Organized in 1931 as the Department of Repair and Technology of Metals as part of the Faculty of Mechanization of Agriculture of the Kharkiv Institute of Mechanization and Electrification of Agriculture. The founder and first head of the department was a famous Ukrainian scientist in the field of mechanical engineering and design of agricultural machinery, professor, doctor of agricultural sciences, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, laureate of the State Prize of the USSR Andrii Vasylenko.
Significant creative and organizational contribution to the formation and development of the Department at different stages of its operation was made by professors: Vasiliev S., Tymofieiev P., Yermolov L., Pylypenko M., Poliskyi A., Voitov V.; associate professors: Pedchenko I., Redozub M., Hrebeniuk S., Apalkov V., Tatarintsev M., Isichenko I., Hlaziev M., Lebid P., Karpusenko V., Trydub A., Sherzhukov I.H., head of laboratory Yankovskyi V. and others.
The first head of the department Andriy Vasylenko is a professor, doctor of agricultural sciences, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR
The department is one of the leading, basic departments of the university and participates in the process of training applicants for the higher education of educational and qualification levels bachelor, specialist, master in “Industrial Engineering”, “Agricultural Engineering”, “Forestry” in educational programs “Agricultural Machinery and Equipment”. production and technical service “,” Processes, machines and equipment of agro-industrial production “,” Wheeled and tracked vehicles, dealership, and supply of fuels and lubricants “, as well as” Equipment for processing and food production “.
The following disciplines are taught at the department
| № п.п. | Subjects | Institute where the discipline is read | Course | Specialty | Lecturer |
| 1 | Metals and welding in construction | ESI TS | 3 | 192 Construction and civil engineering | Bantkovskyi V.A., Tikhonov O.V. |
| 2 | Technological systems of repair production | ESI TS | 4, 2пр. | 133 Industry engineering | Sidashenko O., Tikhonov O., Avtukhov A. |
| 3 | Specialized rolling stock | ESI TS | 4 | 133 Industry engineering | Honcharenko O.O. |
| 4 | Production logistics of mechanical engineering and product restoration processes | ESI TS | 2 accelerated | 133 Industry engineering | Kolpachenko N., Avetisian V., Bantkovskyi V. |
| 5 | Design of production processes and enterprises | ESI TS | 1 master’s degree | 133 Industry engineering | Romanchenko V., Bantkovskyi V., Avetisian V. |
| Fundamentals of tribology | ESI TS | 1 master’s degree | 133 Industry engineering | Rybalko I. | |
| 6 | Project management in mechanical engineering | ESI TS | 2 master’s degree | 133 Industry engineering | Kolpachenko N., Sidashenko O., Avetisian V. |
| 7 | Energy and material-saving technologies and equipment | ESI TS | 2 master’s degree | 133 Industry engineering | Tikhonov O., Sidashenko O. |
| 8 | Discipline on professional orientation: “Efficiency of using and optimization of technologies of repair production” | ESI TS | 1 master’s degree | 133 Industry engineering | Tikhonov O. |
| 9 | Automated design of technological systems for repair production | ESI TS | 2 master’s degree | 133 Industry engineering | Romanchenko V. |
| 10 | Repair of vehicles | ESI MMS | 2 accelerated | 274 Road transport | Honcharenko O. |
| 11 | Modern methods of restoring parts | ESI MMS | 1 master’s degree | 274 Road transport | Luzan S.O. |
| 12 | Car repair | ESI MMS | 1 master’s degree | 208 Agricultural engineering | Martynenko O., Sidashenko O. |
| 13 | Installation, diagnostics and repair of the equipment of Processing of Food Productions | ESI FP | 4, 2 accelerated | 133 Industry engineering | Martynenko O., Saichuk O. |
| 14 | Systems of technologies of agrotech service enterprises | ESI TS | 1 accelerated | 133 Industry engineering, 076 Entrepreneurship, trade and exchange activities | Saichuk O., Kolpachenko N. |
| 15 | Economics of machine-building enterprise | ESI TS | 4, 2 accelerated | 133 Industry engineering | Kolpachenko N. Bantkovskyi V. |
| 16 | Automated design of technological processes | ESI TS | 2 accelerated | 133 Industry engineering | Rybalko I., Manilo V. |
| 17 | Fundamentals of device and equipment design | ESI TS | 4, 2 accelerated | 133 Industry engineering | Tikhonov O., Rybalko I. |
| 18 | Corrosion protection in mechanical engineering | ESI TS | 2 accelerated | 133 Industry engineering | Honcharenko O., Martynenko O. |
| 19 | The use of special machines in the production systems of enterprises | ESI TS | 2 accelerated | 133 Industry engineering | Honcharenko O. |
| 20 | Electrical equipment of vehicles | ESI TS | 4 | 133 Industry engineering | Avtukhov A. |
| 21 | Surface engineering | ESI TS | 1 master’s degree | 133 Industry engineering | Luzan S. |
| 22 | Nanotechnologies in mechanical engineering and research methodology | ESI TS | 1 master’s degree | 133 Industry engineering | Skoblo T., Rybalko I. |
| 23 | Substantiation and improvement of details restoration technologies | ESI TS | 1 master’s degree | 133 Industry engineering | Luzan S., Sidashenko O. |
| 24 | Technical service of vehicles | ESI MMS | 1 master’s degree | 274 Road transport | Honcharenko S. |
| 25 | Car repair | ESI MMS | 4, 2 accelerated | 208 Agricultural engineering | Martynenko O., Sidashenko O. |
Textbooks, manuals, monographs, reference books, and terminological dictionaries are developed by teachers of the department, widely known and authoritatively recognized in the educational environment of both Ukraine and CIS countries. Over the past 25 years, teachers of the department have prepared 7 textbooks, 20 textbooks, 4 reference books, 2 terminological dictionaries, and 6 monographs.
The department has 12 teaching and research laboratories and classrooms, 2 specialized computer rooms, with a total area of 1110 square meters. meters, equipped with modern technological, computer and multimedia equipment. The department has created and effectively used both in the educational process and for research, laboratories of laser heat treatment and processing of parts, plasma and gas-thermal surface treatment, repair of basic machine parts, metallographic research, non-destructive methods of quality control of new and refurbished parts. The main areas of research conducted by teachers of the department are the development of advanced methods of restoring machine parts; engineering of working surfaces, including with the using of nanotechnologies; increasing the reliability of components and units; development of scientific and methodological bases and standards, as well as rational forms of organization of production processes for the manufacture and repair of mechanical engineering products. Research and applied developments of the staff of the department were awarded such awards as “State Prize of Ukraine in the field of science and technology” (1994), “Diamond Star of the International Institute of Marketing” (1994, 1995, 1997) – Sidashenko O., Skoblo T., “Prize of the President of Ukraine among young scientists” (2003) – Saychuk O., Vlasovets V., Naumenko A., Ivashchenko S., “Prize of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine among young scientists in the field of basic and applied research and scientific-technical developments for 2015. ” – Rybalko I., Pasko N., Plugatarev A. In 2017, Rybalko I. Kharkiv Regional State Administration awarded a nominal scholarship in the field of science and technology named after Oleksiy Sokolovsky (in agricultural sciences) for significant achievements in the field of science.