Wrocław University of Science and Technology

Wroclaw University of Technology

Politechnika Wrocławska
Logo of the Wroclaw University of Technology
Latin: Polytechnica Wratislaviensis
Former names	Technische Hochschule Breslau
Type	Public
Established	1910,1945
Rector	Tadeusz Więckowski
Academic staff	1,904
Students	32,821
Location	Wrocław , Poland
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	EUA (European University Association), TIME (Top Industrial Managers for Europe), CRE (Association of European Universities CRE-Columbus), EAIE, PACE (Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering Education)
Website	http://www.pwr.wroc.pl

Academic rankings
Global
QS	314 (Engineering & IT)
THE	N/A

Wrocław University of Technology (Polish: Politechnika Wrocławska, founded as German: Technische Hochschule Breslau) is an autonomous technical university in Wrocław, Poland. With buildings dispersed throughout the city, its main facilities are gathered at a central location near Plac Grunwaldzki, alongside the Oder River. It also operates three regional branches in Jelenia Góra, Legnica, and Wałbrzych.

Facts & figures

Currently the University educates over 32,000 students in almost 50 different Bachelor, Master, and PhD programs. Every year over 4,000 degrees are conferred, with over 80,000 graduates since its foundation. The university staff consists of over 2000 academic employees and another 2,000 administration workers. Today, it belongs to the best technical universities in Poland – It rates high in the annual rankings of Polish universities. Recently, it has been announced the best technical university in Poland for the second consecutive time in the oldest Polish ranking of higher education schools carried out by the “Wprost” magazine (in 2006 and 2007). Also, the university ranked first in the modern technologies group (disciplines: computer science, electronics, materials science) of the Where to study? ranking.

Ranked 430. in 2011 Webometrics Ranking of World Universities 185. in Europe and 9. in Central & Eastern Europe

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  D20 Building.

History

The Technische Hochschule Breslau was founded in 1910 with German scientists and engineers, with the support of Emperor Wilhelm II of the German Empire. It was renowned for its accomplishments and innovation and inventions.

In May, 1945 the Festung Breslau was overrun by the Red Army of the Soviet Union and the Technical University of Breslau along with the city was ceded to the People's Republic of Poland.

The Polish Wrocław University of Technology was founded 24 August 1945. A group of 27 professors, originating from the University and Technical University of Lwów, arrived in Wrocław and started the Polish academic society in the destroyed or severely damaged buildings of the Technische Hochschule Breslau. The first lecture was given by Kazimierz Idaszewski on 15 November 1945, and since then that day has been celebrated as Wrocław Science Day.

In 1951 the university was divided into two institutions. The first rector of the newly established Wrocław University of Technology was Dionizy Smoleński. From this moment, the Polytechnic developed quickly and underwent numerous organisational changes.

Nowadays students of this university take part in several Science programmes such as for example SSETI Program – developing communication systems and steering for a satellite launched 5 October 2005.

The University is also one of the founder of the International University of Logistics and Transport In Wrocław, together with the city of Wrocław and the French university École supérieure internationale de commerce in Metz.

Organisation

Wroclaw University of Technology is managed by a Rector and five Vice-Rectors: for research, for education, for students’ affairs, for general affairs and for development. Rectors and Vice-Rectors, as well as Dean and Directors of the Departments are elected by the staff for three-year terms and may be re-elected only once. The highest governing body within the university is the Senate, which consists of 75 members: Rector, 5 Vice-Rectors, 12 Deans, 12 students and 45 eligible staff representatives.

Faculties

The University offers education in a diverse range of fields at 12 different faculties:

• Faculty of Architecture

Architecture and Town Planning, Spatial Economy

• Faculty of Civil Engineering

Civil Engineering

• Faculty of Chemistry

Biotechnology, Chemistry, Chemical and Process Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Chemical Technology

• Faculty of Electronics

Control Engineering and Robotics, Electronics and Telecommunications, Computer Science, Teleinformatics

• Faculty of Electrical Engineering

Control Engineering and Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Renewable Energy

• Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology

Mining and Geology

• Faculty of Environmental Engineering

Environmental Engineering, Environmental Protection

• Faculty of Computer Science and Management

Computer Science, Management and Marketing

• Faculty of Mechanical and Power Engineering

Mechanical Engineering and Machine Building, Power Engineering

• Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Control Engineering and Robotics, Mechanical Engineering and Machine Building, Transport, Management and Manufacturing Engineering

• Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology

Mathematics, Physics, Materials Engineering, Technical Physics, Computer Science

• Faculty of Microsystem Electronics and Photonics

Electronics and Telecommunications

Rectors

• Rudolf Schenck (1910–1914)
• Gerhard Hessenberg (1914–1916)
• Carl Heinel (1916–1918)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Semmler (1918–1920)
• Ludwig Mann (1920–1924)
• Werner Schmeidler (1924–1926)
• Wilhelm Tafel (1926–1928)
• Karl Gottwein (1928–1930)
• Erich Waetzmann (1930–1932)
• Bernhard Neumann (1932–1933)
• Wilhelm Rein (1933–1937)
• Erwin Ferber (1937–1944)
• Heinrich Blecken (1944–1945)
• Stanisław Kulczyński (1945–1951)
• Dionizy Smoleński (1951–1960)
• Zygmunt Szparkowski (1960–1969)
• Tadeusz Porębski (1969–1980)
• Bogusław Kędzia (1 XII 1980-31 VIII 1981)
• Tadeusz Zipser (1 IX-29 XII 1981)
• Jerzy Schroeder (6 I-31 VII 1982)
• Wacław Kasprzak (1982–1984)
• Jan Kmita (1984–1990)
• Andrzej Wiszniewski (1990–1996)
• Andrzej Mulak (1996–2002)
• Tadeusz Luty (2002–2008)
• Tadeusz Więckowski (2008–)

Student life

Students have their own self-government, which controls most of their affairs.

Student organizations

Active organizations

• ASI – University Computer Science Association
• AZS – University Sport Association
• AIESEC – International Association of the Economy and Commerce Students’
• BEST – Board of European Students of Technology
• IAESTE – The International Association for the Exchange of Students for the Technical Experience
• IACES – International Association of Civil Engineering Students
• NZS – Independent Students’ Union
• AKM Apanonar – Academic Motors Club

European cooperation networks

• Neisse University

2001, in cooperation with the Technical University of Liberec in Czech Republic and the University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Goerlitz in Germany, the Neisse University was established. The academic network provides own study courses using the resources of the partner institutes. In that way students study in three countries and acquire intercultural and interdisciplinary knowledge and experiences.

• Top Industrial Managers for Europe

The university participate to student mobility and research cooperations with European technology universities through the Top Industrial Managers for Europe (TIME) network.

International cooperation

• Power Engineering Graduate Program – Double Master’s Degree with Ryerson University
• Joint Master-Program "Information Technology" with Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences, Halmstad University and Aalborg University.

Centres

• Wroclaw Centre for Networking and Supercomputing

Networking and Supercomputing services for local universities

• Wroclaw Centre for Technology Transfer

to increase the efficiency and the competitiveness of industry through innovation

• Lower Silesia Centre for Advanced Technology

promotion of clean technologies, hydrogen and fuel cells, food safety

• Centre of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology

GaN devices, delta-doped structures, scanning probe microscopy, polymers

• Centre of Biomedical Engineering

• Hugo Steinhaus Center

The goal of the Hugo Steinhaus Center is to organize, encourage and support research on and education in stochastic techniques as applied in science and technology

• Centre of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (CAMT)

• Center of Biomonitoring, Biotechnology and Ecosystems Protection in Lower Silesia

Conferences

• Modern Electric Power Systems MEPS 2010

• International Conference "Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Engineering Structures" – EVACES

• Energy Efficiency and Air Pollutants Control Conference

Notable faculty and alumni

• Krzysztof Baranowski – yachtsman, sailor
• Constantin Carathéodory – Greek mathematician
• Klaus Clusius – physical chemist
• Leszek Czarnecki – businessman and billionaire
• Rafał Dutkiewicz – president of the City of Wrocław
• Arnold Eucken – chemist
• Erwin Fues – theoretical physicist
• Wojciech Kurtyka – climber
• Krystyn Jerzy Haich – architect
• Jerzy Leszczyński – chemist received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching
• Jan Paweł Nowacki – electrical engineer
• Ferdinand Albin Pax – botanist and entomologist.
• Eugen Piwowarsky – metallurgist
• Wanda Rutkiewicz – one of the greatest woman mountaineers
• Hugo Steinhaus – mathematician
• Władysław Ślebodziński – mathematician
• Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski – mathematician
• Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski – physicist, chemist and mathematician
• Stanisław Tołpa – botanist
• Krzysztof Wielicki – mountaineer, the fifth man to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders
• Maja Włoszczowska – World Champion in mountain biking

External links

• Wrocław University of Technology home page (english version)
• SSETI Programme at the Wroclaw University of Technology