The MASCOT module successfully completed a space mission and delivered soil to Earth from the asteroid Ryugu. Had Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute not made heat pipes for the device, “Hayabusa2” would not have been able to survey the asteroid for more than a year and collect samples.
With the help of modern radar stations, images of the earth's surface are obtained, which are used for weather forecasting, research of natural resources, geological exploration, monitoring of catastrophes, ecological pollution, etc.
Volodymir Danilenko, a graduate student of the Department of Nuclear Power Plants and Engineering Thermophysics of TEF, was awarded the Igor Kurchatov academic scholarship.
On November 5, the delegation of the United States Department of Energy, which was headed by Ukraine's Department of Nuclear Energy Program Director, Demian Pico, visited Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic University.
On September 19, Mykhaylo Polskiy the graduate of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, a successful American entrepreneur who has been working in the field of energy for many years visited his alma mater.
On September 17, Ender Korkmaz, the director of Yunus Emre Turkish Center in Kyiv at the Embassy of the Turkish Republic in Ukraine visited Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.
In September 2, there was a ceremonial opening of the Educational and Scientific Laboratory «Nuclear Security» and presentation of Educational and Magister Program «Physical Protection and Accounting
On May, 22, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute was visited by delegations of two institutions of the higher education from People's Republic of China - the Nanchang University (Nanchang, the Province of Jiangxi) and the Shandong University of Science and Technology (Qingdao, the Province of Shandong).
On March 19 Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute was visited by the delegation of National Tsinghua University and the CNNC China Zhongyuan Engineering Corp. company (People's Republic of China).
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute is awarded with the Grand Prix "The leader of the higher education of Ukraine" of the international educational exhibition "modern educational institutions" which took place in the Kiev Palace of children and youths from March 14 to March 16.
