The Department of High Precision Mechanics (HPM) was founded in 1965. The first Head of the Department was Professor R.Kurendash (1965 — 1976), from 1976 to 1992 — Professor V.Stryzhak, from 1992 to 2002 — Ph.D., Associate Professor H.Trishch, since 2002 the Department was headed by Sc.D., Prof. O.Ivakhiv.
Nowadays the HPM Department trains specialists in modern information technologies for instrument engineering — intelligent mechatronic systems. Mechatronics was formed as the result of combining electronics and computer design with mechanics — one of the oldest technical sciences. Computers or microprocessors serve for ensuring the control of precision mechanical devices, manipulators, industrial work and drives, and providing them with intellectual properties.
Mechanical nodes of computers and their peripheral equipment are also objects of design, research and debugging. Particular attention is paid to the research and application of microsystem devices (MST), which are characterized by small size, and in recent years are widely used in vehicles, security systems, medicine, etc. Software suitable for CAD includes computerized design, familiarization with the technical documentation of computer development (drawings, diagrams, PCB layout, etc.), programming of microprocessors and machines, knowledge of foreign languages (German, English).
The Department of High Precision Mechanics conducted the comprehensive research of precision machinery dynamics, designing and study of timing instruments (NIICHASPROM, Moscow), the research of the uneven movement of recording equipment information carrier (SCB SKA, Leningrad), analysis of the mechanical record sounds reproducing apparatus (SCB “Photon”, Lviv) parameters of the magnetic medium transporting mechanisms (CB, Frunze), study of the hydromechanical transmission (Lviv Bus Plant, Lviv), the connection of elements with the help of twisting etc. Thirteen Ph.D theses and one Sc.D thesis were defended in the scientific major 02.05.09 “Dynamics and Strength of Machines”, one monograph and hundreds of articles were published in national and international magazines.