Ternopil Ivan Pului National Technical University () is a university in Ternopil, Ukraine. Ternopil Ivan Puluj National Technical University (abbreviated TNTU) – the leading higher technical educational institution in Western Ukraine, founded in 1960. Today it is the only higher technical educational institution that provides training of all academic levels, DScs and PhDs for such regions as Ternopil, Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne and Khmelnitsky. The history of the university The history of the university is inextricably connected with the history of Ternopil. Since the 1960s the city has developed due to the construction of a significant number of industrial plants, including the Ternopil harvester plant, the VATRA Corporation, later – the plants “The Saturn” and “The Orion”. These plants as well as dozens of smaller companies required highly qualified engineers. Lviv Polytechnic was the closest technical university. Thus to ensure this requirement of specialists on November 11, 1960 Ternopil Technical Faculty of the Lviv Polytechnic Institute with the extra-mural and evening forms of study was opened. This allowed the experienced workers to get higher education without leaving their jobs, and Ternopil gradually transformed into a student city. The Candidate of technical Sciences, associate professor Stolyarchuk V.P. became the dean of the faculty. Together with twelve university teachers he arrived from Lviv. The faculty was located in the centre of the city in the building of the former women gymnasium named after Adam Mickiewicz. Later new modern buildings grew around this building. On February 3, 1962 the Candidate of Chemical Sciences, Associate Professor Shcherbakov A.O. was appointed the dean of the faculty. The same year the full-time form of study was organized, that was beneficial both for local youth and for the development of the institution. Due to invitation of new university teachers with academic degrees and titles, development of the material and technical base of the institution and increase of the number of students on May 15, 1964, the faculty was reorganized into the Ternopil branch of the Lviv Polytechnic Institute. At the same time the new departments of higher mathematics, descriptive geometry and graphics, technical mechanics, physics and energetics were formed. Associate Professor Shcherbakov A.O. became the head of the affiliate. During 1964-1968 new departments were formed. Among them: a department of social and political sciences, a department of theoretical mechanics, a department of foreign languages, a department of technology of metals, a department of machine tools and instruments, a