History of the Department
The Department of Digital Technologies in Energy (DTE) was established on the basis of the department Automation of Design of Energy Processes and Systems (ADEPS) in 2022.
The Department of Automation of Design of Energy Processes and Systems was established on 30 June 1984 (KPI Order No. 78-1) as part of the Faculty of Thermal Power Engineering.
The organiser, chief ideologue and first head of the department was Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Academician of the Engineering Academy of Sciences, Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine, Volodymyr Heorhiyovych Slipchenko.
The aim of establishing the Department of APEPS was to improve the use of computer technologies by students of the TEF and to conduct scientific research in the field of modelling complex dynamic systems. During this period, the department taught disciplines such as “Fundamentals of Programming”, “Numerical Methods in Engineering Calculations”, and “Modelling of Dynamic Objects”.
Since 1986, the Department of APES has begun training specialists in the speciality “Information Technologies of Design” for the heat and power industry.
In 1990, enrollment began for a new specialty in Ukraine: “Automated Systems Software”.
In 1998, the specialty “Computer Ecological and Economic Monitoring” was opened for the first time in Ukraine.
The core of the teaching staff of the department includes lecturers from the Department of Computer Engineering in Engineering and Economic Calculations (OTierKyiv Polytechnic Institute and leading scientists of the scientific laboratory „Automated Design of Dynamic Objects and Systems” (APRODOS) at KPI. The founder of the OTIER department and the “APRODOS” laboratory was Professor Slipchenko V.G.
The department has a scientific and production testing ground for the testing and implementation of scientific developments of lecturers and students. Such a unit is the research institute „Automation of Design of Dynamic Objects and Systems” – RI „APRODOS” – an organisational scientific structural unit of NTUU “KPI”, and it originates from the laboratory “APRODOS”, created in 1979 at the “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” as a structural unit of the department of automation of design of energy processes and systems (“APEPS”), headed by Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Slipchenko V.H. The laboratory was created to carry out particularly important research related to the creation of aerospace technology in the USSR.
In 1987, the “APRODOS” laboratory was transformed into the Research Institute “APRODOS” at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, with V.H. Slipchenko appointed as its director.
From 1978 to 1980, at the All-Institute Laboratory of Computer Engineering (ZILOT), founded by Professor Slipchenko V.H., work was carried out to create a package of application programs – Comprehensive Calculation and Optimisation of Complex Systems – a unique tool for mathematical modelling. This package of application programs was intended for the automation of numerical analysis processes and parametric optimisation of mathematical models of continuous systems with concentrated parameters.
From 1979 to 1989, in the Research Laboratory for the Automation of Design of Dynamic Systems (Appros) and KPI systems, a complex of MTM programs was developed together with the Artem Kyiv Production Association. (Scientific supervisor – Prof. V.H. Slipchenko, project team – Senior Researcher O.A. Datsyuk, Senior Researcher S.O. Lukyanenko, Senior Researcher V.B. Krasnoyarska, Lead Engineer A.M. Belentsova). The complex was designed for the schematic design of radio-electronic devices using computers. The complex was implemented in enterprises in Kyiv, Gorky, Artemovsk, Kharkiv, and others.
From 1979 to 1988, the “APRODOS” laboratory conducted major scientific developments in conjunction with the “Molniya” scientific and production association. This association was developing the “Buran” aerospace project, analogous to the American “Shuttle” project, which was successfully completed in 1988 with a launch experiment. Following this, the scientific director, Professor Slіpchenko V.H., and his six employees became Laureates of the State Prize of Science and Technology of Ukraine.
General and specialised mathematical software was developed, along with an interface between special hardware and the computer for three test rigs of the “Buran” orbital spacecraft. This kind of system integration testing using a full-scale test rig was carried out for the first time in global and domestic practice.
From 1979 to 1985, the “APRODOS” laboratory carried out developments of an automated system for geometric calculations of aircraft contours (the “SIGRANT” system), which was implemented at the Kyiv Aviation Plant and used in the development and manufacturing of the AN72, AN32, AN200 (RUSLAN), and AN70 (MYRIAD) aircraft. It was also adopted by other aviation enterprises in the CIS countries.
In 1998, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Yu.I. Badaev initiated the field of applied geometry and computer graphics. Under his guidance, his students – Professor N.M. Ausheva and Associate Professor Yu.V. Sydorenko – are conducting fundamental research on computer geometry issues with the implementation of results into production.
In 1995 The Department of APEPS and R&D “APRODOS” was assigned the performance of an inter-industry GRANIT “R" scientific and technical programme”Development of scientific and methodological principles for a system of forecasting the genetic risk of introducing new technologies and environmental pollution", developed in accordance with Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 53/95 of 17.01.1995 “On the system for forecasting the genetic risk of introducing new technologies and environmental pollution”.
During its implementation, methodologies and programmes were developed, and methodological recommendations were formulated regarding the assessment of the territorial distribution of risks of oncological and inherited diseases depending on radiation load, the use of medicinal mineral waters of the Carpathian region and Podillia, modelling the dispersion of pollutants in the atmosphere, and the economic assessment of costs for neutralising the negative consequences of environmental pollution. As a result of the research conducted, a new specialty “Computer Ecological and Economic Monitoring”, based on the field of computer science, was created.
Each year, the department admits 5 groups of first-year full-time students and one group for part-time study. Every year, the department graduates more than 130 specialists and masters.
The aim of student training is to produce specialists who can perform almost all tasks requiring the use of computing and information technologies, and who will also be able to adapt to constant changes and improvements in computer technologies.
The content of the academic disciplines taught by the department's faculty is constantly updated to meet current requirements. Young talented computer science professionals work in the department alongside and under the guidance of leading scientists. Modern information systems are taught by experienced specialists from well-known computer companies.