The results of the second appraisal of the spring semester 2012/2013 academic year
This academic year, summer examination schedule in our university begins on June 17, 2013, and before summarizing the spring semester we should analyze current student learning outcomes, based on data appraisal.
Means of Energy Audit for IEE NTUU “KPI”
On the 20th of June the Head of the Ukrainian-Japanese centre at the NTUU “KPI” Osamu Midzutani presented Institute of Energy Saving and Energy Marketing at the NTUU “KPI” with the equipment for energy audit for its use in scientific researches and educational process.
‘Today we are giving KPI the equipment, the operation of which was demonstrated by the participants of the workshop which was held from 12th to 14th of June. We consulted Japanese experts about whom out of the participants of this workshop better to give it and decided unanimously that this equipment should be presented to the Institute of Energy Saving and Energy Marketing at the NTUU “KPI”,’ stressed the head of the Ukrainian-Japanese centre at the NTUU “KPI” Osamu Midzutani. ’We have collaborated a lot with its first director Arthur Prahovnyk, we hold several workshops for experts in this field and I am sure that here it will be of the utmost use to prepare specialists for energy sector in Ukraine.’
Visit of the Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba in Ukraine
On June 19 NTUU "KPI" were visited by the Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba in Ukraine Ernesto Antonio Senti Darias. In spite of the fact that it is his first visit to university, the meeting with the management and teachers of KPI and discussion of questions of expansion of cooperation left surprisingly warm and, at the same time, business.
Visit of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology representatives.
On the 18th June, by representatives of the Tokyo University of Agriculture Technology (Japan) attended NTU "KPI" - Professor Masao Nagai and Associate Professor Ponhsatorn Raksincharonsak. They visited the Science and Technical Library and Ukraine-Japan Center of NTU "KPI", made a tour along the alley of monuments to famous scientists and designers whose creative activity began in KPI or was connected with it and familiarized themselves with the State Polytechnic Museum at NTU "KPI". After a general acquaintance with University guests met with his leadership and discuss trends and ways to expand cooperation.
The meeting was attended by First Vice Rector of NTU KPI Yuriy Yakymenko, Vice Rector of National Technical University of Ukraine Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Executive Manager of International Relations Division, Corresponding Member of NAS of Ukraine Sergey Sidorenko, Deputy Chief of International Relations Division Sergei Shukayev, director of the Ukraine-Japan Center of NTU" KPI "Midzutani Osama and his deputy, Eugene Ogorodnik, and representatives of Mechanical Engineering Institute of NTU "KPI".
Breathing exercise for health
Human's life begins with breathing in, maintains by breathing and ends with exhalation. Regulating the breathing allows human to change his/her condition. Indian sage X-XI c. Horaksha claimed the breathing to be a fire which burns the consequences of the actions: inhalation gives strength, controls and clears the body, breathholding makes thoughts clear and gives a long life, and exhalation has cleaning functions. According to the Indian yoga, breathing exercises influence on life energy ( ci or chi - in Chinese, ki - in Korean and Japanese, thi - in Vietnamese). Among most people its activity is poor, the circulation is chaotic or blocked that causes diseases, which can be omitted by the breathing regulation. The objects of the regulation are the way of breathing: through the mouth or nose (preferable), through one nostril, by turns: through left or right etc; the phase (inhalation, exhalation, breathholding, and pause); type (upper, intermediate, lower); duration and intensity of phases, rhythm, tempo. Inhalation increases the cortex tone, exhalation reduces it.
The Prime Minister of Montenegro Milo Djukanovic unveiled a monument to Petar II Petrovic Njegos on the premises of the National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" in Kyiv.
On the 13-th of June the public garden near the Science and Technical Library of the National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" (NTUU KPI) hosted the solemn ceremony to unveil the monument to Petar II Petrovic Njegos (1813 - 1851), an outstanding poet and the Prince-Bishop of Montenegro.
Petar II Petrovic Njegos was the Prince-Bishop of Montenegro between 1830-1851, the Serbian Orthodox Metropolitan of Cetinje. He was an outstanding statesman, reformer, Montenegrin fair fighter against Turkey. When he was in power Montenegro began to turn into independent modern state. He also founded the first school and printing establishment in Cetinje, that is a historical and cultural capital of the country, and edited a collection of folk songs. Moreover, he was a prominent poet, one of the most remarkable in the literature of Balkan nations.