Ukrainian Engineering Pedagogics Academy is a modern specialized educational and scientific centre licensed and accredited by the Ministry of Education and Ukraine. The Academy is widely known outside Ukraine; it is the member of the International Organization of Engineering Pedagogics (IGIP).
The history of the Academy began in 1958. It has an invariably high level of specialists training based on engineering knowledge, and in-depth psychological-pedagogical training receive engineering and pedagogical specialities. It provides the graduates of the Academy with the chance to carry out important social, professional, production and technological activity on ensuring a high level of training in the system of professional education: teachers, methodologists, masters of industrial training in professional vocational institutions (vocational schools, colleges, technical training colleges, lyceums and comprehensive schools) and highly-skilled engineers for the industrial enterprises.
Today the Academy comprises more than 5 thousand students who study at five faculties of the Academy. Departments of the Academy provide students training on the humanities, fundamental, general engineering and particular disciplines. The Academy consists of Educational Scientific Professional Pedagogics Institute situated in Bahmut city. The educational system in the Academy carries out continuous multilevel training on educational and qualifying levels: Bachelor – Master. Students of full and part-time departments in the Academy can receive the second speciality and a working professional. The system of scientific-pedagogical personnel's training, which includes doctoral candidacy and postgraduate course operates effectively.
In the Academy there are scientific students' organizations and circles of amateur performance which give the chance to realize hobbies and widen the scope of interests. Sport is an inseparable part of student's life. Students who arrived for studies from different regions of Ukraine and international students live in 3 hostels.
In Ukrainian Engineering Pedagogics Academy there are all conditions for the development of scientific schools in the field of pedagogics and engineering psychology, there are also four specialized academic councils on the defence of Ph. Theses. The functioning Center of training of the international teachers-engineers, the scientific and methodical Center of engineering-pedagogical education.
The Academy library has one of the largest in Kharkiv funds of educational, educational and methodical, scientific and fiction literature (more than 900 thousand copies). There are three reading rooms in the library, 2 of which are situated in students' hostels.
For its existence, Ukrainian Engineering Pedagogics Academy prepared more than 70 thousand specialists working in Ukraine, CIS countries, and other foreign countries. Graduates of the Academy at different times held executive posts. There were two ministers, two deputy ministers, about 3000 directors, leading industrial and scientific institutions, heads of educational institutions, and public figures.
In 2000 the licensed Center of Training of Foreign Citizens started its work. The Center includes a primary office which carries out foreign school leavers' training. During one academic year (2 semesters of training), students studying the Ukrainian (Russian) language, receive necessary knowledge of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and other fundamental sciences.
The Academy maintains numerous international relations in the field of training of engineering-pedagogical personnel. The European Monitoring Committee of the International Organization of Engineering Pedagogics (IGIP) was created based on the Academy. It provides the Academy with the opportunity to prepare European teachers. Nowadays more than 80 scientists of leading engineering educational establishments of Ukraine already received a title «ING-PAED IGIP».
Ukrainian Engineering Pedagogics Academy is one of the Regional Center of Modular Principle of Working Professions' Training on the International Labour Organization's system (Geneva).
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The Ukrainian Engineering Pedagogics Academy is a higher educational establishment specializing in training teacher-engineers for vocational education: teachers, methodologists, instructors of industrial training of higher qualification for technical secondary school, colleges, vocational-technical schools. It is one of the most exciting and demanding professions that combine two professions – engineering and pedagogical, which gives two kinds of profound knowledge – technical and humanitarian which substantially enhances a social status and social protection – and this is of particular importance in market conditions relations.
EPA TRAINS SPECIALISTS IN THE FIELDS OF power engineering, electrical and radio engineering, metalworking, metrology, welding, computer technology, transport operation, food technology, mining industry, chemical technology, clothes design, clothing manufacture, control systems, polygraphic industry, life safety and labour protection, computer systems and networks, electrical technologies.
