The Faculty is characterised by intensive cooperation with industry, thanks to which its development and fields of studies stay in accordance with the labour market. Graduates are prepared to start working in energetics (conventional, nuclear, modern technologies of exploitation of renewable sources of energy), as well as in aeronautical industry (diagnosis and operation of aeroplanes), engineering industry, heat and refrigeration industries, petrochemical, food and pharmaceutical (designing, construction and operation of process equipment) industries.

Why energetics…

The Faculty of Mechanical and Power Engineering of Wrocław University of Science and Technology is one of these faculties in Poland which educate students to satisfy the demands of different branches of industry, mostly energetics. Energetics is one of the most promptly developing, the most important and strategic branches of national economy in Poland as well as in the whole world. When we watch a vehicle moving at the Surface of Mars on TV, surf through the Internet, dance in a disco-club or relax with a book in a warm and brightly lit room on a long winter evening, we cannot forget that it would be impossible if it was not for the immense increase of energy supply in the last two hundred years.

Hitherto thermal, electric and mechanical energy used to be produced mainly out of non-renewable sources: natural gas, petroleum or stone coal. This kind of sources are exhaustible. On one hand we observe an immense demand for energy in our country, on the other a fear of nuclear energy is widely spread in our society. Nowadays it is crucial to answer a question: how to satisfy all the needs and preserve respect for the environment as well as meet the requirements of economy in the same time? In our country whole energetic systems producing heat or electric energy are modernized or replaced with new ones.

The hot target of these undertakings is providing energetic safety to the country as well as decreasing of production costs and to fulfil the conditions of atmosphere protection simultaneously.

In current economic-political situation, parallel to variable occupational conditions, we observe an immense development of small and medium-sized enterprises private and state-owned, in which the basic pressure lays in managing fuels and energy as well as processes such as: drying, refrigeration, fragmentation, flotation, mixing, filtration etc.

In this situation there is a huge demand at the labour market for Bachelors of Science in Mechanical and Power Engineering prepared to comprehensively solve tasks concerning conversion and rational use of energy in occupational energetics, heating and industrial energetics, in small as well as in big enterprises.

Right from the beginning of its existence the Faculty strengthens its position concerning didactics and scientific research, which is confirmed by the Accreditation Commission of Universities of Technology by granting in 2003 a High Teaching Quality Certificate on a field of Mechanical Engineering and Machine Building. In the year 2006 this field of studies was also awarded with a positive assessment of the Polish Accreditation Committee.

The Faculty provides all of the typical forms of studying – lectures, classes, laboratories, projects and seminars. Work in specialized laboratories connected to different fields of studies is a particularly valuable experience for students. Here they have the opportunity to verify knowledge gained from books and lectures with actual functioning of real devices and mechanisms, to observe appropriate physical phenomena as well as to get to know technological processes.

Concerning the practical education of students The Faculty of Mechanical and Power Engineering moves even one step further. Some of the classes take place at sites belonging to Wrocław’s heat and power plants owned by Kogeneracja S.A., where students get to know the job in real large facilities working in an enterprise.