in Europe. The European University Association is a consultative member of the Supporting group of the Conference of Ministers of Education from European countries. The university takes active part in fulfilling one of the main tasks of the association which is the creation of the European higher education space where students, teachers and scientists would be able to accomplish their own intentions and ideas on the basis of the established European educational norms.

On the 16th of September 2005 Ternopil Ivan Pul'uj State Technical University joined the European Declaration of the higher educational institutions of the Magna Charta Universitatum comprising fundamental principles, rights and duties of the universities as the outposts of culture, knowledge and research and uniting more than 530 leading universities of Europe, among them 14 from Ukraine.

The structure

The range of specialties taught at the affiliate, institute and, finally, university has gradually extended, and presently the amount of specialties for bachelors, specialists and masters reaches the number of 20. Altogether they are united in 15 directions.

8 departments are functioning within the university: Computer Technologies Department, Department of Computer Information Systems and Program Engineering, Electrical Engineering Department, Food and Processing Production Department, Mechanical Engineering Department, Economy and Entrepreneurship Department, Department of Management and Business in Production, Department of Testing Instruments and Radio Computer Systems. The training is also conducted at the International studies centre and Pre-university studies centre. The re-training and skill upgrading is organized by the Post-graduate studies centre.

The educational process is assured by 34 chairs. Among them there are 5 humanitarian chairs (Ukrainian Studies and Philosophy; Psychology in Production; Foreign Languages; Sports and Physical Rehabilitation and Physical Education); 3 fundamental chairs (Higher Mathematics; Physics and Mathematical Methods in Engineering); 4 all-engineering chairs (Graphic Modeling; Information Science and Mathematical Modeling; Construction Mechanics and Electrical Engineering) and 22 specialized chairs (Mechanical Engineering; Computer Technologies in Mechanical Engineering; Food Biotechnology and Chemistry; Food Technologies Equipment; Production Marketing; Production Management; Entrepreneurship Management; Computer Sciences; Machine Tools, Device and Machines Design; Technical Mechanics and Agricultural Machine Building; Illuminating Engineering; Welding Production Technologies and Equipment; Apparatuses and Testing Instruments; Biotechnical Systems; Automation of Technological Processes and Production; Computer Integrated Technologies; Energy-Saving and Energy Management; Power Consumption Systems and Computer Technologies in Power Industry; Radio Computer Systems; Economic Cybernetics; Economic Theory, Finance, Registry and Control).

The following training centers are functioning at the university: Information technologies centre comprising the regional CISCO academy, regional centre for the certified specialists training on the programs of Microsoft IT Àñàdemy and SUN Microsystems, the laboratory of the Shnaider-Electricenterprise and certification examination centre of the European Virtual University. The graduates of the academy receive certificates of the international standard.

Ternopil Ivan Pul'uj Technical University also includes the Technical College in Ternopil and the Gusyatyn and Zboriv Colleges situated in Gusyatyn and Zboriv respectively.

Presently the general enrollment of students, masters and post-graduate students in the university alone comprises around 6000 persons. The general licensed amount of full time bachelors is 945 persons, masters - 325 and specialists - 695 persons; the amount of distance studies bachelors is 900 persons, masters - 320 and specialists - 865 persons.

TNTU has founded and is a leading member of the regional educational and scientific amalgamation "Technical personnel", the Junior Academy of Sciences, educational and scientific complexes "Svitlo", "Gazda", "Dostatok", "Agromash", "Computer" and "Proforientatsiya". Pre-university student training is conducted at the Technical Lyceum of the university and amalgamation "Vatra" as well as at the lyceum school in Dobryvody, specialized schools and gymnasiums.

In 1995 the university transferred to the specialist training pursuant to the educational and professional programs of the Ministry of Education of Ukraine. The education model approved envisions, besides the high professional training, the accomplishment of task-oriented programs of the intense fundamental training and computer education, modernization of the economic sciences teaching, humanization of the educational process, development of the foreign language teaching and advance in the legal education of specialists.

Faculties

Faculty of Computer Technologies

6.050201 System Engineering

6.050202 Automation and Computer-integrated Technologies

7.05020201, 8.05020201 Automated Control of Technological Processes

7.05020202, 8.05020202 Computer-Integrated Technological Processes and Productions

Faculty of Electrical Engineering

6.050701 Electrical Engineering and Electric Technologies

7.05070103, 8.05070103 Electrotechnical Systems of Electricity Consumption

7.05070105, 8.05070105 Lighting Engineering and Sources of Light

7.05070108, 8.05070108 Energy Management

Faculty of Computer Information Systems and Software Engineering

6.050103 Program Engineering

7.05010302, 8.05010302 Software Engineering

6.050101 Computer Sciences

7.05010101, 8.05010101 Information Management Systems and Technologies

6.050102 Computer Engineering

7.05010201, 8.05010201 Computer Systems and Networks

6.170101 Information and Communication Systems Security

Faculty of Control-Measuring and Radio Computer Systems

6.051003 Instrumentation

7.05100302, 8.05100302 Instruments and Systems of Precise Mechanics

6.050901 Radio Engineering

7.05090102 Equipment of Radio Communication, Radio Broadcasting and Television

6.050902 Radio-Electronic Devices

7.05090204, 8.05090204 Biotechnical and Medical Devices and Systems

Mechanical Engineering Faculty

6.050502 Engineering Mechanics

7.05050201, 8.05050201 Technologies of Mechanical Engineering

6.050504 Welding

7.05050401, 8.05050401 Welding Technologies and Equipment

6.060101 Civil Engineering

8.06010101 Industrial and Civil Construction

6.070106 Automobile Transport

Faculty of Management and Business

6.030102 Psychology

7.03010201, 8.03010201 Psychology

6.030601 Management

7.03060101, 8.03060101 Management of Organizations and Administration

8.03060102 Management of Innovative Activity

8.18010012 Innovation Management

Faculty of Economics and Entrepreneurship

6.030502 Economic Cybernetics

7.03050201, 8.03050201 Economic Cybernetics

6.030504 Economics of Enterprise

6.030507 Marketing

7.03050701, 8.03050701 Marketing

6.030508 Finance and Credit

7.03050801, 8.03050801 Finance and Credit

6.030509 Accounting and audit

7.03050901, 8.03050901 Accounting and audit

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Food Technologies

6.050503 Mechanical Engineering

7.05050301, 8.05050301 Metal-Cutting Machine Tools and Systems

7.05050312, 8.05050312 Agricultural Machines and Equipment

7.05050313, 8.05050313 Food Industry Processing Equipment

6.051701 Food Engineering and Technologies

7.05170107, 8.05170107 Fruit and Vegetable Storage, Preservation and Processing Technologies

7.05170108 Milk Storage, Preservation and Processing Technologies

6.070101 Transport Technologies (according to the types of transport)

6.051702 Technological Expertize and Food Production Security

6.051702 Engineering Expertise and Food Products Safety

Foreign Students Faculty

English language of study

6.050101 Computer Sciences

7.05010101, 8.05010101 Information Control Systems and Technologies

6.030601 Management

7.03060101, 8.03060101 Management of Organizations

6.050502 Engineering Mechanics

Ukrainian language of study: All accredited fields of study and specialities

Teaching staff

Teaching staff is represented by more than 200 teachers, including one corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, one member of the New York Academy of Sciences, 10 academicians and corresponding members of the specialized academies, 24 doctors of sciences, professors, more than 140 PhDs, assistant professors. Among them well-known and respected scholars and teachers: PhD, Professor P. Yasniy, Academician of Engineering Academy, PhD in Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor, Honored master of sciences and engineering of Ukraine O. Shabliy, Honoured inventor of Ukraine, PhD in Technology Sciences B. Hevko; PhD in Technology Sciences, Professor R. Rohatynskiy, PhD in Technology Sciences T. Rybak, professors: L. Didukh, V. Nikonenko, I. Zubchenko, P. Stuhlyak, V. Hrynchutskyy, B. Yukalo; Associate Professors: M. Mykhailyshyn, P. Kryvyi, B. Tartaryn, V. Lobas, B. Shelestovskyy, V. Kukharska, Y. Prots, M. Palamar, I. Bakushevych, B. Jaworskiy and others.

Honored graduates

A lot of our graduates has connected their further work to the university, among them Academician of the Academy of Engineering Sciences of Ukraine, Rector, Sc.D. Petro Yasniy; Vice-Rector for Teaching and Educational Affairs, Sc.D. Ihor Lutsiv; the member of the Writer Association of Ukraine, public man, Vice-Rector for Humanitarian Education and Pedagogical Work, Ph.D. Oleg Herman; Head of Computer Technologies Department, Sc.D., Stukhlyak P.D.; Head of Mechanical Engineering Department, Ph.D., Yuriy Palyvoda; Head of Department of Management and Business in Production, Ph.D. Andriy Oksentiuk etc. We are proud of our graduates occupying responsible posts at Ternopil enterprises - amalgamation "Vatra", Combine Factory, factory "Saturn" as well as other enterprises in different regions of Ukraine.

TNTU Specialized Councils

Specialized Council D58.052.01 to defend the thesis for the Doctor of Science degree in the field: 01.02.04 "Malformed solid body mechanics" (engineering sciences) 01.05.02 "Mathematical modeling and computational methods" (engineering sciences) Board chairman: prof. Petro Volodymyrovych Yasniy

Specialized Council D58.052.02 to defend the thesis for the Doctor of Science degree in the field 05.05.11 "Machines and mechanization of agricultural production" Board chairman: prof. Tymofiy Ivanovych Rybak.

Specialized Council K58.052.03 to defend the thesis for the Ph.D degree in the field: 05.02.08 "Engineering Technology"; 05.03.01 "Machining processes, machine tools and instruments"; Board chairman: prof. Bogdan Matviyovych Hevko

Specialized Council K58.052.04 to defend the thesis for the Ph.D degree in the field: 05.09.07 "Light Engineering and light sources" Board chairman: prof. Volodymyr Andriyovych Andriychuk

Specialized Council K58.052.05 to defend the thesis for the Ph.D degree in the field: 08.00.04 "Economics and Management of Enterprises" Board chairman: DSc in Economics Bogdan Mykolayovych Andrushkiv.

Specialized Council K58.052.06 to defend the thesis for the Ph.D degree in the field: 05.13.05 "Computer Systems and components" 05.13.06 "Information Technology" Board chairman: prof. Mykola Volodymyrovych Pryymak

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