Poznan University of Technology (Polish name: Politechnika Poznańska; note that in Polish Politechnika has a different meaning from English, hence the translation) is a university located in Poznań, Poland. It has over thousand lecturers and teachers and over 18.000 students. There are eight faculties:

• Architecture
• Chemical Technology
• Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture
• Computer Science and Management
• Electrical Engineering (with its own Institute of Computer Science)
• Mechanical Engineering and Management
• Technical Physics (general engineering program)
• Machines and Transportation.

Current rector: prof. dr hab. Jerzy Dembczyński.

PUT is a member of CESAER Association and was the first Polish technical university to receive membership of that organisation.

PUT was officially founded in 1955 and the first rector was Roman Kozak. But a state school had existed in Poznań since 1919, under name of Higher State School of Machinery. After adding second departament in 1929, its name was changed to Higher State School of Machinery and Electrotechnics. It was supposed to became University of Technology in 1940, but its development was interrupted by World War II. In 1945 school received status of Higher Engineering School and in 1955 it became the University of Technology.

Jan Węglarz (Famous John Carbon or Johnny Walker, as he is called by his pupils), Roman Słowiński , Jacek Błażewicz , Jerzy Brzeziński are most known from staff of Computer Science section.

External links

• Official site of PUT
• Site of PUT's Computer Science Dept.
• Institute of Management Engineering.