Częstochowa University of Technology ( pl, Politechnika Częstochowska, PCz) is the largest and oldest institution of

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Częstochowa Częstochowa ( , ; german: Tschenstochau, Czenstochau; la, Czanstochova) is a city in southern Poland on the Warta River with 214,342 inhabitants, making it the thirteenth-largest city in Poland. It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship (admin ...

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. All faculties of the university have the right to grant

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degrees (currently over 300 post-graduate students), and three of them also offer PhD

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. About the University, at the Częstochowa University of Technology homepage.

General information

The university was first founded in 1949 as the School of Engineering (). In 1955 the name was changed to current . The university employs over 1,400 staff, including 840 academic teachers, out of whom 165 are independent scientific researchers. There are around 12,000 students, studying 90 courses within 19 fields of study, full-time and part-time. For over 9 years the university is home to an academic choir Collegium Cantorum and an

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() with 13 different sports divisions.

Faculties

Politechnika Czestochowska - Wydzial Elektryczny

Currently there are 6 faculties (): * Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science () * Faculty of Processing and Material Engineering and Applied Physics () * Faculty of Civil Engineering () * Faculty of Electrical Engineering () * Faculty of Environmental Engineering () * Faculty of Management ()

Rectors

* Jerzy Kołakowski (1949–59) * Wacław Sakwa (1959–65) * Jan Grajcar (1965–70) * Kazimierz Moszoro (1970–74) * Józef Ledwoń (1974–81) * Janusz Braszczyński (1981–82) * Józef Ledwoń (1982–84) * Janusz Elsner (1984–90) * Janusz Braszczyński (1990–96) * Janusz Szopa (1996–2002) * Henryk Dyja (2002–2005) * January Bień (2005–2008) * Maria Nowicka-Skowron (2008–2016) * Norbert Sczygiol (2016–present)

Doctors ''honoris causa''

Jan Węglarz Jan Węglarz (born 1947 in Poznań) is a Polish computer scientist. His current research focuses on operations research. He studied at the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań, where he graduated mathematics in 1969, and later on Poznań Un ...

, Polish computer scientist *

Olgierd Zienkiewicz Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz (18 May 1921 – 2 January 2009) was a British academic of Polish descent, mathematician, and civil engineer. He was born in Caterham, England. He was one of the early pioneers of the finite element method. Since ...

, British mathematician and civil engineer of Polish descent * Tomasz Winnicki, Polish chemist

References

External links

Official website in Polish
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English
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