Dean:
Professor Krzysztof Fitzner

Deputy Dean:   
         

Professor Wojciech Libura

Piotr Żabiński , Ph.D.

The Faculty educates future engineers and conducts research for modern industry of metallurgy, materials science, processing of non-ferrous metals, physical metallurgy and related industries.

The Faculty of Non- Ferrous Metals was established in 1962. It is a unique research and educational institution worldwide. It educates future engineers and conducts research for modern industry of metallurgy, materials science, processing of non-ferrous metals, physical metallurgy and related industries. Since the origins of the Faculty, it has intensively collaborated with industry. Development strategy of the Faculty is mainly based on two fundamental directions, namely, education of students and research activities leading to improvement of the staff. Our educational offer for students includes novel production and processing technologies regarding metals, alloys and composites, methods of testing and designing of structure and properties with modern analytical and experimental instrumentation. Graduates of the Faculty know how to make use of metal special features, such as durability, hardness, plasticity and superplasticity, electric and heat conductivity, superconductivity, magnetic properties, shape memory, radioactive desintegrability, etc.

The Faculty prepares its graduates to work not only in the metallurgical and processing plants of the industry of non-ferrous metals. The knowledge gained by the graduates also allows them to find jobs in the metal, machine-building, automotive, aircraft and ship-building industries, in the companies manufacturing household equipment, in the production of cables, materials for power industry, electric engineering, electronics and medicine, precious metals products, jewellery, the State Mint, in any plant using plastic working and heat treatment, property testing and quality control.

Collaboration with industry has been performed within a large spectrum of subjects - from the problems of obtaining metals out of concentrates to the production of new alloys and different products. It regards all plants of non-ferrous metals (metallurgical and processing) as well as a large number of the enterprises operating in the mechanical, chemical, oil, power, iron and steel sectors, and many others. Our Faculty has been a co-founder and active participant in the projects conducted by various research consortia.