Below we present detailed information about the Faculty inaugurations of the academic year. We invite you to participate in these celebrations.

Schedule:

1. Faculty of Mining, Safety Engineering, and Industrial Automation - 1 October, 9:00, Faculty of Mining, Safety Engineering and Industrial Automation, Hall 300. Inaugural lecture: “Simulators of working machines and more – digital twins in the world of augmented reality – virtual machines, real possibilities” - Prof. Dr Hab. Eng. Piotr Cheluszka.
2. Faculty of Biomedical Engineering – 1 October, 9:00, Auditorium Philips, EHTIC Zabrze. Inaugural lecture: “Between the project and the patient. How Biomedical Engineering is Changing Modern Medicine" - M.Sc. Eng. Klaudia Cholewa.
3. Faculty of Biomedical Engineering - Engineering Technologies in Forensic Science – 1 October, 12:00, Auditorium Philips, EHTIC Zabrze. Inaugural lecture: „Central Forensic Laboratory of the Police - the centre of Polish forensics" - insp. Iwona Marciniak-Krawczyk.
4. Faculty of Chemistry – 5 October, 9:00, Faculty of Chemistry, Hall 1, 9, M. Strzody Street in Gliwice. Inaugural lecture: "Ionic liquids - small ions, great possibilities" - Dr Eng. Piotr Latos.
5. Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science - Informatics, Control, Electronic and Information Engineering, Teleinformatics, Artificial Intelligence – 5 October, 9:00, CEK, Lecture Hall A. Inaugural lecture: “From dirty data to smart decisions. Why even the best AI needs a human being.” – Prof Małgorzata Bach.
6. Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science - Automation and Robotics, Electronics and Telecommunications, Biotechnology, Interfaculty field of Biotechnology – 5 October, 11.30, CEK, Lecture Hall A. Inaugural lecture: "From Maxwell to Electronics" - Prof. Dr Hab. Eng. Jacek Izydorczyk.
7. Faculty of Organization and Management – 5 October, 12:00, Faculty of Organization and Management, Lecture Hall C3, 26, Roosevelta Street, Zabrze. Inaugural lecture: "Rethinking Business Science in the context of De-Globalization" - Professor Johannes Stephan TU BAF Germany.
8. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering – 6 October, 10:00 a.m., CEK, Lecture Hall A. Inaugural lecture: “Materials that change the world: How new technologies and materials engineering drive the future”. Agnieszka J. Nowak.
9. Faculty of applied Mathematics – 7 October, 9:00, CEK, Lecture Hall A. Inaugural lecture: “One click, many worlds – the invisible ways of the digital world.” - MSc. Eng. Mirosław Witkowski
10. Faculty of Civil Engineering – 7 October, 14:00, CEK, Lecture Hall A. Inaugural lecture: "The Road to the future - Perspectives and Challenges of Young Civil Engineers" - Dr Eng. Wojciech Sorociak.
11. Faculty of Materials Engineering and Industrial Digitization – 8 October, 10:00, Main Hall of Building A, 8, Krasińskiego Street in Katowice. Inaugural lecture: "Extraordinary technologies - from the riddles of the past to the limits of artificial intelligence" - Dr Eng. Tomasz Mikuszewski.
12. Faculty of Energy and Environmental Engineering – 8 October, 10:00, CEK, Lecture Hall A. Inaugural lecture: "From reactor to space-nuclear technologies as a challenge to modern engineering" - Dr Eng. Tomasz Bury.
13. Branch of the Silesian University of Technology in Rybnik – 9 October, 9:00, branch building, hall of the Competence Centre for Renewable Energy Sources. Inaugural lecture: "Artificial Intelligence - challenges and threats" - President of the Management Board of VAIBRO.AI Mariusz Czarnecki.
14. Faculty of Architecture – 12 October, 11:00, CEK, Lecture Hall A. Inaugural lecture of the laureate of the Professor Zygmunt Majerski medal Dr Eng. Arch. Ryszard Nakonieczny (who will talk about his work).
15. The Institute of Physics – 13 October, 14:00, CNT, Lecture Hall A. Inaugural lecture: "Isotopes are the invisible witnesses of Earth's history. From mass spectrometry to reconstruction of climate and environment" - Dr Hab. Eng. Sławomira Pawełczyk, Prof. SUT.
16. Faculty of Transport and Aviation Engineering – 14 October, 09:00, Main Hall of Building A, 8, Krasińskiego Street in Katowice. Inaugural lecture: “Theory and practice – how engineering knowledge shapes the public transport system” - Dr Hab. Eng. Aleksander Sobota, Prof. SUT.
17.  Faculty of Electrical Engineering – 22 October at 11:00, CEK, Hall A. Light behind the scenery. Inaugural lecture: "A hidden hero of modern engineering" - Piotr Kałużyński, PhD, Eng.