On March 15 Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute was visited by the delegation of top managers of the corporation "Boeing" and the group of companies "Progresstech".
The delegation included the Vice President of “Engineering Boeing Commercial Airplanes” John Hamilton, Director of Human Resources Department Richard Hartnet, President of "Boeing" in Russia, Ukraine and CIS Serhiy Kravchenko, Director of the “Boeing-Ukraine” Branch Oleksiy Stepin, Director of the “Boeing” Design Center in Moscow Dmytro Sukhov, Chief Engineer of the "Boeing" Design Center in Moscow Mikhail Savchenko, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the "Progresstech Group" Volodymyr Kulchytsky, Director of “Progressstech-Ukraine” Andriy Fialkovsky, Manager of programs and projects of training and staff development of "Progressteh-Ukraine" Maksym Hladsky and others.
The guests visited the monuments to prominent engineers and scientists, whose lives and activities were associated with the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, as well as the exposition of the State Polytechnic Museum and its Department of Aviation and Space named after I. Sikorsky.
In addition, they visited the Joint Educational and Scientific Centers of the National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" and companies" Boeing " and "Progresstech-Ukraine", opened on the basis of the Mechanical Engineering Institute, as well as the Hall of Meetings of the Academic Council of the University.
Participation in the meeting with representatives of the corporation "Boeing" was taken by the rector of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Mykhailo Zhurovsky, the Vice-rector for International Relations Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Serhiy Sydorenko, Director of the Mechanical Engineering Institute of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Mykola Bobyr and others. During the meeting, some issues of cooperation between the corporation and the university and student participation in joint educational programs were discussed.
In the photo: guests with students at the Joint Educational and Scientific Center of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and companies "Boeing" and "Progresstech-Ukraine"