- Częstochowa University of Technology
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Częstochowa University of Technology (Polish: Politechnika Częstochowska) - the oldest higher education institution in Częstochowa, 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 (currently over 300 post-graduate students), and three of them also habilitation.
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 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 (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
- Valentin Nikolaevich Danchenko
- Olgierd Zienkiewicz
- Czesław Woźniak
- Tomasz Winnicki
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Coordinates: 50°49′16″N 19°06′42″E / 50.82111°N 19.11167°E
Categories:- Technical universities and colleges
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