KNUTD
Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design

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Faculty of Mechatronics and Computer Technologies

Borys ZLOTENKO

Dean of the Faculty of MCT, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Excellence in Education of Ukraine

Address:

Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design
Faculty of Mechatronics and Computer Technologies
Mala Shyianovska (Nemyrovycha-Danchenka) Street, 2
Kyiv 01011
Ukraine
Faculty Office: 1-0356, 1-0358

Phone numbers: +38044-280-53-42, +38044256-29-15

e-mail: [email protected]

Admissions Committee of the Faculty: +380(63)-439-83-49
Monday through Friday
10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Saturday
10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

 

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Deputy Dean of the Faculty

PhD, associate professor

Volodymyr DVORZHAK

Phone number: +38 044-280-53-42

Deputy Dean of the Faculty

PhD, associate professor

Nataliya CHUPRYNKA

Phone number: +38 044-280-53-42

Dean’s Office

Senior manager of the Dean’s office

Olena ZAYETS
Phone number: +38 044-280-53-42

Secretary of the Dean’s office

Yuliya SHYNKARENKO

Phone number: +38 044-280-53-42

Secretary of the Dean’s office

Zhanna SHEGEDA

Phone number: +38 044-280-53-42

The mission and purpose of the Faculty

The mission of the Faculty is to meet the needs of the population in the training of competitive specialists in the field of information and computer technologies, automation and mechanical engineering; active participation in the personal development of each person, his upbringing and improvement of abilities.

The purpose is to train and educate young people, develop the potential of participants in the educational process, their creative abilities and active social position.

Task:

‒ provision of high-quality training of specialists in applied mechanics specialties; industrial engineering; computer science; cyber security; software engineering; information systems and technologies; automation and computer-integrated technologies;

‒ development of scientific research in the field of information technologies, mechanical engineering, automation and instrument building;

‒ international integration of scientific and educational activities of the Faculty through participation in international educational and scientific projects, competitions, exhibitions in the field of information and computer technologies, mechanical engineering, academic mobility, publishing activity, etc.

 

The Faculty of Mechatronics and Computer Technologies is one of the largest in the University. Training is carried out according to modern educational programs based on innovative approaches, technologies, and teaching methods.

The Faculty is an active center of scientific and research activities, it constantly develops the personnel potential and is also the initiator of the creation of platforms for scientific discussions and the development of innovative projects.

Departments
Specialties and educational programs of the Faculty

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Bachelor’s degree

131 «Applied mechanics» (educational program «Applied mechanics»)

133 «Industrial engineering» (educational program «Mechanical engineering»)

Masters degree

131 «Applied mechanics» (educational program «Mechatronics and robotics»)

133 «Industrial engineering» (educational program «Industrial engineering»)

Doctor of Philosophy

133 «Industrial engineering» (educational program «Industrial  engineering»)

 

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

Bachelor’s degree

122 «Computer science» (educational program «Computer science»)

125 «Cybersecurity and іnformation protection » (educational program «Cybersecurity engineering»)

Master’s degree

122 «Computer science» (educational programs «Computer science»)

Doctor of Philosophy

122 «Computer science» (educational program «Computer science»)

 

DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION AND COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES

Bachelor’s degree

121 «Software engineering» (educational program «Software engineering»)

126 «Information systems and technologies» (educational program «IT project management»)

174 «Automation, computer-integrated technologies and robotics» (educational program «Automation and computer-integrated technologies»)

Master’s degree

174 «Automation, computer-integrated technologies and robotics» (educational program «Automation and computer-integrated technologies»)

 

Full-time course length:

bachelor’s degree – 3 years and 10 months;

master’s degree – 1 year and 4 months;

doctor of philosophy – 4 years.

History of the Faculty of Mechatronics and Computer Technologies

The history of the Faculty of Mechatronics and Computer Technologies is connected with the history of the University.

The path of our Faculty started in the 1930s. On October 1, 1930, Kyiv Polytechnic Institute of Leather Industry (KPI  LI) was founded.

Max Abramovych Ginzburg was appointed the first director of the institute, and Mykhailo Pavlovich Kotov was appointed deputy director.

M. A. Ginzburg  

M. P. Kotov

There were the following faculties as part of KPI LI: Chemical and Technological (deans M. P. Kotov, A. S. Fokin), Mechanical and Technological (deans M. O. Erdman, A. G. Wolf), Engineering and Economic (deans S. H. Isaakhyan, G. I. Chernyavskyi). In 1935, the institute was renamed Kyiv Institute of the Leather and Shoe Industry, and in 1939 – Kyiv Technological Institute of the Leather and Shoe Industry. According to the Charter of 1935, the institute included three faculties: Leather-Technological, Shoe-Mechanical and Engineering-Economic.

In October 1930, Kyiv Textile Institute was also founded and  relocated to Kharkiv in 1934. The institute opened four faculties: Sewing (dean L. G. Genkin), Economics (dean A. V. Sirchenko), Chemical Technology of Fibrous Substances (dean F. P. Lokhanko), and Mechanical Technology of Fibrous Substances (dean V. O. Vinogradov). On May 2, 1936, two new faculties were approved – General Technical (dean H. G. Knyaziuk) and Technological (dean I. S. Myasnikov).

On May 20, 1944, by a resolution of the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR, Kyiv Technological Institute of the Leather and Shoe Industry and the Textile Institute were merged into one. In June 1944, the new educational institution was named Kyiv Technological Institute of Light Industry. At the beginning of 1945, the institute had four faculties: Mechanical and Power Engineering (dean S. D. Petrovsky), Mechanical and Technological Engineering (dean M. M. Pozhidayev), Chemical Engineering (dean A. S. Fokin), Engineering and Economic Engineering (dean I. L. Slavskyi).

In different periods of its 70-year history, the institute was called differently: Kyiv Polytechnic Institute of the Leather Industry (June 10, 1930 – 1931); Kyiv Technological Institute of Leather Industry (1931 – May 25, 1944); Kyiv Technological Institute of Light Industry (May 25, 1944 – August 13, 1993); State Academy of Light Industry of Ukraine (August 13, 1993 – August 30, 1999); Kyiv State University of Technologies and Design (August 30, 1999 – August 7, 2001); Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design (from August 7, 2001 –  to the present).

The names of the University changed, and the rectors who ran it changed, but, despite everything, overcoming all difficulties on its historical path, the Faculty of Mechatronics and Computer Technologies (MCT) grew and developed.

The Faculty has written many bright pages in the history of the institute – academy - university. The name of the Faculty is associated with the names of famous scientists and teachers who were the pride of the Faculty: member-cor. Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, doctors of technical sciences, professors: B. D. Grozin and O. O. Kremnyov; honored figures of science and technology of Ukraine, doctors of technical sciences, professors: G. A. Piskorsky, A. N. Rabinovych, V. O. Skaterny, A. S. Zenkin, B. V. Orlovsky, Y. O. Skrypnyk, B. F. Pipa; doctors of technical sciences, professors: N. D. Pavlovich, G. A. Voloshchenko, V. P. Bobrovnikova, A. B. Tsaturyants; candidate of technical sciences, professor V. P. Serdyuk; Ph.D., associate professors: O. S. Koreniaka and L. I. Kremenstein and many others, who with their dedicated work made a great contribution to the training of highly qualified specialists, created and developed many scientific directions related to various branches of the light industry.

On February 1, 1939, the Mechanical Faculty was separated from the Mechanical and Footwear Faculty, which was formed in 1930. The Faculty of Mechanics was located on the first floor of the educational building of the institute.

Educational building of the institute.
The first floor was occupied by the departments of the Mechanical Faculty

In September 1930, 25 students were enrolled to be trained as mechanical engineers for the 1st year of the Mechanical and Footwear Faculty. For some time, the the admission of students for the training of specialists in maintenance and repair of mechanical and energy management of enterprises of the shoe and leather industry was at the level of the 1st group.

 

One of the first graduations of the Faculty

 

Prof. B. S. Oks , Head of the Department of Riga Polytechnic Institute,
PhD, Yu. S. Pavlenko, Assoc. prof. of the Department of
Automation of KTILP were among the graduates of 1949. 

In the first years of its existence, the Faculty trained mechanical engineers for maintenance and repair of equipment and energy management of shoe factories and tanneries, and since 1944 - for sewing, knitting, and textile enterprises.

The first dean of the Mechanical Faculty was L. L. Brixman (1939-1941). During that period, the faculty included the following departments:

  • Metal and Wood Technologies (Head of the Department, Assoc. prof. A. N. Rabinovych);
  • Electrical Engineering (Head of the Department, Prof. G. N. Horodetskyi);
  • Theoretical Mechanics (Head of the Department, Assoc. prof. L. I. Kremenstein).

During the Second World War, the Faculty of the institute was evacuated to the city of Pervouralsk. Given the peculiarities of that period, deans were not appointed at the faculties. Before returning to Kyiv in 1944, a united faculty was organized at the institute, headed part-time by the head of the educational department, N. P. Topolyanskyi (1942-1944). In the post-war years, the Faculty was headed by: S. D. Petrovskyi (1944-1947); A. N. Rabinovych (1948), L. S. Podvalnyi (1949-1950). From 1951 to 1953, I. V. Orlov performed the duties of the deans of the Mechanical and Technological Faculties. Since 1953, the Faculty again has become an independent structural unit. From that moment on, it was headed by: O. P. Repetin (1953 - 1969), K. G. Rego (1969 - 1978), O. A. Starodub (1978 - 1986), O. S. Tolstoukhov (1986 - 1989), O. P. Burmistenkov (1989 - 2005), G. I. Konkov (2005 - 2015), M. A. Zenkin (2015 - 2020), V. M. Pavlenko (2021 - 2023) and B. M. Zlotenko (from 2023).

The appearance in the light industry of new ultra-complex equipment provided with microprocessor and computer technology and the rapid development of chemical enterprises led to the opening of a new specialty “Automated control of technological processes”. In 1957, for the first time in the Soviet Union, a group of mechanical students was enrolled to study this specialty.

 

Dean of the Faculty A.P. Repetin and Head of the Department G. A. Piskorskyi  with the graduates of the Faculty in 1957-1958

 

T. V. Dzys, Deputy Head of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, L. V. Tsenov, PhD, Assoc. prof. of the Department of Machines and Devices of Light Industry, and V. I. Panasyuk,  senior teacher of the Department of Machines and Devices of Light Industry are among the graduates of the Faculty in 1950

At the end of the 1960s, a computing laboratory was established at the Faculty (head of the laboratory was O.S. Saginashvili) and the computer center of the University was later created on its basis.

In 1972, the Department of Computer Engineering and Programming was separated from the Department of Automation of Chemical and Technological Processes, which now has the name of the Department of Design Information Technologies.

From 1978 to 1986, the post of dean was held by associate professor O. A. Starodub. During that period, students of the Faculty built the hostel No. 7.

In 1980, the Faculty included the departments of machines and devices for leather and footwear production, machines and devices for clothing and knitwear production, automation and complex mechanization of chemical and technological processes, the technology of machine building and structural materials, theoretical and general heat engineering, the Russian language.

With the election of Assoc. Prof. O. S. Tolstoukhov as Dean in 1986, the Department of Applied Mechanics was established at the Faculty. With the emergence of new specialties related not only to technological equipment but also to control systems, in 1988 the Faculty was renamed the Faculty of Technological Equipment and Control Systems (abbreviated TECS).

In the 1990s, with the arrival of Dean O. P. Burmistenkov as Head of the Faculty, the Faculty developed dynamically – new specialties were opened to meet the demands of the labor market: «Computer-integrated processes and production», «Electronic systems» (1991), «Electric household appliances» (1992), «Metrology and information and measurement technologies» (1997), «Quality, standardization and certification» (1998). In 1997, a new Department of Metrology, Standardization and Certification was created at the Faculty.

In 2012, further expansion of the Faculty took place - by the Order of the Rector of KNUTD, academician I. M. Hryshchenko, the Departments of Engineering G and Information Technologies were added to the Faculty. At the same time, new courses were introduced into the curricula of mechanical engineers – «Mechatronics» and CAD «Solid Works», which makes it possible to train mechanical engineers at the present-day level and increase the competitiveness of specialists in the labor market.

More and more specialties and courses related to computer and microprocessor technology, information technologies, and mechatronics appeared at the Faculty, and the previous name of the Faculty no longer corresponded to the content of specialist training. Therefore, in 2012, the name of the Faculty was changed for the third time.

By order of the Rector of the University, Professor I. M. Hryshchenko, No. 387 of 09.27.2012, the Faculty of Technological Equipment and Control Systems was renamed the Faculty of Mechatronics and Computer Technologies (MСT).

Since 2011, the training of students in the direction «Metrology, standardization and certification» has been started. In 2013, the direction «Mechanical engineering», two specializations «Computer-integrated electrical household appliances» and «Service maintenance of electrical household appliances» were opened, and in 2014 – the direction «Electrical engineering and electrical technologies».

Over the years of its existence, the Faculty took an active part in the creation and development of the departments of Dzhambul Technological Institute of Light and Food Industry, the Far Eastern Technological Institute of Light Industry,  Khmelnytsky Technological Institute of Household Services (now Khmelnytskyi National University), and Kherson Industrial Institute.

The adoption of the new law «On higher education» in 2014 requires a review of approaches to the training of future masters. This is, first of all, the development of their entrepreneurial and communicative abilities, in-depth study of foreign languages, improvement of practical and professional training, and their wider engagement in scientific activities.

About 1,000 students study at the Faculty. Students are trained by highly professional teachers, including 12 doctors of science and professors, 30 candidates of science and associate professors.

The Faculty trains scientific and pedagogical personnel through doctoral and post-graduate studies, there are specialized Councils for the defense of candidate and doctoral theses.

Since 2016, the Faculty has hosted an International Scientific and Practical Conference “Mechatronic systems: innovations and engineering (MSIE)”, the traditional participants of which are our colleagues from the United States of America, Poland, Turkey, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and other countries of the world.

In 2017, outstanding scientists of the Faculty were awarded the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology by the President of Ukraine P.O. Poroshenko.

Scientific schools of the Faculty of Mechatronics and Computer Technologies

Founder – Volodymyr SHCHERBAN, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology, Academician of the International Academy of Computer Sciences and Systems, Recipient of the 3rd Degree "For Scientific Achievements" Award from the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Head of the Department of Computer Science.

MATHEMATICAL, ALGORITHMIC, AND SOFTWARE SUPPORT FOR INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION-RETRIEVAL AND EXPERT SYSTEMS IN THE SERVICE, EDUCATION, AND TEXTILE AND FOOTWEAR INDUSTRIES. CAD SYSTEMS FOR EQUIPMENT AND TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESSES IN THE TEXTILE AND SEWING INDUSTRIES.

Directions:

  • development of methods for mathematical modeling of technological processes and equipment of light and textile industry;
  • improvement of technological processes of the light and textile industry;
  • development of scientific foundations of CAD technological processes and equipment for the light and textile industry;
  • improvement of the structure and production technology of multilayer fabrics;
  • development of the scientific foundations of thread mechanics.

Results:

  • Defense of 6 doctoral and 27 candidate dissertations;
  • Publication of 38 monographs, textbooks, over 560 articles in professional publications and leading journals, and over 670 conference abstracts;
  • Obtaining 225 patents and author's certificates.

 

Founder – Bronislav ORLOVSKY, Doctor of Technical Sciences, professor, honored worker of science and technology of Ukraine.

IMPROVEMENT OF LIGHT INDUSTRY MACHINE DESIGN METHODS

Directions:

  • development of scientific foundations of computer mechanics, high-speed machines of the lightindustry, optimization synthesis of target mechanisms of light and textile industry machines, object-oriented design of complex mechanical and technological systems on the example of machines of sewing, knitting, and shoe production, structural analysis and synthesis of spatial mechanisms;
  • creation of sewing machines for the blind and sewing simulators;
  • development of methods for designing sewing and household basic knitting machines.

Results:

  • 7 doctoral theses and 54 candidate theses were defended;
  • published more than 900 scientific works, including 10 monographs, 7 textbooks, and training manuals;
  • received more than 300 patents and copyright certificates.

 

Founder – Anatoly ZENKIN, Doctor of Technical Sciences, professor, honored worker of science and technology of Ukraine, president of the Association of Technologists and Machine Builders of Ukraine.

Academic supervisor – Hanna KHIMICHEVA, Doctor of Technical Sciences, professor.

TECHNICAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL FUNDAMENTALS OF PRODUCT QUALITY IMPROVEMENT BASED ON MODERN METHODS OF METROLOGY, STANDARDIZATION AND CERTIFICATION

Directions:

  • use of theoretical, methodical, and organizational foundations of work assurance in quality management and standardization;
  • work on promising areas of standardization, mechanisms, and tools of product quality management;
  • development of the foundations of building quality management systems, quality control of key technological processes;
  • increasing the effectiveness of standardization.

Results:

  • 4 doctoral theses and 21 candidate theses were defended;
  • more than 400 works were published, including 15 monographs, 10 reference books, 10 textbooks, and 10 teaching aids;
  • received more than 35 titles of protection for inventions.

 

Founder – Borys PIPA, Doctor of Technical Sciences, professor, honored worker of science and technology of Ukraine.

Academic supervisor – Serhii PLESHKO, PhD, associate professor.

DYNAMICS, RELIABILITY AND DURABILITY OF CIRCULAR KNITTING MACHINES

Directions:

  • study of the peculiarities of the dynamics of knitting mechanisms of knitting machines;
  • development of the theory of designing fundamentally new designs of working bodies of knitting mechanisms;
  • study of the dynamics of drives of circular knitting machines;
  • creation of fundamentally new actuator designs and the scientific basis of their design;
  • research on the mechanisms of tensioning and rolling of circular knitted fabric.

Results:

  • 3 doctoral theses and 18 candidate theses were defended;
  • more than 1,000 scientific works were published, including 12 monographs, 2 textbooks, and 11 training manuals;
  • received more than 530 copyright certificates and patents for inventions.

 

Founder – Yury SKRYPNYK, Doctor of Technical Sciences, professor, honored worker of science and technology of Ukraine.

Academic supervisor – Hanna KHIMICHEVA, Doctor of Technical Sciences, professor.

SCIENTIFIC BASIS OF CREATING ADAPTIVE DEVICES AND SENSOR SYSTEMS FOR CONTROL OVER THE PARAMETERS OF TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESSES, THE ENVIRONMENT AND ASSESSMENT OF THEIR IMPACT ON THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL STATE OF A PERSON

Directions:

  • methods and means of automatic correction of progressive errors of sensors and devices based on structural and temporal redundancy of measurements;
  • automation of control over technological processes;
  • creation of multifunctional measuring transducers based on reversible electrical effects;
  • measurement of weak electromagnetic radiation;
  • interaction of human electromagnetic fields with clothing and footwear materials;
  • creation of radiometric equipment in the ultra-high frequency range;
  • development of computer systems for assessing the comfort of clothing based on the electrophysical parameters of human skin and the level of electromagnetic radiation.

Results:

  • 7 doctoral theses and 36 candidate theses were defended;
  • 46 monographs, textbooks, and monographs, textbooks and training manuals, more than 350 articles and reports were published;
  • received 960 patents and copyright certificates.

 

Founder – Oleh KHOMYAK, Doctor of Technical Sciences, professor, honored worker of public education of Ukraine.

Academic supervisor – Volodymyr DVORZHAK, PhD, associate professor.

DYNAMICS, RELIABILITY AND DURABILITY OF FLAT KNITTING MACHINES

Directions:

  • dynamics of machines and mechanisms;
  • development of the theory of design and improvement of mechanisms of flat knitting machines.

Results:

  • 1 doctoral and 7 candidate theses were defended;
  • published more than 300 scientific works, including 10 monographs, 1 textbook, and 13 training manuals;
  • received 172 copyright certificates and patents.

 

International Cooperation

At the Faculty, great attention is always paid to the training of specialists for foreign countries. More than 1,000 students from the Czech Republic, Jordan, Poland, Germany, Hungary, Vietnam, Madagascar, China, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, and other countries of the world received diplomas in engineering specialties of the Faculty.

Ukraine’s accession to the Bologna agreement enabled students of the Faculty to continue their studies in higher education institutions in Europe, in particular in the Czech Republic and Poland. Protocols on cooperation with the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of Liberec Technical University and Lublin Polytechnic (Poland) were signed, in which joint areas of educational and scientific activity are defined.

Memorandums of cooperation were signed with the company “Camozzi” (Italy) and “TuranElectric” (Turkey).

Since 2016, the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Mechatronic Systems: Innovations and Engineering (MSIE)” has been held at the Faculty base, in which our colleagues from the United States of America, Poland, Turkey, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and other countries of the world traditionally participate.

Student Activists

The students were always not indifferent to the events of the Faculty and the University. Over the last 5 years, the student self-government unit, which includes the most active students, has been actively operating at the Faculty.

The student self-government is engaged in conducting additional classes for students (underachievers), conducting charity events, evenings of rest, and conferences. Members of the self-government are members of the Academic Council and the scholarship committee of the Faculty.

The Faculty is developing the program “On the organization of sports and health work” to increase the level of involvement of student youth in sports and health activities, the results of the performances of the University’s national teams at all-Ukrainian competitions, and the level of motivation of students’ participation in such events.

The Faculty conducts work on national and patriotic education. Several students were participants in the anti-terrorist operation in the east of Ukraine. Student activists regularly organize and conduct mass cultural events with the participation of the students of the Faculty.