History

The Department of Automation of Energy Processes was established in 1958 as Ukraine’s first department specialising in industrial automation. Its development reflects changing control-engineering tools, from process measurement and modelling to computer-based and networked automation.

Research schools

• From 1958: Professor Valentin Kocho developed a school in measurement and automation of technological processes. His research addressed industrial heat and mass transfer, combustion, steelmaking processes and measurement and control of high-temperature operations.
• From 1980: Professors Vitaliy Azhogin and Yuriy Zaichenko advanced modelling and optimisation of technological-process control systems.
• From 1991: Professor Yuriy Kovryho led work on modern computer technologies in energy and computer-integrated control.

Later work documented by the department includes industrial control systems, simulation and training tools, process automation, and integration of computing with industrial communications.

For current research themes, see Research.