Faculty of Automotive and Construction Machinery Engineering

www.simr.pw.edu.pl

Located at:

84 Narbutta Str., 02-524 WARSZAWA
phone: (+48-22) 849-0301, (+48-22) 234-8430
fax: (+48-22) 849-0306,
e-mail: dzk@simr.pw.edu.pl

General Information

The Faculty of Automotive and Construction Machinery Engineering was established in 1953, when the former Faculty of Mechanical Engineering was divided into several separate faculties. All the Faculty's lecture theatres, academic and research laboratories, offices, library and student clubs are located in a building on the University Southern Campus.

Student enrolment to the Faculty is approximately 350 annually and the total number of students is about 1300.

The Faculty employs 35 professors, and 70 assistant professors, supported by about 70 technical and administrative staff.

Organisation

The Faculty consists of three Institutes:

  • The Institute of Machine Design Fundamentals,
  • The Institute of Automotive Engineering,
  • The Institute of Construction Machinery Engineering.

The institutes are subdivided into divisions (for teaching) and research teams (for fundamental research and cooperation with industry).
A new Faculty library was opened in 1996. It is linked to the University's main computerized library system.

Curriculum

The Faculty of Automotive and Construction Machinery Engineering offers a graduate programme in the following fields:
Vehicles and Tractors, including the specializations:

  • Motor-Vehicles,
  • Motor-Car Bodies,
  • Internal Combustion Engines,
  • Tractors and Hydraulic Drive Systems;

Construction Machinery Engineering, including the specializations:

  • Soil and Rock Mechanics,
  • Industrial Transport,
  • Drives and Control of Construction and Handling Machines,
  • Supporting Structures of Construction and Handling Machines;

Railway Vehicles,
Computer-Aided Engineering,
Operation and Maintenance of Machines,
Automation of Motor Vehicles and Construction Machines.
The Faculty presently offers following types of studies:

  • undergraduate studies (4 years) leading to the degree of inżynier equivalent to an BSc degree (full-time and part-time),
  • graduate studies (1.5 year) leading to the degree of magister inżynier equivalent to a MSc degree (full-time and part-time),
  • full-time postgraduate doctoral studies (4 years) leading to the degree of doktor nauk technicznych equivalent to a PhD degree,
  • postgraduate studies (1 year, continuing education).

There are also individual programmes for students with special interests or needs.
Teaching development trends at the Faculty include:

  • a development of individual curricula and individual organization of studies,
  • parallel complementary studies,
  • an extended offer of postgraduate studies.

Research

The majority of the academic staff conducts research projects and these are mostly supported by the State Committee for Scientific Research in the form of grants. Other research projects are conducted under statutory research programmes and as the Faculty's own programmes. In addition to research funded by the State Committee for Scientific Research, the Faculty's staff takes part in research and engineering projects in cooperation with industry.

The Faculty cooperates with a number of Polish technical universities and enterprises. This takes the form of participation in joint research projects funded by the State Committee for Scientific Research, the exchange of ideas during seminars, reciprocal visits and educational activities.
The Institute of Machine Design Fundamentals conducts research in:

  • the computer-aided design of machinery,
  • the Finite Element Method (FEM),
  • expert systems in CAD,
  • the influence of the manufacturing process on machine elements,
  • the dynamics of mechanical systems, vibrations,
  • mechatronics,
  • noise, vibration damping, structural damping,
  • rotordynamics,
  • dynamic measurements and signal processing,
  • fatigue and fracture mechanics,
  • intelligent structures,
  • strength and stability of composite structures,
  • vibro-acoustics,
  • diagnostics of machines and vehicles and machine condition monitoring,
  • intersecting axis gear design and processing,
  • geometrical tolerances in machine design and manufacturing.

The Institute of Automotive Engineering. This Institute's activities centre upon the design, research and development of motor vehicles, tractors and railway vehicles, especially in the following fields:
Vehicle Mechanics:

  • the mechanics of motor vehicles, rolling stock and bimodal transport units,
  • dynamic process in the drive-vehicle-environment system,
  • the safety of motor vehicles and accident reconstruction,
  • computer simulation of vehicle dynamics;

Design of Vehicles and their Assembly and Components:

  • calculation methods for gear-trains in motor-vehicle drive line systems,
  • mechanical and hydromechanical drive systems,
  • simulation, evaluation of loading, strength and durability calculation of elements in motor-vehicle and railway vehicle drive systems,
  • the dynamics and strength of crank-shaft assembly, piston and connecting-rod systems, as well as timing gear systems,
  • motor-vehicle body and coachwork design and investigation;

Working Processes in Combustion Engines:

  • environmental protection against pollution from internal combustion engines,
  • investigations of exhaust emission from internal combustion engines,
  • thermodynamic processes and mechanics of internal combustion engines;

Experimental Investigation of Vehicles:

  • modern testing methods for motor-cars, trucks and tractors,
  • test stand investigation of vehicle assembly,
  • design of microcomputer-based control and measuring systems for testing vehicle motion.

The Institute of Construction Machinery Engineering conducts research in:

  • machinery dynamics,
  • rock mechanics and crushing processes,
  • automation and robotisation of earth moving, handling and construction machines,
  • flexible transport systems,
  • the ecology and ergonomics of engineering machines,
  • the quality, dependability and durability of supporting structures of machines,
  • the design and optimization of excavator, truck and tower cranes, conveyors, etc.,
  • energy conservation in drive systems,
  • alternative drive sources,
  • hybrid drive systems.

International cooperation

The Faculty has a number of agreements on scientific and academic cooperation with foreign universities and institutions. The Faculty is engaged in active cooperation with:

  • University of Waterloo, Canada
  • University Otto von Guericke, Magdeburg, Germany,
  • Stuttgart University, Germany,
  • Fachhochschule Köln, Germany,
  • Torino Polytechnic, Italy,
  • Tsinghua University, China,
  • Kharkhov Technical University, Ukraine,
  • Lvov Polytechnic, Ukraine.

The Faculty cooperates with foreign partners in a number of areas through joint research, reciprocal staff visits, educational and publication activities and 4 joint conferences and seminars held at the Faculty and abroad on a reciprocal basis

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