Student Marek Rauchfleisz received a gold medal and a special award (Canadian Special Award of Excellence) at the International Invention Innovation Competition iCAN 2024 held in Toronto. The award was granted for the original design of the specialized drone “TROPO O3 DRONE”. When he’s not designing award-winning drones, Marek is a second-year student of Computer Science and Information Systems within the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science at the Warsaw University of Technology.
The Board of Directors of the international association of technical universities CESAER has appointed Professor Mariusz Malinowski – Warsaw University of Technology Vice-Rector for Research – as the association’s Envoy to the upcoming Polish presidency of the European Union Council.
Yelyzaveta Leshchenko and Paweł Rukat – students at the Faculty of Mechatronics of the Warsaw University of Technology – spent part of their summer in an unusual way. They took part in the largest international analog lunar mission – Mission Analog Colony 1, organized by the Analog Astronaut Training Centre (AATC). It was attended by 30 analog astronauts from 5 continents.
The team PoliWęglany (PoliCarbonates) from the WUT Faculty of Chemistry, comprising: Gustaw Głuski, Tymon Obrębski and Albert Yedzikhanau, took the third place in the competition Chemkaton Great Challenges Chemistry. The final - 24h marathon - was held at the AGH University of Kraków on 30 September - 1 October 2024. Another team from the Faculty of Chemistry – Orbitals – also took part in the great final.
On Monday October 14, 2024, the Warsaw University of Technology hosted the official launch of the "Club of Digital Opportunities" (Klub Cyfrowych Możliwości) project. The initiative aims to challenge stereotypes about professional roles in the ICT sector and inspire girls to pursue educational paths related to technology and the digital industry.
At the Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography at Warsaw University of Technology, a group of young researchers, known as UAV GeoLAB, focuses on their passion for flying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, to perform terrain measurement and imaging. They have successfully completed numerous outstanding projects.