In the Remote Maintenance competition, teams from around the world connected remotely to perform a set of scored tasks (autonomously or manually). Teams competed in the following tasks: pressing the buttons in the correct order, placing the cube in the correct orientation, removing the lid from the box and completing another task based on the object in the box.

It is the seventh construction of PUT Motorsport and the second is electric. It is a Formula Student vehicle. The Formula Student is an engineering competition in which the best technical universities from around the world compete. According to the creators of the structure, it is the most technologically advanced car in the entire history of KN. “This year we decided to use a supporting structure based on a monocoque made in prepreg technology, straight from F1.

This week, on September 13-18, the Aero Design Section of the Academic Aviation Club of the Poznan University of Technology will represent the university at the international academic competition Teknofest at the Yunuseli airport in Bursa, Turkey.

The Section will compete in the Free Mission UAV category, in which the system created by them, consisting of two autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles, will detect waste in the indicated area.

Today, the Rector has signed an agreement to co-finance the investment with the Voivodeship Marshal. “This is undoubtedly the innovative future of the region, a response to the challenges that await us. We build it together. The Marshal expresses great understanding”- this is how prof. Teofil Jesionowski, the rector of the Poznan University of Technology, characterized the university’s investment plans at the airport in Kąkolewo. At a cost of more than thirty-one and a half million zlotys, the following are to be built there:

We are pleased to announce that prof. Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, the researcher from the Faculty of Engineering Management, received a prestigious award from the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) in 2021. The award recognizes the contribution of an outstanding individual to international operations research and activities for the OR community.

More information can be found at: https://www.ifors.org/ifors-fellows

Rector's Ordinance No. 36 of 1 September 2021 introduced the new organisation of the winter semester of the academic year 2021/2022. The students will return to the lecture halls.

The letter of intent, in order to start mutual cooperation, was signed by the Dean of the Faculty of Automatic Control, Robotics, and Electrical Engineering prof. Wojciech Szeląg and the President of the Management Board of Volkswagen Group Polska, Pavel Šolec. The signing of the letter is related to the launch of a new field of study Electromobility at the Poznan University of Technology in the new academic year 2021/2022.

Poznan University of Technology was ranked high, seventh in the Ranking Web of Universities comparing almost 400 Polish universities. Globally, our University was ranked 751 (out of over 31,000).

The ranking is based on webometric and bibliometric indicators (visibility, excellence, openness and presence), and its primary goal is to promote open access to knowledge generated by Open Access universities.

Poznań University of Technology has been exhibiting at the economic fairs for years. After several months of break, the possibility of direct contact with business representatives at the ITM fair appeared again.

The Faculty of Civil and Transport Engineering together with the Faculty of Automatic Control, Robotics and Electrical Engineering presented their research and equipment offer.