WUT Monthly #1

Research and innovation

• Our student is the co-author of an invention designed to support the blind. It is Dotsnote – a prototype printer to make notes in Braille. How does it work?
• What can we do to save culinary recipes (often the priceless ones passed from one generation to another) from disappearing under a pile of cookbooks? Our students came up with a solution – Chefs’ app.
• WUT Centre for Innovation and Technology Transfer Management (CZIiTT) to help Mazovian businesses innovate. A project featuring WUT CZIiTT has obtained an EU grant for that purpose.
• AI as a way to prevent preterm child birth. How is it possible? A team of researchers associated with the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology are working on the solution.
• Our researchers from the Faculty of Chemistry and Process Engineering, and from the Centre for Advanced Materials and Technologies are working on a COVID-19 vaccine. It is to be simple and inexpensive to manufacture. The team are preparing for the animal studies stage and looking for an industry partner.

Awards and prizes

• Prof. dr hab. inż. Małgorzata Kujawińska and prof. dr hab. inż. Krzysztof Patorski from the Faculty of Mechatronics are the winners of scientific awards granted by the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE).

WUT life

• WUT Rector prof. Krzysztof Zaremba taking part in the first meeting of the Board of Directors of the ENHANCE alliance in the “European Universities” project.
• Dr inż. Piotr Prochoń of the Faculty of Civil Engineering defending a prestigious double PhD thesis. He obtained a PhD at the Warsaw University of Technology and at Belgium’s Université de Liège. 
• We were introduced to the new composition of the WUT Student Self-Government, new Board of the Council of Student Research Groups and that of the Council of PhD Students.
• Active students and PhD candidates involved in promoting our University, popularizing science and bringing credit to the Warsaw Institute of Technology through their success were granted Scholarships as a Christmas gift.

Watch, listen, read

• What activities are held by our University as part of the “Excellence Initiative – Research University” project? Watch a brief video and visit the website badawcza.pw.edu.pl.