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"We would like to express our appreciation to the Promoters and Students for taking up ambitious challenges, striving for engineering excellence and supporting talented students.  We can see that the scientific and didactic activities carried out by the Employees at the Faculty of Mechatronics at the Warsaw University of Technology significantly build the Polish implementation potential." - from the congratulatory letter of Marcin Ziółek, PhD, BEng, President of the Management Board of 4 Science Institute informing about the results of this year's Engineer 4 Science competition. Who won this year? We have good news!

If you have failed to take part in the Library training course, fear not.

Everybody can attend by the end of October.

Enter https://leon.pw.edu.pl/?lang=pl, login and get your score

Manual: https://bg.pw.edu.pl/index.php/aktualnosci-pl/618-szkolenie-biblioteczne-dla-studentow-i-roku-studiow-pierwszego-stopnia

Registration for the "Nakręcona Nauka" training course is open - a unique training created by scientists by scientists on creating popular science video content. This edition will for the first time take place at PW between 23-26 November 2023 at Rektorska 4 street. It will be preceded by 4 online meetings (6, 8, 13 and 15 November) to prepare the participants for the intensive onsite meeting. Owing to the sponsorship provided by IDUB, the participation of people from PW is free of charge (there is a limit of spots available). Registration is open until 20 November 2023. More information available at https://www.nakreconanauka.pl.

On 26 October 2023 (Thursday) all classes will take place according to the Monday schedule - as per the PW Rector’s decree, §1 par. 3, no. 28/2023 from 30 May 2023 on detailed plan of the 2023/2024 academic year.

Do you already know what you will do after PW? Or maybe you are looking for ways to improve your entry to the work market after the studies? Arrange a consultation meeting with an experienced professional advisor FRIS / IP121, plan for actions over the course of your studies, prepare for a qualification meeting and many more. Select the topic and time that suit you via the consult calendar available here.

We invite you to the Mechanical Engineering Job Fair, scheduled for 26 October, 2023 between 9:00 and 15:30 at the Faculty of Cars and Robotic Machines of PW, at Narbutta 84 street in Warsaw. The participants may, among others:
- visit the 27 stands of potential employers from the automotive, robotic machines, rail vehicles, mechanical and hydraulic systems and mechanical post-processing sectors;
- visit the PW Centre for Innovation and the New Mobility postgraduate studies
- meet representatives of several students study groups.

For more, visit: www, SiMR Faculty Facebook

19 October 2023 at 12:00 is the deadline for applications for the Erasmus+ Accreditation. You are most welcome to apply! The Erasmus+ Accreditation is often coined the “entry ticket” to the programme or a type of permanent membership there. In practical terms, this means that you no longer have to take part in annual applications contests and that you can have stable financing of mobility-related actions for several years to follow. This year, the Erasmus+ Accreditation applications can pertain to the following areas” education and professional training, school education and adult education, as well as the youth. Feel free apply! For more information, visit our website.

On 08 October 2023 WILLI MEDNIS, PhD, BEng has passed away
A long standing, great academic teacher at the PW Faculty of Mechatronics
An educator of multiple generations of automatics and robotics engineers
Prodean of the Faculty of Precise Mechanics between 1977 and 1981
A great, kind and good man. He will live on in our memories forever!!!
Community of the PW Faculty of Mechatronics
The burial will take place on 17 October 2023 at 11:30 at the Burial House B Hall at the North Communal Cemetery.
 The family has kindly requested that you do not bring flowers.

The World’s TOP 2% Scientists 2022 ranking, prepared by the Stanford University in cooperation with Elsevier Publishing House, includes 59 representatives of Warsaw University of Technology. Three among them are nominated for their entire scientific work: Tomasz Kozacki, Prof.Tit., PhD, BEng, Małgorzata Kujawińska, Prof.Tit., PhD, BEng and Krzysztof Patorski, Prof.Tit., PhD, BEng. Another four of our colleagues have been recognised for their work last year: Tomasz Kozacki, Prof.Tit., PhD, BEng, Małgorzata Kujawińska, Prof.Tit., PhD, BEng, Krzysztof Patorski, Prof.Tit., PhD, BEng and Maciej Trusiak, PhD, BEng. Congratulations!

Toastmasters Leaders is the largest Polish club to support the development of delivering public speeches and leadership skills. If you are interested in public speeches skills, improving your leadership qualities, meeting ambitious people and gaining more confidence on and off the stage, this is the place for you. Networking starts at 18:30 and the meeting starts at 18:45. The students, PhD students and employees of the Faculty of Mechatronics are most welcome!

Science for Climate Change is a hackathon dedicated to the respect to environment and work for the benefit of climate. Together, we look for solutions that will significantly improve the condition of our environment. Come and design a solution connected with one of the following three areas: Energy, Smart City, Circular Economy. Deadline for registration 18 October 2023. First award is a spot in the PW Preincubation Programme, including an option of financing the project with up to 1 mln PLN. Second award is 6 months of free space in the coworking area on Rektorska 4 street. Others include Interrail Global Pass train tickets for a 2-months long train trip across Europe. Is it worth doing it? Of course it is! More information here.

We encourage you to take part in “The Creative Youth” project. It is coordinated by the POlish Foundation of Kids and Youth and financed by the city of Warsaw. The programme, with its goal of supporting initiatives and creative forms of activity, is addressed at students of Warsaw universities, as well as at young citizens of Warsaw. The students groups taking part in the project will have an opportunity to bring their social projects into life. As a part of the programme, up to 1650 PLN will be secured to enable the purchasing of wares and services necessary to implement the ideas. The innovative ideas may pertain to any sphere of life and be connected with the studies profile or interests of a given group. More

We invite to the Work and Internship Fair for IT and Electronics Staff. It is an opportunity to meet employers offering internship and job positions for students looking for such offers. The fair will be accompanied by an electronic catalogue, to be published at the WEiTI website and distributed to the students of PW and other universities. For more information on the event, visit the Faculty of Electronics and IT.
Date: 23.10.2023, 09:30 - 15:30
Place: Wydział Elektroniki i Technik Informacyjnych Politechniki Warszawskiej,
ul. Nowowiejska 15/19

Academic year 2023/2024

Take part in the Competition for the ABB Award for the best defended BE, ME and PhD papers. Main award is PLN 30 000 and two awards of PLN 15 000. The deadline for applications is 15 November 2023. The organiser is ABB Corporate Technological Centre.

Foreign Languages Study invites PW students to enrol in courses prepared in cooperation with the Aachen University of Technology and the Valentia University of Technology as a part of the ENHANCE consortium. The deadline for applications is 5 October 2023. All graduates receive certificates.

The meeting is scheduled online for 1 October at 17:00 via the Teams platform - link to the meeting.

Meeting ID: 395 343 991 762 

Access code: dbnRdc

Insurance is available to employees, full-time and part-time students and doctoral students. The sum insured per person is PLN 65,000 and the annual premium payable once per person is: PLN 60. The insurance period is the next academic year, i.e. 01.10.2023. - 30.09.2024. Payments for the insurance should be made to the virtual account of Warsaw University of Technology. More information attached.

ATTENTION: First-year students (academic year 2023/2024). It is essential that you pay your student ID card fee (PLN 22) to the individual account visible after logging in to the USOS system.

Check your mail at the addresses provided by the university.

Should you fail to make the payment, the student cards will not be printed and therefore you will not receive them after the inauguration of the academic year. The pass will also not be printed if there is no photo uploaded to the system.

It is with deepest grief and sadness that we inform you that Anna Lewińska-Romicka, PhD, BEng has passed away on 16 September 2023. She was a long-standing researcher at the PW Faculty of Mechatronics.

The funeral services will begin with a memorial service on 26 September 2023 (Tuesday) at 10:00 in the Halpert Chapel at the Evangelical-Augsburg graveyard. 

Grieving Friends and Colleagues from the Faculty of Mechatronics