History of the Faculty of Mechatronics

1950s (Precision Mechanics Department)

  • Establishment of the Faculty of Precision Mechanics
  • Main organiser and other founders of the Department
  • First Specialising Faculties (and first three specialisations)
  • First students and graduates
  • Dynamic development of the Department and further specialisations 

1960s (Faculty of Precision Mechanics)

  • Development of faculties
  • Establishment of the Faculty of Precision Mechanics
  • First dean
  • First meeting of the Faculty Council
  • Precision Mechanics development and a new dean
  • First building and the building of the new place for the Faculty

1970s

  • Change in the organisational structure of the Faculty
  • Redevelopment of the Faculty building
  • Consecutive deans
  • 10th anniversary celebration and 1st Graduates Meeting
  • 15th anniversary celebration and 2nd Graduates Meeting

1980s

  • A new dean appointed; martial law introduced in Poland
  • Difficult situation of the Faculty
  • Consecutive deans
  • 25th anniversary celebration and 3rd Graduates Meeting
  • New course of studies

1990s

  • Elections of the dean authorities
  • Funerals of main founders of the Faculty
  • 30th anniversary celebration and 4th Graduates Meeting. 
  • 1st MECHATRONICS ‘92 Conference
  • 2nd MECHATRONICS CONFERENCE ‘94
  • Changes at the Faculty
  • Change of the name of the Faculty
  • Reorganisation and modernisation of Faculty of Mechatronics
  • 35th anniversary celebration
  • 3rd MECHATRONICS Conference
  • Opening of the Integrated Laboratory of Mechatronics

2000-2010

  • 4th MECHATRONICS Conference
  • Online studies
  • Faculty after 2010
  • 50th anniversary celebration 

 

This section was created with the use of materials included in a diploma paper pf Iwna Tomaszewska, BEng, MA, entitled “Multimedia Presentation on: Faculty of Mechatronics of Warsaw University of Technology - Yesterday and Today”, written under the supervision of Sabina Żebrowska-Łucyk, ProfTit, PhD.