Нead of the department
Litvynchuk Svitlana Ivanivna
Docent, Candidate of Technical scienses
(established in 1930)
The Department of Physics and Occupational Safety of the Faculty of Biotechnology and Environmental Control of the NUFT provides educational programs in the following compulsory disciplines: "Physics", "Engineering Physics", "Physics for Food Technologies", “Life Safety and Occupational Safety”, “Occupational Safety Management at the Facility”, “Fundamentals of Occupational Safety and Life Safety” for students pursuing a bachelor’s degree both full-time and part-time, across four faculties/institutes of the university (Educational and Scientific Institute of Food Technology, Academician I.S. Guliy Educational and Scientific Engineering and Technical Institute, Faculty of Biotechnology and Environmental Control, and Faculty of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Business named after professor V. F. Dotsenko). For students pursuing a bachelor's degree at the Faculty of Automation and Computer Systems named after Prof. I.V. Elperin, the Department of Physics and Occupational Safety offers courses in the following elective disciplines: “Physical Fundamentals of Computer Electronics,” “Physics,” and “Fundamentals of Occupational Safety.” For students pursuing a bachelor's degree in biotechnology and environmental control, the Department of Physics and Occupational Safety offers a course in the elective discipline “Fundamentals of Industrial Construction and Sanitary Engineering.” Also, since 2021, the department has launched training for applicants in elective disciplines from the university-wide catalog “Tribophysics: Laws of Friction” and “Physical Research Methods” for the educational and scientific degree of “Doctor of Philosophy” in full-time and part-time forms of education. Since September 2025, the department has been implementing the course “Theoretical training in Basic Military Training” for students pursuing a Bachelor's degree in all specialties and all educational and professional programs in the second year of training (based on the CGSE) and the first year of training (based on NQF Level 5) (for male students, the discipline is compulsory, for female students, it is voluntary).
Teachers also teach disciplines such as “Physics”, “Physics for Food Technology”, “Engineering Physics”, “Life Safety and Occupational Safety” at the Poltava and Sumy branches of the NUFT. In order to raise awareness of safety issues among students and deepen their general competencies, guest lectures have been held at NUFT vocational colleges on the topic of “Safety in educational institutions and everyday life.”
The department's material and technical base includes seven teaching laboratories and one research laboratory.
Scientific and teaching staff of the Department of Physics and Occupational Safety actively conduct scientific research, the results of which are published in well-known domestic and international journals, included in the Scopus and Web of Science scientific metric databases, and actively participate in foreign, international, and all-Ukrainian conferences and seminars.
The department maintains close scientific cooperation with scientific and teaching staff at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, and Mykhailo Dragomanov National University. Our staff also cooperates with the Polissya Institute of Agriculture of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine. The result of joint work with other scientific institutions and higher education institutions over the past academic year is 5 articles (4 of which are SCOPUS and 1 is Web of Science), as well as 1 thesis presented at an international conference.
Since 2017, the department has signed eight official cooperation agreements with the above-mentioned higher education institutions at the organizational level, and upon their expiration in 2024, four of them were renewed.
On May 26-27, 2020, the Department of Physics in conjunction with the Mozhar Department of Higher Mathematics, launched and held the All-Ukrainian Scientific and Methodical Internet Conference “Current Scientific and Methodical Problems of Physics and Mathematics in Higher Education Institutions,” which was dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the founding of our departments.
On November 26, 2019, the department also organized an international scientific and practical seminar entitled “Improvement of Physical Methods of Food Quality Control,” dedicated to the 135th anniversary of our university's founding. Specialists from Bruker Bio Spin GmbH (Germany) from the agro-industrial complex were invited to the event: Dr. Markus Link (Key Account Manager), Lea Heinz (Product Manager Food Screener), and Thomas Spengler (Market Manager). They presented the latest technologies for detecting counterfeit food products, inсluding honey, using nuclear magnetic resonance (1H-NMR). The event attracted considerable interest from honey exporters.
THE DEPARTMENT'S LECTURERS ARE AUTHORS OF MODERN MONOGRAPHS, TEXTBOOKS, HANDBOOKS, COLLECTIONS OF PROBLEMS, COURSES, AND LECTURE NOTESMANUALS ON PHYSICS AND OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY:
1. Physics for Food Technology (content module 3. Optics. Elements of Physics of the Atom and Atomic Nucleus) [Electronic resource]: textbook for Bachelor's degree students majoring in specialty G 13 “Food Technology” in full-time and part-time programs / S.I. Litvynchuk, V.E. Nosenko. – K: NUFT, 2025. – 157 p. – ISBN 978-966-612-378-0
2. Life Safety. Occupational Safety [Electronic resource]: teaching and methological manual for independent study of the discipline for Bachelor's degree students majoring in all specialties of full-time and part-time forms of study / O.V. Yevtushenko, A.O. Siryk. – K: NUFT, 2025. – 467 p. – ISBN 978-966-612-361-2
3. Physics [Electronic resource] [Text]: lecture course for Bachelor's degree students majoring in specialty E2 “Ecology” within the educational and professional program “Ecology,” specialty G21 “Biotechnology and Bioengineering” within the educational and professional program “Biotechnology: Pharmaceutical, Industrial, Food, Environmental Protection” for full-time and part-time forms of study / M. V. Lazarenko, S. I. Litvynchuk; National University of Food Technologies. – Kyiv: NUFT, 2025. – 296 p.
4. Physics for Food Technology (content module 2. Electricity and Magnetism) [Electronic resource]: textbook for Bachelor's degree students majoring in speciality 181 “Food Technology” for full-time and part-time forms of study / S.I. Litvynchuk, V.E. Nosenko, T.G. Sichkar. – Kyiv: NUFT, 2024. – ISBN 978-966-612-331-5
5. Life Safety and Occupational Safety [Electronic resource]: lecture course for Bachelor's degree students majoring in the following specialties: 131, 133, 141, 142, 144, 186 full-time and part-time forms of study / A. O. Siryk – Kyiv: NUFT, 2024. – 141 p.
6. Designing environmental protection complexes using CAD basics [Electronic resource]: lecture course for Bachelor's degree students majoring in speciality 101 “Ecology” within the educational and professional program “Ecology and Environmental Management” full-time form of study / O.V. Yevtushenko – Kyiv: NUFT, 2024. – 128 p.
7. Life safety and Occupational Safety [Electronic resource]: lecture course for Bachelor's degree students majoring in specialty 241 «Hotel, Restaurant and Catering» Educational and Professional Program «Hotel, Restaurant and Catering» full-time and part-time forms of study / А.О. Siryk. – К.: NUFT, 2023.– 123 p.
8. Occupational safety management at the facility [Electronic resource]: lecture course for Bachelor's degree students majoring in specialties 162 “Biotechnology and Bioengineering” within the educational and professional program “Biotechnology: pharmaceutical, industrial, food, environmental protection”; 101 “Ecology” within the educational and professional program “Ecology and Environmental Management” for full-time and part-time forms of study / O.V. Yevtushenko. – Kyiv: NUHT, 2023. – 155 p.
9. Occupational safety management at the facility [Electronic resource]: teaching and methological manual for independent study of the discipline for Bachelor's degree students majoring in all specialties for full-time and part-time forms of study / O.V. Yevtushenko, A.O. Sirik – Kyiv: NUHT, 2022. – 416 p.
10. Fundamentals of Professional Safety [Electronic resource]: lecture course for Bachelor's degree students majoring in specialty 122 “Computer Science” within the educational and professional program “Computer Science” for full-time and part-time forms of study / A. O. Siryk – Kyiv: NUHT, 2022. – 158 p.
11. Engineering Physics [Electronic resource] [Text]: methological recommendations for studying the discipline and completing test assignments for Bachelor's degree students majoring in specialty 151 within educational and professional program “Computer Systems and Software Engineering in Automation” full-time, part-time, and distance learning forms / compiled by: S. I. Litvynchuk, N. V. Medvid; National University of Food Technologies. – Kyiv: NUFT, 2022. – 96 p.
12. Modern Physics of Water: Monograph / L. S. Martsenyuk, O. Yu. Martsenyuk, O. Yu. Shevchenko, A. I. Marynin, S. I. Litvynchuk; edited by L. S. Martsenyuk; Institute of Nuclear Research, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, National University of Food Technologies. – Kyiv: Kondor, 2021. – 288 p. – ISBN 978-617-8052-19-5.
13. Physics for Food Technology (content module 1. Physical Foundations of Mechanics, Molecular Physics, and Thermodynamics) [Electronic resource]: textbook for Bachelor's degree students majoring in specialty 181 “Food Technology” in full-time and part-time programs. / S.I. Litvynchuk, V.E. Nosenko, G.I. Shatkovska, I.V. Hutsalo, V.V. Vyshniak; edited by S.I. Litvynchuk. – Kyiv: NUFT, 2021. – 245 p.
14. Fundamentals of Occupational Safety. Life Safety. Textbook / O.V. Yevtushenko, A.O. Sirik. – Kyiv: NUHT Publishing House, 2021. – 495 p.
15. Collection of problems for the general physics course [Electronic resource]: textbook for Bachelor's degree students majoring in technical specialties in full-time and part-time forms of study. / B.I. Verbytsky, S.I. Litvynchuk, N.V. Medvid. – Kyiv: NUHT, 2020. – 577 p.
16. Physics [Electronic resource]: lecture course for Bachelor's degree students majoring in specialty 162, 101 within educational and professional programs “Biotechnology: pharmaceutical, industrial, food, environmental protection,” “Ecology and eco-management” full-time and part-time forms of study / M. V. Lazarenko, S. I. Litvynchuk. – Kyiv: NUHT, 2020. – 328 p.
17. Engineering Physics. Module 1 [Electronic resource]: lecture course for Bachelor's degree students majoring in specialty 151 “Automation and Computer-Integrated Technologies” within the educational and professional program “Computer Systems and Software Engineering in Automation” for full-time and part-time forms of study / S. I. Litvynchuk, N. V. Medvid. – Kyiv: NUHT, 2020. – 193 p.
18. Physics: comprehensive preparation for the External Independent Testing for students of the Preparatory Department of the Center for Quality Monitoring and Coordination of Educational Activities of the University [Electronic resource]: textbook / S. I. Litvynchuk, M. V. Lazarenko, N. V. Medvid, and others – Kyiv: NUHT, 2019. – 49 p.
19. Physics. Electrostatics [Electronic resource]: textbook / V. M. Isay, S. I. Litvynchuk. – Kyiv: NUHT, 2018.
20. Physics. Dynamics of Rotational Motion [Electronic resource]: textbook / V. M. Isay, S. I. Litvynchuk. – Kyiv: NUHT, 2017.
21. Physics. Practical workbook / B. I. Verbytsky, A. M. Korol, S. M. Kotikova, N. V. Medvid. – Kyiv: NUHT, 2017. – 331 p.
22. Physics: Textbook / M. V. Andriyashyk, A. M. Korol. – Kyiv: NUHT, 2017. – 302 p.
23. Physics: a textbook for solving problems from the general physics course / B. I. Verbytsky, A. M. Korol, S. M. Kotikova, N. V. Medvid. – Kyiv: Inkos, 2016. – 376 p.
Also, every year, the department publishes and updates methological recommendations for studying the disciplines “Physics,” “Engineering Physics,” “Physics for Food Technology,” “Physical Foundations of Computer Electronics,” “Life Safety and Occupational Safety,” “Occupational Safety Management at the Facility,” “Fundamentals of Occupational Safety and Life Safety,” “Fundamentals of Professional Safety,” “Design of Environmental Protection Complexes with the Basics of CAD,” and “Fundamentals of Industrial Construction and Sanitary Engineering.”
Since 2015, the department has been working on the creation of electronic courses for distance learning, which are constantly updated with new teaching materials, presentations, and video demonstrations of laboratory work.
As part of Open Days and Welcoming Days, the department holds master classes for high school students, for example, “Physics Around Us,” “Oscillatory Processes Around Us,” “Wave Processes Around Us,” “Optics Around Us,” “Journey into the World of Sounds,” “Safety in Educational Institutions and Everyday Life,” etc. The department's teachers also conduct physics trainings for prospective applicants, and in 2019, they published a textbook to help schoolchildren: “Physics: Comprehensive Preparation for the External Independent Testing for Students of the Preparatory Department of the Center for Quality Monitoring and Coordination of Educational Activities of the University.”
