Częstochowa University of Technology (Polish

Polish language

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: Politechnika Częstochowska) - the oldest higher education

Higher education

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 institution in Częstochowa

Czestochowa

Częstochowa is a city in south Poland on the Warta River with 240,027 inhabitants . It has been situated in the Silesian Voivodeship since 1999, and was previously the capital of Częstochowa Voivodeship...

, Poland

Poland

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General information

The University is the largest and oldest university in the region of Częstochowa. It employs over 1400 people, including 840 academic teachers, out of which 165 are independent scientific researchers. All faculties of the University have the rights to graduate doctors

Doctorate

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 (currently over 300 post-graduate students), and three of them also habilitation

Habilitation

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There are around 23 000 students, studying 90 courses in full-time and part-time of 18 faculties.

For over 9 years there is academic choir Collegium Cantorum and Akademicki Związek Sportowy

Academic Sports Association

Academic Sports Association is a mass students’ sport organization, one of the biggest sports associations in Poland...

 with 13 different sport sections.

Brief history

The University was founded in 1949 as Szkoła Inżynierska (Engineering School). In 1955 the name was changed to its current form of Politechnika Częstochowska.

Faculties

Currently there are 6 faculties

Faculty (university)

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 (wydział):

• Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science (Wydział Inżynierii Mechanicznej i Informatyki)
• Faculty of Processing and Material Engineering and Applied Physics (Wydział Inżynierii Procesowej, Materiałowej i Fizyki Stosowanej)
• Faculty of Civil Engineering (Wydział Budownictwa)
• Faculty of Electrical Engineering (Wydział Elektryczny)
• Faculty of Environmental Engineering (Wydział Inżynierii i Ochrony Środowiska)
• Faculty of Management (Wydział Zarządzania)

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-present)

Honoris causa doctors

• Wacław Sakwa
• Bohdan Ciszewski
• Jan Szargut
• Ewgenij Pawlowicz Dyban
• Janusz Elsner
• Henryk Szymczak
• Bogdan Skalmierski
• Stanisław Kocańda
• Włodzimierz Prosnak
• Leopold Jeziorski
• Edward Kempa
• Jan Węglarz
  Jan Weglarz
  Jan Węglarz 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 University of Technology, when he received title from automatics in 1971. He...
  
  
• Valentin Nikolaevich Danchenko
• Olgierd Zienkiewicz
  Olgierd Zienkiewicz
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• Czesław Woźniak
• Tomasz Winnicki
  Tomasz Winnicki
  Tomasz Winnicki is a Polish-Canadian white supremacist based in London, Ontario. He was the subject of complaints before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal for his activities, and has also faced criminal charges on weapons offences...
  
  

External links

• Częstochowa University of Technology - official website