About Department
The Department of Engines and Hybrid Power Plants (Internal Combustion Engines) was founded in 1930. Since 1980 it has been the base among Ukrainian universities in engine building. During its existence, the department has trained more than 4,000 graduates. Today about 100 students study at the department. The scope of the licensed set is one of the largest in the university.
The department conducts fundamental training of specialists in the specialty 142 “Power engineering” (educational programs “Energy” and “Hybrid and electric transport power plants”) in the following areas:
- “Engines and hybrid power plants of vehicles” (bachelor’s degree, master’s degree)
- “Innovative engineering of transport power plants” (master’s degree)
The educational process and scientific research at the department are provided by 6 professors, 5 associate professors, 1 senior lecturer, 1 assistant, 2 heads of laboratories, and 2 engineers. About 100 people study at 1-6 courses. There are 3 laureates of the State Prize of Ukraine and 2 laureates of the Cabinet of Ministers among the teachers of the department.
The department has a unique material and technical base. The total area of the department is about 1700 sq. meters. It includes classrooms for technical teaching aids, a computer class, laboratories for measurements and fuel equipment, two halls with 16 engine stands, mini-technical engines, automobiles, tractors, tanks, and other special engines, and diesel and marine engine compartments. Branches of the department operate at two car service stations.
The curricula for the preparation of students provide for the teaching of more than 40 special disciplines, including “Computer technologies in the power units of vehicles”, “Chemotology and zero-hydrocarbon power sources”, “Computer-aided design systems”, “Designs of power plants of vehicles”, “Theory of internal combustion engines”, “Electric motors of vehicles”, “Dynamics and strength of power units of vehicles”, “Operation and repair of power units of vehicles”, “Vehicles with engines and hybrid power plants”, “Testing of power units of vehicles”, “Software engineering in engine building”, “Methods of mathematical optimization in engine building”, “Probability theory, mathematical statistics and reliability of power plants”.
At the department there is an opportunity to enter English-language education under the master’s program of double diplomas of NTU “KhPI” and the Warsaw University of Technology (Poland). The duration of the program is 1 year 9 months. Students of the 2nd-semester study in Warsaw and practice at Polish enterprises.
Graduates are employed at public and private design firms, centers for the sale and maintenance of vehicles, service stations, machine and tractor stations, railways, sea and river vessels, stationary energy facilities, oil and gas production, and transportation enterprises. Graduates of the department who have shown the ability to research activities are given the opportunity to continue their studies in graduate school.
Scientific fields
The main scientific directions in which students, graduate students, doctoral students, and scientific and pedagogical staff of the department are currently fruitfully working are aimed at researching and improving the processes of mixture formation and combustion of engines, improving environmental and economic indicators, ensuring the use of alternative fuels and multi-fuel; improving the resource characteristics of engines, the use of advanced materials and technologies; development of CAD, new techniques, mathematical models, software.
The department actively cooperates with other departments of the electromechanical direction in the study of hybrid power plants of vehicles, teaching students, conducting scientific research, and training postgraduates and doctoral students.
The scientific directions are headed by Professor A.P. Marchenko, V.A. Pylev, I.V. Parsadanov, A.V. Trinov, and S.A. Kravchenko.
On the basis of the EHPP Department, there is a specialized Academic Council for the defense of the doctoral dissertation in the specialties 05.05.03 “Engines and power plants” and 05.22.02 “Automobiles and tractors”.
The department publishes the all-Ukrainian scientific and technical journal “Internal Combustion Engines” and it is the organizer of the All-Ukrainian competition of student scientific papers in the specialty 142 “Power Engineering”.
Scientists of the department actively participate in international conferences in Ukraine, Lithuania, Poland, and Germany. The department is a co-founder and organizer of the annual International Congress of Engine Builders.
The department maintains links on the integration of scientific research, curricula, and exchanges of teachers, and students with the Warsaw University of Technology (Poland), the Prague Technical University (Czech Republic), with the Polytechnic University of Kielce (Poland); Green Bay University of Wisconsin (USA), Klaipeda University (Lithuania).
Qualifications and Areas of Specialization
Specialty 142 “Power engineering”