History of the department

The Department of Heat Engineering was established in 1930. The staff of the Department provided the teaching activity for the Mechanical and Operational Faculties of the former Kharkiv Institute of Railway Transport Engineers. In 1977 the Department changed its name to the Department of Heat Engineering and Heat Engines. Then it was included in the Mechanical Faculty. Now it is part of the Faculty of Mechanics and Energy of the University. Since 1960 the Department has been training engineers in the Specialty “Industrial Heat and Power Engineering”. Later on, the Department offered admission to the Specialization “Heat and Power Engineering of Railway Transport”. In 1976, by the order of the Ministry of Railways of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the Department set up the research laboratory “Higher Fuel Efficiency and Better Performance of Diesel Traction”. During those years two Thesis/Dissertation Defense Committees for the Specialty “Heat Engines” worked at the Department.

At present the Department of Heat Engineering and Heat Engines trains specialists in the field of heat and power engineering and offers training in Bachelor’s and Master’s Academic Programs. The teachers of the Department deliver lectures, practical and laboratory classes for all other specialties.

The teachers of the Department work at the advanced courses for railway engineers, give classes to those training for a second graduate degree, and train research-degree specialists. The results of the scientific-research activity include 8 Doctoral theses, more than 50 Candidate’s thesis, more than 70 inventor’s certificates and patents for invention, 14 published monographs, 2 textbooks, 9 educational and methodological guidelines, and over 700 scientific articles. In 1987 the second edition of the textbook “Diesel internal combustion engines” was awarded with the State Prize of Ukraine. Since 1960 the Department has graduated over 1,600 specialists in the field of heat and power engineering who work at railway transport enterprises and in other industries.

In February 28, 2019 the Department changed its name to “Heat Engineering, Heat Engines, and Energy Management” and since then it has trained specialists in the academic programs “Energy management” and “Energy audit”.