Poznań University of Technology
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Poznań University of Technology (Polish name: Politechnika Poznańska; note that in Polish Politechnika has a different meaning from English, hence the translation) is a university located in Poznań, Poland. It has over a thousand lecturers and teachers and over 21,000 students. There are eight faculties:
- Architecture
- Chemical Technology
- Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture
- Computer Science and Management
- Electrical Engineering (with its own Institute of Computer Science)
- Mechanical Engineering and Management
- Technical Physics (general engineering program)
- Machines and Transportation.
The current rector is Professor and Doctor in Engineering Adam Hamrol.
PUT is a member of CESAER Association and was the first Polish technical university to receive membership of that organisation.
PUT was officially founded in 1955 and the first rector was Roman Kozak. But a state school had existed in Poznań since 1919, under name of the Higher State School of Machinery. After adding a second department in 1929, its name was changed to the Higher State School of Machinery and Electrotechnics. It was supposed to became the University of Technology in 1940, but its development was interrupted by World War II. In 1945 the school received the status of Higher Engineering School and in 1955 it became the University of Technology.
Jan Węglarz (the famous John Carbon or Johnny Walker, as he is called by his pupils), Roman Słowiński, Jacek Błażewicz, Jerzy Brzeziński are the best-known staff of the Computer Science department.
