Polytechnic University of Bucharest

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**Politehnica University of Bucharest**

Established	1864 (1818)
Type	Public
Rector	Ecaterina Andronescu
Staff	Over 4,000
Students	~15,000
Location	Bucharest, Romania
Website	www.pub.ro

Universitatea Politehnica din Bucureşti is a technical university of Bucharest, Romania. It was founded in 1864 based on the older technical school of Gheorghe Lazăr (1818) and it was renamed "Politehnica" in 1920.

1 Achievements
2 Faculties
3 Technical Colleges
4 Notable alumni
5 Notable faculty members
6 External links

[edit] Achievements

In the 29th Annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, held at Shanghai Jiaotong University, on April 2005, Politehnica was ranked 10th in the world. (http://acm.baylor.edu/Past/icpc2005/Finals/Standings.html)

Part of the Politehnica campus

The "Rectorat" building

[edit] Faculties

The university has 13 faculties:

Faculty of Electrical Engineering www.electro.pub.ro
Faculty of Power Engineering www.energ.pub.ro
Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science www.acs.pub.ro
Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology www.electronica.pub.ro
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics www.mecanica.home.ro
Faculty of Engineering and Management of Technological Systems www.imst.pub.ro
Faculty of Biotechnical Systems Engineering www.isb.pub.ro
Faculty of Transports
Faculty of Aerospace Engineering www.aero.pub.ro
Faculty of Material Science and Engineering www.sim.pub.ro
Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science www.chim.pub.ro
Faculty of Engineering Taught in Foreign Languages (FILS) www.ing.pub.ro
Faculty of Applied Sciences

[edit] Technical Colleges

Since 1991, University Politehnica of Bucharest offers short-term (three years) studies equivalent to an Associate Degree within the two Technical Colleges, simply called College Number 1 and College Number 2.

[edit] Notable alumni

[edit] Notable faculty members

Elie Carafoli
Henri Coandă
Costin D. Nenitescu
Adrian Petrescu
Nicolae Ţăpuş
Irina Atanasiu
Nicolae Cupcea
Octavian Stănăşilă

[edit] External links

Official site. Mostly in Romanian, but with some material in English and French.
History of the Polytechnic University of Bucharest (1948-1981) (Romanian)
infopoli - Polytechnic University Students' Portal (mostly Romanian, with some English material)

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