Modern State of Electric Engineering Education and Science at Lviv
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COMPUTATIONAL PROBLEMS OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING Vol. 9, No. 2, 2019 MODERN PROGRESS OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION AND SCIENCE AT LVIV POLYTECHNIC NATIONAL UNIVERSITY Oksana Hoholyuk, Serhiy Rendzinyak, Petro Stakhiv, Vsevolod Horyachko, Taras Ryzhyi, Liubov Balatska Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Abstract. The main trends and tasks entrusted to the Faculty set up at Lviv Polytechnic in 1911 was the fourth staff of the Department of Theoretical and General after Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany, Electrical Engineering at the current stage of the 1882), University of Missouri (USA, 1886) and Czech development of science and education in Ukraine within Technical University in Prague (Czech Republic, 1902). the Strategic Plan of Development of the Institute of Energy and Control systems of Lviv Polytechnic National University are considered. The importance of historical inheritance of the educational and research activity of the Department, its cooperation with scientists of both domestic and foreign research institutions, and prospects of the development of the Department in the coming years are discussed. Key words: electrical engineering, educational process, history of science. Origins of electrical engineering education and science at Lviv Polytechnic National University Lviv Electrotechnical School has come a long way Professor Roman Dzieślewski Professor Stanislaw Fryze since its foundation in the late years of the 19th century till (1891–1924) (1925–1941) now. In spite of the political winds during this period, it has confirmed its high scientific potential, promptly reacting to Scientific and technical staff trained in the first the challenges of time. Lviv has always been an important academic years contributed to the formation of the Lviv political, scientific and industrial center at various Electrotechnical School, which is primarily associated authorities attracting the most active and capable people. with the name of the successor of Prof. R. Dzyslejewski It should be noted that at Lviv Polytechnic due to the – Professor Stanisław Fryze. His contribution to the efforts of enthusiasts, electrical engineering as a separate electrical theory and practice is huge and recognized all discipline began to be taught in the 1887/1888 academic over the world. In particular, he developed the theory of year by privat-docent Franciszek Dobrzyński. In transfiguration of electric circuits, the theory of active, 1891/1892, the Department of Electrical Engineering passive and imaginary power in electric circuits. He came into existance headed by Professor Roman introduced the concept of equivalent electromotive Dzieślewski. His merit was the creation of a exemplary electric power and the system of voltage arrowing, as at that time electrical laboratory where students were well as the methods of electric circuits calculation with provided with great opportunities of doing practical the help of mesh currents and nodal potentials. Professor research work. Stanisław Fryze simplified the theory and methods of The importance of the organizational measures multiphase systems analysis by introducing the symbolic introduced at that time can be proved by the fact that method that became the basis of modern electrical Lviv Polytechnic became the seventh educational engineering science. institution in the world and the fifth one in Europe to The grim years of World War II were hard times in start teaching electrical engineering. It was the the history of the Lviv Electrotechnical School. The Department of Electrical Engineering that became the revival of its teaching and research activity in the post- third after the similar at Technical University of war period began due to considerable assistance Darmstadt (Germany, 1882) and University College of provided by the Academy of Sciences of the former London (Great Britain, 1885). The Electrotechnical USSR, Kyiv and Leningrad Polytechnic Institutes, etc. Lviv Polytechnic National University Institutional Repository http://ena.lp.edu.ua 2 Oksana Hoholyuk, Serhiy Rendzinyak, Petro Stakhiv, Vsevolod Horyachko, Taras Ryzhyi, Liubov Balatska Such outstanding scientists as academicians О. Khar- In 1948 the Department of Theoretical and General kevych, G. Pukhov, professors Yu. Velychko, K. Karan- Electrical Engineering was headed for a short time by an dyeyev, M. Kyianytsya and others expressed the wish to alumnus of Tomsk Polytechnic Institute, Candidate of work at Lviv polytechnic. Technical Sciences, associate professor Georgiy Pukhov. He focused on raising the level of the educational process, organizing scientific seminars at the Department, prompt publication of scientific papers. Alumnus of pre-war Lviv Polytechnic, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Mykola Maksymovych headed the Department in 1950–1964. He was a versatile personality who significantly influenced the develop- ment of education and science in Western Ukraine. Holding the post of rector at Lviv Polytechnic Institute, later rector of Ivan Franko Lviv State University, he considerably enriched the scientific achieventes of the Department, expanded the training of Academician of the Academy Academician of the Academy scientific and pedagogical staff of the Department, in of Sciences of the USSR of the Academy of Sciences Oleksandr Kharkevych Georgiy Pukhov particular through postgraduate studies. Together with (1946–1948) (1949–1950) Prof. B. Blazhkevych, he is one of the most prominent representatives of the Lviv Electrotechnical School. In 1946 the Electrical Engineering Department was During 1964–1975 the Department of Theoretical headed by Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor and General Electrical Engineering was headed by Oleksandr Kharkevych – electroacoustic, alumnus of the Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor Leningrad Scientific School who had a positive influence on the formation of the renewed department. Having united Serafym Kirpatovsky, a graduate of Kharkiv Polytechnic the gifted young scientists and engineers, despite the Institute. He was focused on the scientific works devoted difficult post-war time, he managed to organize the to the creation and improvement of converters and educational process in September 1944. However, his complex measuring instruments for selective measure- research interests were focused mainly on the research into ment of individual components of multicomponent electrical acoustics, the theory of physical converters streams on the basis of Engineering Research Laboratory (sensors), theory of communications, information theory, № 47 founded at the Department of Theoretical and the theory of signal processing and other fields of General Electrical Engineering in1964. technology. For the high achievements in this field of In 1975 1986 under the leadership of the Head of the knowledge, Professor Kharkevych was elected a Department, associate professor Oleksandr Shehedyn, correspondent member of the Academy of Sciences of the graduate of Lviv Polytechnic Institute, computerization USSR, and subsequently appointed Director of the Institute of educational process was initiated, and appropriate of Problems of Information Transmission of the USSR and mathematical methods of modeling and computer academician as of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. simulation were developed. Prof. Mykola Maksymovych Prof. Serafym Kirpatoskyi Ass. Prof. Oleksandr Shehedyn Prof. Volodymyr Perkhach (1950–1963) (1964–1975) (1975–1986) (1986–1996) Lviv Polytechnic National University Institutional Repository http://ena.lp.edu.ua Modern Progress of Electrical Engineering Education and Science at Lviv Polytechnic National University 3 In October 1986 D. Sc., Professor Volodymyr Perkhach became the Head of the Department. The ten- year period of his work was devoted to particularly intensive scientific and pedagogical activity, aimed to form the theoretical and methodological foundations for providing educational process in electrical power engineering disciplines and publishing relevant textbooks and manuals. On the basis of the Department in September 1995 the First International Scientific and Technical Conference “Mathematical Modelling in Electrical and Power Engineering” was held. Professor Petro Stakhiv Associate Professor New stage of development of electrical enginee- (1996–2019) Oksana Hoholyuk (2019–present) ring education and science at Lviv Polytechnic New textbooks and manuals for students, as well as As the development of industry during the post-war scientific monographs have benn published during this years gathered pace, technically qualified experts in time. Dozens of instructions, methodical guidelines for electrical engineering were needed. To satisfy that demand, laboratory works and course projects have been the organization of electrical engineering education at Lviv developed, published and implemented into the edu- Polytechnic required continuous improvement. At the same cational process. Given the high authority the Ministry time, the organizational structure of the Lviv of Education and Science of Ukraine commissioned the Electrotechnical School has been changed (Fig. 1). Now it Department to annually hold (1997–2004) the is one of the schools working at the Institute of Electric second (final) stage of the All-Ukrainian student Power Engineering and Control systems (Fig. 2). contest of Theoretical fundumentals of electrical A new stage in the