Aktualności | Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Ship Technology at the Gdańsk University of Technology

By the decision of the authorities of all Gdańsk Tech faculties and in agreement with the university authorities, classes in the first week of the New Year, i.e. in the days 3-7 January, will be conducted remotely. The change is introduced temporarily, due to the increasing number of infections and worsening epidemic situation in the country, as well as the threat of an even more dynamic development of the pandemic during the pre-holiday migrations.

Gokstad find is a ship from the second half of the 9th century, found in 1879 in Norway during the dig of a burial mound. It can be seen in the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo. It is an example of a snekkja, the smallest of the longships used in warfare. 

The contestants had to deliver a 3-minute presentation to a panel of experts. Members of SimLE science club presented two projects: Silverhand and Stardust. 

Silverhand project – a concept of a hand prosthesis with high possibilities of customization and low production costs using modern technologies of 3D printing. 

Michał Klugmann's PhD thesis was written about the heat exchange in minichannels - thin pipes of various shapes conducting a boiling medium. His DSc elaborated on this subject and concerned another configuration of flow - through minislots. 

Inaugural meeting of the Council was held online on 25 November.

Due to the appointing of the Council of Entrepreneurs, students and researchers will be able to benefit from apprenticeship and practical activities in buoyant companies, stipend programs, traninings and courses, post-graduate studies and industrial workshops. Companies in turn will benefit from gaining access to qualified staff - artists of engineering.