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.

Germany, Croatia and Poland - these were the locations where the Proton Dynamic team from the Warsaw University of Technology competed in the Formula Student series. How did our students perform?

The ranking lists of candidates to the Doctoral School of the Warsaw University of Technology are available. Now candidates are obliged to admit required documents until September 19, 2024.

Klara Skorupowska and Julia Nogowska, students at Warsaw University of Technology, are members of the team that developed MindEasy, an app designed to adapt educational materials to a student’s current psychophysical state. The app is competing in the Google Gemini API Developer Competition, and voting is open until the end of October!

The Warsaw University of Technology, along with seven other Polish universities, has signed a cooperation agreement with the Poland in Silicon Valley Center for Science, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. The partnership will focus on strengthening collaboration between academic and industrial centers, commercializing research results, and promoting science.

Students from the Warsaw University of Technology, working within the CMYK Student Research Group, aim to develop a Braille typewriter from scratch using readily available materials. The work is divided into two stages: copying existing solutions and then improving upon them.

In this year's seventh edition of the international MICROHOME Kingspan Edition competition, organized by Buildner, the jury distinguished the design proposal titled "Masurian Microhome." The authors are students from the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology: Maksymilian Łuszcz, Paweł Wykowski, and Zofia Zimowska. 

CanSats, which are miniature research probes shaped and sized like a soda can, conduct various scientific experiments. However, to carry out their missions, they need a launcher—a special device to propel them. This is exactly what students from the Balloon Division of the WUT’s Student Space Association are working on. The first launches are coming soon.

The Rectors’ Board and the Deans of the Faculties

An interdisciplinary team from the Warsaw University of Technology has begun work on the concept of creating a network of smart devices (equipped with IoT technology) on our Central Campus. One such device will be a "smart lantern," equipped with a set of sensors, actuators, and systems for communication with other similar devices. Implementing this solution will provide users of the WUT campus with various conveniences, such as reducing light pollution.

This stands for a new standard in data security against unauthorized access. Our researchers have developed a generator of cryptographic keys (or simply "secret passwords") that offers greater security than ever before, while being easy to use and cost-efficient, even in highly demanding cases. The solution has been granted the first European patent with unitary effect at the Warsaw University of Technology.

Prof. Frances Arnold – awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2018, and Prof. Jeffrey Hoffman, with experience in several spaceflights, will visit the Warsaw University of Technology in September and give open lectures. You are welcome to attend!

Our University was ranked 901-1000 in the latest edition of the Shanghai Ranking, i.e., Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). This is the same rank as last year.

At the end of July, the 43rd Polish Safari Rally was held in Przasnysz. Third place in the TH group went to the Henwar SIMP Rally Team consisting of Piotr Brakowiecki (driver) and Tomasz Chmielewski (pilot) riding in the NAC Rally sponsoring team. Tomasz Chmielewski - besides being passionate about motorsport - is also... the Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology.

The team of SKA Robotics representing the Warsaw University of Technology took the third place in the general classification of the competition Anatolian Rover Challenge. Our team also won three special awards for: best system of autonomous navigation, best solution in the category driving in rough terrain, and best sampling module. Leader of the team SKA Robotics is Miłosz Kurtysiak – Coordinator of the Robotics Section.

At this most important sporting event in the world Poland will be represented by over 200 sportspersons. These include Damian Czykier (athlete, graduate of the Faculty of Civil Engineering) and Krzysztof Łukasik (mountain biker, graduate of the Faculty of Physics).

They do not occur in nature – they are designed and created by the human but they have amazing mechanical properties. These are tensegrity metamaterials. Their exceptional nature may be used in civil engineering but how can it be done in the optimal way? This is studied by researchers from the Warsaw University of Technology.

Researchers at the Warsaw University of Technology began work a decade ago on a system that allows organs to be stored outside the donor's body. Thanks to the system, developed by NanoSanguis, a company founded at the Warsaw University of Technology, in July 2024 it was possible to perform a kidney transplant operation on a pig whose organ was stored outside the donor's body for 12 hours.

The second week of July saw the inauguration of a joint scientific project involving the Warsaw University of Technology, Jagiellonian University, NASA and the Universities of Basel and San Jose in Józefosław. The researchers' cooperation will focus on the exploration of Mars.

At the beginning of July, research work began at the Treblinka II Extermination Camp. A team of scientists led by Dr Sebastian Różycki of the Division of Photogrammetry, Teledetection and Spatial Information Systems at the Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography is carrying out a scientific project aimed at verifying the location of new gas chambers and cremation pit grates in the grounds of the former camp. This is the next stage of research carried out by experts from WUT.

Advanced work is underway by scientists from the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science of the Warsaw University of Technology on a system that will improve the diagnosis and monitoring of lesions within the chest. The xLungs project aims to support doctors, for example pulmonologists and radiologists, in the analysis of CT scans.