Warsaw University of Technology

Warsaw University of Technology
founding	1826
place	Warsaw , Poland
Rector	Jan Szmidt
Students	32,719 (Nov 2011)
Professors	518
Networks	CESAER
Website	www.pw.edu.pl

Main building of the Warsaw University of Technology

Auditorium of the main building of the Warsaw University of Technology

The Technical University of Warsaw ( Polish Politechnika Warszawska ) is a technical university in the Polish capital Warsaw with around 30,000 students and 2,000 teachers (2005).

Warsaw University of Technology was founded in 1826 and today has 17 faculties. The rector of the university is Jan Szmidt.

In 2018, Times Higher Education ranked the university within the 601-800 band worldwide.

List of Rectors

Zygmunt Straszewicz 1915-1916 Stanisław Patschke 1916–1917 Jan Zawidzki 1918-1919 Ignacy Radziszewski 1919–1921 Antoni Ponikowski 1921 Leon Staniewicz 1921-1923 Antoni Ponikowski 1923-1924 Czesław Skotnicki 1924–1926 Ludwik Szperl 1926–1928 Wojciech Świętosławski 1928–1929 Andrzej Pszenicki 1929-1932 Wiesław Chrzanowski 1932–1933 Edward Warchałowski 1933-1936 Józef Zawadzki 1936–1939 Kazimierz Drewnowski 1939–1942 Stefan Straszewicz 1942–1945 Władysław Kuczewski 1945

Edward Warchałowski 1945–1952 Jerzy Bukowski 1952–1953 Władysław Araszkiewicz 1953–1954 Aleksander Dyżewski 1954–1956 Władysław Araszkiewicz 1956-1959 Jerzy Bukowski 1959-1965 Dionizy Smoleński 1965–1969 Antoni Kiliński 1969–1970 Mieczysław Łubiński 1970–1973 Stanisław Pasynkiewicz 1973–1981 Władysław Findeisen 1981–1985 Zbigniew R. Grabowski 1985-1988 Marek Roman 1988–1990 Marek Dietrich 1990-1996 Jerzy Woźnicki 1996–2002 Stanisław Mańkowski 2002–2005 Włodzimierz Kurnik 2005–2012 Jan Szmidt since 2012–2016

Graduates (chronologically)

• Michał Kalecki (1899–1976), economist
• Konrad Guderski (1900–1939), engineer and defender of the Polish Post Office in Gdansk
• Marian Spychalski (1906–1980), architect and politician
• Michal Wituschka (1907–1946), politician and Nazi collaborator
• Andrzej Munk (1921–1961), director
• Stefan Kuryłowicz (1949–2011), architect

See also

• Warsaw Agricultural University
• Warsaw University

Web links

Commons : Warsaw University of Technology  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of Warsaw University of Technology

Footnotes

1. ↑ https://www.pw.edu.pl/engpw/University/History
2. ↑ https://www.pw.edu.pl/engpw/University/Authorities
3. ↑ ^{a b} Website of the Warsaw University of Technology, PW w liczbach ( Memento of the original from September 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 6, 2012 
4. ↑ World University Rankings 2018

Coordinates: 52 ° 13 ′ 13 ″  N , 21 ° 0 ′ 38 ″  E