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.

A doctoral candidate from the Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography of the Warsaw University of Technology, Paweł Czernic, MSc, took the first place in CLGE Young Surveyors Contest 2024 in the Bachelor and Master’s Degree Category. The award ceremony was held on 25 September 2024 during the INTERGEO conference in Stuttgart.

In the latest edition of the ranking, the Warsaw University of Technology, like last year, was ranked 1201–1500. At the same time, the University got a higher number of points compared with last year.

Staff and student exchanges, research projects and joint/double doctorates are the main areas of new agreements concluded between WUT and TU Dresden. Representatives of both universities met on 3 October 2024 at the Warsaw University of Technology.

This year, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for "the numerical design of proteins" and "the numerical prediction of protein structures." But what does that really mean? Paweł Borowiecki, PhD, from the Faculty of Chemistry and Prof. Tomasz Ciach from the Faculty of Chemical and Process Engineering explain.

In the latest edition of the ranking, the Warsaw University of Technology, like last year, was ranked 1201–1500. At the same time, the University got a higher number of points compared with last year.

Julian Sienkiewicz, PhD, and Tomasz Gradowski, PhD, from the Faculty of Physics, along with Prof. Przemysław Biecek, PhD, from the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science, commented on the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Physics.

What can you do at the Warsaw University of Technology besides classes? What projects are done by students and how can you join them? Come and find out! You are invited on 8 and 9 October 10:00-16:00 to the WUT Main Building.

Warsaw University of Technology, as a partner research institution, actively participates in the international DIEGO project. Its main goal is to develop digital solutions for sustainable, energy-efficient, and economically viable management of energy infrastructure in industrial plants. The solutions of the DIEGO project are being implemented and launched in five pilot installations in various locations across four participating countries: Poland, Germany, Austria, and Israel.

Karolina Siennicka, a student of the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology, won a bronze medal at the World Judo Juniors Championships. The Polish athlete competed in the under 57 kg weight category, which included a total of 43 contenders.

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A state-of-the-art Operating Room Simulation Laboratory has been established at WUT’s Faculty of Building Services, Hydro and Environmental Engineering. It is one of three unique and best-equipped research centers of this kind in Europe.

Workshop, craft room, garage – students at technical universities worldwide can’t imagine their lives without places where they spend long hours creating various prototypes. In Poland, these spaces are still not standard. Meet WUT MakerSpace – a place on the polytechnic map where ideas turn into demonstrators.

This year, students from the WUT Racing team participated in three Formula Student competitions: in Hungary (July 28–August 3), Croatia (August 20–25), and Poland (August 27–September 2). How did it go for them? Let's hear from the team.

Bartosz Rylski, a second-year student at the Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering (Aerospace Engineering), was the only representative from a Polish university to qualify for the prestigious European Space Agency (ESA) program. He participated in the launch campaign of a student rocket.

Starting university is like a leap into the unknown. An interactive guide comes to the rescue, helping you get to know Warsaw University of Technology.

On October 1, at 10.00, in the Main Building of WUT

EasyGreen is a startup founded by a group of WUT graduates. The team has just completed work on a unique project—a hydroponic pot for growing herbs at home. The project was developed as part of the Mentoring Program, run by WUT's Careers Service, in cooperation with mentor Dawid Adach.

The latest ranking World’s TOP 2% Scientists includes 77 academics from the Warsaw University of Technology. This is as many as 18 people more than last year. The list is prepared by Stanford University in collaboration with Elsevier and SciTech Strategies.

On September 18, this year, the renovated building of the Institute of Heat Engineering at WUT was officially opened for use. The ceremony marking the completion of the project was attended by representatives from the University's authorities, the Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering, Budimex—the general contractor of the project—and invited guests. The event took place at the Institute of Heat Engineering building at Nowowiejska Street in Warsaw.

In July NASA said that for financial reasons they are giving up the launch of the 433.5 billion dollars’ worth VIPER rover designed to search for natural resources on the south pole of the Moon. In view of these limitations at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, can we still dream about exploration of natural resources and searching for traces of life on Mars?

A team from the WUT’s Faculty of Physics has published an article in Nature detailing the first experimental observation of an antihypernucleus. The research was conducted as part of the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Our physicists have developed a nanocomposite graphene-based material, the unique properties of which may be used for military purposes. Their research results were published in the journal ”Optics Express”.

Our physicists, in collaboration with experts from Warsaw, Katowice, and Łódź, have investigated graphene-based nanocomposites that could be used in radiation protection materials. The results of their research have been published in Scientific Reports.