Three new faculties officially came into being at Wrocław Tech on September 15: Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, Management and Electronics, and Photonics and Microsystems.

Largest of its kind in Poland

Eight departments, twelve degree programmes, 400 academic teachers, and 5,000 students make up the Faculty of Information and Communication Technology. It’s not only Poland’s largest faculty dealing with IT and telecommunications but also the largest faculty at Wrocław University of Science and Technology.

The new faculty will conduct research into fast-growing areas of computer science related to Industry 4.0, which will make it possible to provide its students with modern teaching that responds to socio-economic needs.

It consists of eight departments centred around the Computer Science and Telecommunications discipline. So far, they have operated at three faculties: Electronics, Computer Science and Management, and Fundamental Problems of Technology.

The faculty will conduct both basic and implementation research, focusing on active cooperation with business and the commercialisation of results.

All students who have been so far doing degree programmes that have now become incorporated in the new faculty, as well as those who have been admitted to them in the current enrolment process, are from now on students of the Faculty of Information and Communication Technology.

Degree programmes:

• Computer Science;
• Computer Security;
• Cybersecurity;
• Computer-Based Automation Systems;
• Algorithmic Computer Science;
• Applied Computer Science;
• Technical Computer Science;
• Systems Engineering;
• Artificial Intelligence;
• Teleinformatics;
• Telecommunications;
• Trusted Artificial Intelligence Systems.

Changes to management programmes

The current reform has had the biggest impact on the organisational unit that so far has operated as the Faculty of Computer Science and Management. It’s now transforming into the Faculty of Management, where research will be conducted in management and quality sciences. 

Starting from the academic year 2021/2022, the Faculty will provide education in the shape of two degree programmes:

• Management Engineering;
• Management.

Students on these degree programmes, of which there are over 700, automatically become students of the Faculty of Management on September 15, 2021.

A stronger W12

The current Faculty of Microsystem Electronics and Photonics becomes transformed into the Faculty of Electronics, Photonics, and Microsystems. The new unit will bring together departments from the existing W12 and the Faculty of Electronics, centred in the discipline of Automation, Electronics, and Electrical Engineering. The faculty will employ 255 academic and administrative staff.

As of September 15, students on these degree programmes, of which there will be around 2,500 after the changes, will automatically become students of the Faculty of Electronics, Photonics, and Microsystems.

• Degree programmes:
• Automation and Robotics; 
• Electronic and Computer Engineering; 
• Electronics; 
• Electronics and Telecommunications; 
• Smart Electronics; 
• Mechatronic Microsystems Engineering; 
• Mechatronics.

The Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology has undergone relatively the smallest reorganisation. The only change is that the Department of Fundamentals of Computer Science has been moved to the Faculty of Computer Science and Telecommunications. The internal structure of the faculty is otherwise unchanged.

Starting from the new academic year, education will be provided on five new degree programmes:

• Big Data Analytics;
• Technical Physics;
• Biomedical Engineering;
• Quantum Engineering;
• Optics.