The name of the department's scientific school: prof. VS Kovalenko academic school of laser technology "Processes of interaction of high-energy flows with matter, non-traditional technologies of materials processing". It was founded in 1964 in the KPI with the beginning of the first researches of laser technology in Ukraine.
Confirmation of the scientific school availability is:
- experience and continuous training of scientific personnel;
- implementation of scientific subjects (budget, economic, initiative);
- department staff have certain achievements in scientific, scientific-innovative, scientific-methodical activities, publications in the scientific-based base of Scopus.