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Warsaw University of Technology History

January 4, 1826 - the Preparatory School for the

Institute of Technology,

June 8, 1898 - Tsar Nikolaus II Institute of

Technology ,

November 15, 1915 - Warsaw University of

Technology (with Polish as the language of

instruction ).

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Warsaw University of TechnologyLocalization

WARSAW

Plock

Warsaw University of Technology

WUT – one of the largest universities of

technology in Poland

WUT is ranked No. ONE in Poland among 22

universities of technology

Public state university with full academic

autonomy

According to the last survey of the 520 largest

enterprises in Poland, almost 9% of their CEO’s

and Presidents are graduates of the Warsaw

University of Technology!4

Warsaw University of Technology20 Faculties

Faculty of Architecture,

Faculty of Automotive and Construction Machinery Engineering,

Faculty of Chemical and Process Engineering,

Faculty of Chemistry,

Faculty of Civil Engineering,

Faculty of Electrical Engineering,

Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology,

Faculty of Environmental Engineering,

Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography,

Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science,

Faculty of Mechatronics,

Faculty of Physics,

Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering,

Faculty of Production Engineering,

Faculty of Transport,

Faculty of Materials Science and Technology,

Faculty of Civil Engineering,Mechanics and Petrochemistry (Płock),

Faculty of Management,

Faculty of Admin. and Social Science

College of Economics and Social Sciences (Płock).

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International Business School

International Business School

The School’s activities are based on co-operation between WUT and

3 leading European business schools:

HEC – School of Management, Paris, FranceLBS – London Business School, UKNHH – Norwegian School of Economics and Business

Administration, Bergen, Norway

Postgraduate Master’s programmes in Business Administration (appr. 250 students annually):

International MBAMaster en sciences de Gestion Approfondies HECExecutive MBA

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Warsaw University of TechnologyOther important units

Key Research Centres:

The Research Centre for Energy & Environmental Engineering,

The Research Centre for Functional Materials,

The Research Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems,

The Research Centre for Advanced Materials and Technologies CEZAMAT (to be completed in 2016).

Supportive Units:

The Centre for Advanced Studies,

The Centre of Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship Development,

The Centre for Distance Learning (B.Sc., M.Sc. and Post-diploma Studies)

The Foreign Language Centre,

The Centre for Physical Education & Sports,

The Centre for International Cooperation.7

Warsaw University of TechnologyFunds

Appr. 70 % - State Budget (Ministry of Science and Higher Education)

Appr. 30 % - Other sources: Industry 6%

University revenues 11%

International projects 13%

44%

36%

20%

Didactic

Activities

66,23 mln

EUR

Research

53,47 mln

EUR

Other

WUT Budget Distribution 2013:

19%

49%

19%

13%

Professors &

Associate Professors

Assistant Professors,

Doctors

Lecturers

Other

Warsaw University of TechnologyUniversity Staff 2012/2013

Total: 4 687 employees

Non-academic staff: 2 252 persons (49%)

Academic staff: 2 435 persons (51%)

Academic Staff in Percentages:

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Warsaw University of TechnologyStudents 2013/2014

Total number of students – 32 004

Full time students – 22 816

Extramural students – 8 285

PhD students – 903Annual recruitment

of students: 8 316

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3%

26%

71%

Full time

students

Extramural

students

PhD students

Warsaw University of TechnologyEducational system

Three-level system (acc. to Bologna Process):

First level courses – university studies

in engineering leading to B.Sc. degree,

Second level courses – leading to M.Sc. degree,

Third level courses – leading to Ph.D. degree.

European Credit Transfer System, ECTS

one semester – 30 ECTS,

B.Sc. degree – 210 – 240 ECTS (7-8 semesters),

M.Sc. degree – 90 – 120 ECTS (3-4 semesters).

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Warsaw University of TechnologyStudies in English

Studies in English are being currently offered at 9 Faculties:

Architecture – M.Sc.

Electronics and Information Technology – B.Sc. & M.Sc.

Electrical Engineering – B.Sc. & M.Sc.

Civil Engineering – B.Sc. & M.Sc.

Power and Aeronautical Engineering (three programs) – B.Sc. & M.Sc.

Mathematics and Information Science – B.Sc. & M.Sc.

Production Engineering – M.Sc. (in cooperation with Politecnico di Milano)

Environmental Engineering – B.Sc.

Mechatronics – B.Sc. & M.Sc.

Interfaculty program in Control and Robotics - M.Sc.

Interfaculty program CRES – Clean & Renewable Energy Sources – M.Sc.

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Warsaw University of TechnologyInternational students 2012/2013

Studies in English – 258 foreigners (mainly from Nigeria, China, India, Saudi Arabia)

Studies in Polish – 111 foreigners (mainly from Belarus, Ukraine, Vietnam, Iran)

LLP Erasmus - incoming - 191

- outgoing - 352

LLP Leonardo da Vinci - outgoing - 19

Erasmus Mundus - incoming - 43

- outgoing - 7

ATHENS (Nov. 2009/March 2010) - incoming - 115

- outgoing - 81

Bilateral Exchange - incoming - 26

- outgoing - 21

New project, based on EU Operational Program, signed Sept 2008, allocates appr. 3.2 million € for internationalisation of studies at WUT

Warsaw University of TechnologyInternational activities

Research projects based on bilateral and networking agreements

European Research Framework programmes i.e. (previous FP6 and FP7), recently Horizon 2020 and other co-financed by EU

European Educational Programmes:

* TEMPUS * LEONARDO DA VINCI * ATHENS * ERASMUS

* ERASMUS MUNDUS * ERASMUS MUNDUS EXT. COOP. WINDOW, ERASMUS PLUS

International studies (in English)

International Summer Schools

Organization and participation in international conferences, seminars, etc.

Membership in international organizations

EUA, CESAER, SEFI, EuroPACE, IIE, Magna Charta...

400+ individual memberships in international organizations 14

Warsaw University of TechnologyCooperation Platform of CEE Metropolitan Universities of Technology

Initiated by WUT, KPI (Kiev) and TU Berlin

Members: Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin)

Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Czech Technical University in Prague

National Technical University of Ukraine “KPI”

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnical University

Slovak University of Technology

Moscow State Technical University n.a. N.E.Bauman

Vienna University of Technology

Vilnius Gediminas Technical University


Main activities: Mobility of Staff and Students, Joint Educational Programmes, Quality in Education, Joint Research Initiatives (e.g. Sustainable Development), Technology Transfer.

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Cooperation agreements (key examples)

10 Central and East European Universities of Technology (Cooperation Platform),

Politecnico di Milano (Italy),

Centro Ricerche FIAT SCPA (Italy),

Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne (France),

Ecole de Mines de Nantes (France),

ParisTech (France),

Technion, Israel Institute of Technology (Israel),

Delft University of Technology (Netherlands),

Kyungpook National University (Republic of Korea),

National University of Singapore (Singapore),

Nanyang Technological University (Singapore),

National Taipei University of Technology (China/Taiwan),

University of Waterloo (Canada),

University of Detroit Mercy (USA),

North Caroline State University (USA),

Maryland University (USA),

Nagoya University (Japan),

Shizuoka University (Japan).

Universidad Politecnica de San Luis Potosi (Mexico)

Altogether, 120+ active bilateral agreements on academic and scientific cooperation with

universities, research institutions and high-tech industry worldwide.16

Warsaw University of TechnologyResearch Priorities

Computer science, ICT, telecommunications

Artificial Intelligence

Biomedical engineering

Microelectronics and nanotechnologies

New material technologies

Automatics and robotics

Alternative and renewable energy sources

Energy saving and storage

Nuclear energy

Environmental engineering

Transport, aviation, space research

Chemistry, chemical technology, functional materials

New fields of science and technology

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7th Framework Programme 2007-2013

Number of submitted proposals - 168

Number of contracted projects – 31 (Faculty of Electronics & IT as a leader with 10 projects, followed by Faculties of Mechatronics and Power & Aeronautical Engineering )

Total value of contracted projects – 190.54 m €;

WUT part – 10.48 m €

Project coordinators: Max Planck Gessellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaften E.V, Germany

Groupe des Ecoles des Telecommunications, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie and INPG Entreprise S.A., all from France

Politecnico di Torino, Dept. Of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering and Centro Ricerche FIAT SCPA, all from Italy

Ericsson AB, Sweden

Others from UK, Finnland, Ireland, Norway, Belgium, Hungary, Austria and Poland)

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Warsaw University of TechnologyCEZAMAT – the Centre of Advanced Materials and

Technologies

Project co-financed by EU Operational Program for Poland

„Innovative Economy”

Agreement signed Sept 2009

Project value – 385.1 m. PLN

(appr. 98 m. €)

Operational start planned in 2013

WUT is Project Coordinator for the consortium of 9 partners

Location in the southern campus of WUT + decentralized

laboratories

The main goal is to conduct interdisciplinary research in fields of

micro-, opto-, nano- and bioelectronics, in addition to

multifunction micro- and nanomaterials engineering

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Warsaw University of TechnologyCePT – the Centre of Preclinical Research and

Technology

Project of Biomedical Research Centre, co-financed by EU Operational Program for Poland „Innovative Economy”

Estimated value – 388 m. PLN (appr. 99 m. €)

Consortium of 10 partners: Warsaw Medical University, WUT, University of Warsaw and 7 research centers,

All three levels of research (fundamental research, diagnostic and therapy),

More than 120 research projects in the field of:

- nanotechnology,

- molecular biotechnology,

- neurobiology,

- genomics,

- biomedical engineering,

- pharmacology.

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Warsaw University of TechnologyParticipation in research experiments at CERN

The Faculty of Physics participates in 3 experiments at CERN:

NA49, NA61 and ALICE

NA49 – Analysis of Heavy Ion Collisions with use of SPS accelerator

Team leader: dr Wiktor Peryt,

Participants: 3 researchers, 2PhD students, 3 students

NA61 – SPS Heavy Ion and Neutrino Experiment

„SHINE” Team leader: dr Wiktor Peryt,

Participants: 2 researchers and 4 students

„ALICE” – A Large Ion Collider Experiment

Team leader: prof.dr hab. Jan Pluta,

Participants : 4 researchers and 4 students, 2 PhD dissertations.

The research teams are involved with a preparation of electronic equipment,

software development and analysis of data.

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Warsaw University of TechnologyParticipation in research experiments at CERN

Dr Radomir Kupczak(electronics engineer , Faculty of Physics )

Michał Olędzki(student, Faculty of Physics )

Prof. Władysław Trzaska (physicist, University ofJyvaskyla, Finland)

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Warsaw University of TechnologyOther research programmes

EURATOM,

Intelligent Energy Europe,

Norwegian Financial Mechanism and EEA Financial

Mechanism,

EUREKA,

COST,

CELTIC,

NATO,

Security Research.

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Warsaw University of TechnologyCooperation with industry (key examples)

Siemens AG (Germany & Poland),

PKN Orlen SA (Poland),

BASF (Germany),

General Electric (USA),

Pratt&Whitney (USA),

ABB Ltd (Switzerland),

Carl Zeiss (Germany),

Autodesk (USA),

Cummins Filtration (USA),

FIAT (Italy & Poland ),

Telekomunikacja Polska S.A., (Poland) & France Telecom (France)

LG Electronics (Korea & Poland)

SAMSUNG (Korea & Poland)

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