Wrocław University of Science and Technology

Currently the university educates almost 28,000 students[3] in almost 50 Bachelor, Master, and PhD programs. Every year over 4,000 degrees are conferred with over 80,000 graduates since its foundation. The university staff consists of over 2000 academic employees and another 2,000 administration workers.

The university rates high in the annual rankings of Polish universities. In 2006 and 2007 consecutively, it was announced the best technical university in Poland in the oldest Polish ranking of higher education schools carried out by Wprost magazine and 2nd best in 2013. The university ranked 1st in the modern technologies group (disciplines: computer science, electronics, materials science) of the Where to study? ranking. It ranked 2nd among the best technical universities in Information Technology and 1st in the Most Innovative Universities by 2012 Computerworld Magazine USA. In 2015 it ranked 1st in the field of Environmental Engineering according to the most popular currently ranking site in Poland, Perspektywy.[4]

According to the recent QS World University Rankings 2017/2018, it ranked 292nd in Engineering&Technology, impressively making it to the top 3% in the world in the field of engineering. It also ranked in the top 1% overall in EECA Rankings.

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  C13 Building.
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  D20 Building - Faculty of Electrical Engineering.
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  E1 Building - Faculty of Architecture.
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  A2 Building - Faculty of Chemistry.
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  Faculty of Mechanics.

The Technische Hochschule Breslau was founded in 1910 with German scientists and engineers, with the support of Emperor Wilhelm II of the German Empire. It was renowned for its accomplishments and innovation and inventions.

In May 1945, the Festung Breslau was overrun by the Red Army of the Soviet Union and the Technical University of Breslau along with the city was ceded to the People's Republic of Poland.

The Polish Wrocław University of Technology was founded 24 August 1945. A group of 27 professors, originating from the University and Technical University of Lwów, arrived in Wrocław and started the Polish academic society in the destroyed or severely damaged buildings of the Technische Hochschule Breslau. The first lecture was given by Kazimierz Idaszewski on 15 November 1945. Since then that day has been celebrated as Wrocław Science Day.

In 1951 the university was divided into two institutions. The first rector of the newly established Wrocław University of Technology was Dionizy Smoleński. From this moment, the polytechnic developed quickly and underwent numerous organisational changes.

Nowadays students of this university take part in several science programmes such as SSETI Program – developing communication systems and steering for a satellite launched 5 October 2005.

The university is one of the founder of the International University of Logistics and Transport in Wrocław, with the city of Wrocław and the French university École supérieure internationale de commerce in Metz.[5]

Wrocław University of Science and Technology is managed by a rector and five vice-rectors: for research, education, students' affairs, general affairs and development. Rectors and vice-rectors, as well as deans and directors of the departments are elected by the staff for five-year terms and may be re-elected once. The highest governing body within the university is the Senate, which consists of 75 members: rector, 5 vice-rectors, 12 deans, 12 students and 45 eligible staff representatives.

The university offers education in 13 faculties:

12195 publications in journals on the ISI Master Journal List.

11345 publications in JCRI indexed journals.

5495 registered inventions, including utility models.

1. Optica Applicata 2. Material Science 3. Systems Science

• Rudolf Schenck (1910–1914)
• Gerhard Hessenberg (1914–1916)
• Carl Heinel (1916–1918)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Semmler (1918–1920)
• Ludwig Mann (1920–1924)
• Werner Schmeidler (1924–1926)
• Wilhelm Tafel (1926–1928)
• Karl Gottwein (1928–1930)
• Erich Waetzmann (1930–1932)
• Bernhard Neumann (1932–1933)
• Wilhelm Rein (1933–1937)
• Erwin Ferber (1937–1944)
• Heinrich Blecken (1944–1945)
• Stanisław Kulczyński (1945–1951)
• Dionizy Smoleński (1951–1960)
• Zygmunt Szparkowski (1960–1969)
• Tadeusz Porębski (1969–1980)
• Bogusław Kędzia (1 XII 1980–31 VIII 1981)
• Tadeusz Zipser (1 IX–29 XII 1981)
• Jerzy Schroeder (6 I–31 VII 1982)
• Wacław Kasprzak (1982–1984)
• Jan Kmita (1984–1990)
• Andrzej Wiszniewski (1990–1996)
• Andrzej Mulak (1996–2002)
• Tadeusz Luty (2002–2008)
• Tadeusz Więckowski (2008–2016)
• Cezary Madryas (2016–2020)
• Arkadiusz Wójs (2020–)

Students have their own self-government, which controls most of their affairs. At the university works also the Career Office which helps students in transition process from education to work.[6]

• Neisse University: 2001, in cooperation with the Technical University of Liberec in Czech Republic and the University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Goerlitz in Germany, the Neisse University was established. The academic network provides own study courses using the resources of the partner institutes. In that way students study in three countries and acquire intercultural and interdisciplinary knowledge and experiences.
• Top Industrial Managers for Europe: The university participate to student mobility and research cooperations with European technology universities through the Top Industrial Managers for Europe (TIME) network.

• Power Engineering Graduate Program – Double master's degree with Ryerson University
• Joint Master-Program "Information Technology] with Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences, Halmstad University and Aalborg University.

• Wroclaw Centre for Networking and Supercomputing: Networking and Supercomputing services for local universities
• Wroclaw Centre for Technology Transfer: to increase the efficiency and the competitiveness of industry through innovation
• Lower Silesia Centre for Advanced Technology: promotion of clean technologies, hydrogen and fuel cells, food safety
• Centre of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology : GaN devices, delta-doped structures, scanning probe microscopy, polymers
• Centre of Biomedical Engineering
• Hugo Steinhaus Center : to organize, encourage and support research on and education in stochastic techniques as applied in science and technology
• Centre of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (CAMT)
• Center of Biomonitoring, Biotechnology and Ecosystems Protection in Lower Silesia

• The 7th European Meeting coinciding with the 1st World Meeting in Visual and Physiological Optics, VPOptics 2014
• Modern Electric Power Systems MEPS
• International Conference "Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Engineering Structures" – EVACES
• Energy Efficiency and Air Pollutants Control Conference

• Krzysztof Baranowski – yachtsman, sailor
• Constantin Carathéodory – Greek mathematician
• Klaus Clusius – physical chemist
• Leszek Czarnecki – businessman, billionaire and world record holder in diving
• Rafał Dutkiewicz – former president of the City of Wrocław
• Arnold Eucken – chemist
• Erwin Fues – theoretical physicist
• Wojciech Kurtyka – climber
• Jan Paweł Nowacki – electrical engineer
• Ferdinand Albin Pax – botanist and entomologist.
• Eugen Piwowarsky – metallurgist
• Wanda Rutkiewicz – mountaineer
• Hugo Steinhaus – mathematician
• Władysław Ślebodziński – mathematician
• Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski – mathematician
• Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski – physicist, chemist and mathematician
• Stanisław Tołpa – botanist
• Stanisław Trybuła – mathematician
• Krzysztof Wielicki – mountaineer, the fifth man to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders
• Maja Włoszczowska – World Champion in mountain biking

• University of Wrocław

• Wrocław University of Science and Technology home page (english version)
• SSETI Programme at the Wroclaw University of Technology