V.V. Popovskyy Department of Infocommunication Engineering belongs to the Faculty of Infocommunications at Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics.

The Department was founded in 1975.

1975-1999 – Department of Multichannel Electrocommunication;

1999-2016 – Department of Telecommunication Systems;

2016-2018 – Department of Infocommunication Engineering (ICE);

2018 – to date – V.V. Popovskyy Department of Infocommunication Engineering.

Currently V.V. Popovskyy Department of Infocommunication Engineering prepares specialists in the first (Bachelor's), second (Master's), third (educational-scientific) and scientific levels in specialties: 125 "Cybersecurity and Information Protection", 126 "Information systems and technologies" and 172 "Electronic Communications and Radio Engineering".

Bachelor’s training is carried out according to the following programs:

educational program "Information Security Management" (specialty 125 "Cybersecurity and Information Protection");

educational program "Information systems and technologies" (specialty 126 "Information systems and technologies");

educational program "Infocommunication engineering and network security" (specialty 172 "Electronic Communications and Radio Engineering");

educational program "Telecommunications" (specialty 172 "Electronic Communications and Radio Engineering").

Master's degree training is carried out according to the following programs:

educational program " Administrative Management in Information Security " (specialty 125 "Cybersecurity and Information Protection");

educational program "Infocommunication Engineering" (specialty 172 "Electronic Communications and Radio Engineering");

educational program "Telecommunication Systems and Networks" (specialty 172 " Electronic Communications and Radio Engineering ").

The department is named after V.V. Popovskyy. Professor Volodymyr Popovskyy headed the department from 1992 to 2018. During those years, under his leadership, a powerful scientific and pedagogical team was created from scratch, new state-of-the-art laboratories were deployed, new specialties and educational programs were opened. Professor V.V. Popovskyy is the author of more than 300 scientific works, including 6 monographs, 11 methodological teaching aids, 8 textbooks. More than 60 PhD and 14 Doctoral dissertations were defended under his supervision.

The department annually admits about 150 entrants from Ukraine and other countries for full-time, part-time and postgraduate studies. There is also training in English.

Highly qualified teachers are engaged in the learning process, including 9 Doctors of Science, Professors; 20 Candidates of Sciences, Associate Professors. The average age of a teacher is around 47 years. All of them have qualifications in accordance with the specialties in which the applicants are trained, conduct scientific activities, supervise the scientific work of applicants, have sufficient work experience and timely undergo upgrade training or internship. To improve the quality of education for the preparation of applicants, the Department attracts leading specialists and production practitioners.

V.V. Popovskyy ICE Department is equipped with modern communication, network, server equipment and computers, which are combined into 15 educational, training and research laboratories and computer classrooms. The list of laboratories is constantly expanding and updated. For example, in the 2018/19 academic year, the training and research Cybersecurity & Cloud Laboratory was introduced into the educational process, and in the 2019/20 academic year, two laboratories were introduced: the Routing & Switching Laboratory and the Network Security & Resilience Laboratory. The laboratories of the Department use communication and server equipment of Cisco, Juniper, Hewlett-Packard, D-Link, Samsung, Panasonic, ISKRATEL, TP-Link, ZYXEL, etc. Hardware firewalls are manufactured by Cisco and Fortinet. Manufacturers of personal computers and laptops are Dell, Acer, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Compaq.

All classrooms of the Department, where students study, are equipped with new furniture, air conditioners and multimedia projectors.

At V.V. Popovskyy ICE Department students can receive diplomas from NURE and other European universities. A similar program already operates with BTH University (Karlskrona, Sweden). Agreements with universities in Poland, Portugal, Spain, Slovakia and Turkey are to be signed. To participate in these programs, students must pass a competitive selection, in which the main requirements are the desire to learn and knowledge of English.

Graduates in educational program « Information Security Management » (125 Cybersecurity and Information Protection) can work as:

• Secure Software Developer on С / C ++ / C # / JAVA / Python;

• Information Security Manager;

• Engineer, Specialist, Chief Information Security Specialist;

• Head of Information Security Department;

• Information Security Systems Auditor;

• Developer of Systems and Means of Information Security;

• Information Security Administrator;

• Information Security Analyst;

• Information Security Project Manager;

• Cybersecurity Officer.

Graduates of educational programs "Information systems and technologies" can work as:

• Java Backend / Frontend Developer;

• Developer IoT Python / C Developer;

• C ++ / C # Software Developer;

• SQL Developer;

• Security Engineer;

• Project Manager;

• Technical Product Manager / Product Lead / Product Director / Group Product Manager;

• QA Engineer;

• DevOps/ DevSecOps Engineer;

• System Administrator;

• System Engineer;

• Network Engineer;

• Network Administrator;

Graduates of educational programs "Infocommunication engineering and network security" and "Telecommunications" (172 Electronic Communications and Radio Engineering) can work as:

• Development Operations (DevOps) Specialist;

• System Administrator;

• System Engineer;

• Network Engineer;

• Network Administrator;

• Network Security Manager;

• Security Engineer;

• System Analyst;

• Business Analyst;

• Security Auditor;

• Cyber Operations (CyberOps) Analyst;

• Security Operations Center (SOC) Engineer;

• Project Manager;

• Technical Product Manager / Product Lead / Product Director / Group Product Manager;

• QA engineer.

Our graduates are successfully employed and work as engineers and managers in telecommunication firms and companies of Ukraine, such as Ukrtelecom, Ukrchastotnaglyad, Lifecell, Vodafone, Kyivstar, Veltontelecom and others; design engineers in companies and enterprises for the design, development, operation and maintenance of radioelectronic and computer equipment, network and server equipment. Our best graduates work for Cisco, Google, Oracle and Facebook in different parts of the world.

Head of the Department: Doctor of Engineering Science, Professor - Oleksandr Lemeshko

Regulations of the V.V. Popovskyy Department of Infocommunication Engineering of NURE.