The main scientific directions, in which students, postgraduate students, doctoral students and scientific and pedagogical staff of the department are currently working fruitfully, are aimed at researching and improving the processes of mixture formation and combustion of engines, improving environmental and economic indicators, ensuring the use of alternative fuels and multi-fuel; increasing the resource characteristics of engines, using promising materials and technologies; developing CAD, new methods, mathematical models, software.
The scientific directions are headed by professors A.P. Marchenko, V.O. Pylyov, I.V. Parsadanov, O.V. Trynyov, S.O. Kravchenko.
The Department of Internal Combustion Engines has a specialized academic council for the defense of doctoral and candidate theses in the specialties 05.05.03 “Engines and power plants” and 05.22.02 “Automobiles and tractors”.
The department publishes the All-Ukrainian scientific and technical journal “Internal Combustion Engines”. The department is the organizer of the All-Ukrainian competition of student scientific works in specialty 142 “Power Engineering”.
The scientists of the department take an active part in international conferences in Ukraine, Lithuania, Poland, Germany. The department is a co-founder and organizer of the annual International Congress of Engine Engineers.
The department maintains ties for the integration of scientific research, educational programs, exchanges of teachers and students with the Warsaw Polytechnic (Poland), Prague Technical University (Czech Republic), Kielce Polytechnic University (Poland); Green Bay University of Wisconsin (USA), Klaipeda University (Lithuania).