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Curricula Reform in Space Technology

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Space-club meeting

 

For 11 years every Space Day Space Club of NTUU "KPI" gathers adherents.

The same happened this year, on the 7th of April at the hall of the Academic Council of NTNU "KPI" representatives of the Faculty of Aerospace Systems, Inter-University Medical Faculty of Engineering of the University, Kyiv national University named after T..Shevchenko, the National Space Agency of Ukraine were brought together.
Theme of the discussion was extremly relevant - "Space and human health". A very interesting speaker was the head of Space Club - Professor, Dean of the Inter-University Medical Faculty of Engineering of NTUU "KPI", Cor. International Academy of Astronautics V.P. Yatsenko. It concerned the prospects for human exploration of distant space, the problems that face humanity on this path and the inevitability of a positive solution to this one of the most important problems for humanity.

No less interesting was the speech of Dean of the Aircraft and Systems Department A.V. Zbrutsky. He spoke about the role and place of robots in space exploration, prospect extremly small spacecrafts and on the achievements of faculty in the development of robotic systems, micro satellite, possible usage in biology and medicine.

Prof. Zbrutsky A.V. described the participation of the university in the Project TEMPUS "Curricula Reform in Space Technology in Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine» - CRIST, which began in 2009, and invited university students to get involved in its implementation. In subsequent speeches of young researchers and students of Aircraft and Space Systems Department Burevycha A., Yakimova, S., Medical Faculty of Engineering Kamenetska H., R. Akulenka were highlighted the current problems of space research , development of modern space technology.

They showed great scientific creativity of students of KPI. The questions that were asked by the students were testimony of this fact.