| Gdańsk University of Technology | |
| Native Name: | Politechnika Gdańska |
| Native Name Lang: | pl |
| Free: | Politechnika Gdańska |
| Motto: | "History is wisdom – future is challenge" |
| Motto Lang: | la |
| Established: | 1904 |
| Address: | Narutowicza 11/12 80–233 Gdańsk Wrzeszcz |
| Students: | 14,439[1] (December 2023) |
| Website: | www.pg.edu.pl |
| Qs Eeca: | 78 |
| Qs Eeca Year: | 2022 |
| Qs Eeca Ref: | [2] |
The Gdańsk University of Technology (Gdańsk Tech, formerly GUT; Polish: Politechnika Gdańska) is a university of technology in the Wrzeszcz borough of Gdańsk, and one of the oldest universities in Poland. It has eight faculties with 41 fields of study and more than 18,000[3] undergraduates, as well as about 626[4] doctoral students. It employs 2768 people, including 1313 academic teachers.[5]
The Gdańsk University of Technology has an international institutional accreditation, EUA-IEP (European University Association-Institutional Evaluation Programme).
The university was founded in 1904 as Königliche Technische Hochschule zu Danzig in Danzig, which was part of the German Empire. The names of the city's educational institutions were affected by the changes in the Danzig city status.[6] The university was known by different names throughout different times:
Following the takeover of the city by the Red Army, the Soviets arranged stables and barracks in other buildings.[7] The school was reorganized under the supervision of Stanisław Turski, a Polish mathematician and former inmate of German concentration camps.
The 110th anniversary ceremony was held on 6 October 2014.[8] The culmination point was the ceremony of conferring Robert Cava from Princeton University.[9] The main ceremony ended with the concert at the Polish Baltic Philharmonic. The symphony orchestra of PBP with the Gdańsk Tech and Poznań University of Technology choirs performed the oratorio Quo vadis by Feliks Nowowiejski. The next day, Gdańsk Tech organised a meeting with members of the European Federation of National Engineering Associations.[10]
The motto of the university, "History is wisdom – future is challenge", was adopted by the resolution of the Senate of Gdańsk University of Technology on 21 January 2015.
The Gdańsk University of Technology (Gdańsk Tech) is located in Gdańsk, situated at the mouth of the Vistula River on the Baltic Sea. The Main Campus is situated in the centre of old Wrzeszcz. The campus is located on Narutowicza Street.
Some degree courses and various specialisations are taught in English. Students have access to laboratories. Undergraduates can also join one or more of 60 student science or language societies as well as other organisations.
The main building, designed by Hermann Eggertt and Albert Carsten, was built between 1900 and 1904. The main building is the symbol of the university.[11] All the buildings were designed in the style of the Northern Renaissance with the elements of Art Nouveau. The images above the eastern side gate are a lighthouse and the tower of St. Mary's Church. The ornamental gutters are decorated with copper spouts in the shape of four male figures holding water monsters. The Clock Tower destroyed in 1945 was restored to the roof of the main building on 13 May 2012. The tower is 18 meters in height. The main building encloses inner courtyards that were covered by glass domes.
In 2012, the South Courtyard was officially renamed in honour of Johannes Hevelius. It is named after the French physicist who first performed a similar experiment at the Paris Pantheon in 1851. The Foucault pendulum is designed to show the rotation of the Earth on its axis. An electromagnet fixed at the point of suspension powers the movement of the pendulum. Reliefs in the window niches above the Foucault pendulum show the design of a reflective sundial (on the left) and a rotating map of the sky with a sextant.[12]
The university's faculties are:
The Chemical Faculty was one of the four original faculties of 'Royal Technical College in Gdańsk'. The Chemical Institute (Chemisches Institut) building was one of the first built specially for Gdańsk University of Technology in 1900–1904.[13] In 1904, the laboratories in the Chemical Faculty at the Technical University in Gdańsk were equipped with wooden fume hoods.[14]
Chemical Faculty is one of five faculties that started operations research and teaching in 1945 as a result of the decree of the Polish government transforming technical universities acting in Gdańsk since 1904 into Polish Gdańsk University of Technology.[15]
At the faculty, there are projects that were financed by the Komitet Badań Naukowych (Science Research Council) and European Commission. At the faculty operates the Centre of Excellence in Environmental Analysis and Monitoring.[16] There are also research programmes financed by the European Commission within the framework of EU programmes V and VI.[17]
The Academic Computer Centre in Gdańsk (CI TASK) has been operating since 1992 due to an agreement reached between the Tri-City's chief institutions of higher education. The initial plan was for it to primarily serve all schools of higher education as well as local branches of the Polish Academy of Sciences.[18]
The library has a collection of over a million volumes.[19] The library also stores publications in electronic form. The library has a total of 16 reading rooms. Gdańsk University of Technology has participated in the creation of the Universal Library.[20]