KOT Engineering was founded in 1993, by Prof. Ihor Kotchergenko, project engineer since 1960. Born in an Ukrainian family, Kotchergenko is a mathematician graduated from ITA (Aeronautical Institute of Technology), and MSc in Civil Engineering from UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro). Since 1973 teaching computational methods in graduate level courses, he was the creator of the Finite Elements department in IME (Military Institute of Engineering) in 1978. Professor Kotchergenko is a pioneer and one of the main responsibles for the introduction of computational methods in Brazil.