Wrocław University of Technology
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Wrocław University of Technology (pl. Politechnika Wrocławska) 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 is one of the best Polish technical universities, often placed in opposition to AGH University of Science and Technology, and operates three regional branches in Jelenia Góra, Legnica, and Wałbrzych.
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[edit] Facts & figures
Currently the University educates over 32 000 students in almost 50 different Bachelor, Master, and PhD programs. Every year over 4000 degrees are conferred, with over 80 000 graduates since its foundation. The university staff consists of over 2000 academic employees and another 2000 administration workers.
[edit] History
Wrocław University of Technology was founded August 24, 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 buildings of the former Technische Hochschule Breslau. The first lecture was given by Kazimierz Idaszewski on 15th 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.
[edit] 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 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
- 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
[edit] 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 aquire intercultural and interdisciplinary knowledge and experiences.
[edit] Centres
- Wroclaw Centre for Networking and Supercomputing
- Networking and Supercomputing services for local universities
- http://www.wcss.wroc.pl/english/
- Wroclaw Centre for Technology Transfer
- to increase the efficiency and the competitiveness of industry through innovation
- http://www.wctt.wroc.pl/
