The Faculty employs 16 professors and associate professors as well as 52 PhDs. The Faculty conducts scientific research in the following areas: transport nets optimization, transport logistics, microprocessor technique and simulation tests in transport, mathematical modelling of combustion processes in engines, alternative fuels usage, wearing out of transport machines’ elements, supporting computer designing transport machines’ units, vibroacoustic diagnosis of machines and vehicles, dynamics of vehicles’ suspensions, applying numerical methods in designing and optimizing wheel units and wheel-rail system, telematics and transport safety.

Every year the Faculty employees carry out approximately 90 scientific projects including grants financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the Ministry of Infrastructure and the European Commission; they carry out implementing activities as well as service work and they also participate in designing new communications solutions in the region. The Faculty also organises 11 cyclic international conferences.

A number of scientific works conducted by our employees have been awarded prizes by the Polish Prime Minister, the Minister of Education and Sport and companies such as Fiat and ABB. Faculty of Transport cooperates with many foreign universities such as: Technical University of Ostrava, Glasgow Caledonian University, Manchester Metropolitan University, Chalmers University of Technology, State Transport University in Sankt Petersburg, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Kaunas University of Technology, Lviv Polytechnic National University, East-Ukrainian National University, China University of Mining and Technology.

Faculty also develop cooperation with numerous Polish universities, institutes and scientific research centres, especially in Silesia, and cooperates with many firms and companies in Poland and abroad: Fiat Auto Poland, Opel, Alstom, Bombardier, Lucchini, Siemens and other.
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