<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering is an heir to the Faculty of Technology of the School of Naval Cadets established in Toruń in 1931. This article presents the most important events associated with the development of the faculty in its 85 years of uninterrupted activity, including the WW II period in Great Britain, when the first in the history of Poland maritime school abroad, was established aboard ORP ‘Gdynia’ in the British sea base of Devenport. The first part of the article concludes in 1955, i.e. the moment the Higher Naval School (undergraduate school) was established. The second part will cover the period of 1955-2016, i.e. the Naval High School and the Naval Academy.</p></abstract>

The Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering is an heir to the Faculty of Technology of the School of Naval Cadets established in Toruń in 1931. This article presents the most important events associated with the development of the faculty in its 85 years of uninterrupted activity, including the WW II period in Great Britain, when the first in the history of Poland maritime school abroad, was established aboard ORP ‘Gdynia’ in the British sea base of Devenport. The first part of the article concludes in 1955, i.e. the moment the Higher Naval School (undergraduate school) was established. The second part will cover the period of 1955-2016, i.e. the Naval High School and the Naval Academy.

Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of Polish Naval Academy — Eighty - Five Years of Training and Scientific Research Work. Part I : 1931–1955

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The Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering is an heir to the Faculty of Technology of the School of Naval Cadets established in Toruń in 1931. This...

Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of Polish Naval Academy — Eighty - Five Years of Training and Scientific Research Work. Part I : 1931–1955

Published Online: Dec 29, 2017

Page range: 89 - 112

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0010.6749

Keywords
Polish Naval training and education, training of technical officers, research-work conducted by the Faculty of Technology and the Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering

© 2018

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of Polish Naval Academy — Eighty - Five Years of Training and Scientific Research Work. Part I : 1931–1955

Published Online: Dec 29, 2017

Page range: 89 - 112

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0010.6749

KeywordsPolish Naval training and education, training of technical officers, research-work conducted by the Faculty of Technology and the Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering

© 2018

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Polish Naval training and education, training of technical officers, research-work conducted by the Faculty of Technology and the Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering