The origins of electrical engineering studies in the Ukraine and their shaping under the influence of the European scientific school (the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries)

Krystian Chrzan; Olena Tverytnykova; Maryna Gutnyk

doi:10.18778/1644-857X.20.01.09

Authors

Krystian Chrzan Wroclaw University of Science and Technology https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1316-6806
Olena Tverytnykova National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute” https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6288-7362
Maryna Gutnyk National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute” https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2723-2755

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1644-857X.20.01.09

Keywords:

electrical science, education, scientific school, Europe, Ukraine

Abstract

The deployment of electrical engineering research in the second half of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th c. is shown. The great attention is focused on the economic circumstances of the development of theoretical electrical engineering. Emphasis is placed on the leading role of Lviv Polytechnic. The names of professors who were at the origins of electrical engineering education in Lviv, Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa are given. It is claimed that the European School of Electrical Engineering directly influenced the development of relevant research in Ukraine.

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Author Biographies

Krystian Chrzan, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology

Assoc. Prof. Krystian Leonard Chrzan – employed at the High Voltage Laboratory of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology since 1983. Ph.D (1987), D.Sc. (2013). He worked at the Stuttgart University (1988–1989), Technische Hochschule Zittau (1991–1993), Cardiff University (2004–2005) and at various HV laboratories in Germany, Czech Republic, USA, India and South Africa. Author of 350 publications, eight patents and five books. Member of CIGRE, Societas Humboldtiana Polonorum, SEP, the Electrotechnical Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, scientific secretary of PKOO.

Research interest: high voltage engineering, lightning protection, outdoor insulation, history of science.
Olena Tverytnykova, National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute”

Assoc. Prof. Olena Tverytnykova – employed at the Information and measurement technologies and systems Department of the National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute”. Ph.D (2010), D.Sc., specialty History of Science and Technology (2018). Works as the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal “Studies in history and philosophy of science and technology”, a member of the editorial board of “Science and Science of Science”, “History of Science and Biography”. Author of 220 publications, four monographs and five textbooks. Member of the professional association “Ukrainian Society of Historians of Science”.

Research interests: history of electrical engineering, history of science and technology, technical Regulation and product quality management.
Maryna Gutnyk, National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute”

Assoc. Prof. Maryna Gutnyk – employed at the Ukrainian Studies, Culturology and History of Science Department of the National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute”. Ph.D (2010), docent (2014). Author of 130 publications, a member of the editorial board of scientific journals: “History of Science and Technology”, “Studies in history and philosophy of science and technology”, and “History of Science and Biography”. Member of the professional association “Ukrainian Society of Historians of Science”; scientific secretary of the council for Ph.D defense at NTU “KhPI”.

Research interest: history of higher technical education, history of material science, history of science.

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