Oleksandr Kazymyrovych Gryshchuk
Rector of National Transport University
Academic Degree:
Candidate of Science in Engineering, Professor
Achievements:
Honored Education Worker of Ukraine, Excellent Education Worker of Ukraine, Academician of Transport Academy of Ukraine, awarded the Honorary Title of Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine “Petro Mohyla”, gratitude of Prime Minister of Ukraine, the medal “For special achievements in work of the 1st degree” of Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.
Biography:
Oleksandr Gryshchuk was born on March 31, 1957. Graduated from Secondary School No. 16 in Kyiv. Studied at the Mechanics and Mathematics Department of Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University and at the Automobile Department of Kyiv Automobile and Road Institute, specializing in “Cars and Automobile Industry”, which he graduated from in 1984. From 1978 to 1980, he served in the military.
Since 1984, he worked at Kyiv Automobile and Road Institute (now National Transport University) as a research intern in the Automobile Department, where he was engaged in research work in the field of special vehicles designed to operate in difficult specific conditions (snow, ice, water, swamp, bottom of a reservoir).
From 1986 to 1990, he was educated at the Postgraduate Studies of Kyiv Automobile and Road Institute. In 1992, he defended his theses for the degree of candidate of technical sciences in the specialty 05.05.03 – “Cars and tractors” at Belarusian State Polytechnic Academy. The PhD thesis entitled “Optimization of the Design Parameters of a Special Vehicle Rotary-Screw Propeller”.
From 1990 to 1993, after completing his PhD, he became a research fellow, senior research fellow in the Research Department of Kyiv Automobile and Road Institute.
He combined together research activities and teaching, which he began at the Automobile Department of Kyiv Automobile and Road Institute, where he worked as a lecturer, associate professor from 1990, and as a professor from 2009 to the present time.
In 1992-1994, he worked as a leading researcher (part-time employment) at the Ukrainian Research Institute of Standardization, Certification and Informatics, where he worked on creating state standards in the field of automotive engineering and motor transport, a member of SAE.
From 2003 to 2013, he was appointed as responsible secretary of the University’s Admissions Committee, the deputy first vice-rector in 2007-2008.
From 2008 to 2022 – vice-rector for academic affairs of National Transport University.
From 2022 to 2024 – first vice-rector of National Transport University.
He supervises the research work of postgraduate students and PhD candidates, is the author of more than 120 scientific papers, has patents and author’s certificates for inventions, and certificates of copyright registration.
He deals with the scientific problems of choosing a rational design for city buses, creating special-purpose vehicles, organizing transport support in tourism, as well as problems of higher education methodology.
Admissions Office: office 318, 1, Mykhaila Omelianovycha – Pavlenka Str. Kyiv, Ukraine, 01010.
Tel.: +38 (044) 280-82-03
E-mail: gryshchuk@ntu.edu.ua
