Department of Control Engineering | Faculty of Electrical and Control Engineering at the Gdańsk University of Technology

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Department of Control Engineering

The introduction of Automation at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering was associated with the work of prof. Jerzy Dziedzic. The first lecture on automation and regulation took place in 1953. The Department of Automatic Control was established in 1966 and was headed by Reader Ph.D. Eng. Jerzy Dziedzic. It was separated from the Department of Power Engineering, the Industrial Systems Control Team and the Ship Automation Team. In 1963, the Postgraduate Study of Industrial Automation was launched. In 1966, the Department introduced the specialization "automation and metrology" in the field of study "electrical engineering", and since 1989 it has been running the field of study "automation and robotics". In 1969, the Department of Automation became part of the then-established Institute of Electrical Power and Automation as the Automation Department. In 1991, the cathedral structure was restored and the Department of Automatic Control was reactivated. In the years 1991-2000 the head of the Department was prof. D.Sc. Eng. Franciszek Milkiewicz. In 2000, prof. D.Sc. Eng. Zbigniew Kowalski, which he held until 2006. From 2006 to 2012, prof. D.Sc. Eng. Kazimierz Kosmowski, university professor. As a result of the reorganization in 2008, three departments were separated from the Department of Automation: Automatics, Control Engineering and Mechatronics. Due to reaching the retirement age by prof. D.Sc. Eng. Kazimierz Kosmowski in 2012, prof. D.Sc. Eng. Roman Śmierzchalski, who was the head of the Department of Control Engineering in 2012-2019, until he took over the function of Dean of the Faculty of Electrical and Control Engineering. Currently, the head of the Department of Control Engineering is D.Sc. Eng. Marcin Śliwiński, university professor.

Department Office

room 201
str. Gabriela Narutowicza 11/12
80-233 Gdańsk, Poland

agnieszka.zacharczuk@pg.edu.pl
+48 58 347 12 70