The history of Ukrainian Engineering Pedagogics Academy
In the post-war years, the country faced the challenge of training engineering personnel to rebuild the destroyed industry. In order to provide the national economy with highly qualified personnel and rational use of labour resources, the country is increasingly using evening and part-time educational institutions.
By the order of the Minister of Higher and Secondary Education of the Ukrainian SSR of February 21, 1958, No. 78, and by the decision of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR of January 24, 1958, No. 62, the Ukrainian Correspondence Polytechnic Institute (hereinafter referred to as UCPI) was established in Kharkiv, which had 8 faculties: energy, electrophysics, construction, engineering and economics, mining, metallurgical, mechanical engineering, and chemical technology. Specialists were trained in 52 specialities.
1958 - Serhii Vorobiov was appointed the first director of the Institute.
1958 - 3 more specialities are opened: cars and tractors; precision mechanics devices; construction and road machinery and equipment. The planned number of students was 12 thousand.
1958 - the first Academic Council of the Institute began its work.
1959 - preparatory courses were first opened at the Institute.
1959 - Kharkiv General Technical Faculty was opened for residents of Kharkiv and Kharkiv region.
1960 - the Methodological Council of the UСPI started working for the first time.
1960 - UСPI unites 15 educational, consulting and support units: Voroshylov, Horlivka, Konotop, Poltava, Kherson, Dnipro, Sumy, Kriukiv, Kramatorsk, Shostka, Sievierodonetsk (now Siverskodonetsk), Zhdanov, Lysychansk, Izyum, and Yenakiieve.
1961 - the first admission to postgraduate studies in 4 specialities: automation of production processes; foundry technology; metal cutting machines; and silicate technology.
1963 - UCPI as the Republican Centre provides methodological guidance and development of educational literature for part-time students of engineering and technical specialities.
1963 - the first industry research laboratory for automation of production processes was established at the Institute.
1964 - Heorhii Andreiev was appointed Rector of the UCPI, who made a great contribution to the further development of the institute.
1966 - full-time training of engineering and pedagogical staff in the specialities 0305 ‘Thermal power plants’ and 0510 “Technology and equipment of welded production” was opened, and since 1975 - in the specialities 0315 “Engineer-teacher of electric power disciplines” and 0577 “Engineer-teacher of mechanical engineering disciplines”.
1978 - Stanislav Artiukh was appointed Rector of the Institute.
The number of students increased to 9475, including 1174 full-time students, 1125 evening students and 7176 part-time students.
1989 - the Mining Faculty (former Stakhanov branch of the Kommunar Mining and Metallurgical Institute), the only educational institution in the Soviet Union that trained engineering and teaching staff for vocational schools in the mining industry, became part of the UCPI.
1990 - UCPI was renamed into the Kharkiv Engineering Pedagogics Institute (hereinafter referred to as KEPI).
1994 - according to the State accreditation, the Institute received the IV level and the status of the Ukrainian Engineering Pedagogics Academy (hereinafter - UEPA).
During this period, UEPA initiated the creation of an educational, research and production complex for the training of engineering and teaching staff for vocational education in Ukraine, which, in addition to the Academy, included 6 industrial and pedagogical colleges: Kyiv Industrial and Pedagogical College, Donetsk Industrial and Pedagogical College, Rubizhne Industrial and Pedagogical College, Konotop Industrial and Pedagogical College, Kharkiv Industrial and Pedagogical Colleges No. 1 and No. 2.
1994 - the Academy launched the Professional Council for Licensing and Accreditation of Engineering and Pedagogical Specialities and Higher Vocational Schools.
2002 - Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor Olena Kovalenko was appointed Rector of the Academy and is a member of the Methodological Council of the Ministry of Education, Science, Youth and Sports on Engineering and Pedagogical Education.
2003 – Rector of the UEPA Olena Kovalenko was elected President of the National Monitoring Committee of Ukraine of the International Society for Engineering Pedagogy (IGIP).
2009 - the Specialised Academic Council for the defence of PhD theses in the speciality “Standardisation, Certification and Metrological Support” was opened.
2011 - the Faculty of Electrical Engineering was renamed into Educational and Scientific Institute of Professional and Pedagogical Education, located in the cities of Artemivsk and Sloviansk, and the Faculty of Mining was renamed into Stakhanov Institute of Mining and Educational Technologies, located in the city of Stakhanov (now - Kadiivka).
2023 - Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor Denys Kovalenko was appointed Rector of UEPA.
In 2024, through reorganisation, the Ukrainian Engineering Pedagogics Academy was merged as a structural unit into V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University and UEPA received a new name - the Education and Research Institute “Ukrainian Engineering Pedagogics Academy” of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University.
Since its inception, UEPA has trained more than 70 thousand specialists with high engineering knowledge and skills, special psychological, pedagogical and legal training to work at enterprises in various industries.
