History of the Department
The current name of the department – “Integrated Technologies, Processes and Devices” – stems from its long and interesting history, changing eras, staff renewal, curriculum transformation, evolution of global trends in the educational industry, and a sincere desire to improve the quality of modern higher education.
1927
First archival mention
Professor Mikhail Dmitrievych Zuev begins to teach students a course in general chemical technology, supplementing it with the calculation of processes and apparatus, as well as control and measuring instruments.
1930-1932
Isolation of a key discipline
The course on processes and devices gained popularity and was separated into a separate discipline. Within two years, the first training laboratory for control and measuring instruments was created.
1933
The new department and its first head
The created department was called ZHT, PA (General Chemical Technology, Processes and Apparatuses), and was headed by Professor Maksym Isidorovych Nekrych, who at one time graduated from the University of Paris – Sorbonne (France).
1948
Creation of training laboratories
In the post-war years, the Department of GChT, PA created a training laboratory of general chemical technology in the premises of the technical building, and already in 1952, a training laboratory of processes and apparatuses was put into operation.
1949
Second Head of Department
The Deputy Director of the reorganized KhUTI, Associate Professor, later Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Hryhoriy Kostyantynovich Goncharenko, was appointed Head of the Department of ZHT, PA, who held this position until 1976.
1950-1957
Expansion of scientific directions
In 1950, a course on automation of chemical production was added to the disciplines that the staff taught to students of a technological profile. To ensure educational activities, a separate training laboratory was created at the department within seven years.
1964
Separation of the Department of Automation
Further development of the material base and increase in the qualifications of the teaching staff allowed to separate a new department – Automation of Chemical Production – from the Department of Chemical Technology and Engineering.
1965
Changing the vector of science at the department
On the initiative of Associate Professor, later Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Volodymyr Ivanovych Kovalenko, the department began the development of a new scientific direction – mathematical and computer modeling of chemical and technological processes.
1972
Development of other directions of science
With the participation of a senior research fellow, and later an associate professor of the department, Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences Yuriy Petrovych Kudrin and associate professor, Candidate of Technical Sciences Yuriy Avramovych Tolchinsky, the department began to develop a scientific and practical direction in the use of screw machines for squeezing the liquid fraction of oilseeds. This technology has become widespread in industry around the world.
1977
Third Head of Department
The department is headed by Leonid Leonidovich Tovazhnyansky, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor, at that time Vice-Rector of KhPI, and later – Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, Honored Worker of Higher Education, Laureate of the State Prize, Full Member of the Academy of Sciences of Higher Education of Ukraine, Rector of NTU “KhPI”, Honorary Citizen of the City of Kharkiv.
The Acting Head of the Department from 1977 to 1981 is Igor Serafimovych Chernyshov.
1978
Moving to a new building
The laboratories of processes and apparatuses and general chemical technology, as well as the teaching and research staff of the department, moved to the renovated premises of the third laboratory building, where they are located to this day.
1979-1980
The latest computers and our own data center
The department is equipped with digital computers “Mir-2” and “Nairi”. To conduct educational work in the radio building, a specialized computing center (SCC) has been organized for students of all chemical specialties of the institute.
1981
Expansion of the department staff
The department staff began to number about 150 employees: 18 representatives of the teaching staff, about 80 employees of the research department, who worked in five scientific areas, as well as engineers who serviced a specialized computing center, and teaching and support staff.
The acting head of the department during this period was Professor Volodymyr Ivanovych Satarin.
1991
Creation of JSC "Spivdruzhnist-T"
The joint-stock company “Spivdruzhnist-T” is created on the basis of the department, with Professor Petro Oleksiyovych Kapustenko as its director. In 1994, the management signed a cooperation agreement with the company “Alfa Laval” – the world’s largest manufacturer of plate heat exchangers.
1992
Collaboration with UMIST
Together with UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology), the department gave lectures on pinch analysis and pinch methods for designing chemical and technological systems for the first time in Ukraine and the CIS countries. This laid the foundation for the development of a new scientific direction – integration of technological processes.
1994
Focus on energy efficiency
The foundations of a scientific school for training specialists in Ukraine in the field of theoretical foundations of industrial process integration are being laid.
After defending his doctoral dissertation, the position of Acting Head of the Department of Industrial Process Technology, PA is held by Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Yuriy Petrovych Kudrin.
1995
Transition to a modern direction of education
The Center for Energy-Saving Integrated Technologies is being created on the basis of the Department of Environmental Technology, PA and the Department of Process Integration of the Institute of Science and Technology UMIST with the support of the British Council and the KNOW-HOW Foundation (Great Britain) in conjunction with JSC “Spivdruzhnist-T”.
1997-2002
The Department at the beginning of the 21st Century
A textbook fundamental to modern chemical engineering, “Fundamentals of the Theory of Chemical Reactors. Computer Course,” is published, authored by professors of the department Zinaida Mykhailivna Tsaryova, Leonid Leonidovych Tovazhnyansky, and Evgeniya Ivanivna Orlova. In a few years, it was translated into Ukrainian and republished.
The duties of the head of the department during this period are performed by Professor Volodymyr Oleksiyovych Leshchenko.
2002-2004
A fundamentally new direction
Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Valeriy Yevgenovych Ved’ has been appointed Acting Head of the Department of ZHT, PA. In two years, the training of students in a new specialization – “Integrated Technologies and Energy Saving” will begin within the framework of the already existing specialty “Computer-Integrated Technological Processes and Production”.
2005
Change of department name
The preparation of new disciplines for the open specialty and the development of research work in the field of process integration determined the objective circumstances on the basis of which the department received the name “Integrated Technologies, Processes and Apparatuses” (ITPA).
2008-2015
The first graduates in a unique specialty
The first bachelors, specialists and masters graduated, trained according to a curriculum unique for all of mainland Europe, Asia and America. The gradual revival of Ukrainian industry is generating interest in the direction of energy conservation and process integration and contributing to the demand for qualified specialists in this field.
2017
The fourth official head of the department
Professor Valeriy Yevgenovych Ved’ officially takes up the position of Head of the ITPA Department. The change in priority areas of Ukrainian education necessitates the transition to new educational plans and the transformation of the specialty into “Chemical Technologies and Engineering” with a specialization in “Integration of Technological Processes, Software for Energy Efficiency“.
2018
University restructuring
From February 1, 2018, a new structure of NTU “KhPI” begins to function, according to which the ITPA department is included in the Educational and Scientific Institute of Chemical Technologies and Engineering (NNI ChTI).
2021
Educational program differentiation
In 2021, the department begins recruiting applicants for a new educational and professional program of the first (bachelor’s) level of higher education called “Energy Efficiency and Computer Chemical Engineering.”
2022-2023
Crisis management in the early years of the war
In 2022, a few months after the start of a full-scale war, due to the limited technical capabilities of Professor V. E. Ved, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor Anton Mykolayovych Myronov was appointed Acting Head of the ITPA Department. Under his leadership, the team successfully continued its work in all areas for a year and a half, despite martial law.
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Fifth official head of the department
At the end of 2023, the position of Head of the ITPA Department was transferred to Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor Kostyantyn Oleksandrovych Gorbunov.
In turn, he transferred the position of Guarantor of the educational and professional program “Energy Efficiency and Computer Chemical Engineering” at the bachelor’s level of higher education to Associate Professor Anton Mykolayovych Myronov.
Work at the department does not stop for a moment: this is evidenced by a significant increase in demand for specialized education and an increase in the number of students seeking to obtain qualifications in a direction that will definitely become one of the most relevant in the times of post-war reconstruction of the country.
Currently, the ITPA department continues to train and graduate specialists according to the updated educational program. Our graduates work at almost all large enterprises in the chemical industry and in the field of IT technologies: they are production consulting technologists, department heads, specialists in the implementation of energy and resource saving measures, engineers in the calculation of industrial equipment and heat exchangers, developers of specialized industrial software and computer games, QA testers and web designers, innovation masters, energy auditors, energy management consultants, etc.
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