National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine (NMetAU; formerly DMetl, Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute) is a university in

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dedicated to the study of

metallurgy Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are known as alloys. Metallurgy encompasses both the sc ...

History

National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine is the oldest higher metallurgical educational institution of Ukraine. It was founded as a factory department of the Ekaternoslav Higher Mining School in October 1899. In 1912, the department was transformed into the metallurgical faculty of the Mining Institute, which later became the Dnipro Metallurgical Institute in 1930. In 1993, the Resolution of the

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granted the Institute the status of a state university. In 1999, the Decree of the

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granted it the status of the National Academy.

Academics

There are 13 schools focusing on various scientific disciplines in the academy. Some examples of subjects studied are

iron Iron () is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from la, ferrum) and atomic number 26. It is a metal that belongs to the first transition series and group 8 of the periodic table. It is, by mass, the most common element on Earth, right in f ...

and

steel Steel is an alloy made up of iron with added carbon to improve its strength and fracture resistance compared to other forms of iron. Many other elements may be present or added. Stainless steels that are corrosion- and oxidation-resistant ty ...

metallurgy,

thermal engineering Thermal engineering is a specialized sub-discipline of mechanical engineering that deals with the movement of heat energy and transfer. The energy can be transferred between two mediums or transformed into other forms of energy. A thermal engineer ...

, metallurgical equipment, and

metalworking Metalworking is the process of shaping and reshaping metals to create useful objects, parts, assemblies, and large scale structures. As a term it covers a wide and diverse range of processes, skills, and tools for producing objects on every scale ...

. The Academy is a part of many international programs, such as

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, and DAAD. The Academy also participates in the Bologna Process.

Schools

* Faculty of Humanities * Faculty of Metallurgy * Faculty of Mechanical Engineering * Special faculty of retraining of specialists * Faculty of continuous education * Faculty of Computer Systems, Energy and Automation * Faculty of Materials Science and Metalworking * Faculty of advanced training of teachers and specialists * Faculty of Economics and Management * Faculty of Electrometallurgy *

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Metallurgical Faculty Site * Nikopol Technical School of NMetAU

Rankings

NMetAU has a high ranking among Ukrainian universities, often placed in the top 20 or top 10 schools. Rating of Ukraine universities III, IV accreditation levels "Top 200" Ukraine *2009 – 18th place *2010 – 16th place *2011 – 17th place Rating of Ukraine universities in Ukraine "Compass 2012" *2010 – 7th place *2011 – 7th place *2012 – 7th place The national system of ranking evaluation of higher education institutions: Technical universities 2012 – 8th place

Notable alumni

Ihor Kolomoyskyi Ihor Valeriyovych Kolomoyskyi ( uk, Ігор Валерійович Коломойський, translit=Ihor Valereriyovych Kolomoyskyi; he, איגור קולומויסקי; born 13 February 1963) is a Ukrainian-born billionaire, business magn ...

, Ukrainian billionaire,

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, one of the founders of the

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. * Yury Mukhin, Soviet engineer, inventor and the top manager of the metallurgical industry. *

Victor Pinchuk Victor Mykhailovych Pinchuk ( uk, Віктор Михайлович Пінчук, ''Viktor Mykhailovych Pinchuk''; born 14 December 1960) is a Ukrainian businessman and oligarch. As of January 2016, ''Forbes'' ranked him as 1,250th on the list o ...

, Ukrainian businessman and oligarch. *

Serhiy Tihipko Serhiy Leonidovych Tihipko ( uk, Сергій Леонідович Тiгiпко; born 13 February 1960) is a Ukrainian politician and finance specialist who was Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine. Tihipko was Minister of Economics in 2000 and subse ...

, Ukrainian politician and finance specialist *

Oleksandr Turchynov Oleksandr Valentynovych Turchynov ( uk, Олександр Валентинович Турчинов; born 31 March 1964) is a Ukrainian politician, screenwriter, Baptist minister and economist. He is the former Secretary of the National Sec ...

, Ukrainian politician, former acting President of Ukraine (2014) and Secretary of the

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. * Andriy Khvetkevych, Ukrainian and American world-class

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References

External links

* Universities in Ukraine 1899 establishments in the Russian Empire Educational institutions established in 1899 {{Ukraine-university-stub