International Forum on Sustainable Development

October 30, the International Forum "The interaction of universities, government and business for the development of a sustainable society" started its work at the National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute".

Patent trolls - who are they?

It is well known that the performance of the research, development, design and technology, dissertation, search operations are often accompanied by the development of new designs, technologies, recipes, new ideas, and that in the future may be implemented (commercialized) in certain products or s

KPI nanosatellite in orbit

June 19, 2014 the first Ukrainian nanosatellite PolyITAN-1 was launched in Earth orbit. It was created by scientists, engineers and students FHPE, FRE, FE, ESITS under the guidance of Head of  laboratory of nanosatellite  technology  FHPE, Senior Reshercher, Ph.D.

They created a nano-satellite

The students of our university worked on the development and the creation of nano-satellite PolyITAN-1. They are in particular: Dmitry Turin, Anton Snurnitsin,  Alexander Chaplygin, Eugene Kovalenko, Anna Sergeeva, Nazariy Bendasyuk.

Science in universities. Strictly implement the adopted laws.

Speech NAS of Ukraine academician M.Yu.Ilchenko at the Parliamentary hearings on the topic "On the state and legislative support for the development of science and technology of the state," July 2, 2014

Dear participants of the parliamentary hearings!

Science Must Become Popular Again

Considerable scientific potential of Ukraine is focused in higher education system (70 % of doctors and candidates of sciences ). Preparation of 81% and 85% of doctoral graduate students is carried out with higher education.

Resonance - friend and foe

Resonance - this is a phenomenon of a sharp increase in the amplitude of forced oscillations of the system, which occurs when the frequency of the external force becomes close to certain values (resonance frequencies), due to the properties of the system.

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.

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