Academic staff of the Faculty consists of nearly 40 professors and associate professors as well as 160 PhD academics. The Faculty carries research in the following disciplines: material science of steel, special and construction alloys, tool steels and sintered materials used for tools; material processes technologies, mechanics, robotics, mechatronics, fluid mechanics, biomechanics, mechanical vibrations, dynamics, drive systems, virtual models in designing, operation and maintenance of machinery, computer aided design, construction and machinery operation and maintenance, technical diagnostics and methods and techniques of noise and machinery vibrations reduction.

The Faculty enjoys the wide scientific and didactic co-operation with over 150 universities located on every continent moreover, it has one of the greatest foreign students exchange (almost 80 students and PhD students join annually one-semester studies in almost every European country, mainly within CEEPUS and ERASMUS programs).
The Faculty prides on traditionally good collaboration with numerous firms and companies operating in the field of industrial automation and robotics, machinery design, production engineering, material science, welding, casting, PVC processing and production engineering.

Current co-operation with industry embraces among others the following assignments:
- carrying out mutual research and development works, developmental and goal oriented projects,
- participation of firms in delivering equipment and fitting out the research and didactic laboratories at the Faculty,
-  transfer of new technologies from science to industry and form industry to didactics,
- organizing postgraduate studies for all candidates to raise their professional qualifications,
- giving expertise and doing researches in the laboratories at the Faculty and giving opinions concerning the innovative character of undertakings carried out by business enterprises,

-  carrying joint projects within the mid-semester projects and MSc theses 
- organizing production placements.

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