The Gdańsk University of Technology (Gdańsk Tech, formerly GUT; Polish: Politechnika Gdańska) is a university of technology in the Wrzeszcz borough of Gdańsk, and one of the oldest universities in Poland. It has eight faculties with 41 fields of study and more than 18,000[3] undergraduates, as well as about 626[4] doctoral students. As of 2016, it employed 2,768 people, including 1,313 academic teachers.[5]
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Politechnika Gdańska | |
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| Motto | "History is wisdom – the future is a challenge" |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1904 |
| Rector | Krzysztof Wilde |
| Students | 14,439[1] (December 2023) |
| Undergraduates | 3000 |
| Postgraduates | 1000 |
| 500 | |
| Address | Narutowicza 11/12 , , , 80–233 Gdańsk Wrzeszcz |
| Affiliations | CESAER, Erasmus+, EUA |
| Website | www.pg.edu.pl |
| University rankings | |
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| Regional – Overall | |
| QS Emerging Europe and Central Asia[2] | 78 (2022) |
The Gdańsk University of Technology has an international institutional accreditation, EUA-IEP (European University Association-Institutional Evaluation Programme).
History
The university was founded in 1904 as Royal Institute of Technology in Gdańsk (Königliche Technische Hochschule zu Danzig), which was part of the German Empire. The names of the city's educational institutions were affected by the changes in the Gdańsk city status.[6] The university was known by different names throughout different times:
- 1918–1921: Technische Hochschule in Danzig (Wyższa Szkoła Techniczna w Gdańsku)
- 1921–1939: Technische Hochschule der Freien Stadt Danzig (Wyższa Szkoła Techniczna Wolnego Miasta Gdańska)
- 1939–1941: Technische Hochschule Danzig
- 1941–1945: Reichshochschule Danzig
Following the takeover of the city by the Red Army, the Soviets arranged stables and barracks in other buildings.[7] The school was reorganized under the supervision of Stanisław Turski, a Polish mathematician and former inmate of German concentration camps.
The 110th anniversary ceremony was held on 6 October 2014.[8] The culmination point was the ceremony of conferring Robert Cava from Princeton University.[9] The main ceremony ended with the concert at the Polish Baltic Philharmonic. The symphony orchestra of PBP with the Gdańsk Tech and Poznań University of Technology choirs performed the oratorio Quo vadis by Feliks Nowowiejski. The next day, Gdańsk Tech organised a meeting with members of the European Federation of National Engineering Associations.[10]
The motto of the university, "History is wisdom – future is challenge", was adopted by the resolution of the Senate of Gdańsk University of Technology on 21 January 2015.
Location
The Gdańsk University of Technology (Gdańsk Tech) is located in Gdańsk, situated at the mouth of the Vistula River on the Baltic Sea. The Main Campus is situated in the centre of old Wrzeszcz. The campus is located on Narutowicza Street.
Courses
Some degree courses and various specialisations are taught in English. Students have access to laboratories. Undergraduates can also join one or more of 60 student science or language societies as well as other organisations.
Interior
The main building, designed by Hermann Eggertt and Albert Carsten, was built between 1900 and 1904. The main building is the symbol of the university.[11] All the buildings were designed in the style of the Northern Renaissance with the elements of Art Nouveau. The images above the eastern side gate are a lighthouse and the tower of St. Mary's Church. The ornamental gutters are decorated with copper spouts in the shape of four male figures holding water monsters. The Clock Tower destroyed in 1945 was restored to the roof of the main building on 13 May 2012. The tower is 18 meters in height. The main building encloses inner courtyards that were covered by glass domes.
In 2012, the South Courtyard was officially renamed in honour of Johannes Hevelius. It is named after the French physicist who first performed a similar experiment at the Paris Pantheon in 1851. The Foucault pendulum is designed to show the rotation of the Earth on its axis. An electromagnet fixed at the point of suspension powers the movement of the pendulum. Reliefs in the window niches above the Foucault pendulum show the design of a reflective sundial (on the left) and a rotating map of the sky with a sextant.[12]
Faculties
The university's faculties are:
- Faculty of Architecture
- Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics
- Faculty of Electrical and Control Engineering
- Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics
- Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
- Faculty of Ocean Engineering and Ship Technology
- Faculty of Management and Economics
Chemical Faculty
The Chemical Faculty was one of the four original faculties of 'Royal Technical College in Gdańsk'. The Chemical Institute (Chemisches Institut) building was one of the first built specially for Gdańsk University of Technology in 1900–1904.[13] In 1904, the laboratories in the Chemical Faculty at the Technical University in Gdańsk were equipped with wooden fume hoods.[14]
Chemical Faculty is one of five faculties that started operations research and teaching in 1945 as a result of the decree of the Polish government transforming technical universities acting in Gdańsk since 1904 into Polish Gdańsk University of Technology.[15]
At the faculty, there are projects that were financed by the Komitet Badań Naukowych (Science Research Council) and European Commission. At the faculty operates the Centre of Excellence in Environmental Analysis and Monitoring.[16] There are also research programmes financed by the European Commission within the framework of EU programmes V and VI.[17]
Academic Computer Centre
The Academic Computer Centre in Gdańsk (CI TASK) has been operating since 1992 due to an agreement reached between the Tri-City's chief institutions of higher education. The initial plan was for it to primarily serve all schools of higher education as well as local branches of the Polish Academy of Sciences.[18]
Library
The library has a collection of over a million volumes.[19] The library also stores publications in electronic form. The library has a total of 16 reading rooms. Gdańsk University of Technology has participated in the creation of the Universal Library.[20]
Notable alumni
- Bodo von Borries (1905–1956), German physicist, co-inventor of electron microscope
- Zygmunt Choreń (born 1941), naval architect
- Jaroslaw Drelich (1957), surface engineer, professor at the Michigan Technological University
- Abraham Esau (1884–1955), German physicist
- Andrzej Gwiazda (born 1935), anti-communist activist and physicist
- Richard B. Hetnarski (born 1928), Polish-American mechanical engineer
- Tomasz Imieliński (born 1954), Polish-American computer scientist
- Michał Kalecki (1899–1970), Marxian economist, "one of the most distinguished economists of the 20th century"
- Włodzimierz Julian Korab-Karpowicz (born 1953), philosopher and political theorist
- Alar Kotli (1904–1963), Estonian architect
- Janusz Liberkowski (born 1953), inventor
- Lâm Quang Mỹ (born 1944), Polish-Vietnamese physicist and poet
- Jacek Namieśnik (1949–2019), chemist
- Janusz Pawliszyn (born 1954), chemist
- Marek Piechocki (born 1961), civil engineer, co-founder of LPP Group
- Kazimierz Piechowski (1919–2017), engineer
- Krystian Pilarczyk (born 1941), hydraulic engineer
- Janusz Smulko (born 1964), electronics engineer
- Wojciech Szpankowski (born 1952), computer scientist
- Marianna Sankiewicz-Budzyńska (1921–2018) electronics engineer
References
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