Underground shelters made of soil concrete: reliable, inexpensive, quick to build
The winners of the innovative projects competition held as part of the Sikorsky Challenge 2025 festival, which recently took place at KPI, have been announced. They will receive funding to implement their ideas. This is the fourth festival held during the war, so its priorities included a defense forum and projects aimed at protecting the civilian population and critical infrastructure. The authors describe one of the developments that addresses an urgent need: the construction of shelters.
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Ivan Pyshnohraiev. Uses AI for decision-making
Associate Professor of the Department of Artificial Intelligence, Institute of IPSA0.0, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Ivan Pyshnohraiev is among the winners of the university competition “Young Teacher-Researcher 2024.” He is one of the active scientists of the modern school of analytics and machine learning at Igor Sikorsky KPI.
Award “For Merit to Igor Sikorsky KPI.” From KPI with gratitude and respect
According to international and domestic rankings, Igor Sikorsky KPI is one of the best technical universities. Transnational and Ukrainian companies, powerful scientific institutions fruitfully cooperate with Kyiv Polytechnic. Two years ago, the university introduced an award for strategic partners for their significant contribution to the development of the university and the training of highly qualified specialists and scientists.
KPI graduate Taras Ostapchuk: "The future of Ukrainian technology is being born here and now"
Modern warfare is not only a confrontation between manpower and technology, but also a battle between robotic technologies. Today, unmanned systems perform a wide range of tasks: from reconnaissance and combat operations to rescuing the wounded and delivering provisions and ammunition. And we are not only talking about UAVs, but also ground-based robotic systems (GRS), which were created with the help of the hands, minds, and knowledge of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute students.
Fedir Tetianych. At the intersection of the present and the future
Our newspaper (see “Kyiv Polytechnic” No. 1-2, 2024) has already reported on the mosaic panel “Science,” which adorns the facade of Building 18 and is included in the List of Identified Cultural Heritage Objects of Kyiv. However, its creator, monumentalist artist Fedir Tetyanych (1942–2007), is known mainly to specialists. But the first performer of independent Ukraine, whose ideas were ahead of their time and remain relevant to this day, does not deserve to be forgotten.