New horizons of the commonwealth of engineers - electricians of Ukraine and Poland

June 9 NTUU "KPI them. Igor Sikorsky" was visited by a delegation of the Association of Polish Electrical Engineers (SEP) headed by its President Professor Petro Shymchak. It should be noted that this is the second meeting with the President of SEP within the walls of the KPI. The first meeting of the SEP delegation took place with teachers and students of the Faculty of Electric Power Engineering and Automation in April 2015.

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The Association of Polish Electrical Engineers (SEP) is the largest non-governmental creative organization in Poland, operating in the social and social interests, founded in 1919 by engineers - representatives of the electrical industry. Today, this voluntary community unites almost 23,000 engineers - electricians of all specialties, whose professional activity is associated with electrical engineering in its broad sense, as well as legal entities interested in the activities of such an association.

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Vice-Rector of NTUU "KPI", Director of the Ukrainian-Polish Center NTUU "KPI" Prof. S.I. Sydorenko informed the Polish delegation about the directions and results of multilateral cooperation of Igor Sydorenko Kyiv National University. Igor Sikorsky with universities and public organizations of Poland.
SEP President Petr Shymchak acquainted the attendees with the history, directions of activity and the program of implementation of a number of events dedicated to the 100th anniversary of SEP, which is celebrated this year.
Head of the Department of Electromechanics Prof. V.F. Shynkarenko stressed the important role of training highly qualified engineers of energy, electromechanical and electrotechnical specialties, which is due to the growing volumes of electricity consumption, trends in the global transition to electric traction, the development of robotics and electrotechnology.
The parties discussed and agreed on promising directions of scientific, technical and economic cooperation between KPI and SEP.

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The Polish delegation also visited the monument erected on the territory of the university, a graduate and teacher of the KPI - a prominent Polish physicist and statesman Wojciech Sventoslavsky, who graduated from the KPI in 1906, later worked at universities in Moscow and Warsaw, was the rector of the Warsaw Polytechnic and the Minister of Education of Poland.

Head of the Department of Electromechanics FEA,

Prof. Shynkarenko V.F.