The development of contemporary science and the engineering potential of Ukraine are impossible without training of engineers for chemical machine building. The training of future professionals is done, particularly, at the Department of Machines and Apparatus of Chemical and Oil Refinery Productions of the Faculty of Chemical Engineering. The scientific school of the department created by the first head of it, the associate member of the Academy of Science of USSR, Professor Vasyl Yukhymovych Vasyliyev, is now successfully being developed by his students and followers. Now the training of engineering personnel is the duty of the graduate of MAHNV department Professor Yaroslav Mykytovych Korniyenko. Over the years of work more than 700 graduates were trained, among whom were many extraordinary and bright personalities – the managers of scientific organizations and manufacturing enterprises, who began their career development from the student years.

Nowadays the staff of the department proudly mention the student of the 5th year Yaroslav Shevchenko who achieved significant success in studying and scientific work. Under the guidance of Professor Y. M. Korniyenko he improves the process of organomineral fertilizer. The results of the scientific work are published at 11 international and national research-to-practice conferences and are presented in 7 patents of Ukraine for a useful model. In recent years, he has been winning increased scholarship repeatedly. As well as he has been the head of the student science group of the department in recent years. As a result, the master student of MAHNV department Yaroslav Shevchenko won the President’s Scholarship for his successful studying and scientific work.

Studying is not the only thing the student’s life consists of. During his free time, he studies the programs of 3D modelling for projecting the objects of petrochemicals and crude oil refining; he loves to travel, to read books and just to communicate with friends.

"Навчання в КПІ ім. Ігоря Сікорського дало змогу знайти своє покликання, зрозуміти, чим у житті в подальшому хочу займатися. Завдяки ІХФ, а саме кафедрі МАХНВ, я досягаю своєї мети, стану кваліфікованим фахівцем у галузі хімічного машинобудування. Тому хотілося б щиро подякувати викладачам кафедри за їх плідну працю та терпіння. Вони навчили мене відповідальності, цілеспрямованості, запалили інтерес до навчання та науки в цілому, – розповідає студент. – Незабаром захист магістерської дисертації, а я вже сумую за студент¬ськими роками".

“Studying at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute gave an opportunity to find my vocation, to understand what I am eager to do in the future. Due to IHF, to MAHNV department especially, I gain my aim, I will become a qualified professional in chemical engineering. That is why I would like to thank to the lecturers of the department for their productive work and patience. They taught me responsibility, ambitiousness, sparked my interest in studies and science in the whole, - the student says. – I am going to defend my master’s thesis very soon. Anyway, I already miss student years.”

A. R. Stepaniuk, Assistant Professor at IHF