The Warsaw
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FACULTIES of WUT
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Historical background, development
and dynamics
WARSAW UNIVERSITY
History, organization, scope and profile
Warsaw University of Technology is one of the largest institutions
of higher education in
The University offers graduate and postgraduate courses in engineering in numerous fields of advanced technology, leading to B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees. In six faculties English language courses are conducted for about 200 foreign students. All faculties also have right to confer D.Sc. degree. Moreover there are 50 different full-time, evening or extramural postgraduate courses offered not only restricted to technology but also concentrated on management and raising professional qualifications. Since 2000 multimedial Distance Training Centre began its activity at the University.
Since the very beginning already in 1945 Warsaw
University of Technology has had ambition of maintaining and developing
international co-operation and to be internationally recognised. Despite the
well-known great difficulties, the University kept quite efficient “forbidden”
contacts with the Western countries. Agreements and visits concerning research
co-operation, participation in international conferences and symposia with
accepted papers, and finally contracts for visiting
professors were quite frequent and allowed to keep the level of our research
and education following the world trends.
Since 1990 the European Union educational and
research assistance programmes such as TEMPUS, later COPERNICUS, had a great
impact on the internationalisation of all University's activities.
Participation of the University: in the TEMPUS programme :
76 JEP projects (in this 24 as a coordinator), 3 JEN projects (in 2 as
coordinator), 22 CME projects (in 12 as coordinator), 125 IMG projects, in the LEONARDO da VINCI programme: 7 pilot
projects (in 3 as a coordinator), 44 mobility projects ( 2 as a coordinator).
In the frame of SOCRATES- ERASMUS
project every year over 150 WUT’s students go abroad for study and 50 teachers
to teach.
The University have
had 64 contracts in the INCO-COPERNICUS
programme, few of them in PHARE,
The University has a few hundred foreign partners in different kinds
of agreements, mostly from
The University is a member of international organisations: SEFI, IACEE, CRE, EAIE, EUROPACE 2000 and others; about 70 employees take part in their work.
In the last two years WUT won the third position among the best 75
Polish universities and the first place among the 20 of universities of
technology. Universities were estimated by two recognized journals: Wprost
and Perspektywy on the base of 15 criteria characterizing universities
prestige, research potential and study conditions.
Warsaw University
Staff total: 4 421
Professors: 392
Associate Professors :
100
Assistant Professors : 1 283
Lecturers: 489
Number of students: 31 924
Usable floor area:
Number of publications /last 5 years/: domestic: 11
014
foreign: 10 175
Number of patent applications /last 5 years/ domestic reported 278
practical 111
foreign
reported 1
practical 1
THE FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
The Faculty of Electrical Engineering has been functioning, as an independent unit within Warsaw University of Technology, since 1921. During 80 years of activities the Faculty has graduated more than 16000 students, and has granted 650 Ph.D.'s and 150 D.Sc's. Throughout the years 80 full professors have been working here. Many of them were pioneers in Polish electrical engineering. Some of them were deans, rectors, and ministers or held high level state and professional positions. All of them were proud to be graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Warsaw University of Technology.
Development of
education within the Electrical Eng. Faculty
Scientific
and/or technological quality
Particular achievements of the IoPE
During the last years
the IoPE has kept on with teaching and research activity trying to reorient the
policy and management towards:
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intensifying work to gather
grant funds from State Committee of Scientific Research (KBN) for fundamental
research,
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increasing co-operation with
industry (Polish Power Grid Company, Power Utilities) by performing
commissioned research, expertise and making results of research and development
works more practicable,
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participation in
international projects and grants, as PHARE (2 projects), TEMPUS
(3 projects) and SOCRATES,
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1992 – 1995 |
TEMPUS – PHARE JEP Project “"Computer orientated teaching
programes and laboratories for power engineering" coordinated
by Prof. J. Machowski of the IoPE ” |
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1995 – 1998 |
TEMPUS – PHARE JEP Project „Working out the programme and starting 6-semester B.Sc. engineering
studies at Electrical Eng. Faculty (Project coordinated by Prof. Wojciech
Zagan of the IoPE, also dr Désiré Rasolomampionona was our representant in
the Faculty Committee for the realisation of this project) |
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1998 – 1999 |
Programme TEMPUS – PHARE: :”Credit points system –ETCS for programme of studies at
Electrical Eng. Faculty (Project coordinated by Prof. Wojciech Zagan, also dr
Désiré Rasolomampionona was our representant in the Faculty Committee for the
realisation of this project) |
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organising co-operation with
international (IEE,IEEE) and Polish societies and bodies (
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market-oriented activity
in finding other resources for research
(from sponsors, donations and publishing),
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finding partners among small
private enterprises, which are more flexible and market-oriented and better
prepared for incorporating new ideas and solutions,
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creating closer contacts
with technical universities and research centres in
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preparing new programmes of
B.Sc. and M.Sc., Ph.D. studies, with EU co-operation within a framework of
TEMPUS project,
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trying to attract more
post-graduate and Ph.D. students organising part-time study programme and
incorporating them into research,
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enlarging research
infrastructure (computer and measurement equipment, laboratory stands) using
funds received from State Committee for Scientific Research and commissioned by
industry,
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increasing efficiency of the education (number of personnel was halved within the
last ten years with the number of students doubled).
Although most of the
implemented ideas were concentrated on bringing activity in Poland, contacts
with EU were quite frequent and effective, Results of scientific and research
works were published in journals and periodicals, not only in EU, but also in the USA in such a recognised publishing house as
Wiley&Sons (J.Machowski, J.Bialek, J.Bumby : "Power System Dynamics
and Stability". John Wiley & Sons