You stand on the threshold of adult life. It is time for the choice of future profession, making a decision about the future.
If you are interested in the development of engineering and technology, if the science and the romantic appeal of the knowledge attract you, maybe you would like to consider yourself to be a creator of new machines - you should think about studying at the National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute".
The history of KPI has one hundred and nineteen years. The outstanding scientists of that time were at the roots of its creation and establishment as one of the leading universities of the country. Among them, there were Victor Kirpichev, the first rector of KPI, a distinguished expert in the field of mechanics and metallic resistance, the chairman of the South Russian society of technologists; Mikhail Konovalov, the brilliant scientist in the field of organic chemistry; Alexander Radtsih, the founder of the national school of the steam-turbomachinery industry; Konstantin Zworykin, the well- known specialist in metalcutting and the well-recognized authority in the matters of flour-milling industry technologies; Eugene Paton, the prominent scientist and engineer in the field of bridge builders; Stepan Tymoshenko, the world-known scientist in the field of applied mechanics and metallic resistance, and many others. They set the educational and scientific work at the Kiev Polytechnic in a very short time so the chairman of the first committee on the issue of KPI students, Dmitri Mendeleev, the prominent scholar of his time, described the level of the preparation as the best among known.
Today Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute year in year out ranks the first place in the ratings of Ukrainian universities. It is a powerful scientific, educational, innovative, cultural, youth center of our country.
The university does the painstaking work to preserve and increase glorious traditions of the past, the development of national educational and scientific schools, the formation of today's youth not only as specialists in their field, but also as an outstanding people, patriots, designers of their homeland. The past and present of KPI are inextricably linked with the development of the technical matter in the territory of modern Ukraine and its future is, literally, a supposition for the successful provision of scientific and technical components of the progress of our country in the XXI century.
This issue of the university newspaper will help you to make your choice. There you will find not only information about the direction of education in one of the most famous universities in Ukraine and terms of entrance to it, but also about the student’s life in the KPI, the opportunity to engage in scientific research, the sports and leisure of students.
With sincere respect to each of you,