Lecture of Mr. Herbert Mang, Honorary Doctor of NTUU "KPI", Professor of Vienna University
On the 11th of March honorable doctor of NTUU “KPI”, professor of University of Vienna Herbert Mang (Austria) spoke to students, aspirants and lecturers with the lecture on “Past, present and future researches on sustainability of engineering structures”.
Herbert Mang dedicated his lecture to review of the results of researches in the area of sustainability of engineering structures, began with the works of Leonard Ayler and Stepan Timoshenko and finished with some results of his own scientific researches, modern state in this discipline and perspectives of its further development.
Graduation of officers with Masters degree in Military Institute of Telecommunications and Informatization (MITI)
February is not the ordinary month for solemn graduation events. But for many years winter is the time when students of Military Institute of Telecommunications and Informatization of NTUU “KPI”, who showed impressive results in education and went on studying to get Master’s Degree graduate from this department.
Higher education at the turn of social development
Independent Ukraine inherited a distorted system of higher education from the USSR. On the one hand, this system was developed enough as a part of the natural fundamental, technical, medical, pedagogical, military training, and on the other hand being mounted in the centrally planned economy, it was extremely insensitive to the changes, highly specialized, had excessive ideologization of the educational process, narrowed principles of democracy. Since 1991, the state faced the task to regulate the activities of such system in the new socio-political conditions, balance it with the needs of transition economy and society.