My specialty Nontraditional sources of energy

Alternative energy technologies are mostly based on wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, tidal and hydro-energy. In fact, the use of such "green" energy sources is a very promising area of research in the modern power engineering.
In 2002 the Department of Renewable Sources of Energy was created at the Faculty of Electric Power Engineering and Automatics in Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. Since then the head of the department has been Professor O. S. Kudrya, Doctor of Science in Engineering and the State Prize Winner of Ukraine.
At present the teaching staff is represented by highly qualified instructors, lecturers, professors and assistant professors. The scientific personnel of the department make contribution into the development of Ukrainian power industry by working on the design and construction of power installations driven by the renewables within the territory of Ukraine. But what is most important, they provide all-round training for those specilaized in alternative energy resources.
The annual enrolment is 25 full-time students. They can study for their Bachelor's, Spelialist's and Master's degree in the area of power engineering. The speciality the students can obtain is called "Non-traditional sources of energy". Also, students can take postgraduate courses in order to obtain the doctor's degree.
The department has all the necessary facilities at its disposal, such as up-to-date laboratories, modern testing machines, well-equipped computer classes with Internet access, etc.
The curriculum for the speciality "Non-traditional sources of energy" includes subjects of general education as well as a lot of special subjects, such as wind energy; chemical energy sources; energy accumulation; non-conventional energy economy; ecology of non-traditional power industry and many others.
Being trained at the department, students acquire a wide range of skills and competences. They are trained to design, construct and provide maintenance for power-generating installations which operate on renewable sources of energy. Students do research works to develop new types of equipment driven by thermal and renewable energy. They obtain solid knowledge in computing and technology, in energy system management and power consumption accounting.
The students are also interested in mastering foreign languages. They are trained to participate in international conferences and obtain information related to their speciality from the books published abroad and from Internet resources.
Modem, relevant and advanced training enables the graduates to find a job in all sectors of power industry, at the thermal and electric power plants, at the power-supply systems of industrial, agricultural and public utility enterprises, at various ecological organizations, at academic and branch research institutions, etc. The graduates can successfully work in different power companies of Western Europe, Russia, the USA and other countries all over the world.