The monorail road with a linear electric drive was developed in the 1960s and 1970s at the Department of Automation of electromechanical systems and electrical drives (AEMS-ED) with the participation of the Department of Electric Machines at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (now FEA)
The patent issued to the invention was made by a group of authors from the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytecnic Institute and Technical University of Dresden (Germany), is registered in 120 countries!
The issue of energy efficiency and energy saving is particularly pressing for Ukrainians, especially in heating and air conditioning systems.
The gold medal of the winner in the International competition of scientific and artistic projects of pupils of secondary general schools "Genius was received by the Ukrainian Mykola Ivanchenko " in 2017 in New York, who is a graduate of the Kyiv school № 225.
Among the winning projects of the Sikorsky Challenge 2017 Startup Contest, the development of a diverse range: from a nanosatellite and a student car to medical equipment.
Among the innovative projects of the KPI students presented to the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, during his visit to our university, the most interesting are technologies and equipment for ultrasonic cavitation milk processing (see photo).
In the beginning of November, the Institute of electronics and microsystem technology of our University hosted the scientists of the Bucharest institute of micro and nanoelectronics at the Romanian Academy of sciences.
On November 23rd, in the KPI named after Igor Sikorsky, an agreement with the Institute of Automation of the Academy of Sciences of Shandong Province (People's Republic of China) on cooperation in providing documentation and consultancy services was signed.
In October, the International Metallurgical Forum “Science and Innovation” was held in Kyiv. Its organizers were NAS of Ukraine, Smart Holding, Metinvest Group, Interpipe, ArcelorMittal, and “Eurasia”.
At the “Sikorsky Challenge” startups competition, which has recently been held at Igor Sikorsky KPI, the scientists from the Faculty of Welding presented a mobile plant working on air-water-carbon plasma for coolants heating.
