Testimonials

What are the advantages of the ATEP department for students?

1. I believe that the department provides education and experience covering many areas of practical engineering. Not only automation, but also a variety of engineering sciences that are needed for automation and for other engineering professions. The department not only develops a person as a specialist in its field, but also opens up new opportunities – for example, for employment both in Ukraine and abroad.
2. Due to a variety of subjects, it is easier to find what you like more, what you like and specialize in this direction. For example, engineering and computer aspects and programming are one of the most promising for today.
3. Teachers and the attitude of the team towards students. I would like to note two important advantages that I remember: many teachers work in the field of automation and programming, which means they can transfer the most practical experience to students. In addition, an individual approach and a positive attitude towards students prevail at the department, and this is very important for a good mood and for the effective study of an engineering specialty and passion for the subject.

Greeting!

About learning

My name is Danylo Hrudzynsky and I graduated from the ATEP department with a master’s degree ten years ago. It was insanely interesting to study, however, at some point the need for money overcame the love of knowledge and the last couple of years I studied in a free mode of university attendance. At the time (unlike today), such a maneuver was unusual and highly discouraged, resulting in the question of my dismissal in the fifth year. However, the issue was resolved in my favor for a timely and, more importantly (!) well-performed laboratory tasks.

About career

I’m 30, and I’ve been working in IT for over ten years. Given the rapid growth of the market and the constant excess of demand over supply, there were many opportunities in this area. By the time I was 25, I had tried my hand as a programmer, project manager, and technical leader, and about five years ago I took on the client-facing position of technical solution architect (in fairness, not very serious).

I am currently working as a Team Lead / Principal Developer (when senior is not enough). This is a funny artifact of the terrible inflation of grades, caused by the service-orientation of the modern Ukrainian IT) in the company ISG (I do not recommend). Prior to that, I worked for five years as a software architect at DataArt (recommended).

About the essence of the question

Programming is very interesting. Programming is the ability to solve problems in general. Ability to distinguish abstractions from specific business processes and automate processes (solve problems) in relation to these abstractions. The basis provided by education at the Department of ATEP is invaluable in that it teaches to distinguish these abstractions in various fields – whether theoretical mechanics or reproduction of dynamic processes by Laplace transformations. Without this base and without these skills, the best thing you can count on as a programmer is the position of senior monkey coder. No prospects of working on interesting projects, no prospects of responsibility for something. Your carcass will be sold by skilled sellers with a good margin, but this will not bring you closer to the possibility of “creating”. In this way, you will forever be dependent on people who will be able to “create” and who will be able to “control” you. Under any reduction (hello, coronavirus!) You will get, not them. In any conversation that mentions “greedy stupid Ukrainian IT specialists”, you will be the main characters, not them.

Together

Good luck and success! I will not say “Training is all you have to think about”, but I will say that, having access to training at the Department of ATEP, it is unwise not to use it, both in light of a potential career and in light of an interesting, complete and a busy life. The knowledge and experience that you can get here (knowledge and experience, not a diploma and closed sessions!), Was very useful to me and I’m sure you will not regret the effort.

She graduated from the department in June 2014. I would like to thank the wonderful teaching staff of the ATEP department headed by Yuri Mikhailovich Kovrigo for the amazingly rich and useful 6 years spent at the Department of Automation of Heat Power Processes (ATEP).

The curriculum, in my opinion, is the most interesting at the faculty, since in addition to theoretical knowledge, I had the opportunity to gain very useful practical knowledge and skills that helped me with employment and further work. This is not to say that the program is easy (especially for a girl, a graduate of a humanitarian gymnasium), since it combines design, computer technology, instrumentation and programming, but it is not impossible either. One of the main advantages of this versatile program is the fact that a very solid foundation (knowledge base) is laid in the graduate, which is then easy to apply and get a job in different industries. There is also an opportunity to participate in various conferences and exhibitions.

The equipment and premises at the department are regularly updated every year. Students of the department work not only on “antediluvian” equipment (although these skills are very important, since, unfortunately, not all production facilities have introduced new modern technologies), but also study on modern equipment.

About myself. I work as a design engineer at the Kiev Research and Development Institute “ENERGOPROEKT”. During my career, I had a chance to work with thermal power plants in Russia and Ukraine. I can say with confidence that the knowledge base laid down at the department quite allowed me to apply the acquired skills and quickly master new ones.

In conclusion, I want to say that the department left very good impressions about itself precisely thanks to the teaching staff, since it was they who created a friendly atmosphere, which was very important for me during the decree period. It was thanks to the teachers that I managed to give birth and raise my baby without interrupting my studies. I would like to express special gratitude to the head of the department and diploma supervisor Kovrigo Yuri Mikhailovich, Shtifzon Oleg Iosifovich, Bun Valery Pavlovich and Stepants Alexander Vasilyevich. Of course, I am very grateful to all the teachers for the acquired knowledge, they even help me a lot in my current work, understanding and patience, and I wish the applicants good luck and I think they will make the right decision and choose the ATEP department.

Do not pass by and please read the answers to the questions that exactly interest you from a 4th year student. You have already decided that you are entering the Department of Automation of Thermal Power Processes at TEF ?!

“Is it hard to study?” – Well, that’s what you come to us for, isn’t it?)

It is DIFFICULT to take laboratory and coursework, but only if you do it on the last night, before admission to the exam, when all your classmates have passed everything and are sleeping peacefully.

“And who will I be after graduation?” – universal soldier – engineer. Being in the 4th year, I can already create complex drawings, and I do it well, I can design a complex network for a high-rise building and fully configure it, automate any process (especially heat).

“I want to become a programmer!” – So why? I’m kidding and I’ll make you happy – from the first year you will take a programming course in the most common language C (including C ++ and C #). In the fourth year you will learn to program industrial controllers – although the controller itself (I will note one of the most famous companies Schneider Electric) will be right in front of you and you will learn 5 languages ​​for its programming.

“Are the teachers good?” – more than half (this is only from what I know) work or have worked in the field of the subject you are taught. This is brighter than the titles speak of their high qualifications.

Well, for dessert – the most important question that I was asked a lot of both applicants and students of smaller courses: “Where and who will I work?”

Upon graduation, your knowledge will be very versatile. The course of drawing extended by a course of designing will allow to design various interesting pieces. The course of automatic control will allow to automate any technological process. You will study the course of computer networks, programming, electrical engineering, databases and even philosophy while studying at our department. And what’s cool is that the use of all this knowledge is not limited to heat, but only your imagination.

So, I think the choice is obvious.

I am a 4th year student, TO group. I would like to share with you stories about our department, give some advice on admission, talk about various events held at the department. About the department I want to say a few words: over the past few years, many new stands, computer classes, controllers and other equipment have appeared, which says about the interest of the head of the department, the teaching staff in the training of modern future specialists. And although our department is already 50 years old, it does not stand still, but develops along with the development of automation in the world.

As for the admission itself, you must understand that submitting documents to a university is to choose your own path in life. It is difficult for everyone at this age to make the right choice. I advise you to understand for yourself whether it will be interesting to study such subjects: higher mathematics, fluid dynamics and heat and mass transfer, programming, automatic control theory (one of the most important subjects), metrology, electrical engineering, technical automation equipment and many more different technical disciplines. Thanks to various modern stands and computer labs in the classrooms, students receive enough practical skills in laboratory classes.

During his studies, the student must hand over a certain number of laboratory, coursework, calculation papers, otherwise he will not be admitted to the session. In our department, in fact, it is more difficult to admit to the session than to pass it. But, if during the semester you attended all the classes, did all the work according to the plan, then the session is easy.

In addition to studies, the department conducts many different events: congratulating excellent students on the New Year, various conferences, Olympiads, which provide an opportunity to take a break from the main study or, conversely, to show their depth of knowledge in other disciplines.

To summarize: the modern world needs highly qualified specialists in the field of automation who want and can learn, and later – work on modern equipment, who are interested in obtaining the desired result. And such specialists are trained by the ATEP department. And senior students help younger students in their studies!

He graduated from the KPI at the ATEP department of the heat and power faculty, from which he graduated in 1978. By distribution he worked at the Kiev Institute of Automation in the department of automated process control systems for heating furnaces of rolling mills.

In 1983 he graduated from graduate school at the Kiev Institute of Automation and in 1986 he defended his thesis of candidate of technical sciences. Subsequently, he worked as the head of a laboratory, was engaged in the creation of an automated process control system for sections of heating furnaces of rolling mills at many metallurgical plants in the country.

At present I am the director of a small scientific enterprise engaged in the development of microprocessor-based automation equipment.

I would like to note that the Department of ATEP provides a very broad education, covering many areas of engineering. This is fundamental knowledge in the field of thermal processes, methods and tools of technological processes, as well as basic knowledge in the field of electrical engineering, electronics and programming. Such a set of knowledge enables graduates to work effectively in a wide variety of fields of science and technology.

I graduated from the ATEP department in 1978 (ATEP-195 group). After graduation he worked at the Kyiv Institute of Automation, later – in private companies, including companies “Logicon” (Ukraine) and “ControlTech” (Czech Republic), now I work in the company “Klinkmann-Ukraine” (Finland) as a technical director. My responsibility is to provide technical support for the distribution of global brands: programmable logic controllers from Unitronics (Israel) and industrial SCADA software from Wonderware (USA). He taught at the Department of ATEP, created a laboratory “Software and hardware automation” (laboratory of programmable logic controllers). Now I work at the department as a part-time teacher. I teach the disciplines “Engineering calculations in automation”, “Programming in automatic control system”, “Automation of technological processes and productions”. I was brought to the department by my father, who worked all his professional life as a teacher of the department. I love my profession and not a day in my life did I regret that I chose this profession at one time. What seems to me significant and important in our specialty? The answer is the pragmatism of our specialty. What is such pragmatism? The answer is in a constant optimal combination of classics and modernity. This is reflected in the title of our bachelor’s degree – “Automation and computer-integrated technologies.”

Automation of technological plants is an engineering classic. The basis of our specialty is the automation of thermal energy processes. Heat and mass transfer processes are the basis of all industrial technological processes and productions. Automation is a prerequisite for efficient and trouble-free operation of thermal power units.

Automation of technological plants is software and hardware complex, which is a tool of the operator-technologist in the management of plants. Automation transforms plants into the automated technological complex (ATC) which is operated by the person or functions desolately. Modern ATC is a computer-integrated technology – a cyberphysical system that uses modern computer technology (programming, Internet, databases). ATC as a computer-integrated technology is the technological modernity of our specialty.

ATC as a cyberphysical system is the core of the fourth industrial revolution, which is powerfully unfolding before our eyes in post-industrial countries. Fully automated (ie even automatic and robotic) “smart” enterprise – the goal of Industrial Revolution 4.0. The tools of this revolution today are computerization, programming, and the internalization of management.

Industrial Revolution 4.0 is identified by industry and the German government (= EU) as a top priority for technological modernization and technological innovation. In line with this trend is the initiative of the President of the United States “Computer Science for AllInitiative”, which provides for school and institutional study of programming as the fourth basic human communication ability (in addition to the three available: listening, speaking, reading).

Teachers, researchers and senior students of ATEP actively theoretically and practically support the ideas of Industrial Revolution 4.0 and Computer Science for AllInitiative and purposefully promote their introduction into the educational process of the department at the level of lectures, laboratory work and computer workshops.

Our specialty is always not young or old, but mature, as it optimally combines classic automation and modern control technologies. Automation will be needed everywhere and always, because without it, technological objects cannot function. Automation is the control of a technological process by a person. Yesterday, the control tools, ie automation, were regulators and relays. Today – computers and controllers, programming and network technology. Tomorrow, perhaps, – expert systems, works and machine vision. But it will always be automation with the use of modern tools, which you, if you graduate from the department of ATEP, will be professionally owned.

The pragmatism of choosing our specialty is that: first, our specialists will always find a job at any enterprise where there are thermal energy processes; secondly, this work will always be interesting, as it will always be modern in its tools; thirdly, our specialists will be able to work successfully in any other and most modern industries, as they theoretically and practically have modern computer technology.

I sincerely, responsibly and actively invite smart and mobile boys and girls, as well as their loving, patient and advanced parents to study for a bachelor’s degree in “Automation and Computer-Integrated Technologies” of the Department of ATEP TEF NTUU “KPI”!

After graduating from the ATEP department, he worked at the Geräteund Regler Werke plant near Berlin. There I was engaged in the development of a new generation of automated process control systems based on microprocessor technology. At the same time, we implemented such systems at various stations in the GDR, Russia, Bulgaria and Greece. Since 1990, he worked for Siemens AG in the energy department as director of sales for Siemens AG, was responsible for the CIS regions. Together with colleagues from Russia and Ukraine, we have implemented modern Siemens SPPA-T3000 systems at such large power plants as Berezovskaya GRES, Permskaya GRES, Severozapadnaya CHPP, as well as at all modern CCGT units in Ukraine, China, Iran, Iraq, etc.

I recently retired.

Education at the “Thermal Power Engineering Faculty of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute”, and even more so at the Department of ATEP, was the basis of my professional life. In all my workplaces, I was able to use the acquired knowledge. This applies both to work in the research department and in the sales area – in discussions with the customer’s specialists.

I especially want to emphasize the depth of the transferred knowledge in the areas of thermal power plant technology. I still remember lectures on steam and gas turbines, steam generators, thermodynamics and the theory of automatic control.

To today’s applicants and subsequent graduates of the ATEP department, I, first of all, wish success, accumulate knowledge as much as possible, a good start in professional life, and also feel student life as a gift!

I graduated from the ATEP department in February 1978. After graduating from the ATEP department I started working as an engineer on duty at the Boxberg TPP. The installed capacity of power units operating on brown coal was at that time 2520 MW (12×210 MW). The main equipment was the following: Taganrog boilers, LMZ turbine generators and MZTA instrumentation and automation equipment. In addition, the operation of 500MW new generation units was envisaged. The first block was in test mode, and the second was still under construction.

I had to focus on the technique of the new 500iMW section. He worked as part of the operation personnel, not as an auto mechanic. The main equipment: boilers (double, 2 units per turbine) produced by the GDR, the LMZ turbine generator, instrumentation and automation of the GDR (GRW).

Since August 1978 until September 1980 he worked in Ukraine.

On the German (GDR) section of the international construction of the Orenburg-Uzhgorod gas pipeline, he commissioned the Talnoe, Bar, Gaisin and Aleksandrovka gas compressor stations, later telemechanics of the Aleksandrovka linear part and the launch of the second gas pipeline control center in Cherkassy. He also worked as a translator. Joint contract work with foreign specialists from the USSR, GDR, Germany, USA, Austria and Great Britain during the commissioning of equipment was constructive and collegial.

After returning to his homeland, he graduated from the qualifications of a replacement head of the 500 MW unit. With the introduction of the 500 MW line into full operation, the installed capacity of the Boksberg TPP was 3520 MW. Boxberg was considered the largest lignite-fired power plant in Europe.

In 1985 I switched to another important job at the station. In 1987, after the relevant advanced training, he became the head of the department of safety, fire safety and labor protection. He held this position until his retirement at the end of 2012.

In the early 1990s. the conditions and legal foundations of operation for TPPs have changed significantly. In the 1990s. accompanied with his employees the entire process of reconstruction and modernization of 500 MW equipment, including the completion of equipment for removing sulfur from flue gases, as well as the process of phased decommissioning of all 210 MW power units. The number of plant workers has been reduced from about 4,000 to about 700! Great efforts had to be made to improve working conditions.

In the periods 1994-2000. and 2006-2012 906 MW and 675 MW power units were built.

The significance of the ATEP department in my professional career is the inherent knowledge of engineering in heat engineering at TEP and specialization in the field of automation of heat and power processes at the ATEP department are the foundation of my work biography.

Positive assessments of the ATEP department – the experience passed on to me: An automatic operator must know the technological process! Understand, analyze, clarify, seek a solution, focus on the essential, resolutely implement.

Wishes to today’s applicants of the ATEP department

The focus on theoretical foundations allows you to understand all systems regardless of the manufacturer of technical equipment (MZTA, GRW, GE, SERCK CONTROLS, SIEMENS, etc.)

Learning a foreign language, acquiring knowledge in the field of social competence

Always be a person open to everything progressive, ready to agree on an honest compromise

Wishes to the Department of ATEP on the composition of the curriculum – the development of social competence for working in international teams with people from different cultural circles.