University

Warsaw University of Technology, whose origins can be traced back to the first half of the 19th century, is with 30000 students the largest technical university in Poland. The academic staff of nearly 2700, including 1600 professors of various ranks, makes it also the highest ranked institution for advanced engineering education and research in the country. The University is organized into 16 faculties (schools) that cover virtually all areas of modern engineering. 

       The Warsaw University of Technology is well known for its excellent academic staff. All the lecturers have outstanding research accomplishments and a strong commitment to teaching. As the University has an exceptionally low ratio of undergraduate students to professors (about seven to one), the students have many opportunities for close interaction with their instructors. 

     The traditional programs of study taught in Polish follow a typical continental-European curriculum; students pursue five-year program that lead to a degree equivalent to the Master of Science in the selected area of engineering. The academic year is split into two semesters, beginning in the first week of October and in the last week of February, with a three-month summer vacation period. 

  The Warsaw University of Technology is involved in active cooperation with many foreign academic and research institutions. About 100 members of our academic staff are currently working as experts for international organizations or are taking visiting positions at foreign universities and research institutes in more than 20 countries. Numerous international technical conferences and symposia have been organized at the University. Groups of Polish students frequently go abroad to enhance their practical skills. Extensive international contacts allow the academic staff and students to be kept familiar with state-of-the-art developments in their field of study and research.

       The University is becoming more and more a cosmopolitan place. Each year we welcome students of over 40 nationalities, from all over the world. Currently, about 300 undergraduate and 200 graduate international students are attending the classes at the Warsaw University of Technology. As most courses are taught in Polish, the international students are provided with a one-year intensive language training. In the academic year 1993-94, for the first time the University offered a number of engineering programs of study taught in English. 

Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology 

     The Faculty, formerly part of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, was established as a separate school in 1951. Since that time, it has been growing steadily, both in its facilities and in the variety of and depth of its educational and research programs. Currently, it has more than 3500 full-time students. They are served by 360 members of the academic staff, including 35 full professors, 31 associate professors, and 137 assistant professors, as well as 220 members of technical and administrative staff. The Faculty is known to attain the highest teaching standards and enjoys worldwide recognition for its research. Both the teaching and administrative staff are continuously encouraging measures aimed at consolidating this well-deserved position. Courses are constantly reviewed and revised to keep them up-to-date and relevant to the demands of students and employers. 

       The Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology has a wide variety of educational and research facilities. A large number of spacious and well-equipped laboratories in all the subject fields studied here are available. More than 1700 workstations and personal computers, running hundreds of computer-aided design programs and other software tools, directly support teaching and research. The computer resources are connected by Ethernet with a gateway for access to other University facilities and to national and international networks. 

      The Faculty has seven small libraries that house more than 90,000 volumes and serve specific areas of electrical and computer engineering. These local libraries are part of the University Library System that contains approximately 1,500,000 volumes and 3,300 current periodicals. About 70% of the books and journals available in the libraries are in English.

       In the dedicated Foreign Language Interactive Learning Laboratory, students access to audio and video equipment, a wide range of computer-assisted language learning materials, as well as books, newspapers and magazines. Courses in English, German, French, Italian and Russian are offered at elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. Special courses in Polish are also available to international students. 

      The traditional and most popular form of studies at the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology has been a five-year program leading to the Master's degree. In selected areas, a four-year program leading to the Bachelor's degree has also been available. Many students have continued their education in programs leading to the Doctor's degree. In addition, many short, vocational or continuing education courses and programs have been offered. 

       There are traditionally many more candidates who apply for studies than the Faculty can admit. One-week ranking examinations in mathematics, physics, and a foreign language are therefore organized each year in July, and only those candidates with the best scores are admitted. As all students are both academically and intellectually outstanding, studying at the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology is an exceptional opportunity for academic and intellectual growth. 

       In the academic year 1990-91, the Faculty restructured its undergraduate curriculum by introducing a new system of studies, giving students a lot of flexibility in planning their individual programs and course loads for each semester, and in some cases, selecting course instructors. The admission, registration, course and examination scheduling, assignment of classrooms, and other administration procedures have been fully computerized. 

       The reorganization of the Faculty has been conducted with the active participation of students. Students play a significant role in the decision-making process, serving as full voting members of various committees. The organization of all students, Student Self-Government, through its annually elected representatives, is given authority and sole responsibility to act in specific matters affecting education and student life. 

     The Faculty attracts students from all over the world and maintains relations with academic and research institutions in more than 30 countries. Based on formal agreements regarding scientific cooperation with international organizations and individual universities, many joint research projects are being carried out. Student and academic staff exchange programs are also conducted. In addition, through various less formal links, out teachers and researchers share their knowledge and experience with their colleagues working at academic and research centers in many countries. 

       The number of foreign institutions cooperating with the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology is growing very fast; new links are being established almost every day. 

       The Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology participates in numerous international programs of scientific exchange set up by the European Community. Since 1990 the Faculty has been involved in the TEMPUS (Trans-European Mobility Scheme for University Studies) program designed to support the process of transformation of higher education in Central/Eastern Europe. The centerpiece of the TEMPUS Program is the development of Joint European Projects that involve partners from both Central/Eastern Europe and the European Community. The Faculty has participated in the following Joint European Projects:

Digital Integrated Communication Systems,
Education in Control Systems and Information Technology, 
Interactive Distance Learning of Digital Signal Processing, 
Computer-Aided Design and Engineering in Electronic Engineering Education, 
The Use of Computers in Electronics Engineering, 
Microelectronics and Optoelectronics for Telecommunications, 
Education of CAD of Modern VLSI Circuits, 
Training and Education of Teachers and Students in the Field of Physics and Technology, 
TeLaTo - Teaching Laboratory for NMR Tomography, 
EUROSTEP in Poland. 

      These projects involve academic and industrial institutions from the United Kingdom, Denmark, Belgium, Germany, Finland, and Italy. 
       Through the TEMPUS program, our students have the opportunity to spend some time, typically from one to twelve months, at foreign universities. Study abroad, which often includes a three-month research project, is an integral part of the program of study at the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology and contributes to the student's final degree. Our students took advantage of the TEMPUS program, visiting the University of Surrey (U.K.), ENST Rennes (France), University of Birmingham (U.K.), Technische Hochschule Darmstadt (Germany), Helsinki University of Technology (Finland), Polytechnic of Central London (U.K.), University of Genoa (Italy), University of London (U.K.), and University of Kent (U.K.). 

       The Faculty is also participating in several other exchange and joint project programs established by the Commission of European Communities and involving partners from many European countries. Some of the recent areas of cooperation include:

Verification and Validation Methods for Formal Description Used in Software Engineering,
Methods for Performance Evaluation and Design of Multiservice Broadband Networks,
EUROSAT - European Satellite Communications and Networking Research Project,
Networking and Satellite Communications,
Synthesis of Dependable and Testable Microelectronic Systems. 

      Since 1992 the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology has been a member of EUROCHIP. Through participation in this consortium, our research staff and students have access to state-of-the-art software tools supporting the design of integrated circuits and modern chip manufacturing facilities at CMP Grenoble, France, and IMEC Leuven, Belgium. 
       Among the most important bilateral exchange agreements are those with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, and with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, U.S.A. 
       Through bilateral exchange programs initiated under the auspices of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska Foundation, the Faculty is linked with several U.S. institutions. The joint U.S.-Polish projects include:

Electronic Structure of Amorphous Silicon; research conducted in cooperation with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory,
New Measurement Techniques for Electric and Magnetic Properties of Anisotropic Materials and MUS Substrates in Microwave Region; research conducted in cooperation with the National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Rough Sets as a Front End for Neural Computing; research conducted in cooperation with the University of New Hampshire,
Semantic Models and Architectures for Multimedia Databases; research conducted in cooperation with St. John's University. 

       Active cooperation with academic institutions abroad has resulted in a large number of long-term appointments for the members of the Faculty's teaching and research staff at North American and West European universities. In return, a number of visiting professors from all around the world support teaching and research activities at the Faculty. The new programs of study in Electrical and Computer Engineering taught in English will surely benefit greatly from the experience of our professors who have taught and carried out research in a multilingual environment.