Department of Engineering Materials and Biomaterials - RMT1 Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

The Institute of Engineering Materials and Biomaterials which conistsed of the following 4 divisions:

• • the Division of Materials Processing Technologies Management and Computer Techniques in Materials Science
  • the Division of Constructional and Special Materials
  • the Division of Biomedical Engineering
  • the Division of Quality and Cleaner Production Control

and 50 employees was founded in 1997.

Since then the Institute has been
developing dynamically in scientific, research and teaching fields. In
2003 the following divisions were created in the Institute:

• the Division of Foundry
• the Division of Quality Management (existing since 2006, transformed from the Division of Quality and Cleaner Production Control)
• the Division of Nanocrystalline and Functional Materials and Sustainable Proecological Technologies

In 2004 the Institute joined the Division of Metal and Polymer Materials Processing and, an independent Administrative and Economic Section,
working till September 2012 and consisting of administrative and
technical staff of the Institute was created. Currently the number of
the staff  at the Institute reaches around 140 people. The Institute of
Engineering Materials and Biomaterials of the Silesian University of
Technology is the largest internal organisational unit of one of the
four oldest and largest faculties of the Silesian University of
Technology – the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.

It is a first university unit, which received the Certificate of Registration of Quality Management System complied with the principles of ISO 9001 in the
framework of didactics and research in the field of materials science,
which has a significant impact on improving the quality of education, so
important in the integrated European Union and the markets, education
and work changing in recent years. The Institute is currently a thriving
academic centre of international importance in the field of materials
science, surface engineering, biomaterials and biomedical engineering,
nanotechnology and nanostructured materials, environmental technologies
and computer science materials. It has a very modern laboratory base and
highly developed international cooperation with many centres in Europe
and on all other continents.

After six years of activity within the  Division of
Foundry of the Institute of Engineering Materials and Biomaterials of
the Silesian University of Technology on 1 September 2009, an
independent Department of Foundry was created. It was a time of
scientific advancement of the Institute for Workers employed in the
Division and the duration of their intensive scientific development and
intensive publishing of the scientific achievements by the Workers’
Institute, which is not unprecedented in the history of groups dealing
with the casting of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. Those six
years, it is also a period of unprecedented development of
infrastructure and material base for the Division of Foundry, and
unprecedented organisational development of the Division of Foundry. It
is all a good dowry for independent activity of the Department of
Foundry in coming years.