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The OKOŃ submarine in the Smart Robots category and the e-MaksPower racing car in the Life Upgrade category won the main prizes in the nationwide KOKOS Student Construction Competition finals.

The Warsaw University of Technology Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering (or more precisely: the Institute of Heat Engineering) is the leader of the MOLCAR project, submitted for funding in the POLNOR CCS 2019 Call for Polish-Norwegian research projects. The project achieved the highest score. 

WUT Professor Mateusz Malanowski Ph.D., D.Sc., Eng. of the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology of the Warsaw University of Technology won the IEEE AESS Fred Nathanson Memorial Radar Award. This award is granted in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of radiolocation to scientists under 40 years of age.

A group of scientists headed by Prof. Elżbieta Malinowska of the Center for Advanced Materials and Technologies (CEZAMAT) and the Warsaw University of Technology Faculty of Chemistry are working on diagnostic devices for rapid biomarker testing, including virus detection.

#MyQuaranTime competition was for all international students of Warsaw University of Technology organised in May 2020.

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The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the development of lithium-ion batteries. This contributed to increased interest in this subject and acceleration of research, including at the Warsaw University of Technology. What battery projects are specialists from our Faculty of Chemistry involved in?

In these difficult and unpredictable times of a pandemic, we must all stay at home more than we would like. However, we can use this time to get ready for life after coronavirus. To help you prepare, we are happy to be able to offer an online English summer course.

For all students, doctoral students and employees, free remote psychological assistance programme has been launched via Microsoft Teams and telephone contact with a psychologist.

A project led by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Warsaw University of Technology (or more precisely — the Institute of Control and Industrial Electronics) was directed for funding in the POLNOR 2019 Call for Polish-Norwegian research projects. Moreover, this project received the highest rating in the Energy, transport and climate field.

The international T2K neutrino physics experiment (Tokai to Kamiokande) has published conclusions from the results of its research in the prestigious scientific journal “Nature” [1]. The authors include a large group of Poles, including team members from the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology of the Warsaw University of Technology, headed by Prof. Krzysztof Zaremba. Beside him, the co-authors are: Doctor Robert Kurjata, Doctor Andrzej Rychter and Marcin Ziembicki, MSc.

– I plan to spend next year studying Urban Design, says Zuzanna Jarzyńska from the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology, a winner of the Fulbright Graduate Student Award 2020-21.

This year the WUT Open Days will have a new form. Since normal university life is suspended and we cannot meet our candidates in person, we decided to move this event from the University campus to web.

Accommodation process for current foreign students and PhD students starts on the 1st of May and it will last until 22nd May 2020.

#MyQuaranTime competition is for all international students of Warsaw University of Technology. The rules are simple: record a 40-60 second short movie showing your studies at home, during the quarantine and send a link to download your short video to MyQuaranTime.cwm@pw.edu.pl using one of the file transfer services, e.g. wetransfer.com, dropbox.com, drive.google.com, etc. The deadline to send the movie is 10th May (23:59 CET).

Accenture and WUT Careers Service invite international WUT students to an online event POLand WORK – boost your chances or getting hired.

The innovative solution has been described by Mateusz Soliński and Michał Łepek – PhD students from the Faculty of Physics at the Warsaw University of Technology – and Łukasz Kołtowski, MD, PhD from the Medical University of Warsaw. You can read about the results of their work in the “Informatics in Medicine Unlocked” journal.

The importance of collaboration can easily be seen in the face of a serious challenge. Scientists of the Faculty of Automotive and Construction Machine Engineering are perfectly aware of that as they team up with the faculty members of other Warsaw-based universities to work on projects in support of healthcare workers in the coronavirus fight.

A PET/PCL Passive Location System (PLS) developed by a consortium of PIT-RADWAR SA (leader), the Warsaw University of Technology and AM Technologies Polska sp. z o.o. has been crowned winner of the Security and Defense Innovation competition for the best projects featuring in the catalogue: Innowacje – Wdrożenia – Bezpieczeństwo – Obronność 2020 (Innovation – Implementations – Security – Defense 2020).

Is the Staszic Palace home to the archives of the Association of the Polish Youth “Zet”, a pre-WWI clandestine organisation of Polish students across European universities? Experts, including Anna Lejzerowicz, Ph.D., of the Warsaw University of Technology Faculty of Civil Engineering have performed some early surveys. 

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At present, the team has over a dozen of 3D printers at their disposal. They come from various faculties and units of the Warsaw University of Technology. The team started their cooperation to use their equipment and skills to support the healthcare services in fighting the coronavirus pandemic.

The BioMedical Engineering Laboratory (BioMedLab) of the Warsaw University of Technology Faculty of Chemistry and Process Engineering has always been home to projects supporting healthcare professionals and patients. Artificial blood, artificial blood vessels or innovations driving cancer treatment are just some of the ideas of the team headed up by Prof. Tomasz Ciach. Now, the scientists are helping healthcare in another way: by printing reusable face masks and joining in an inter-faculty initiative to produce face shields.

Students of the ADek Student Research Group operating at the Warsaw University of Technology Faculty of Electrical Engineering have decided to support medical staff. They use their home 3D printers to produce visors for face shields.