With outstanding organizational abilities of the prominent scientist, the founder of the Ukrainian welding school Yevhen Oskarovych Paton, Kyiv became the world's largest center of welding science. In 1948, the Faculty of Welding was established in the KPI, initially it had only one department, Welding Engineering, the founder and the first head was professor Y.O. Paton.
As a separate unit the Faculty of Welding existed in the KPI to 1955, when merged with the Faculty of Mechanics, establishing the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. The renewal of the Faculty of Welding was initiated by academician B.E. Paton in 1975. One of the establishers and the first dean was Associate of Science, Professor A.M. Slyvinskii. In 1977, construction of the building for the Faculty of Welding was completed. The total area was 6000 m2, and more than 300 m2 of which were laboratories.
In 2008 Faculty of Welding has been certified by the National Authority of the International Institute of Welding and Training International Welding Engineers.
In 2020, the Faculty of Welding of the - National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” became part of the Institute of Materials Science and Welding Ye.О. Paton.