DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING AND SYSTEM ENGINEERING NAMES MYKHAILA SAMOKISHA

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING AND SYSTEM ENGINEERING NAMES MYKHAILA SAMOKISHA

STATUS OF THE DEPARTMENT

Scientific and pedagogical workers                        Junior service staff

On September 1, 2019, by merging the two departments "Machine Use in Agriculture" and "Agricultural Machinery and Mechanized Technologies" that had been operating since 1972, the Department of "Agroengineering and Systems Engineering" was established. On February 28, 2023, by decision of the University's Academic Council, the Department was named after Mykhailo SAMOKYSH in honor of the 90th anniversary of his birth and who worked at the Department for 42 years. The Head of the Department is Doctor of Philosophy in Technical Sciences, Professor, Honored Worker of Education of Ukraine Anatoliy RUD.

EDUCATIONAL AND METHODOLOGICAL WORK

The Department of Agricultural Engineering and Systems Engineering named after Mykhailo SAMOKYSH trains higher education applicants in the following specialties: 208 (H7) – Agricultural Engineering, 201 (H1) – Agronomy, 203 (H3) – Horticulture, Fruit and Vegetable Growing and Viticulture, 015 (A5) – Vocational Education, 141 (G3) – Electric Power, Electrical Engineering and Electromechanics.

The department is equipped with general-purpose and universal-rowing tractors, which are used during laboratory classes and in work in the university’s research garden and the Podillia Research Center. The department has specialized training laboratories and branches of the department in production.

To ensure the educational process, the department has all the methodological support and a well-equipped diagnostic laboratory with diagnostic running drums for testing cars, a diagnostic stand for determining the traction properties of tractors, a diagnostic installation and a motor tester. On the territory of the department there are: a pavilion of agricultural machinery and mechanized technologies, a hangar of tractors and cars, a technical maintenance point for agricultural machinery, a technical diagnostics point, a laboratory for the use and technical maintenance of agricultural machinery named after D.F. Kamynin, a laboratory for the maintenance and diagnostics of tractors and cars, agricultural machinery sites, a methodological office and a diploma and course design office.

Educational and methodological literature is published for which certificates of copyright registration for the work have been obtained. In 2021, the textbook “Machinery and Equipment in Animal Husbandry” was published, and in 2023 – the textbook “Technical Maintenance of Machines and Equipment” and in 2024 – the textbook “Operation of Machines and Equipment”.  

 In addition, monographs were published: Yu.E. Ocheretenko is the founder of Podilsk State Agrarian and Technical University; Podlesny Oleksynets. History, events, facts, memories (1493-2020). Encyclopedia of the village; Kamianets-Podilskyi city organization of veterans. 35 years old. 

The pavilion of agricultural machinery and mechanized technologies has five laboratories, including: a laboratory of soil-tillage machines and implements, a laboratory of sowing and planting machines, a laboratory of machines for harvesting agricultural crops, a laboratory of machines for primary processing of crops, a laboratory of mechanization and electrification of agricultural production.

During lectures, laboratory and practical classes, scientific and pedagogical workers of the department use technical means: multimedia equipment (projector with a personal computer and screen), whiteboards. Innovative methods of conducting classes using 3D technologies are widely introduced.

The laboratory of technical maintenance and diagnostics of agricultural machinery has installed unique equipment for determining the technical condition of units and components by a non-dismantling method. Thus, for the full range of diagnostics of automobile gasoline engines, the determination of power and fuel-economic indicators without external loading devices is included. In addition, the training laboratory "Machines for preparing and distributing feed", building 4; the laboratory "Modern and promising equipment of the Elvorti enterprise", building 4; the laboratory "Milking equipment and primary milk processing named after V.D. Kuryanov" in classroom No. 132, building 6, is equipped.

Laboratory of milking machines		Laboratory of machines for the preparation and distribution of fodder

While studying at the Department of Agricultural Engineering and Systems Engineering named after Mykhailo SAMOKYSH, higher education applicants have the opportunity to obtain the profession of a mechanical engineer, an agronomist and various working professions.

To improve the educational process, branches of the department have been created where laboratory and practical classes, industrial practices of higher education applicants, as well as advanced training in the form of internships for scientific and pedagogical employees of the department are held. In particular, enterprises: private enterprise "Demetra", village Kam'yanka, Kam'yanets-Podilskyi district; LLC "Adamivka Agro" Khmelnytskyi district, Khmelnytskyi region; group of companies "VITAGRO" Kam'yanets-Podilskyi and Khmelnytskyi districts, Khmelnytskyi region; farm "Romaniv Agro" Khmelnytskyi Khmelnytskyi region; open joint-stock company Horodotsk enterprise "Agrohim" Khmelnytskyi region; Dymok farm, Khmelnytskyi district, Khmelnytskyi region.

Laboratory of modern and promising agricultural machinery of "Elworthy" enterprises

SCIENTIFIC WORKSCIENTIFIC WORK

The research work of the Mykhailo SAMOKISH Department of Agricultural Engineering and Systems Engineering is carried out on the following topics:

Based on the results of the research, scientific articles are published in the scientometric databases Skopus and Web of Sciences, as well as in professional and foreign publications; applications for patents are filed; reports are prepared for international, all-Ukrainian and university conferences.

Scientists of the Department of Agricultural Engineering and Systems Engineering named after Mykhailo SAMOKYSH conduct contractual work and are involved in providing consulting services to farms of various types of agricultural formations. In recent years, under the leadership of Professor Anatoly RUDY, contractual work has been carried out to study soil compaction on the lands of the corporation "Kolos-VS" of the Borshchiv district of the Ternopil region and the private enterprise "Agrarian Company 2004" of the Khmelnytskyi district of the Khmelnytskyi region. As a result, recommendations for soil decompression were developed and submitted to the customer with a justification of the economic and environmental efficiency of the implementation of these measures.

The contractual work on the study of soil compaction on the lands of the private enterprise "Agrarian Company 2004" of the Khmelnytskyi district of the Khmelnytskyi region is successfully continuing. The scientific supervisor of the topic is Professor, Honored Worker of Education of Ukraine Anatoly RUDY. The amount of funding is 50,000 hryvnias. A contract has been signed to conduct soil density studies at the Romaniv Agro farm in the Khmelnytskyi district of the Khmelnytskyi region for the amount of 50,000 hryvnias. In addition, the department annually provides consulting services to farms of various types of agricultural formations for the amount of 30,000 hryvnias.

Contacts
Address of the Department of Agricultural Engineering and System Engineering named after Mykhailo SAMOKISH:
Khmelnytskyi region, Kamianets-Podilskyi, st. Hrushevsky Prospect, 2/8

Tel. (03849) 6 83 97. Tel. mob (097) 97 58 890

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