🎥 Creative and competent engineers to meet the demands of the modern labour market. Project ‘Renovation of education in the field of aircraft construction’

The Educational and Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering (Institute of MMI) of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute has successfully completed participation in the project ‘Renovation of Education in the field of aircraft construction’ (uCAREER) and showed high results in creating innovative, employer-oriented, certified educational programmes for the training of creative and competent graduate engineers to meet the requirements of the labour market.

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🇺🇸 The project was implemented with the financial assistance of the U.S. Department of State under the Public Diplomacy Small Grants Programme - Education 2023 of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine.
Project partners:

- Progresstech-Ukraine;
- St Volodymyr's Educational Charitable Foundation;
- The American Society for Composites;
- The University of Arizona (College of Engineering).

During the year of fruitful work, the scientists of the Institute of MMI:

📌 improved the existing and created new certification programmes, in particular at the Department of Aircraft Production Technology and the Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology;
📌 modernised the laboratory and methodological facilities of the institute;
📌 organised a series of online lectures for students from US experts.

All updates at the faculty were carried out jointly with Progresstech-Ukraine, a long-term partner of Kyiv Polytechnic. Today, 23 students are already studying under these programmes.

‘For Progresstech-Ukraine, Kyiv Polytechnic is one of the key educational institutions with which we work closely. Today, more than a third of our company's specialists are graduates of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. So we chose this university for a reason. In this way, we increase the competitiveness of students for the labour market as a whole,’ said Maksym Gladskyi, Deputy Director of Progresstech-Ukraine.

Also, on the basis of the newly created laboratories, KPI students implemented their own project: a wind turbine - a device made of recycled composites (chopped carbon fibre) that can generate electricity for regions affected by natural disasters and military destruction. The KPI project took second place in the international Sustainable Composite Design Competition 2024.

‘Today in Ukraine, there are a lot of composite materials that are not recycled and become garbage. These are wind turbine housings that have already been recycled, and the bodies of some aircraft. That's why we have created a project for a wind turbine recycled from these composite materials, which will help solve not only environmental but also other socially important problems. After all, the device can be used during natural disasters - floods, fires, etc. - as well as military operations. In our work, we used the laboratories within the uCAREER project, namely the laboratories of the Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology and the Department of Dynamics and Strength of Machines, and grants to purchase materials for the manufacture of our samples,’ says Artur Myhovych, a PhD student at the Educational and Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering (ER MMI) of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.