Department of aircraft engine design Aircraft engine technology can be studied in the Kharkiv Aviation Institute. We provide best education, and our alumni are known and respected worldwide. Join us for best future prospects. You will study about aircraft engines technology inside out.

Briefly about the department:
The Faculty and Department have the unique classes of gas turbine and piston aircraft engines, created for the last 70 years, the large numbers of laboratory stands and computer classes. The Department is known in the country and CIS to be industry scientific center actively working on technical diagnostics and automatic control of aircraft and automobile engines, thermal condition, strength, service life and reliability of aircraft engines and power plants.

Major subject:Aircraft Engines and Power Plants (AE and PP)
Direction:Aviation and Cosmonautics
Specializations:Computer designing of AE and PP

The object of instruction is the computer-aided design of aircraft gas-turbine engines, power units, assembly units as well as control systems created on their basis. Students get classical knowledge in the area of AE and PP emphesizing the knowledge and application of contemporary computer technologies.

Computer diagnostics of aircraft and automobile engines
The creation and operation of systems of computer diagnostics of aircraft, tank and automobile engines, and also gas-turbine drives is one of the most claimed in Ukraine and beyond its limits direction for training students. .The Department's laboratory of engines diagnostics successfully works in this direction. It performs orders of the leading aircraft-engine and gas transport enterprises of Ukraine, Russia and distant foreign countries including USA.

BACHELOR'S degree

• 4 years of training

Natural sciences disciplines

• Higher mathematics
• Information science
• Experimental and theoretical physics
• Chemistry
• Theoretical mechanics and theory of machines and mechanisms
• Engineering and computer graphics
• Engineering material science
• Theoretical fundamentals of control
• Electrical heat engineering and electronics
• Designing of machine and mechanisms

Vocational and practical disciplines

• Engineering fundamentals of airspace machinery
• General arrangements of airspace machinery
• Fundamentals of modeling of aerospace machinery
• Mechanical engineering of materials and structures
• Aerohydrodynamics
• Dynamics of flight
• Thermal dynamics and heat exchange
• Structural materials treatment process
• Functional systems and information measuring complexes of airspace machinery
• Integrated computer designing technics
• Fundamentals of aerospace machines maintenance
• Interchangeability and standardization
• Geometrical modeling in integrated computer systems
• Mechanical engineering
• Strength design
• Aerospace machinery manufacturing process
• Aerospace machinery reliability and efficiency
• Aerospace machinery power plants engineering and designing
• Designing parts, units and assembly units

SPECIALIST'S degree
1,5 years of training

Norm disciplines

Disciplines for special study
Special sections of mathematics and mechanics
Strength calculation

Optional disciplines (for independent choice)
Utilization of aerospace engineering objects
Automated designing and engineering in integrated computer systems
Airplane and helicopter designing
Aerospace machinery manufacturing process
Students' research activity
Structure and manufacture of parts made of composites

MASTER'S degree
1,5 years of training

Norm disciplines

Disciplines for independent study
Special sections of mathematics and mechanics

Optional disciplines (for independent choice)
Automated designing and engineering in integrated computer systems
Airplane and helicopter designing
Peculiarities of designing of transport airplanes
Design and manufacture of parts from composites

PhD degree
3 years of training

Major subject
Structure and designing of aircraft

Leading instructors:
Yepiphanov Sergey Valeriyevich - Professor, D. Sc. Main published works:
1. Синтез систем управления и диагностирования газотурбинных двигателей / С.В.Епифанов, Б.И.Кузнецов, И.Н.Богаенко и др. - Київ.: Техніка, 1998. - 312 с. Synthesis of control and diagnostics systems of gas turbine engines.
2. Епифанов С.В., Симбирский Д.Ф., Каплун С.Н. Оптимальный выбор измеряемых параметров при идентификации ГТД (в 3 частях) // Изв.вузов. Авиац.техника.-1989. - №4. - С. 39-44; 1990. - № 1. - С. 57-62; 1990. - № 2. - С. 72-76.
Optimum selection of measured parameters under identification of gas turbine engines.
3. Принципы конвертирования газотурбинных двигателей авиационного и судового типа / О. Муравченко, А. Коваленко, С. Епифанов и др. // Газотурбинные технологии. - 2002. - №5. - С. 20-24.
Principles of conversion of aircraft and ship type gas turbine engines.
Symbirskiy Dmitry Fedorovich - Professor, D. Sc.

Main published works:
1. Симбирский Д.Ф. Температурная диагностика двигателей (пленочная термометрия и оптимальные оценки). //Техника", Киев, 1976. Temperature diagnostics of engines (film thermometry and optimal estimations).
2. Симбирский Д.Ф., Епифанов С.В. Автоматика и регулирование авиационных газотурбинных двигателей // Уч. пособие. - Харьков: ХАИ, 1986. - 93 с. Automation devices and regulation of aircraft gas-turbine engines.
3. Чигрин В.С., Симбирский Д.Ф., Белогуб А.В. Виброакустика авиационных двигателей: Конспект лекций. - Харьков: ХАИ, 2000. - 117 с. Vibration acoustics of aircraft engines.
4. Комплекс программно-методических средств для учета выработки ресурса авиационного ГТД в системах диагностической обработки его параметров / Д.Ф.Симбирский, А.В.Олейник, В.А.Филяев и др. // Авиационно-космическая техника и технология: Сб.науч.тр. - Харьков: Нац. аэрокосмический ун-т "ХАИ", 2001. - Вып. 26. Двигатели и энергоустановки. - С. 163-166.
Complex of program and methodological means used to evaluate the aircraft gas turbine engine service life in systems of diagnostic processing of its parameters.
5. Симбирский Д.Ф., Филяев В.А., Шереметьев А.В. Требования к точности мониторинга температурного и напряженного состояния двигателей ГТД в системах учета выработки их ресурса // Авиационно-космическая техника и технология: Сб.науч.тр. - Харьков: Нац.аэрокосмический ун-т "ХАИ", 2002. - Вып. 34. Двигатели и энергоустановки. - С. 130-132.
Requirement to precision of gas turbine engines temperature and stressed state monitoring in service life accounting systems.
Oleinik Alexey Vasilievich - Associate Professor, Cand. Sc.

Main published works:
1. Высокотемпературные пленочные термопары для термометрии деталей газотурбинных двигателей // Методы и средства диагностики газотурбинных двигателей: Сб. науч. тр. - Харьков, ХАИ, 1989. - С. 105-115.
High-temperature film thermocouples for thermometry of gas turbine engine parts.
2. Олейник А.В. Оптимизация термонапряженного состояния охлаждаемых лопаток турбин // Авиационно-космическая техника и технология: Сб.науч.тр. –Харьков: Гос.аэрокосмический ун-т "ХАИ", 1998. - Вып. 5 (тематический). - С. 282-286.
Optimization of thermostressed state of cooled turbine blades.
3. Олейник А.В. Тепловая защита лопаток турбин воздушными завесами. // Консп. лекций. Харьков: Гос. аэрокосмический ун-т "Харьк. авиац. ин-т", 1999. - 36 с. Thermal turbine blades protection by air shield.
4. Олейник А.В. Диагностические модели термонапряженного состояния деталей ГТД на нестационарных режимах // Авиационно-космическая техника и технология: Сб. науч. тр.-Харьков: Гос. аэрокосмический ун-т "ХАИ", 2000.-Вып. 19. Тепловые двигатели и энергоустановки. - С. 219-222.
Diagnostic models of thermostressed state of gas turbine engine parts under nonstationary conditions.
5. Олейник А.В. Температурные напряжения в деталях турбинных двигателей: Консп. лекций.-Харьков: Нац. аэрокосмический ун-т "Харьк. авиац. ин-т", 2002. - 65 с. Thermal stresses in turbine engine parts.