In 2012, the Mechanical Faculty of the KhNADU turned 60 years old. The faculty was established on the basis of two specialties transferred to KhADI from Kharkov Engineering and Construction Institute in 1947. The first dean of mechanical faculty in 1952 became Andriy Mikhailovich Kholodov - a participant of the Great Patriotic War, later doctor of technical sciences, professor, Honored worker of science and technology of Ukraine. His name today bears the Department of Construction and Road Machines, which he has headed for over 20 years. Later the faculty was headed by Konstantin Abrosimov, one of the designers of the legendary T-34 tank (1955-1964), Sergey Derevyanko (1965-1968), Georgiy Kuznetsov (1965-1981). 15 years the faculty was headed by Vladimir Petrovich Yemelyanov - Professor, Candidate of Technical Sciences, whose share was the most difficult years related to the relocation of the landfill, the construction of a new educational building, the transfer of the educational process to new curricula. Since 1996, the Dean of the Faculty of Mechanics has been the author of this article, Igor Kirichenko.

The Mechanical Faculty has always been focused on training specialists for the machine building complex and road construction of the USSR and Ukraine. The range of knowledge acquired in the course of study in all specialties of the faculty, a high level of theoretical and practical training allows not only to design and operate road construction equipment, but also to solve any other scientific and technical tasks. The Faculty provides employment opportunities in all spheres of the national economy of Ukraine. Today, graduates of the faculty can be found in senior positions in government bodies, large industrial enterprises and construction organizations in Ukraine, CIS countries, as well as in many countries in Europe, America, Africa.

The Faculty actively cooperates with machine-building enterprises of Ukraine, such as the Novokramatorsk Machine-Building Plant, the Kryukiv Railway Works, and the Kharkov factories of KhTZ them. Malysheva, Shakhtar Miner, Mashgidrovod, KhZTO, CJSC Manometer, NPP Kobalt and others. The most effective cooperation was between the Faculty of Mechanics and the Miner's Light. As a result of this cooperation, a training and scientific-industrial complex was created. Thanks to the initiative and the attention of Professor Turenko Anatoliy Turenko Rector and the General Director of the Vysotsky Gennady plant, this complex provides not only training of engineering personnel for the plant, but also the fulfillment of research works, upgrading of qualification of both employees of the factory and teachers. the composition of universities.

The success of the faculty is determined by the fruitful activity of the departments and first of all graduates. The flagship of the faculty is the Department of Construction and Road Machines, which was founded in 1936 and trained mechanical engineers for construction and road machinery in the pre-war period. In the postwar period the department was headed by SB Pinter, AM Kholodov, VI Sukhinin, VV Nichke, LV Nazarov, VA Shevchenko. Now the department is headed by Associate Professor, Candidate of Science (Engineering) Shevchenko Valery. Today, this department is staffed by highly qualified teachers, 80% of whom have degrees and titles. The department attracts lectures and the completion of the diploma design of famous in Ukraine and abroad doctors of technical sciences, professors LA Khmaru, OV Grigorov, IA Emelyanov, AP Nesterov and others. Golden letters in the history department recorded the names of Solomon B. Pinter, Boris Timofeyevich Besedin, Andrei Mikhailovich cold, Mikhail Bunin, George N. Kuznetsov, Vyacheslav Ivanovich Sukhinin, Vladimir Nikiforovich Kireev, Boris Ignatievitch Voschenko, Leonid V. Nazarov, William Vilhelmovycha Nychke that until the last days of their lives they were members of the department and passed their invaluable creative experience to new generations of teachers and students.

From 1962 to 1988 the department was headed by Andriy Kholodov, who in 1968 defended his doctoral dissertation and formed several promising scientific directions. These scientific fields were headed by associate professors MV Bunin, SN Derevyanko, VK Rudnev, VV Nichke and LV Nazarov. In 1978 Vyacheslav Rudnev defended his doctoral dissertation and headed the newly created department of operation of construction and road machines. From 1993 to 1996, this department was headed by Candidate of Technical Sciences, Professor Leonid Nazarov. At the beginning of 1988, AM Holodov transferred the powers of the head of the department to Wilhelm Nichke, who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation that year and continued to manage the department until 1996. In 1996, the named departments were merged, and LV Nazarov was appointed head of the department. Under the leadership of Professor LV Nazarov, a group of teachers and students actively worked on the creation of the first domestic motor grader DZK-250 and a unified forklift PF-04 at the Kryukiv Wagon. The result of this research and development was the successful defense of a doctoral thesis in 1998.

From 2006 to 2008, the department was headed by a graduate of the Mechanical Faculty, student LV Nazarova, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor Valery Shevchenko. In 2008, Doctor of Engineering, Professor Wenzel Yevgen Sergiyovych, who previously worked at the department, was invited to head the department. In a short span of time Professor ES Wenzel was able to concentrate the work of the department in the direction of training of highly qualified personnel. With his active assistance and participation, the PhD and 2 PhD theses were defended, and 2 PhD theses were submitted to the Council. The material base of the department of construction and road machines is not limited to the auditorium fund and the laboratories in the mechanical faculty building. This department has a range of road construction equipment. The range of museum exhibits of machines and equipment, as well as modern facilities of mechanization, on which students undergo practical training and acquire the skills to operate these machines. The range of road construction equipment was created in the pre-war period, and in 1986 was relocated from the Artem  village of in 519 district.

Today, the Faculty of Mechanics is 800 students, 100 teachers, 4 areas of training, 6 specialties, 7 departments. The faculty remembers its history, successfully solves current tasks and confidently looks to the future.