Ternopil Ivan Pul'uj National Technical University


Ternopil Ivan Pului National Technical University is a university in Ternopil, Ukraine.
Ternopil Ivan Puluj National Technical University – the leading higher technical educational institution in Western Ukraine, founded in 1960.
Today it is the only higher technical educational institution that provides training of all academic levels, DScs and PhDs for such regions as Ternopil, Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne and Khmelnitsky.

The history of the university

The origins of the university reach 1960, when Ternopil All-technical Department of the Lviv Polytechnic Institute with the extra-mural and part-time study forms was organized on 11 March. Stolyarchuk V.P., PhD was appointed the Head of the Department; and the training was conducted by 12 teachers. In February 1962 Shcherbakov A.O., PhD started working as the Head of the Department. At the same time full-time specialist training was opened.
On 15 May 1964 the Department was reorganized into Ternopil affiliate of Lviv Polytechnic University with the first chairs of higher mathematics, drawing geometry and graphics, technical mechanics, physics and energetics. Shcherbakov A.O., PhD became director of the affiliate. In 1964–1968 new chairs were formed: the Chair of social and political sciences, theoretical mechanics, foreign languages, metal technologies, machine tools and instruments, physics, general and theoretical electrics and physical education. At that time the affiliate trained specialists in the following specialties: mechanical engineering, metal-cutting machine tools and instruments, electrical measuring equipment and radio equipment.
In March 1968 Polishchuk A.G., Ph.D. became director of the affiliate. The intense work on the necessary instrumentation of teaching rooms and laboratories, expansion of the teaching areas, replenishment of the teaching staff with Candidates and Doctors of Science, organization of the Extra-Mural Studies Department and creation of the chair affiliates at production was being conducted.
In October 1985 Shabliy O.M., Sc.D was appointed director of the Ternopil affiliate of Lviv Polytechnic University. He initiated the opening of new specialties: technology and equipment of the welding production, automation of the technological processes and productions, instrumentation, biotechnical and medical apparatuses and systems; construction of the new teaching building was conducted. Due to the active and effective work of the headsand staff on 27 February 1991, Ternopil InstrumentationInstitute was created on the basis of the Ternopil affiliate of Lviv Polytechnic University, being the second higher educational institution of this directionin Ukraine. The first rector chosen by the staff was Shabliy O.M., Sc.D. At that time the Institute comprised 3 departments integrating 13 chairs. The general quantity of students was 2420. 150 teachers worked at the Institute, 76 of them being Candidates and Doctors of Science. Since April 1995 the educational institution has carried the name of the outstanding Ukrainian scientist and public man Ivan Puluj. In accordance with the decision of the InterbranchAccreditation Commission, in 1994 the Institute was accredited as a IV level educational institution.
The creation of the Institute was a powerful impetus to the new quality changes and further growth. The restructuring of the economy of the region and the necessity of providing staff for overcoming the crisis helped change the orientation of the Institute and carry out its considerable structural reconstruction. The Institute has practically lost its narrow applied line gradually transforming into the multibranch higher technical educational institution.
Considering the real developments and achievements of the staff, the Regulation of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine № 1536 from 30 December 1996 approved the creation of Ternopil Ivan Puluj State Technical University on the basis of Ternopil InstrumentationInstitute. Academician Shabliy O.M. became the rector of the university.
The university is an educational, scientific, engineering and cultural centre of the western region of Ukraine. Nowadays it is the only higher technical educational institution of the region providing the training of specialists of all qualification levels, Doctors and Candidates of Science for the region comprising also Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Khmelnytskyy and Rivne.
Since 1999 the university has been a full member of the European University Association – an organization uniting more than 600 European universities, it also holds membership in the national association of rectors from 43 countries which is the main representative organ for the higher educational institutions in Europe. The European University Association is a consultative member of the Supporting group of the Conference of Ministers of Education from European countries. The university takes active part in fulfilling one of the main tasks of the association which is the creation of the European higher education space where students, teachers and scientists would be able to accomplish their own intentions and ideas on the basis of the established European educational norms.
On 16 September 2005 Ternopil Ivan Puluj State Technical University joined the European Declaration of the higher educational institutions of the Magna Charta Universitatum comprising fundamental principles, rights and duties of the universities as the outposts of culture, knowledge and research and uniting more than 530 leading universities of Europe, among them 14 from Ukraine.
By Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 1024/2009 dated 11 December 2009, the university was granted a national status with a corresponding change of name.

The structure

The range of specialties taught at the affiliate, institute and, finally, university has gradually extended, and presently the amount of specialties for bachelors, specialists and masters reaches the number of 20. Altogether they are united in 15 directions.
8 departments are functioning within the university: Computer Technologies Department, Department of Computer Information Systems and Program Engineering, Electrical Engineering Department, Food and Processing Production Department, Mechanical Engineering Department, Economy and Entrepreneurship Department, Department of Management and Business in Production, Department of Testing Instruments and Radio Computer Systems. The training is also conducted at the International studies centre and Pre-university studies centre. The re-training and skill upgrading is organized by the Post-graduate studies centre.
The educational process is assured by 34 chairs. Among them there are 5 humanitarian chairs ; 3 fundamental chairs ; 4 all-engineering chairs and 22 specialized chairs.
The following training centers are functioning at the university: Information technologies centre comprising the regional CISCO academy, regional centre for the certified specialists training on the programs of Microsoft IT Àñàdemy and SUN Microsystems, the laboratory of the Shnaider-Electricenterprise and certification examination centre of the European Virtual University. The graduates of the academy receive certificates of the international standard.
Ternopil Ivan Puluj Technical University also includes the Technical College in Ternopil and the Gusyatyn and Zboriv Colleges situated in Gusyatyn and Zboriv respectively.
Presently the general enrollment of students, masters and post-graduate students in the university alone comprises around 6000 persons. The general licensed amount of full time bachelors is 945 persons, masters – 325 and specialists – 695 persons; the amount of distance studies bachelors is 900 persons, masters – 320 and specialists – 865 persons.
TNTU has founded and is a leading member of the regional educational and scientific amalgamation "Technical personnel", the Junior Academy of Sciences, educational and scientific complexes "Svitlo", "Gazda", "Dostatok", "Agromash", "Computer" and "Proforientatsiya". Pre-university student training is conducted at the Technical Lyceum of the university and amalgamation "Vatra" as well as at the lyceum school in Dobryvody, specialized schools and gymnasiums.
In 1995 the university transferred to the specialist training pursuant to the educational and professional programs of the Ministry of Education of Ukraine. The education model approved envisions, besides the high professional training, the accomplishment of task-oriented programs of the intense fundamental training and computer education, modernization of the economic sciences teaching, humanization of the educational process, development of the foreign language teaching and advance in the legal education of specialists.

Faculties

Faculty of Computer Technologies
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Faculty of Computer Information Systems and Software Engineering
Faculty of Control-Measuring and Radio Computer Systems
Mechanical Engineering Faculty
Faculty of Management and Business
Faculty of Economics and Entrepreneurship
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Food Technologies

Foreign students faculty

English language of study
Ukrainian language of study:
All accredited fields of study and specialities

Teaching staff

Teaching staff is represented by more than 200 teachers, including one corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, one member of the New York Academy of Sciences, 10 academicians and corresponding members of the specialized academies, 24 doctors of sciences, professors, more than 140 PhDs, assistant professors. Among them well-known and respected scholars and teachers: PhD, Professor P. Yasniy, Academician of Engineering Academy, PhD in Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor, Honored master of sciences and engineering of Ukraine O. Shabliy, Honoured inventor of Ukraine, PhD in Technology Sciences B. Hevko; PhD in Technology Sciences, Professor R. Rohatynskiy, PhD in Technology Sciences T. Rybak, professors: L. Didukh, V. Nikonenko, I. Zubchenko, P. Stuhlyak, V. Hrynchutskyy, B. Yukalo; Associate Professors: M. Mykhailyshyn, P. Kryvyi, B. Tartaryn, V. Lobas, B. Shelestovskyy, V. Kukharska, Y. Prots, M. Palamar, I. Bakushevych, B. Jaworskiy and others.

Honored graduates

A lot of our graduates have connected their further work to the university, among them Academician of the Academy of Engineering Sciences of Ukraine, Rector, Sc.D. Petro Yasniy; Vice-Rector for Teaching and Educational Affairs, Sc.D. Ihor Lutsiv; the member of the Writer Association of Ukraine, public man, Vice-Rector for Humanitarian Education and Pedagogical Work, Ph.D. Oleg Herman; Head of Computer Technologies Department, Sc.D., Stukhlyak P.D.; Head of Mechanical Engineering Department, Ph.D., Yuriy Palyvoda; Head of Department of Management and Business in Production, Ph.D. Andriy Oksentiuk etc. We are proud of our graduates occupying responsible posts at Ternopil enterprises – amalgamation "Vatra", Combine Factory, factory "Saturn" as well as other enterprises in different regions of Ukraine.

Tntu specialized councils

Specialized Council D58.052.01 to defend the thesis for the Doctor of Science degree in the field:
01.02.04 "Malformed solid body mechanics"
01.05.02 "Mathematical modeling and computational methods"
Board chairman: prof. Petro Volodymyrovych Yasniy
Specialized Council D58.052.02 to defend the thesis for the Doctor of Science degree in the field
05.05.11 "Machines and mechanization of agricultural production"
Board chairman: prof. Tymofiy Ivanovych Rybak.
Specialized Council K58.052.03 to defend the thesis for the Ph.D degree in the field:
05.02.08 "Engineering Technology";
05.03.01 "Machining processes, machine tools and instruments";
Board chairman: prof. Bogdan Matviyovych Hevko
Specialized Council K58.052.04 to defend the thesis for the Ph.D degree in the field:
05.09.07 "Light Engineering and light sources"
Board chairman: prof. Volodymyr Andriyovych Andriychuk
Specialized Council K58.052.05 to defend the thesis for the Ph.D degree in the field:
08.00.04 "Economics and Management of Enterprises"
Board chairman: DSc in Economics Bogdan Mykolayovych Andrushkiv.
Specialized Council K58.052.06 to defend the thesis for the Ph.D degree in the field:
05.13.05 "Computer Systems and components"
05.13.06 "Information Technology"
Board chairman: prof. Mykola Volodymyrovych Pryymak