The Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering continues almost a century long history of research and teaching on materials at the Warsaw University of Technology. It offers B.Sc. and M. Sc. programmes for over 350 students and Ph.D. for over 70.

The Faculty is a leading applied research centre in Poland. It currently coordinates 2 larger projects on nano-materials financed by the Polish State Committee for Scientific Research. It also participates in projects financed by the European Commission and NATO.

Within the 5th Framework Program the Faculty participated in the following projects:
ˇá The Universal Exchange for Pan-European Higher Education,
ˇá Manufacture and Characterization of Nano-structured Al Alloys,
ˇá Soft Magnetic Nano-materials for High Temperature and High Frequency Functional Application in Power Electronics
ˇá Innovative and Efficient Knives Surfaces Modification in First Transformation of Wood (Chipper, Cantered Peeling Machine).

The strong field of research is surface engineering. Original technologies developed at the Faculty like plasma carbo-nitriding and nitriding of titanium alloys and anodic oxidation of aluminum alloys, have been used for the elements of the space exploration lander (MUPUS) and for Mars-Express space mission.

The Faculty is equipped with modern scientific instruments used for materials
processing and characterization. The major pieces include:
ˇá melt spinner for production of amorphous alloys,
ˇá reactor for impulse plasma sintering of nano-crystalline powders
ˇá reactor for coating under glow discharge condition
ˇá mechanical properties testing machines (MTS 810 and MTS 858) combined with microscopic systems for in-situ observations of strained specimens
ˇá image analysers and specialized software
ˇá transmission electron microscopes (including an high resolution analytical JEOL 3010)
ˇá scanning electron microscope (HITACHI S-3500N, EDS EBSD), microprobe (CAMECA SU-30) and series of X-ray diffractometers (including modern Bruker D8 Discover)
ˇá atomic force microscope NanoScope Multimode IIIa
ˇá scanning Auger microprobe MICROLAB 350 (jointly operated with the Institute of Physical Chemistry)

The Faculty operates as a contract research organization for a number of Polish and foreign clients. Industrial applications are primarily offered in the design and monitoring safety of operation of pressure vessels, pipes and storage tanks in chemical industry (refineries, fertilizer plants, gas and oil storage/distribution companies).

Based on the achievements in the field of nano-materials, The Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering opened Centre of Excellence financed by European Commission under NAS2 call. It is called NanoCentre - Nanocrystalline Materials: Fabrication, Structure, Modelling, Properties and Applications. Another centre of that type operated by the Faculty, PRESAFE, offers Competence in Safety of Pressure Equipment and is dedicated to the applied research carried out for designers, manufacturers and users of pressure equipment.

Professor Tadeusz Kulik, Ph.D., D. Sc
Dean of the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering
Warsaw University of Technology

Professor Krzysztof J. Kurzyd©©owski, Ph.D., D. Sc
Head of Division of Materials Design Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering Warsaw University of Technology
Deputy Chairman State Committee for Scientific Research (KBN)