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.

27 teams from 12 countries will compete in the tenth edition of the prestigious international space-robotic competition European Rover Challenge (ERC). Included in this group are SKA Robotics (from the Astronautics Students’ Research Group) and the KNR Rover Team (from the Robotics Students’ Research Group).

For the second time, students and lecturers of the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology have created a unique object in the Royal Łazienki Park. This time, as part of the 'Erecting it_' project, the Pavilion of the Future was created, which can be visited from 16 June to the end of November in the Garden behind the Hermitage.

Focused on the human being and not - traditionally - solely on the building and its systems - this is how modern hospitals are to be shaped. The HumanIC network is developing such a new model. It is a European project coordinated by the Warsaw University of Technology.

WUT-5 is the fifth structure designed and built by students from the WUT Racing Student Research Group. It will compete - like its predecessors - in international competitions in the Formula Student series.

A new structure has appeared at Plac Pięciu Rogów in Warsaw - the result of work by students of the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology and the culmination of the KOSZTY :W CENTRUM project.

It is located in the WUT Main Building in room 86

In June, in the latest edition of the ranking Best Global Universities (2024–2025), run by U.S. News, the Warsaw University of Technology was ranked 946 in the world and came 5^th among Polish institutions.

In the latest edition of the Center for World University Ranking (CWUR) WUT ranked 755 in the world and maintained its 5^th ranking in Poland. This year the ranking evaluated 20 966 scientific institutions. On this basis, a list of 2000 best ones was created, including 41 from Poland.

During the Gala concluding the Training Convention of the Agreement of Doctoral Students of Universities of Technology, the best activities of doctoral student councils associated with the Agreement were awarded. The Doctoral Student Council of the Warsaw University of Technology won two statuettes - the main prize in the Effective Negotiation category and the second place for overall activity for the doctoral community.

Last year's Freedom Pavilion, which was created as part of the ‘Erecting it’ project, won the international 2023 Faith & Form Religious Architecture & Art Award in the category: Sacred Landscape. The building was designed and built by students and lecturers from the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology.

The innovative Water Sense technology serves the purpose of managing water quality in real-time. This comprehensive river condition threat identification system operates based on Internet of Things (IoT) solutions and utilizes autonomous measuring stations. Importantly, Water Sense continuously signals risks to ecosystems, predicts potential environmental impacts, and helps prevent ecological disasters.