90-Year Anniversary of Mitkht’s Engineering Graphics Chair

Abstract

In May 2018 the Engineering Graphics Chair celebrates 90 years from the date of its foundation. The Chair was organized in 1928. The paper tells the Chair’s history, its teachers and heads, as well as a brief description of its scientific work. In 1900 were established the Moscow Higher Feminine Courses (MHFCs). A year after the October revolution, in late 1918, MHFCs were transformed into the 2nd Moscow state University. In 1930 the 2nd MSU was reorganized into three independent institutes: medical, chemical-technological and pedagogical ones. In May 1928 was organized the Chair of Technical Drawing, this moment is the counting of Engineering Graphics Chair existence. The first head of the Chair was S.G. Borisov. Than the Chair was supervised by Associate Professor A.A. Sintsov (from September 1932 till January 1942), Associate Professor M.Ya. Khanyutin (in 1942–1952), Associate Professor N.I. Noskov (in 1954–1962), Associate Professor F.T. Karpechenko (in 1962–1972), Senior Lecturer N.A. Sevruk (in 1972–1982), Professor, Doctor of Engineering E.K. Voloshin-Chelpan (from January 1982 to August 2007), Associate Professor V.I. Vyshnepolsky (from August 2007 till present). Currently, on the Chair are carrying out researches in the following directions: Higher School’s Pedagogy; Academic Competitions of Regional and All-Russia’s Level; Loci; Geometry of Cyclic Surfaces; Theory of Kinetic Geometry; Geometries; Geometric Transformations; Theory of Fractals; Famous Geometers’ Biographies.