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Students of the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology, Zuzanna Bućko, Karolina Celińska and Alicja Sutkowska, proposed their own ideas for the development of Stand III at the Służewiec Horse Racecourse in Warsaw. This stand was originally intended for about seven thousand spectators with the cheapest tickets. However, it was never completed and has been left unused for many years.

Our University has the 64^th ranking (up by 5 places) among over 180 higher technical schools from 27 EU countries, as well as Switzerland and Norway. The same ranking was also awarded to Gdańsk University of Technology and Silesian University of Technology. The only Polish technical university ranked higher is the AGH University of Science and Technology (48^th ranking).

A student space experiment

From Poland to Singapore – this journey awaits the team from the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science at WUT. Łukasz Kryczka, Piotr Tyrakowski, Michał Kwiatkowski, and Jakub Lisowski have qualified for the international stage of the global AngelHack hackathon.

A group of researchers from WUT has supported a project by the Wrocław startup NJORD Energy. The company, founded in November 2023, aims to bring an innovative solution to the renewable energy sources (RES) sector. This cutting-edge system converts wind energy into electricity using special kites.

”The Gift of Time – a Place of Peace and Dignity” is the title of the project for which Julia Pytko, Maciej Paweł Oberzig and Daniel Piotr Chiłła from the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology were awarded the second place in the competition ”Hospice – Home for the Terminally Ill”. 

At the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, an agreement was signed on funding for a research team within the Virtual Research Institute. Its aim is to develop new solutions and strategies related to oncological treatment. The Warsaw University of Technology is a partner in this consortium; its leader is the Jagiellonian University. The project head at WUT is Professor Mariusz Pietrzak.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Good luck to everyone

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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.