Military University of Technology (MUT, – WATStatut Wojskowej Akademii Technicznej.
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Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

, located at

Bemowo Bemowo is a district of Warsaw located in the western part of the city. Its territory covers the western belt of the former district of Wola, which was incorporated to Warsaw in the year 1951. The name of the district derives from the surname of ...

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. It was established in 1951. The university's rector-commander is płk. Przemysław Wachulak. The university is supervised by the Minister of National Defence of Poland and conducts scientific research for the needs of

Polish Armed Forces The Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland ( pl, Siły Zbrojne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, abbreviated ''SZ RP''; popularly called ''Wojsko Polskie'' in Poland, abbreviated ''WP''—roughly, the "Polish Military") are the national armed forces of ...

. Currently the university educates almost 10,000 students. The staff consists of about 1,000 employees, including 220 professors. University leads both military and civilian studies. Military graduates receive not only professional title of ''magister inżynier'', but are also promoted to military rank of

podporucznik ''Podporuchik'' ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, потпоручник, potporučnik, cs, podporučík, pl, podporucznik, russian: подпору́чик, bg, подпоручик, sk, podporučík) is the most Junior officer in some Slavic armed forces, an ...

(second lieutenant). Formally being professional soldiers, military students attend school on the principles of ordinary military service. They are quartered in military dormitories and attend a variety of different military trainings and lectures. After graduating, they are formally obliged to serve in Polish Armed Forces under threat of reimbursement of education costs. Only Polish citizens are eligible for military studies. Contrary to military students, civilian ones can study normally, without any commitments to the Ministry of National Defence. Civilian studies allow to obtain professional titles such as: ''inżynier'' or ''licencjat'' (first cycle studies), ''magister inżynier'' or ''magister'' (second cycle studies) and a scientific degree of ''doktor.'' Due to changes in Polish law, since October 2019, separate Doctoral School operates in the structure of MUT. Full-time studies are free, extramural studies are payable. Obviously, scientific research conducted in MUT focus on issues connected with military and national defense. MUT was the place where in 1963 first Polish laser was created. In 1964 analog computer

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(later produced by

Elwro Elwro was a Polish company that manufactured mainframe and microcomputers from 1959 until 1989. Its plant was in Wroclaw. Computer models included Odra mainframe systems, and the Elwro 800 Junior microcomputer for education. Overview The W ...

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) was also created in MUT. One of the biggest contemporary projects which was developed at the university was so-called Modular Firearm System, 5.56 mm MSBS rifle, currently manufactured and further developed by

FB "Łucznik" Radom Fabryka Broni "Łucznik" – Radom ()—also known as ''Fabryka Broni Radom'' or ''Zakłady Metalowe "Łucznik"''—is a Polish defence industry enterprise from Radom that produces firearms. The enterprise is a part of Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa ...

. The rifle is to become the next main service rifle of the Polish Armed Forces.

Faculties

MUT consists of eight faculties. * Faculty of Cybernetics, * Faculty of Electronics, * Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodesy, * Faculty of Logistics, * Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, * Faculty of Mechatronics and Aviation, * Faculty of Advanced Technologies and Chemistry, * Institute of Optoelectronics.

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