In November 2006, the Institute of Energy Saving and Energy Management has its 60th anniversary. The instituit is the successor of the Faculty of Mining, Faculty of Mining Electromechanics and Automation, and partially of the Faculty of Electric Power Engineering and Automation.
Due to the high demand for engineers who would rebuild mining industry destroyed during the war and to the need to significantly increase the extraction and processing of energy resources and minerals for Ukraine's economy, according to the Council of Ministers of the USSR in 1946 at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute was the Mining Department was opened. The foundators of the faculty were academics O.N.Scherban, N.A. Starikov, V.B.Solohub, a member of PS USSR Academy of Sciences Kucherov, professor M.M. Zhukov, E.Y. Ivanchenko, A.G. Mikhailov, Associate Professor A. Kuznetsov and others. Later the significant contribution was made by professors V.Tsarytsyn, V.I. Kravets, V.M. Vynoslavskyy, associate professors I.P. Fil, P.F. Rybchenko, A.A. Vopilkin and others.
The first graduated from the faculty in 1951. The current head of the Department of Electric and automation plants Ph.D., Professor MG Popovich was among them.
Due to changes in the economics in 1963, according to the order MHSE the USSR, Mining Department was transferred to the faculty of automation and instrument in KPI.
But already in 1967 by the order MHSE , the Department of Mining Electromechanics and automation was formed in KPI. It was a revival of the faculty. The faculty team faced the task of creating a new material base, raising the level and expansion of scientific research.
In order to improve the structure of the KPI in 1972 to the Faculty of Electricity was added the electrification of mining operations and it was assigned to prepare students for specialty " Electrical power supply of industrial enterprises, cities and agriculture," and the department was renamed for the Department of Electricity.
In the late 60's and especially in the 70-80s of the last century at the faculty significantly increased different research projects with economic-contractual issues. In some departments the number of researchers reached 25-30 people. Except the teachers and graduates, also students were widely involved in performing researches.
During these years the department run by prof. V.M. Vynoslavskyy created a scientific school of electric power supply: the problems of creation tension adjustment means (V.M . Vynoslavskyy, P.F. Rybchenko, Karpov S.N.), optimization of power consumption (Pashchuk V.J., A.V. Prakhovnik, and .S. Ryabenko) power supply systems of mining enterprises (A.I. Nightingale, Shishkov V.Z.) switching devices (V.M. Mishchenko, V.M. Konontsov) power subsystems are developed, CAM systems for large industrial associations (V.D. Leporskyy, A.V. Prakhovnik, V.F. Skryl) are developed.
In 70-80 years the department under the guidance of prof. A.V. Prakhovnik was created a scientific course of demand management, a significant amount of research in the field of power management, development controls and metering of energy consumption was performed.
The Department of Automatisation of Mining developed the research on improving the reliability of control systems and automatisation machines and technological complexes (M.G. Popovich, G.M. Yanchuk, Danylchuk G.I.) Under the run of prof. V.M. Chermalyh the department developed and introduced automated electric drives with semiconductor converters.
The Department of Technology and Mechanization of Mining Operations led by professors V.V. Tsarytsyn and O.A. Pyrskyy formed the research on the creation of effective technologies, schemes of mechanization of mining operations, the study of the properties of rocks and creation of tools for their destruction. Under the direction of the head of department (1979-1986 gg.), prof. A.G. Smyrnov, scientific research about the use of blasting in construction, particularly in the construction of roads in swampy areas, was conducted.
In the 70s a scientific cooperation with foreign universities begins to develop. Particularly successful in this direction was the department of electricity, which cooperates with the Wroclaw University, Leipzig higher technical school, high Vismyr school. Later, the departments of the faculty have started the cooperation with universities in the USA, Denmark, Austria, Italy, the Netherlands and others.
In 1989 Electricity Department with his students and material resources was transferred to the Department of Electricity and automation, and was renamed to Faculty of mining.
In 1989 the Department of Mining Electromechanics ( head of the department - prof. Shevchuk S.P.) was renewed for training with "Mining electromechanics", and with the introduction of a new list of specialties in 1995 it began training for Urban underground construction and mining, specialty of "Electromechanical equipment of energy production" with the appropriate renaming of the department.
The Department of the Automatisation of Mining trains specialists in "Electromechanical systems of automation and electric drive" due to the list of new professions.
The Department of Technology and Mechanization of mining operations in 1991 began to train specialists in ecology and environmental protection and mine and underground construction, it performed research in the development of cost-effective environmental technologies and extraction and processing of minerals. In 1993, on the basis of the department was created the Department of Civil Engineering, headed by prof. V.G.Kravets and was the training specialists for "Mine and underground construction" and "Mining". Also the Department of Environmental Engineering was created. The new department has been conducting research in the passage, support and rehabilitation of mines, improving the means and methods of initiation of industrial explosives and others.
The Department of Electrical Power Supply, which at that time was a part of the Faculty of Electric Power Engineering and Automation, in the 80s formed a scientific school on power management, headed by Head.Department prof. A.V. Prakhovnyk. At the department a scientific center of energy efficiency was established, which later was transformed into the Institute of Automation and Energy "Enerhiia". The purpose of its creation was the development and implementation of software and hardware and automated systems in the energy sector. In particular, it was based on production of means of continuing work, on the creation of local and regional systems of management and power consumption of their control, including control systems commercial interstate overflows of electric power and power supply automated control systems for industrial facilities.
As one of the activities of the "Complex State Program on Energy Efficiency", approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the joint order of the State Committee and Ministry of Education of Ukraine in 1997, "KPI" created the Institute for Energy Saving and Energy, the Department of electricity, heat and energy saving and institute "Enerhiia ", which joined the faculty of mining in 1998. The institute offered to open in Ukraine the new specialty "Energy management", all the work and curricula were developed and the training started.
Now the institute consists of eight departments: electrotechnical automation control systems, geobuilding and geotechnology, environmental engineering, electricity, electromechanical equipment of energy production, heat and energy conservation, safety and the environment, life support. They are 130 teachures, including 15 professors, doctors, 74 associate professors, PhDs, 41 senior teachers and assistants.
The institute trains 2028 students (1634 - full-time students and 394 – low residence students).
Scientific direction of the institute "Management of energy usage" is represented in Ukraine by known scientists, PhD, professors A. Prakhovnyk, V.M. Chermalyh, O.A. Pyrskyy, V.G. Kravets A.M. Somedov, A.P.Kichihin, K.N. Tkachuk, S.P. Shevchuk, V.I. Deshko V.V. Zorin, M.A. Denysenko and others. The annual number of researches now reaches 750-1000 thousand UAH.
The Department of Electricity and Research Institute "Enerhiia" with the organizational and methodological assistance of the European Community (EC) established Energy Training Center. The main activities of the center are training and retraining on the basis of higher education for the experts on energy conservation, environmental and energy management.
On the basis of the institute, EC and the center in 2000 was developed a network of training centers for Energy Management, which includes centers at leading technical universities in Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Odessa and Sevastopol. This network can provide training courses on leadership training and engineering personnel of ecological and energy management.
The department continues to work with electrical power management, analysis, forecasting and energy use. Much work is devoted to the educational process, preparation of textbooks and manuals. For the book "Transients in power supply systems” prof. V.N. Vynoslavskyy , Assoc. L.I.Nesen and Assoc. V.V.Prokopenko were awarded the State Prize.
The Department of Electricity together with "Moeller Electric" creates laboratory relay protection and automation. This will allow the department in the near future prepare highly qualified specialists who will be competitive not only in the labor market of Ukraine but also the near abroad and European Union.
In the training of "Energy Management" is actively involved a graduating Department of Heating Engineering and Energy Saving. The department conducts research in high-temperature thermal process equipment, study of radiation and convective heat transfer, methods for crystals grown from the melt, the study of thermal properties of materials, the study of patterns of heat transfer during boiling and high-viscosity fluids during drying solid and bulk materials .It developed a new generation of mathematical models to calculate the temperature fields in electrolyzers using the boundary element method and methods of measurement of temperature.
The Department of Automatisation of Mining from 1999/2000 academic year began training the specialization "Automation energy-controlling processes in civil buildings", which deals with automatisation, control and monitoring. The name of the department became the “Department of Electrotechnical Automatisation Control Systems”. Areas of scientific activity include: development of theoretical bases of optimal control of electromechanical systems, cyclical actions and choices of energy saving equipment based on power semiconductor converters and microprocessor devices.
In response to industry needs, the Department of Electromechanical Equipment of Energy-intensive Industries began training subways and oil and gas companies. A substantial attention is paid to the use of modern methods and means for diagnosis of electromechanical equipment, information systems and technologies. The department is widely use in teaching the opportunities of the subsidiaries "Kievmetrostroy" in Ukrainian Oil and Gas Institute, the Institute of superhard materials and the Institute of Electrodynamics of NAS of Ukraine for use of logistics and experimental base, joint research projects. At the department a center of energy-saving pulse-wave designs, technologies and training systems was created. The complexes for hydrohammers and machines manipulators and excavators were developed, as were gas recovery technology equipment and oil wells, increasing their productivity, technology, hydraulic fracturing and others.
The Department of Environmental Engineering trains professionals with specializations in "Environment Mining", "Eco Energy" and "Environmental Technology, Equipment and Monitoring Production of Drinking Water from Underground Deposits." The department developed low-electrical clean technology for drilling and blasting in quarries, which is widely implemented in Ukraine and Russia.
The Department of Geotechnology Geobuilding are focused on training the specialists in mining. Considering the growth of urban underground construction building, the probability of emergencies with geotechnical character, the department began training for specialization "Geotechnical Monitoring of Emergency Situations." The department conducted research on forecasting and stability of natural slopes and slopes mining, subsidence and soil bearing capacity for the foundations of buildings, development of scientific bases forming properties of building materials made from waste products of mining, development of effective methods of initiation of industrial and other charges.
Considering the current trend of integration into European space, Ukraine's joining the Bologna process, staff of the institute has one of the first among "KPI" intitutes from the 2004/2005 academic year participated in the pedagogical experiment on introduction in the educational process module-rating system to learn.
Many labor and soul in the establishment of the institute and its development made by these 60 years of his deans: associate professors A.M. Kuznetsov, G.K. Rozkishnyy, V.V. Smyrnov, professors V.I. Kravets, V.M. Vynoslavskyy, O.A. Pyrskyy and the rector of the Institute A. Prakhovnyk. A particular page of the history of the institute is prof. V.M. Vynoslavskyy, who was the dean of the Faculty for about 30 years. The combatant, a veteran of World War II, honored worker of higher school of Ukraine, a kind and a sensitive man, he devoted himself to the faculty and its development.
During its existence since 1946 the institute has trained 8,808 engineers and 139 masters. Departments train specialists in many countries: Albania, Algeria, Vietnam, Iraq, Cuba, Jordan, Zaire, Nepal, Niger, East Germany, Syria and others.
Graduates and teachers of the institute defended more than 30 doctoral and 250 master's degrees. Teachers and researchers have published more than 6,000 scientific papers, received more than 650 patents for inventions, published more than 100 books, textbooks and monographs.
The institute graduates work in mining, electricity and other industries enterprises and organizations in Ukraine, CIS, Asia and Eastern Europe. They made a significant contribution to the development of the economics. Among the graduates are famous business leaders, associations, ministries, prominent politicians and public figures. Among them are graduates who maintain relationships with departments and participate in improving the material and technical base of the institute. The are particular, it D.Y. Andrievsky, A.V. Voloshko, R.P. Kisel, V.I. Kot, V.M. Mykolaenko, P.D. Nahornyy, L.S. Sachkov and others.