Rector's Welcome
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!
The National Technical University «Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute» (NTU
«KhPI») which was founded in 1885 is the oldest technical higher education
institution of the Left-Bank Ukraine.
Its history has become an integral part of the scientific, technical, intellectual and cultural history of Ukraine. The name of a Noble Prize winner L.D. Landau and the names of worldwide known scientists such as academicians N.N.Beketov, P.P.Budnikov, A.K.Valter, A.M.Lyapunov, S.P.Tymoshenko, M.D.Pilchykov, K.D.Sinelnikov, V.A.Steklov, E.I.Orlov, G.F.Proskura, I.I.Strelkov, V.M.Chrushchov, S.S.Urazovskyi, A.P.Philipov, V.I.Atroshchenko, A.S.Berezhnoi, A.M.Pidgornyi, the honored doctors D.I.Mendeleev and M.E. Zhukovskyi and also the name of professor V.L.Kyrpychov, the founder of NTU “KhPI” and Kyiv Polytechnic, and many other names are connected with the National Technical University «Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute».
The origination of the Ukrainian technical sciences in the fields of mechanics, theory of reliability, applied chemistry, aviation, nuclear physics, cryogenics, electric and heat power engineering, as well as tractor, automobile and diesel locomotive production are all connected with the University.
The University has trained more than 150 thousand engineers during the years of its existence. 22 University graduates have become correspondents and full members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, about 110 scientists of the University have been awarded State prizes.
Currently, more than 26 thousand students are trained; there are 430 postgraduates, and 1700 teachers and scientists among which 190 Doctors of Sciences and Professors and more than 800 candidates of sciences and associate professors. The University prepares specialists in the field of machine-building, automation, electrical engineering, electronics, chemical engineering, control systems, high physical and microprocessor technologies, psychology, economics of enterprises, business, etc. under 96 specialties.
Kharkiv Polytechnic offers the highest amount of the licensed admission for the students in the southeastern Ukraine; it can admit more than 4.500 full time students and 4000 students who have tuition by correspondence.
NTU «KhPI» is the only one higher education institution that prepares specialists for such important branches of machine-building as turbine construction for atomic, thermoelectric and hydraulic power stations, heavy electro-machine engineering, tractor building, internal combustion engine control systems, boiler and reactor building, food fat technologies and fat substitution technologies, tank building, electro-insulating and cable and condenser engineering.
Since 1991 NTU «KhPI» has been providing individual curricula for intensive and specialized training in mathematical, informational, economical and ecological disciplines, including the humanities, The University trains specialists in three qualification levels. The first level is a four-year training for the Bachelor’s Degree, the second and the third levels are supposed to take 5.5 year trainings for Engineer’s Degree or Master’s Degree (6 years). The contemporary policy of the Ministry of education and science of Ukraine is oriented at ensuring active participation of our country in Bologna process.
The representatives of our University participated in all the arrangements that have been held by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine starting from November 2003. Special attention should be paid to the Ukrainian Rectors Conference of the Higher Education Technical Institutions that was devoted to «Higher Technical Education of Ukraine and Bologna Process». It was held at NTU «KhPI» (17 -18 March, 2004). The Appeal signed by the rectors – participants of the Conference - called the University Society, legislators and officials of Ukraine to the clear understanding of the fundamental ideas of Magna Charter Universitatum to make the fundamental principals declared in this document as the basis for the activity of the whole system of the higher education in Ukraine. Each member of the University Society is supposed to do his / her best to achieve this goal. On May 19, 2005 the Ukraine officially joined the Bologna process at the Bergen summit of the ministers of education of the European countries.
On September 16, 2005 the Rector of our University signed Magna Charter Universitatum on behalf of NTU «KhPI» in the city of Bologna, Italy. The main factor of the Bologna process at the Universities is a continuous combined process of education and research.
25 scientific schools of the National Technical University «KhPI» are known outside the country; most notably in the fields of metallurgical physics, advanced technologies for metal working, energy saving, electric drives, internal combustion engines, tank building, ceramics and composites, synthesis of fats, nitric acid, oil fuel, electric chemistry, space National technical university “Kharkiv polytechnic institute” 3 National technical university «Kharkiv polytechnic institute»
apparatus control systems, industrial and medical electronics, information technologies, control systems and so on. During the last years the scientists of NTU «KhPI» were awarded 9 State Prizes in the field of science, engineering and architecture as well as the Lebedyev Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. 20 honored workers of science, engineering and higher education, 21 State Prize winners, 29 academicians and corresponding members of the National Academy of Sciences and specialized branches of the National Academy of Sciences work at the University.
The unique experimental complex of the Research and Design Institute «Molniya», the observatory of the institute of Ionosphere and Research complex that studies gas-dynamic and thermalphysic processes in turbomachines of the turbine construction department of the university has been recognized by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine as a national heritage site.
The northeastern Regional Center of the Scientific and Educational Computer Network of Ukraine (URAN) was set up at NTU «KhPI» by the joint decision of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. This center provides the benefits of a powerful information system network to the University, which includes: One of the largest Ukrainian corporate computer networks connecting 3000 operational electronic computers in 21 buildings of the University campus and 12 hostels;
A powerful hub for the «Internet» system licensed by the Ministry of Communication which serves as the basis for the local scientific and educational network serving 20 educational and scientific institutions in the city of Kharkov.
By the decree of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine NTU «KhPI» has been approved as a regional center for the development of new information technologies for education. Application software developed by specialists of the University is used for learning fundamental, professionoriented and specialized subjects. Distance training is in the process of development.
A laboratory for the problems of distance education, which is a regional representative of the URAN network, has been opened. It provides Ukraine-wide training for teachers involved in distance training both on distance and full-time learning bases. The University is a partner of several virtual universities.
The University has modern facilities and equipment and welldeveloped infrastructure enabling it to provide education and training, to conduct scientific research and to solve social problems related in particular to providing accommodation for students and teachers, facilities for health improving and medical treatment of the employees and for improving athletic performance of sportsmen. The University has a Student Center with dancing and exhibition halls, a Sports Center with two swimming pools, two sports and health camps (in the cities of Alushta and Chuguev which can accommodate 300 and 200 persons respectively), a sanatorium for 100 persons, a dining hall for 1700 persons, the «Berminvody» sanatorium for 57 persons, hostels accommodating 7380 persons and 7 dwelling houses. The University collaborates with many educational institutions and scientists from the USA, England, Germany, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, India, China and other countries of the world in the framework of international programs, projects and grants. Among its international partners are foreign higher institutions of education and firms from practically all the continents of the world.
At the present time about 1000 foreign students and postgraduate students study at the University. Annually, about 300 collaborators and students from NTU «KhPI» go abroad to study, conduct research and benefit from the scientific and educational experiences of their partners.
In 2007 NTU «KhPI» joined the European University Association as the competent individual member with the right of decisive voice, and became a member of Black Sea Universities Network. We invite you to come and study at the National Technical University «Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute» – a prominent educational and scientific center of Ukraine. We guarantee a high quality of education, appropriate working and relaxation conditions during the whole period of your studies. In case of necessity the teachers of the preparatory faculty will assist you in mastering Ukrainian and Russian languages, improve your knowledge of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Information Sciences and other disciplines.
Its history has become an integral part of the scientific, technical, intellectual and cultural history of Ukraine. The name of a Noble Prize winner L.D. Landau and the names of worldwide known scientists such as academicians N.N.Beketov, P.P.Budnikov, A.K.Valter, A.M.Lyapunov, S.P.Tymoshenko, M.D.Pilchykov, K.D.Sinelnikov, V.A.Steklov, E.I.Orlov, G.F.Proskura, I.I.Strelkov, V.M.Chrushchov, S.S.Urazovskyi, A.P.Philipov, V.I.Atroshchenko, A.S.Berezhnoi, A.M.Pidgornyi, the honored doctors D.I.Mendeleev and M.E. Zhukovskyi and also the name of professor V.L.Kyrpychov, the founder of NTU “KhPI” and Kyiv Polytechnic, and many other names are connected with the National Technical University «Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute».
The origination of the Ukrainian technical sciences in the fields of mechanics, theory of reliability, applied chemistry, aviation, nuclear physics, cryogenics, electric and heat power engineering, as well as tractor, automobile and diesel locomotive production are all connected with the University.
The University has trained more than 150 thousand engineers during the years of its existence. 22 University graduates have become correspondents and full members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, about 110 scientists of the University have been awarded State prizes.
Currently, more than 26 thousand students are trained; there are 430 postgraduates, and 1700 teachers and scientists among which 190 Doctors of Sciences and Professors and more than 800 candidates of sciences and associate professors. The University prepares specialists in the field of machine-building, automation, electrical engineering, electronics, chemical engineering, control systems, high physical and microprocessor technologies, psychology, economics of enterprises, business, etc. under 96 specialties.
Kharkiv Polytechnic offers the highest amount of the licensed admission for the students in the southeastern Ukraine; it can admit more than 4.500 full time students and 4000 students who have tuition by correspondence.
NTU «KhPI» is the only one higher education institution that prepares specialists for such important branches of machine-building as turbine construction for atomic, thermoelectric and hydraulic power stations, heavy electro-machine engineering, tractor building, internal combustion engine control systems, boiler and reactor building, food fat technologies and fat substitution technologies, tank building, electro-insulating and cable and condenser engineering.
Since 1991 NTU «KhPI» has been providing individual curricula for intensive and specialized training in mathematical, informational, economical and ecological disciplines, including the humanities, The University trains specialists in three qualification levels. The first level is a four-year training for the Bachelor’s Degree, the second and the third levels are supposed to take 5.5 year trainings for Engineer’s Degree or Master’s Degree (6 years). The contemporary policy of the Ministry of education and science of Ukraine is oriented at ensuring active participation of our country in Bologna process.
The representatives of our University participated in all the arrangements that have been held by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine starting from November 2003. Special attention should be paid to the Ukrainian Rectors Conference of the Higher Education Technical Institutions that was devoted to «Higher Technical Education of Ukraine and Bologna Process». It was held at NTU «KhPI» (17 -18 March, 2004). The Appeal signed by the rectors – participants of the Conference - called the University Society, legislators and officials of Ukraine to the clear understanding of the fundamental ideas of Magna Charter Universitatum to make the fundamental principals declared in this document as the basis for the activity of the whole system of the higher education in Ukraine. Each member of the University Society is supposed to do his / her best to achieve this goal. On May 19, 2005 the Ukraine officially joined the Bologna process at the Bergen summit of the ministers of education of the European countries.
On September 16, 2005 the Rector of our University signed Magna Charter Universitatum on behalf of NTU «KhPI» in the city of Bologna, Italy. The main factor of the Bologna process at the Universities is a continuous combined process of education and research.
25 scientific schools of the National Technical University «KhPI» are known outside the country; most notably in the fields of metallurgical physics, advanced technologies for metal working, energy saving, electric drives, internal combustion engines, tank building, ceramics and composites, synthesis of fats, nitric acid, oil fuel, electric chemistry, space National technical university “Kharkiv polytechnic institute” 3 National technical university «Kharkiv polytechnic institute»
apparatus control systems, industrial and medical electronics, information technologies, control systems and so on. During the last years the scientists of NTU «KhPI» were awarded 9 State Prizes in the field of science, engineering and architecture as well as the Lebedyev Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. 20 honored workers of science, engineering and higher education, 21 State Prize winners, 29 academicians and corresponding members of the National Academy of Sciences and specialized branches of the National Academy of Sciences work at the University.
The unique experimental complex of the Research and Design Institute «Molniya», the observatory of the institute of Ionosphere and Research complex that studies gas-dynamic and thermalphysic processes in turbomachines of the turbine construction department of the university has been recognized by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine as a national heritage site.
The northeastern Regional Center of the Scientific and Educational Computer Network of Ukraine (URAN) was set up at NTU «KhPI» by the joint decision of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. This center provides the benefits of a powerful information system network to the University, which includes: One of the largest Ukrainian corporate computer networks connecting 3000 operational electronic computers in 21 buildings of the University campus and 12 hostels;
A powerful hub for the «Internet» system licensed by the Ministry of Communication which serves as the basis for the local scientific and educational network serving 20 educational and scientific institutions in the city of Kharkov.
By the decree of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine NTU «KhPI» has been approved as a regional center for the development of new information technologies for education. Application software developed by specialists of the University is used for learning fundamental, professionoriented and specialized subjects. Distance training is in the process of development.
A laboratory for the problems of distance education, which is a regional representative of the URAN network, has been opened. It provides Ukraine-wide training for teachers involved in distance training both on distance and full-time learning bases. The University is a partner of several virtual universities.
The University has modern facilities and equipment and welldeveloped infrastructure enabling it to provide education and training, to conduct scientific research and to solve social problems related in particular to providing accommodation for students and teachers, facilities for health improving and medical treatment of the employees and for improving athletic performance of sportsmen. The University has a Student Center with dancing and exhibition halls, a Sports Center with two swimming pools, two sports and health camps (in the cities of Alushta and Chuguev which can accommodate 300 and 200 persons respectively), a sanatorium for 100 persons, a dining hall for 1700 persons, the «Berminvody» sanatorium for 57 persons, hostels accommodating 7380 persons and 7 dwelling houses. The University collaborates with many educational institutions and scientists from the USA, England, Germany, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, India, China and other countries of the world in the framework of international programs, projects and grants. Among its international partners are foreign higher institutions of education and firms from practically all the continents of the world.
At the present time about 1000 foreign students and postgraduate students study at the University. Annually, about 300 collaborators and students from NTU «KhPI» go abroad to study, conduct research and benefit from the scientific and educational experiences of their partners.
In 2007 NTU «KhPI» joined the European University Association as the competent individual member with the right of decisive voice, and became a member of Black Sea Universities Network. We invite you to come and study at the National Technical University «Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute» – a prominent educational and scientific center of Ukraine. We guarantee a high quality of education, appropriate working and relaxation conditions during the whole period of your studies. In case of necessity the teachers of the preparatory faculty will assist you in mastering Ukrainian and Russian languages, improve your knowledge of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Information Sciences and other disciplines.
With respect,
Academician, Doctor of Technical Sciences,
Honoured Science and Technology, Worker,
Professor L.L. Tovazhniansky
National technical university “Kharkiv polytechnic institute”