Institute of Power Engineering

Director of the Institute is Ivanov Alexey Boryovych, Candidate of Technical Science, professor of the Electrical Machines Department.

The Institute was established on the basis of the former Electrical Engineering Faculty (founded in 1962) in the year 2002. Its activity is aimed at further improving organization of academic, educational, scientific and methodical work and research, and widening the collaboration with prominent native and foreign universities, educational institutions, industrial enterprises and electrical engineering and informational technologies entities.

The Institute includes:

• Electrical Engineering Faculty;
• Faculty of Information Technologies;
• Energy Saving and Energy Management Center;
• Prydniprovsk Science-and-Technology Center of Information Protection.

Training of students and research is carried out at 9 Departments. Bachelors are taught on 14 undergraduate programs. Training of specialists and masters is made on 16 postgraduate programs. Doctor`s degrees are conferred in the fields of Electrical Engineering and Automation.

Basic trends of research include:

• Electric power supply and consumption systems in the mining, metallurgical and other industries;
• Electric drives of industrial installations and plants;
• Electric transport systems of mines and other industrial enterprises;
• Systems of automation and control;
• Methods and systems of process automated control;
• Software of automated systems and information control technologies;
• Energy effective high capacitive electrification and automation systems for mining and other industries;
• Methods and means of information protection.